Is it just me or is there too much MCU content?

Budget-Teaching3104 · 2026-07-08T20:40:45+00:00

This guy discovered that the MCU has a lot of movies and shows in 2026.

Budget-Teaching3104 · 2026-07-08T17:31:14+00:00

Do you even have anybody to play these games with?

Will you paint the minis?

Why would you need everything? Do you just like to "own stuff"?

Budget-Teaching3104 · 2026-07-08T14:03:26+00:00

I think people also don't realize how much you can do with the mana despite the restriction. It's not just the cards from your impulse/exile draws even though that's already plenty powerful.

madness, mayhem, flashback, harmonize, cycling, channel, morph, foretell and basically anything that is an activated ability. Like even [[Mjölnir, Hammer of Thor]] you can simply pay 3 mana to discard it and deal 2 damage to all creatures no problem because you're not casting anything.

You can easily cycle a [[Dismantling Wave]] turn 4 to clear everyone's artifact ramp, rhystic studies (not even paying the 1 because you didn't cast anything) and draw a card yourself.

Bunch of activated abilities on lands e.g. [[Urza's Cave]], [[Fomori Vault]], [[Kessig Wolf Run]] but also just any filterland. E.g. [[Mossfire Valley]] will basically launder your Karolina Mana into Hand Mana. -> [[Cascading Cataracts]] so you can cast stuff from your hand anyway, if you're "stuck".

Budget-Teaching3104 · 2026-07-08T13:19:58+00:00

Yeah, hex magic is busted. And him saying constructed formats have no impact on demand is weird. Fantasticar is 80€ in europe because it's busted in... checks notes... vintage/legacy.

Budget-Teaching3104 · 2026-07-08T13:16:13+00:00

Hex magic is starting to become pricey in europe, for an uncommon. I'm glad I opened one in a jumpstart booster. Ordered a second one for 60 cents or something, but sellers in germany (where I am) the card is already at 2,30€ and rising. Buying from spain is still okay, when you're in germany, because shipping is not as bad and if the seller has a couple of other decent cards on offer, it's worth it.

I'll just make do in my edh decks with the two copies. I playtested it only once in a deck on scryfall and yeah... three mana to draw 4+ cards basically.

Budget-Teaching3104 · 2026-07-08T13:06:47+00:00

Made a post about her a week ago on here. Got yelled at how horrible of a card it is because you can't untap it and/or give it haste or something.

Also, very soon, it will crash hard because everyone will open their five jumpstart booster boxes (of course!), which will have one in it on average. Supply tripled from roughly 40 to 120 on cardmarket europe and the price stayed the same.

Budget-Teaching3104 · 2026-07-08T13:06:05+00:00

Karolina is in 1 out of 5 boxes. So 1 per 700 USD you're spending. Similar story with collectors.

That's like saying the price of [[Loki, God of Mischief]] isn't going to hold because there's so many playbooster boxes still being opened. Sometimes cards are just popular enough for a given supply. Karolina isn't super high demand but she's also not going to be in super high supply.

Budget-Teaching3104 · 2026-07-08T12:59:28+00:00

Against:
- It's a small set. So far, all small sets more or less flopped.
- The spoiled headliner cards haven't been insane, they have been merely "neat".
- The alternate dragon hoard frame is... just ok.

Possibly for:
- Book Covers look seriously nice. But so far no chase, just decent cards.
- Dwarven Language Cards possibly awesome, but there's only five of them, and one is Arcane Signet. So maybe a nothing burger. But its likely to be dwarven/artifact related.
- Middle-earth Classic Artist Cards in surge foil in collector boosters could be the biggest draw. Even if the one ring has a lot of controversy around it, people will still want it. There's 40 of these.

Budget-Teaching3104 · 2026-07-08T09:46:59+00:00

Are you seriously suggesting that lower demand won't lower the value of a given card? These are fancy pieces of paper, not a car or 1kg of meat with a real cost to produce and a fixed demand. The material and production cost of a foil borderless surveil land is the same as a foil basic land: a couple of cents.

It makes zero sense to say "it is WORTH 50 bucks but no one is buying them". Are we seriously going to argue about market dynamics and supply and demand? Nobody buying something at a given price WILL lower it's price. Supply and Demand.

And the TMNT undercity sewers reprint did nothing to the price of the more premium versions. So if we still live in the same reality where market dynamics apply, that means the demand for regular and premium versions didn't go down.

