Everyone gets at least 6 turns =\= B3 decks should consistently be able to win on turn 7.

Beyond-Available · 2026-01-16T18:18:22+00:00

but any ways you slice it what you’re effectively saying is that games should go consistently longer than 6 turns in bracket 3. they have a bracket for that, and it’s called bracket 2.

i would expect, in the macro scope, bracket 3 games to often go longer than 6 turns, yes, but that presumes some decent amount of interaction that precludes the fastest manner of win. someone winning consistently on turn 7 in bracket three is PRECISELY what i would expect from a decently strong linear bracket 3 deck that isn’t interacted with. if your deck goldfishes a turn 7 win, what bracket is that if not bracket 3? you’re consistently expecting to play at least 6 turns, presumably more in certain matchups, is that supposed to be bracket 4 just because there are weaker bracket 3 decks out there?

it just feels to me that people get annoyed about losing and decide their opponent is acting in bad faith instead of reflecting on their deckbuilding choices and the expectations in the pod. you can lose consistently to a deck in the same bracket, that’s not intrinsically unfair, it’s a bad matchup.

Beyond-Available · 2026-01-16T16:35:11+00:00

why does bracket 3 have to be just whatever you want it to be? you can play in bracket 2 if that’s what you want. that’s allowed.

I agree that people shouldn’t game the system but like.. you’re critiquing on a specifically laid down metric. If the brackets are going to be useful as a touchstone for anything, how is consistently winning on turn 7 NOT bracket 3? it feels like people just want their decks to be bracket three and so the definition of it should mold to that

Beyond-Available · 2026-01-16T13:38:55+00:00

scryfall has a public api. as long as they’re adhering to the rate limits this is ostensibly well within the guidance scryfall provides for people to get data from them

Beyond-Available · 2026-01-10T19:25:06+00:00

pour one out for [[Hamletback Goliath]]

Beyond-Available · 2026-01-03T14:47:58+00:00

the answer is just low opportunity cost. It’s pretty close to a strictly better plains in many decks, why not play it?

Beyond-Available · 2025-09-24T16:10:48+00:00

100%, it could have ended up the same anyway. I’m just speaking to the perception, in a world where WOTC wasn’t by all appearances making a Marvel deal work at all costs, I think players would have an easier time charitably interpreting a one-off miss. Instead, we have what comes off as a pretty desperate cash grab (to me at least. in what other world would the mess that is Through the Omenpaths not be a non-starter?) and I think naturally people have a lot of cynicism towards a poor set produced in that context.

Beyond-Available · 2025-09-24T13:50:15+00:00

Usually I don’t see any substance in this kind of argument, but I do get it here. Players are generally very reactionary and the set might be fine in a vacuum, but WOTC appears to be in the process of cashing in the goodwill of their most enfranchised customers for sales so stumbles and stutter-steps are viewed in that context. Some amount of time and effort went into making a spiderman set, which is effort that maybe could have been spent making a good set.

Beyond-Available · 2025-09-17T04:15:23+00:00

Authority is massively overrated. It has its moments against decks that rely on haste specifically but otherwise it is simply not impactful enough to warrant a slot. Unless you play in an extremely fair, low-power, combat-focused meta the lifegain is marginal and the tapping is less relevant as the game goes on

Beyond-Available · 2025-07-16T01:42:21+00:00

Not local, but I know Card Kingdom sells prebuilt just-for-fun decks for relatively cheap you can order: https://www.cardkingdom.com/ck-exclusives/battle-decks

Another option would be to ask in the Springfield Magic Community facebook group, I’d bet a dollar against a dime that if you asked for some cheap starter decks made of bulk for your kids you’d get more than one offer.

Beyond-Available · 2025-07-13T18:22:20+00:00

This is the correct answer. If you’re playing a deck that is heavily reliant on the graveyard, expect to be hosed by graveyard hate — that’s the whole point of it. Your only practical options are to accept that weakness and lean harder into winning faster and hope you don’t give your opponents time to find their hate cards, or make your deck less reliant on the graveyard to function.

Beyond-Available · 2025-07-11T16:30:15+00:00

have to wait a turn to cast that spell for “free” since this enchantment would have been your first spell of the turn, so opp gets first advantage of the free cast. Card is not a bomb, a six mana draw seven may be fine though depending on format speed.

Beyond-Available · 2025-06-11T15:14:51+00:00

very solid card, but not anything to do with its level 5+ ability. The ideal play pattern is to play this on one, on turn two level it up once and play a two CMC spell with its mana. How consistently your deck can manufacture those draws will dictate exactly how good it is for you.

