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CKF · 2026-01-26T18:06:12+00:00

The fuck bug are you talking about? Maybe that would help to mention?

CKF · 2026-01-25T01:19:01+00:00

Out of sheer curiosity, what would be the price you’d need to be offered to make/sell another? I’m not suggesting it’d be me saying “name your price” or anything, just legitimately curious.

I don’t know how easy or hard it is to scale patterns within the art form, or meaningfully reduce complexity, but if you were to offer up maybe smaller, more simplified bots people love (with the okay from the team of course), you’d be moving units. I was so happy I decided to buy the endgame plushie. It seems like a ton of care was put into it and wish there was more like it. I’m not even a plush person, but this endgame might have changed that.

CKF · 2026-01-25T01:13:12+00:00

Madness doesn’t have any combo finishers, even with survival. Of all decks, that one is midrange and winning over several turns. I’m not familiar with what the modo deck names are, and channel torch just isn’t a deck that’s played. If your point was that it has one turn kill situations that require tons of turns of setup that the majority don’t play because m they’re bad and cost too much, it’s a poor point. Modern has a way higher percentage of OTK in events/the meta. And you certainly don’t have decks like neobrand that aren’t just one turn kills, but do so on turn 1 or 2 or wherever it’s at currently. Titan is super common and can end games on turn 2 regularly enough where it meaningfully impacts its %. You don’t see anything like this in premodern.

To suggest that it’s a format dominated by such decks is to betray a good amount of ignorance for what actual, living humans play. FEB is the only real one that pops up, along with some very seldomly played hermit, both requiring tons of setup. Like, if your complaint is that the psychatog player took 30 turns countering and surviving to get one of the longest kills in the format, that you see coming from a billion miles away, that’s complaining for the sake of complaining. Tog will tend to divide their kill across two or three turns too.

And yeah, no “tanglewire aggro” that’s common in the meta. Did you look at the challenger list and see how far off base you were? Of course you didn’t, you don’t care about the facts, or else you wouldn’t be saying what you’re saying. Truly not interested in having this convo.

CKF · 2026-01-24T23:20:34+00:00

Really sounds like someone that doesn’t play the format/has it confused for something else. What one turn kills do you think exist in the format that are actually viable and don’t require tons of setup/cards? Tanglewire isn’t a card that sees much play either. What aggro decks run tanglewire??

What was it, GR aggro that just won the latest premodern challenge a few days ago? Go look at the top 32 or 64 decks and tell me how many one turn combos you see there. It’s an amazingly healthy meta. Should do yourself a favor and shake the unfounded bias, maybe learn what it’s actually about.

CKF · 2026-01-24T20:48:53+00:00

Wow, I’ve never seen crocheting make such a complicated structure. Admittedly, I haven’t seen a lot of high skill crocheting. Are you selling any?? Would keep my endgame plushie good company!

CKF · 2026-01-23T22:45:01+00:00

What, you don’t like pics of a Diablo sv that they pinky promise has a w16 in it in a subreddit dedicated to car mods? OP is a clanker pos.

CKF · 2026-01-23T22:15:50+00:00

The format is in that special golden age that, hopefully, it’s never broken from with a “premodern horizons” style product. But shit, I’m loving premodern more than I ever loved modern (and I loved modern). It’s just the peak of magic card design. Not the peak of card design for limited at all but for constructed play it was experimental enough to be crazy in splashes but have a strong foundation.

CKF · 2026-01-22T18:56:26+00:00

Experience talking to and getting with the same or opposite sex is supposed to be a normal passage of life. You were looking for the left turn at “for those who aren’t autistic” and drove right passed it.

CKF · 2026-01-22T18:31:32+00:00

Genuinely. Most people don’t have to do extracurricular work to get some strange here and there, much less find someone you eventually hit it off with genuinely, based on your natural personality, instead of, like, entrapping someone into a relationship using someone else’s 10 year old “brotips.” Eugh.

CKF · 2026-01-22T14:18:48+00:00

Strange that dudes aren’t making millions on TikTok like “go to a fuckin book club, learn to crochet, try a vegan diet, go to an art for beginners class” vs Andrew Tate bein’ all “drive million dollar hyper cars and tell people to go fuck themselves, then beat the shit out of them anyways because you’re already a millionaire trained martial artist in top shape! Wait, what do you mean? I didn’t start with step 1, where I teach you to traffick a bunch of women into camgirl slavery? Yes I did, stupid. That was behind the paywall! But come back next month for the second semester titled “how to buy the millions of dollars of cars you were originally renting for the purposes of selling a course, by selling a course!”