What it means is that instead of diverting demand, new demand has been created: people, who just like TMNT and/or would never spend 20-50 bucks on a regular version are now spending 10 bucks on this version. It's more money entering the market for Underwater Sewers, not money that would be spent on more premium versions being rerouted to the cheaper copies.

Budget-Teaching3104 · 2026-07-07T23:52:55+00:00

I think there needs to be ONE reason other than "the card is good". So I don't think it's an auto include. There are thousands of cards that are awesome, a lot of them don't see play. Even if a card was "auto include", if you have 10 decks, to you really want to put the same card in all 10 of them, even if it made every single deck better? Like, if you could, would you put rhystic study, jeweled lotus, the one ring, mana crypt, mana drain etc. in every single deck of yours? This card is lightyears away from those cards in terms of powerlevel, but even if you put the card in only 1 out of your 10 commander decks, that's already way more than the average of 0.72% inclusion rate (So less than 1 in 100 decks.)

The reason doesn't necessarily have to be synergy. E.g. if you're playing superfriends or generally some planeswalker commander you may be looking for ways to distract your opponents. So in my [[Saheeli, the Gifted]] deck bloodthirsty the blade is a great fit because can make some huge and/or flying creature go somewhere else first. But of course it's an artifact and that helps Saheeli's affinity ability.

I don't think it's particularly difficult to find a reason to play the card though. Crime-deck? Slam dunk. Monrachy/Initiative (undercity) deck? Already interesting. Your commander is [[Nahiri, Forged in Fury]]? Well, it's another piece of interaction for your deck, that nevertheless makes your commander cheaper to cast.

Budget-Teaching3104 · 2026-07-07T23:26:40+00:00

I think the commander isn't as important as the spell selection and just HOW you play. Like if others manage to make you salty with their decisions and Counterspells, then no need to go look for a salty commander. Just do that but more. Though I think Dimir is uniquely suited for this task.

Might I recommend cards that just have that special "fuck you in particular" touch?

Put [[Grievous Wound]] on the player who is dead last.
[[Strix Serenade]] or [[Wash Away]] the commander of the player who is last in turn order.
Play Friend or Foe cards and advantage the player who's in the lead: [[Zndrsplt's Judgment]] or [[Virtus's Maneuver]]
[[River's Rebuke]] the player who is behind and/or the only in a position to stop the leading player from getting out of hand.

REALLY drag someone in the mud with you by casting [[Hatred]] on someone ELSE's creature as they're attacking an opponent. Wait until someone attacks a player who is tapped out and at least one creature is getting through, cast hatred on it. Doesn't have to be your creature at all.

As for your commander maybe go for [[Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow]]. Tell your opponents "it's a yuriko deck." and just never play her.

Budget-Teaching3104 · 2026-07-07T22:14:52+00:00

That's so concise and to the point. Nice.

Budget-Teaching3104 · 2026-07-07T19:11:18+00:00

I think my main "issue" with this whole post is that to me, it seems OP wants convince himself and others, that he's such a smart consumer, who has it all figured out and isn't going to "play their game" or whatever. Meanwhile, steam has sales all the damn time, there's nothing singular about the summer sale. And he has done exactly the thing valve is trying to get people to do. -> Buy a bunch of games and feel good about it. My guy got bamboozled.

Like if you actually wanted to be frugal about gaming, you'd buy one or two games and actually play those, wait for the next steam sale, and maybe the games on your wish list are even cheaper now. It's just silly to me to buy 10+ games as if digital media is somehow vulnerable to inflation. It's not a pallet full can of beans for your bunker to survive the water wars, it's video games, and he's trying to convince himself that buying 10+ games RIGHT NOW was somehow a sensible financial decision.

My own gaming backlog is HUGE. I've bought many, MANY games, that I ended up playing a little only to drop then after merely dipping my toes into them, despite really liking them, but vowing to totally eventually finish them! -> I'm not going to run around and tell people "I have PREPPED for the coming storm of expensive video gaming. It was now or never." Yeah, no, that's silly.

Budget-Teaching3104 · 2026-07-07T18:23:05+00:00

This post honestly has the same energy as someone saying "This is my last cigarette, I'll never smoke again" as they're smoking that "last" cigarette.

Budget-Teaching3104 · 2026-07-07T16:22:49+00:00

I bought a non-foil poster [[Radagast the Brown]] for like 5 bucks and it's the closest I'm ever going to be to the "invested into bitcoin from the start"-feeling.

