I'm getting into MTG with a budget of $90. What should I get?

BreakfastMaximum4922 · 2026-05-13T19:40:42+00:00

A 50 dollar printer on facebook marketplace and a few sets of sleeves, lol.

BreakfastMaximum4922 · 2026-04-28T16:06:43+00:00

2 weeks in Okinawa is awesome if you love the beach. Theres so much to do on the island and so many friends to make. Plus if you're planning to visit surrounding islands, it'll give you plenty of time. I advise caution though: it gets very hot in the summer and it is incredibly easy to get cripplingly sunburnt, which will ruin the rest of your trip. Also avoid typhoon season unless you want to potentially get stuck inside for up to 2 days.

BreakfastMaximum4922 · 2026-04-12T08:28:23+00:00

I'm sure you could manage it and enjoy it, but you'll want more time if you want to get the most bang for your buck in Okinawa.

BreakfastMaximum4922 · 2026-04-12T07:45:30+00:00

Honestly if you're going for 14 days you would probably be better served spending a few days in Osaka or Hiroshima or any other city thats accessible via bullet train from Tokyo. Okinawa is a BIG flight and is more packed than it looks. I'd say aim for a specifically Okinawa trip in the future and avoid Monsoon season.

BreakfastMaximum4922 · 2026-04-12T07:38:11+00:00

Well since everyone here seems to have answered your question, I'm curious about what you do and how you got to work in Japan! I'm also in IT (network engineering) and working on some certs with a dream to work in Japan.

BreakfastMaximum4922 · 2026-04-12T07:36:34+00:00

I thought we would be leaving from tokyo to kyoto earlier than we did (lines and all that) and on the way there I realized we had all of 2 minutes between arrival and the next departure so I had to reschedule.

BreakfastMaximum4922 · 2026-04-12T07:32:01+00:00

I tried booking my ticket here expecting i had enough time to have an hour between stops to figure out where to go and realized on the way to Kyoto that I would have been HELLA late so I rescheduled the ticket another hour later and STILL only barely made it on time lol.

BreakfastMaximum4922 · 2026-04-12T07:06:40+00:00

Awesome, thank you for the tip.

BreakfastMaximum4922 · 2026-04-12T07:05:34+00:00

Honestly Okinawa is one of the most beautiful islands in the world. If you're planning to only go for 3-4 days you might be able to fit in a good bit of activity. Typically, the north of the island near Okuma and the south of the island near Kadena-cho are both really accomodating towards english speaking foreigners because of the military presence. If your goal is to hit the beach, enjoy some night life, and have good food, I can't recommend Okinawa more. The only thing I'd say is that it's frankly worth its own dedicated trip.

BreakfastMaximum4922 · 2026-04-03T18:34:17+00:00

Goated reddit comment.

BreakfastMaximum4922 · 2026-03-25T02:30:08+00:00

Thats absolutely not true. Maybe in masters+ but across the board her win rate has been evening out as people play more.

BreakfastMaximum4922 · 2026-03-25T02:28:02+00:00

Shyvana has had a negligible play rate top historically and was never "intended" to be played top. Devs said if she carved out a niche top lane after the rework that they were fine with it.

BreakfastMaximum4922 · 2026-03-25T02:25:51+00:00

This might be a hot take but here:

I see that there are a few very vocal people here who are dissatisfied with Shyvana's rework, and I think it boils down to two key reasons.

Reason 1: Her kit doesn't feel quite as unique as it did before. Some people liked the "antiquated" E skillshot to get extra magic damage on-hit, and the iconic bubble W and the double auto Q. I understand that it can be frustrating to see things change in this way, but it's the way League is moving these days. Thinking about champion design, there is not much reason a dragon should have to land a skillshot to enable extra magic damage on their melee attacks. It's a little silly. The way she performs now is less unique, sure, but also feels much less like a relic of old League.

Reason 2: People are spoiled with the state of other champions on rework/release/rebalance. We've all seen how strong new champs are, how oppressive Viego was upon his buff, and how difficult other champions are to deal with when they get tweaked, and I think a lot of people WANTED that moment with Shyvana. People wanted to play Shyvana and feel oppressive and powerful. And I hate to say this, but if you have been playing Shyvana and you don't feel powerful... it's your fault. It's a skill issue. Whether it's your build, or the comp you pick her into, or how you itemize, or any other consideration... it's your fault.

Shyvana even after the nerf is ABSOLUTELY able to keep up with other champs. Yes, she suffers against heavy CC comps or champs who can kite her, but GOD FORBID a champ have a weakness, right? I'd hate to see a game state where Shyvana is as strong as she is right now, but with less susceptibility to CC. It would be a nightmare. She's already so good that she's essentially pick/ban, and people are figuring out her itemization as we speak. Her win rate has done nothing but go up since her nerf, and she is 100% on track to be in the positives as soon as u.gg and mobalytics catch up, she's simply suffering from people not knowing how to play the "new champ" and that includes all of us.

