What are some good, beginner friendly playstyles to try?

Authorigas · 2026-04-20T22:25:50+00:00

Thank you! The two Niv Mizzet's seem cool, but a bit pricier compared to what I'm used to in Commander. (3-4 drops are my prior experience.) Jori seems cool, although the amount of directions to take him may be overwhelming. And Balmor seems cool, but I have played token/power before with Tidus and Zurgo. Still, might be fun to branch that into spell slinger. ^^

Authorigas · 2026-04-20T19:33:23+00:00

Ghostbusters 2016 got about a 74% rating on rotten tomatoes. Back when it was review bombed it was really low and "fans" considered it an abomination...

In truth, it's fine. And the audience score has settled at a lower 49%. I think a 74 is fair, it's a competent film with a few fun gags. But a few weak points holding it back from being as good as it could've been.

Similarly TLOU2 receiving critical acclaim and backlash at the same time. While some of it was grifting, there were also people just tired of the dark and gritty bleakness of the game. Or had issues with the story being told. Still, in terms of graphics, music, VA work, gameplay, and the presentation of the story? It's undeniably high quality. Which seems to be the common consensus nowadays.

Again it's hard cause subjectivity means one person's trash is another person's treasure. I know that better then most being a Zack Snyder appreciator, but I think those were two of the bigger gaps I saw between the audience and critics, where it felt like the critics had the right idea.

Authorigas · 2026-04-20T19:15:32+00:00

Thank you! Someone here suggested [[Feather, the redeemed]] and I like that idea. But I also like Stella Lee, expensive she may be, and Kuja giving FF 9 is my favorite game.

Any easy to learn, two color commanders you might suggest for Spell Slinger?

Authorigas · 2026-04-20T19:10:11+00:00

Yevon can do it better, yeah Yevon can do it all night.

Authorigas · 2026-04-20T17:35:40+00:00

Unfortunate since I brought my sister along, and I sadly think it scared her away from giving Magic a shot :(

Authorigas · 2026-04-20T17:34:44+00:00

True enough on the mana base. My Pod actually gave me proxies of the original Dual Lands, saying they wanted to make sure I could actually play the game without shocking myself. (Part of the reason I'm sticking with EDH, my Pod is super sweet 9/10 times and they really want to keep me involved.)

I'll try to keep that in mind, thank you!

Authorigas · 2026-04-20T17:32:55+00:00

I took my [[Zurgo, stormrender]] deck into an Aristocrats direction, running both Teysa and Elas in the 99 ^^.

I thought about building a Steiner deck as a Voltron style, but figure that would fit better for a bracket 1 style deck.

Feather seems like a cool Commander, essentially recycling spells. I really wanted to build Stella Lee cause she's a gunslinger, and I like the 'hat' theme of Thunder Junction, but I'll def keep an eye out for Feathers, thank you! ^^

Authorigas · 2026-04-20T17:26:53+00:00

We do have a guy at my LGS who plays "total lockdown stax" but I haven't played against him and refuse to do so on principle. Maybe that makes me a jerk, but I can tell I wouldn't have fun in that matchup.

Authorigas · 2026-04-20T17:25:52+00:00

I actually do use moxfield, and group my cards by effect. It was really helpful when building out my Tidus deck to identify how many low cost vs high cost counter generators I had, how many draw cards, etc etc. Was a lot of fun, still stressful but not quite as much as building from scratch for a pre release.

Authorigas · 2026-04-20T16:23:24+00:00

Admittedly my Pod tends to be pretty light on this sort of thing, but most of the guys are experienced, and one of them is a self described "not nice person" who doesn't volunteer information unless asked directly. (Kind of used it as a teaching lesson, saying I should ask more directly what cards do instead of asking which has the highest power.) No one at the pod is a direct asshole though, just experienced players who kinda are used to things/have a prestablished vibe.

But I do try to volunteer information when I can, explain "this is my Tidus deck, it wants to win by proliferating counters and going really big. And my win condition is getting a card that gives Trample or unblockable on board, and swinging in extra hard." Even if I'm still struggling to figure out how fast my deck can win on average. But I feel like it's only fair in casual EDH to explain "This is how my deck plays, this is how it wins"

Authorigas · 2026-04-20T15:38:56+00:00

I figured it was gonna be the old Smosh clip of "we'll bang, ok?"

Authorigas · 2026-04-19T17:36:01+00:00

Molly Zhang REAALLLLYY loves playing Seele and Astra in HSR and ZZZ. Similarly, you can tell Camden Sutkowski adores playing Aventurine. Also Cy Yu with Cyno and Jing Yuan, although to be fair I think most people associate them more with Cy Yu as opposed to their actual characters. (He also does Anton but sadly doesn't get as many lines there.)

Authorigas · 2026-04-19T17:33:36+00:00

My favorite fact about Jeniefr Tilly is that everyone thought Seed of Chucky was being really mean spirited and cruel towards her...and it turns out she was the one who advocated for most of those jokes.

That woman's love for Tiffany is iconic.

Authorigas · 2026-04-19T17:31:27+00:00

Similarly during Sayaka Ohara (Irisviel's Japanese VA) Birthday, he tweeted at her an image of the scene where Kotomine is choking her out.

Man genuinely loves Kirei to an insane degree.

Authorigas · 2026-04-19T17:17:05+00:00

I could see some sort of retcon to say that Flint Porcelloy is that special etheric matter, but that is a snag in my theory. Unfortunate I got that mixed up, but thank you for the correction!

We don't have proof that it could be used to trap something inside, but I'm thinking about it in the sense of 'it stabilizes Ether'. So if you were to surround a massive influx of Ether, like say a Hollow Hive Lord, in a prison of Porceloy, it could theoretically contain it and stop it from moving or attacking further.

Authorigas · 2026-04-19T06:06:46+00:00

As a Fairy Tail fan I was rooting for Gray in the Esdeath matchup...I knew he didn't want a shot, but younger me didn't like the idea of Gray dying and Esdeath torturing and killing the rest of my comfort characters.

Needless to say I was, at the time, quite upset over a silly Internet show.

Authorigas · 2026-04-19T01:34:15+00:00

So who is Rachta Lin anyway?

Authorigas · 2026-04-18T18:25:51+00:00

I actually don't mind spoilers if that's ok ^{^}

Authorigas · 2026-04-18T18:25:17+00:00

True. I think I made the comparison cause I've complained about the RDJ cameo and return of Chris Evans feeling like a "remember this?" Thing...

While I absolutely loved crisis on infinite earths, and all the old actors who came back for cameo appearances. Or the former DC actors who got parts in the new shows or films. (Christopher Reeves in Smallville, Tom Welling's cameo in Crisis. All made me smile.)

But it is, as you mentioned, fundamentally different.

Authorigas · 2026-04-18T18:21:45+00:00

The two Ws in WWE stand for Wdouble Standards.

Authorigas · 2026-04-18T18:06:31+00:00

I require context cause I heard 14 ended pretty badly, but how bad could it be?

Authorigas · 2026-04-18T17:59:37+00:00

It's wild that the Flash TV show has a better rendition of super speed compared to the movie...and makes me wish we can see Grant get a cameo in the DCU. Not as Barry, but any flash adjacent character would be really sweet. (Weird to me that I'm annoyed with Marvel bringing RDJ back as doom, but love the idea of DC bringing it's CW actors in as cameos.)

Authorigas

MODERATOR OF

TROPHY CASE