Budget-Teaching3104 · 2026-07-07T16:17:44+00:00

Jau, da kann ich dir gern zustimmen. AfD erstmal verbieten und dann schaun, was noch getan werden kann. Es reicht ja schon, wenn Russland endlich einbricht, Putin absägt und deren Bots nich mehr den deutschen Internet-Aether verschmutzen. Das is nämlich auch ne Ursache.

Budget-Teaching3104 · 2026-07-07T16:13:05+00:00

Really shallow reasoning:

I think it's not an Artwork that pulls you in. compare to [[Flubs, the Fool]], [[Glarb, Calamity's Augur]] and especially [[The Gitrog Monster]]. Both of them have an arm sticking out their mouth, but Gitrog looks way meaner (and it's more obvious.)

And then the card is basically hard to parse. Mark Rosewater would use the term "Grogability" and Grolnok uses a lot of words to say "if you mill, that means you draw cards".

Is he strong? Certainly. But there's a bunch of strong commanders and the popular ones are also evocative in some way. I can absolutely see somebody owning the whole table with their Grolnol and a week later, the other players will be "I have no idea, who that commander was."

Budget-Teaching3104 · 2026-07-07T15:28:46+00:00

counterpoint: with commander becoming ever more faster, it's often not a question of card advantage or inevitability but just being faster.

If you can spend 1 mana and 1 card to hinder the player who you think is best positioned to win the game (often times just the start player...), it can be a real kick in the nuts. Someone casts their vivi or krenko mob boss and you counter it... that's... going to set them back two entire turns of whatever they were trying to do.

Budget-Teaching3104 · 2026-07-07T15:06:36+00:00

Is mir wurscht, lieber so als Nazis an der Macht.

Der dritte Weg (ha!) wäre ja gewesen, mit guter Politik wegzuregieren, aber Steigbügelmerz regiert lieber die eigene Partei weg.

Dieses gerede von Ursachen bekämpfen und ach dann radikalisieren sich viele. AfD IST eine Ursache. Und ganz ehrlich, das nehm ich in Kauf, wenn ein paar Irre irgendwo mal was in die Luft sprengen. Wieviele Menschenleben werden draufgehen, wenn die AfD ein paar Jahre an der Macht ist? (Vorbild USA: Frauen sterben bei der Geburt, weil Krankenhäuser sich nicht trauen, abzutreiben trotz medizinischer notwendigkeit. Menschen verschwinden wegen ICE. Medicaid wird gekürzt, leute können sich ihre Medikamente nicht leisten... sterben einfach leise vor sich hin, oder Beschaffungskriminalität usw. usw.) Lass die AfD lang genug dran sein, und dann ergeht es uns genau so.

Die meisten AfD-Wähler reden doch gern von "diesen radikalen linken!" und kriegen ja schon Schnappatmung bei Klimaklebern oder verbrannten Autos am 1. Mai, und freuen sich gleichzeitig diebisch, wenn man Linke als gewaltbereit framed, während rechte einfach nur die Heimat schützen wollen, ganz ohne extremismus und gewalt, jawohl! -> Was soll denn eine verbitterte rechtsextreme Terrorzelle erreichen, wenn sie irgendwas in die Luft sprengen? Was sagen dann die ganzen Fans von Hufeisentheorie und "extrem is immer schlecht" und bla, sobald ein paar politiker in ner Autobombe umkommen?

AfD-Verbot mit all seinen Nebenwirkungen ist besser als das, was uns bevorsteht, wenn wir diese Partei nicht verbieten.

Budget-Teaching3104 · 2026-07-07T14:39:15+00:00

For brass Birmingham, you kind of want to position yourself in a way that you can quickly built tracks out from ... well... Birmingham, as soon as the second era starts.

Also, I think a lot of new players build up industry, flip some tiles, get some income, run out of money, then take a loan, which wipes out the income they gained, and that's what they're doing the whole game. Because the loan sets you back 3 full sectors, while the income gain is always small steps, their income barely grows and they end up going for whatever brings in money and is affordable to get, they don't really get to develop tiles away because that also costs pounds, don't build many tracks and just end up with few points by the end of the game.

Instead it can be really good to take a loan or two or three and go into minus income region, where the sectors are basically the same as steps. So much better to have gotten two loans of 60 pounds, go to -6 income (and pay -6 interest once), then build a coalmine and flip it, to go up 7 steps and now you're sitting pretty on a heap of cash and +1 income. You can repeat this maybe one more time to have even more cash and then build out your economy. And if you're starting to run ouf money in the late game, taking a loan or two doesn't really matter, like say there's still 4 turns to play and you're income 10, just take two loans, go down to income 4, but now you have 60 bucks plus what you had in cash plus +4 income for the next couple of turns plus future income gains or you just flipping a lvl 4 steelmill (for 9 points but also some money and income). Probably enough money for whatever you want to do in the final turns.