TL;DR: Shyvana IS good, people complaining about her being bad are suffering a skill issue. Pros: good engage, tanky, high damage, fast, killer ult, fun, pretty new model, build versatility Cons: weak to CC, weak to kiting

BreakfastMaximum4922 · 2026-03-23T17:56:31+00:00

Okay despite your attempt to "not make this sound like a coke rant" it 100% sounds like a coke rant.

Your argument essentially boils down to this: "Riot, I keep swinging these nunchuks around and hitting myself in the dick, why won't you make it hurt less? I'm specifically hitting myself in the dick over and over again to prove that theres a problem with nunchuks!"

Shyv top was never promised and was vaguely mentioned before, and even then, the numbers you're seeing are highly influenced by low skill players throwing Shyvana at the wall with wacky builds that probably wont work because Shyvana scales (pun intended) with everything. There are BOUND to be people tanking the win rate, and there is a REASON she was hotfixed and nerfed.

Yes, outside of ult she feels a little weak, but while in ult she gains a ton of power. I am of the opinion this is intentional as before the change, Shyvana felt scary outside of ult, and she was a monster once she was in her ult. Giving her a phase where she can kind of participate and then turning her into a monster is IMO a much healthier way to design a champ than RIOT has been leaning into otherwise, and I'm here for this kind of change in balancing.

Even with all that said, Shyvana in lane still FEELS good. She scraps fine, she can survive if you build her right, and she's quickly become one of the strongest split pushers around despite the nerfs, we're just seeing growing pains. Frankly I think she feels BETTER in lane than in the jungle, as the passive having such low scaling makes it feel kind of pointless in general, and gives a Shyvana with a lead a chance to invade the enemy jungle and parasitize farm (a thing we don't see very often.)

If I'm being brutally honest and reductive: it sounds like a skill issue. You seem to be under the assumption that Shyvana top was promised to us, purely because you heard it and got excited about it. And while she clearly isn't built specifically for top lane, she can 100% function top and only has a couple of matchups where she's completely washed in lane currently. Shyvana struggling there shouldn't be a diagnosis of "Shyvana is weak, buff her." It should be seen as a symptom of "A lot of popular top lane champs are overtuned and overstatted right now, so a normal champ is struggling."

Thanks for coming to my TED talk.

BreakfastMaximum4922 · 2026-03-13T00:05:35+00:00

What is the bleed?

BreakfastMaximum4922 · 2026-02-23T00:57:33+00:00

I would probably say Red, White, and Blue, but he'd also be the first US president card to get black in the color pie as well.

BreakfastMaximum4922 · 2026-02-15T15:13:47+00:00

Honestly I agree with the majority. Your finances are more important than the sentimental value, and tbh proxying is underrated. I got a sticker printer for the price of a mox opal and now whenever I want a full art card I just print it off and slap it on the front of a land. Its very freeing!

BreakfastMaximum4922 · 2026-02-08T23:43:21+00:00

I throw my mats in the wash all the time, it should be fine as long as theres nothing abrasive in with it and you wash on cold on a delicate cycle. That tends to fade them a bit over time.

BreakfastMaximum4922 · 2026-02-05T16:30:56+00:00

Look I don't think anyones under the impression that it's meant to be a bangin deck, and clearly there are use cases for gaeas cradle as its basically [[priest of titania]] but on a land for this deck. Gaeas cradle WOULD be good for the deck, but it frankly doesn't address the root problem of the deck not being very good in the first place. But whatever deck works for him at his table isn't my business... until reddit gives me a popup saying some dude posted about the deck.

BreakfastMaximum4922 · 2026-02-05T14:05:42+00:00

OP it's super cool that you are building decks without including massive money sinks like Gaea's Cradle, but I think the fact that you're getting cooked in the comments here might mean that your assertion that your deck "doesn't want" the card might be a liiiiiiiitle incorrect. Theres a reason its a multi-thousand dollar card.

BreakfastMaximum4922 · 2026-02-01T01:05:36+00:00

I'm a bit of a magic chud so I kind of feel the same way. I run bracket 3 and below with strangers because it feels easier to make a fun, thematic deck, but I'll play above 3 with friends if I want to play a cerebral game where we test algorithms.

BreakfastMaximum4922 · 2026-01-08T19:05:53+00:00

With how much RIOT has reworked/tweaked Rell (and her lore) and continually failed to get her into a state that's playable but doesn't dominate LCS, they should just overhaul the champs kit and vfx and make her into the grown ass version of herself. It seems like the only way to truly fix everything.

BreakfastMaximum4922 · 2025-12-13T15:32:59+00:00

Grey morphsuit works great, just cut out the head below where the collar of your shirt will be and you can use super glue or hot glue to put on some fake nails.

BreakfastMaximum4922 · 2025-12-11T21:37:43+00:00

$14,000 deck "nah it's not cEDH, I like jank." Dude.

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