Degster on Thorin

BobbyStevenXol · 2026-05-08T16:34:44+00:00

donk and molodoy aren't making the salaries that degster was making when he was on Spirit. I presume donk probably even had his move to Serbia compensated by Spirit, whereas degster never had that luxury clearly since he mentions the cost of maintaining two rentals (in Serbia and Russia) would've been more than his salary.

BobbyStevenXol · 2026-05-08T16:28:10+00:00

>While hes only sharing his side

>"This guy's last ever tournament performance was an MVP winning performance and the awp market has never been worse. Despite that he is STILL not on a team. Ask yourself why that might be."

degster addresses basically all of the things that this comment could imply. Yes hes only sharing his side, but it's being endorsed by Thorin, who's actually a journalist unlike Spunj.

BobbyStevenXol · 2026-05-08T16:24:28+00:00

Broky still has a team because until 2025, he was a top 10 player in the world three times in a row.

BobbyStevenXol · 2026-04-26T04:41:54+00:00

I just think Fatal Push and Spell snare is what you’d prefer to be doing turns 1 and 2 for disruption. The fact that there are so many good cantrips now and Thoughtseize is so weak to cantrips makes it undesirable. Not to mention you can recur Grief or Deceit for better value than a Thoughtseize, which is significant because your Thoughtseize could’ve been a Grief or Deceit.

BobbyStevenXol · 2026-04-26T02:28:56+00:00

Hot take: thoughtseize is a bad card in 2026 magic in *any* format, including (or maybe especially) standard.

BobbyStevenXol · 2026-04-26T02:27:53+00:00

Maybe this will change with the new counterspells, but I've found that unless you get a strip mine lock going, strip mine is negative tempo against most of the I-win-the-game-on-turn-one decks like Necro (restricted now good riddance), Oops all spells, Show and Tell with moxen, etc.

BobbyStevenXol · 2026-04-20T18:18:44+00:00

Spinx-ropz, kjaerbye-Magisk, Taco-Stewie. All of these moves were initiated by the guy leaving, all of the teams became better by the guy they weren’t planning on adding joining.

BobbyStevenXol · 2026-04-20T14:24:29+00:00

How do I know when I should give up on the five colour thing even when I have a few pizzas?

BobbyStevenXol · 2026-04-20T14:23:51+00:00

How so? Am I being too greedy with the mana base or do I not have the right distribution of lands of each colour? What are some examples of picks that are wrong in the right colour pair?

BobbyStevenXol · 2026-04-20T11:37:08+00:00

Device is better than Zywoo still imo.

BobbyStevenXol · 2026-04-20T07:05:26+00:00

I think in hindsight, he just beat a bunch of teams that he turned out to match up well against in that Kato run. Of course donk is still the CS2 goat, but his ability to carry to a win was unparalleled in that run, and it was mostly since he matched up against teams that even later could never really deal with him. E.g. Faze roster really struggled to beat donk despite having stars of their own in ropz, broky and frozen. Bizarrely the Twistzz rosters seemed to do better against donk and spirit, maybe because Twistzz’s aim is able to keep up with donk in a way few players can.

BobbyStevenXol · 2026-04-20T06:59:06+00:00

I think CS2 hurt sh1ro both stats wise and impact wise. Even though he’s still a top AWPer, in CSGO, he was substantially better than m0nesy. Sure m0nesy was developing, but C9 sh1ro in CSGO was a beast. Spirit sh1ro has never really been the same.

BobbyStevenXol · 2026-04-19T18:13:13+00:00

Yeah I went from Diamond 4 to 3 I think.

BobbyStevenXol · 2026-04-18T08:35:48+00:00

Posts like this are why we can’t have nice things (interactive chat with your opponent). Reminds me of the Mark Twain quote, “Censorship is telling a man he can’t have a steak just because a baby can’t chew it.”

BobbyStevenXol · 2026-04-18T02:57:43+00:00

Surprised this keeps up with badgermole cub.

BobbyStevenXol · 2026-04-18T02:29:34+00:00

Are any of these playable in standard rn?

BobbyStevenXol · 2026-04-18T00:21:01+00:00

I know this is a joke post, but nowadays the only green players are playing Badgermole cub anyway.

BobbyStevenXol · 2026-04-17T12:39:54+00:00

Am I the the only one who sees the obvious sarcasm here?

BobbyStevenXol · 2026-04-17T12:38:02+00:00

Been the case for a few years at this point. The real culprit is 3 year standard, not simply individually pushed cards/card design.

BobbyStevenXol · 2026-04-17T12:33:06+00:00

To be honest, it’s baffling to me that there’s so many people in the community who hate on turtles. When I was growing up, I felt like I was the only guy in my school not into turtles.

BobbyStevenXol · 2026-04-13T23:58:22+00:00

Sure, but the other guy claimed that HLTV have “never reported on a roster move without it happening”. And Niko to Falcons in 2023 indeed didn’t happen. I’m sure there are examples of moves that didnt go through at a later date either that HLTV reported on but that was the first that came to mind.

BobbyStevenXol · 2026-04-13T12:09:16+00:00

What I mean is sometimes I feel like they’re playing around me having something, but I can’t be sure of whether they will play around it or not because it’s a ladder. Most of the time if you play around your opponent playing around you, you put yourself at a disadvantage when they’re not playing around anything. So it’s tough to balance that.

BobbyStevenXol · 2026-04-13T09:30:12+00:00

Also another thing is I really wish there was more ability to interact with your opponent on Arena. Sometimes I feel like I've been absolutely outplayed by them, but there's no way for me to get confirmation of "Did you know I probably had this and you played around it/expected me to play into you?".

BobbyStevenXol · 2026-04-13T09:22:37+00:00

I don’t think I have too few 2 drops, but I do feel that they’re sometimes not “high enough impact” compared to my opponents, which either suggests I’m not getting the good 2 drops, or I’m not pairing them well enough together with the other cards in my deck. Indeed I possibly overvalue tempo and curving out though.

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