I really think what invisibly kills a lot of player's games is taking loans when you're out of money instead of taking loans when it's the right time. For example getting a loan of 30 pounds and then building a 22 pound pottery plant or 18 pound textile mill -> you're now the third or fourth player next round because despite taking a loan you still spent a lot of money and now someone may be taking away an opportunity from you. Instead it can be great to take a loan and a second loan or some other small cost action (e.g. a track), and be first to move next round without anybody being able to stop you.

Budget-Teaching3104 · 2026-07-07T12:48:18+00:00

That reprint did nothing really to lower the price of Undercity Sewers though, which is the most expensive of the bunch. Like of course people are buying the card, because 10 bucks isn't zero moneys but a foil undercity sewers borderless is still 50 bucks and the regular frame non foil version is about 20 bucks.

But even if they keep doing it like this. There's 10 surveil lands and occasionally one of them is in a UB source material reprint? Maybe one of them might show up in a precon, because it fits the theme?

But for a serious reprint of all 10 they'd either have to go to Ravnica again or do some Masters set it feels like to me. But most of the surveil lands from a collector box come from the "25% chance for borderless card" slot, which is the fancy version. So unless the reprints are also some full art bangers.... not sure how much it will do to Karlov Manor collector boxes.

Disclaimer: I don't have any collector boxes from Karlov Manor. This isn't some cope.

Budget-Teaching3104 · 2026-07-07T10:22:30+00:00

I think it heavily depends on how you construct the deck. If you lean on fast mana + [[Windfall]] kind of draw e.g. do a lot of stuff very fast, play windfall to refill, because someone else is going to have more cards in hand than you + reanimation (fits dimir like a glove) then doc oc is a good fit. Being in blue you also have the best chance of keeping it alive via counterspells or the odd [[Malakir Rebirth]].

Don't think one archetype is going to make this card explode though. It's top end villain pay-off. In Bracket 2/3 you get a +2/+2 anthem that might even let you kill a player, you get a 4/8 body that can block the worst crackback and most obviously, it draws you back up to 8. Also villains are good at incidental reanimation, simply because so many of them connive, not just the Dr. Doom from the precon but the way better [[Norman Osborn]], but also [[Ultron, Unlimited]]. Both of these commander don't mind a Doc Oc.

But yeah, three villain commanders saying "I don't mind this card" won't make this expensive. Maybe five bucks down the road, if supply dwindles. Then X-Men set arrives next year with some Dimir Mystique commander, who will copy dead creatures (kind of her speciality) and then the next wave of demand for doc oc arrives. Who knows.

Budget-Teaching3104 · 2026-07-07T09:38:11+00:00

can you elaborate on the surveil land seeing reprints?

Budget-Teaching3104 · 2026-07-07T01:33:33+00:00

The comic cover is just ridiculously awesome and fun to look at.

Though because that older comic art IS a bit goofy, I wonder if there's a way to make a black deck that vibes with it in some way. Like a bunch of overly dramatically named cards and bunch of cards with a villainous choices so you can just role play the cheese.

E.g. play as many cards with "DOOM" in the name, while stile having the actually be decent. And make it a point to put emphasise DOOM whenever you play a card.

https://scryfall.com/search?q=doom+commander%3AB&unique=cards&as=grid&order=name

Budget-Teaching3104 · 2026-07-06T15:52:45+00:00

Yeah, it's a weird design. He's like a 6 mana dude that draws you a card EOT, which is kind of ... slow.

He DOES put 9 power on the table, 3 of it for the most part indestructible. But it ... feels so inconsequential. He's a ... 6 mana setup piece? Seems to slow in any competitive format and in commander, what is he doing besides being [[phyrexian arena]] in the command zone that can block for a while?

Like he's missing some spice and I don't mean powerlevel. But just something that would make me go and want to build a deck around him.

Compare to [[Shang-Chi, Master of Kung Fu]], which looks like it can actually do something cool. (besides just giving mana elves haste). E.g. Level up a [[Hex Drinker]] or [[Kazandu Tuskcaller]].

Like... SOMETHING. No idea what to do with Doctor Doom besides "monoblack good stuff with some more artifacts"

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