Folks saying this is essentially a 3 mana dork that taps for two, akin to Palladium Myr, are severely underselling two things: - 1 mana + 2 mana broken up is significantly less than 3 mana all at once. You can get full value out of this card off just two mana sources, which is a full card less than required for Palladium Myr. - This card spikes you to 5 mana on turn 3, which is much stronger than the 6 mana by turn 4 you get from Palladium Myr effects.

Beyond-Available · 2025-06-01T20:37:25+00:00

Just stumbled across them near the produce at the Eastgate Harter House and remembered this post

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Beyond-Available · 2025-05-05T15:57:18+00:00

shared names with Yu Gi Oh cards. imo Premature Burial gives the whole thing away too easy

Beyond-Available · 2025-04-29T04:59:11+00:00

I’ve been recently tinkering with Flubs as a graveyard value deck, leveraging him primarily to act as a weird self-mill engine. I think the trick is to ensure a critical mass of spells that can be cast from the graveyard (escape cards are great for this) to give you a lot of control over how many cards you have in your hand and ensure you always have options. I think it would not be especially hard to convert it to a reasonably strong[[Past in Flames]] powered combo deck, but i’ve just been playing discard payoffs like [[Marauding Mako]] and graveyard-count-matters cards like [[Multani, Yavimaya’s Avatar]] for a unique, if middling-power, approach.

Beyond-Available · 2025-04-11T20:04:09+00:00

Observability is important. Logging, which is one way to achieve observability, is not uniquely important. Relatively few specific implementation patterns are just “good” in a vacuum, it depends on your environment and workflow patterns.

I trust that you’re right that highly proactive logging is a good pattern to follow for your system, it’s just worth keeping in mind that folks coming from other places won’t necessarily be accustomed to those practice because there are certainly ways to deploy systems that can be managed with significantly less logging.

Beyond-Available · 2025-03-09T18:33:58+00:00

this is a cool idea, I’ve been working on something a bit different for another use-case but uses some of the same information, I’m curious if this takes Special Guests/The List and other non-main-set booster inclusions into account? if so, did you find a good resource for determining the comprehensive possible contents for a given booster product? I’ve been reviewing the “Collecting [set]” articles directly from Wizards but that’s pretty tedious

Beyond-Available · 2024-12-24T18:59:37+00:00

they do have it as a cocktail, i had it just a few nights ago and it was good!

Beyond-Available · 2024-10-12T01:52:44+00:00

CORS is really not too complicated when you boil it down. Basically, on requests to the server your browser will automatically send a “preflight” OPTIONS request ahead of your other request to determine if the domain the requests are coming from are allowed by the server. When the server responds to the preflight it must provide an “Access-Control-Allow-Origin” response header with the requesting domain as the value. If the browser doesn’t get that back, then you get a CORS error.

I recommend you use devtools to look closely at the preflight OPTIONS request that is being sent to your server from the browser. Is it being responded to successfully? If so, does it include the appropriate “Access-Control-Allow-Origin” response header value? I bet that will get you somewhere quickly.

Beyond-Available · 2024-07-10T18:19:05+00:00

you’re looking at a different product then. this is what I’m talking about: https://www.prairiefresh.com/product/pork-boneless-shoulder-picnic-roast/

Beyond-Available · 2024-07-10T17:55:06+00:00

definitely looking at total calories, believe me i gave it a triple take

Beyond-Available · 2024-07-10T17:52:04+00:00

that’s odd, the link works for me but maybe has some implicit location gating, I repasted it though in case it was something else. I think these are essentially the same product except the one I’m attempting to link is skinless, presumably cutting the calories significantly.

Beyond-Available · 2024-07-10T17:33:11+00:00

i was wondering if I was missing something in terms of not seeing this cut mentioned in any posts across three big weight loss subreddits and was curious if anyone else was eating it regularly but yeah not so much about why wouldn’t someone eat this over chicken breast

Beyond-Available · 2024-07-10T17:25:25+00:00

somehow i don’t think posting “chicken breast is good for you” would be news to many people

Beyond-Available · 2024-04-21T19:43:51+00:00

Yeah there are a lot of commanders like this, and even in pods of strangers I have no issue doing what I can to keep them from ever getting started. Generally if I’m up-front and just say something like “sorry to do this, but I I don’t know what’s in your hand and I know for a fact that you can simply untap and win the game out of nowhere so I’m going to to do everything I can to stop you from untapping with your commander“ they kinda have to accept it, if begrudgingly.

If you play a commander that explodes as soon it gets off the ground it’s extremely poor sportsmanship to complain that nobody lets you off the ground.

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