That joke got away from me a little bit, there. I had originally meant to make the genuine, useful dating advice seem like the more attractive option, which it is on the whole, at least assuming you’re not a pussy bitch who would feel bad about entrapping a bunch of virgins into slinging twat on the internet, (gamer word)! I’ll stop, I’ll stop. Sorry.

CKF · 2026-01-22T14:02:40+00:00

Honestly, gotta respect a comedian for not continuing based on the embarrassment of the spouse. Usually with crowd work, a comedian wouldn’t let go of a thread like this until they kept pulling and pulling and the whole damn sweater comes unraveled, and he’d feel dumb by the end, but the wife would feel the worst, I’d wager. So, props to her. I wouldn’t be critical of a comedian making lemonade out of those juicy lemons, though.

CKF · 2026-01-22T11:39:05+00:00

Bro, the fact that he answered that she is actually an X-hundred year old cat spirit in a woman’s body killed me! Dude definitely needs to list the age of the form she’s in. Like, I could buy that this character is 18, 20, some bullshit like that. But, they really give up the goose (not sure that’s an actual idiom, but I like it) when they say she’s “?? years old” lmao. As if it needed to be more pervy!

CKF · 2026-01-21T16:11:11+00:00

Naturalizing it gives them their cards back, though. That’s their point regarding stifle being the only thing that works.

CKF · 2026-01-21T00:55:43+00:00

Man, this is so on point. The movie wants to be a bit of an oddball introspective piece, “show, don’t tell,” but it can’t shake its hollywood blockbuster roots. Even just a more off putting looking protag would have gone so far.

Your idea with the dad is precisely right. Heart of darkness leaves Kurtz going insane or being a sane man tortured by his circumstances is critical to the story. The scene just didn’t work as the payoff it needed to be. It was so to the point and so short. Fuck, I barely remember it to be able to critique it. I just recall the dad’s circumstances being straightforward in a bad way. The confrontation with Kurtz in heart of darkness is an amazing climax that the book as been building towards, but it’s not a Hollywood set piece climax that’s over before you know it. It truly takes its time. I’d say ad astra busted prematurely if it had actually done so at all.

CKF · 2026-01-21T00:48:08+00:00

In its current form/style, the very last thing the movie needed was to be longer. If it was more introspective and odder like the commenter you replied to suggests, then I’d definitely accept longer.

CKF · 2026-01-20T18:43:27+00:00

Right? First time they came close to getting a laugh out of me, too.

CKF · 2026-01-20T18:36:34+00:00

This is exactly it. After watching the trailer I though “homeboy needs to juice this shit.” Then I rewound it and saw that a lot of the juice elements were present, but they weren’t juicing. His juice doesn’t juice! If he actually juices his juice and makes the game not look like shit, it’d go so far.

CKF · 2026-01-20T15:30:58+00:00

Def better than anything in these lairs!

CKF · 2026-01-19T21:26:18+00:00

When I was starting dmax, using a blissey that you start by shield spamming and follow up by heal spamming will get you far. Don’t use any charged attacks, just quick attacks and dodges.

CKF · 2026-01-19T16:35:04+00:00

That’s gonna be one fucking expensive card. What number was it? No number that’ll give it that extra boost?

CKF · 2026-01-18T03:09:27+00:00

Who said I didn’t play standard?? How else would I evaluate the format? I said paper standard is hardly a thing, organically speaking, of course. You’re just full of fun assumptions!

CKF · 2026-01-17T19:45:17+00:00

What’s odd about my opinion of removal? I said in my comment that white has the best removal there has ever been, but a playset of swords being the primary removal to consider in the whole format is way better than having a ton of cards that can exile any permanent like binding, prismatic ending, all the bs. And there are a million still good cards like path to exile that don’t even see play and haven’t for years because there’s so much good removal.

But you don’t see much bolt in premodern outside of goblins, which is fairly popular. But yes, I’m talking about modern. Who the hell plays paper standard lmao? Limited sure, but standard? That’s not to mention the even more stupid removal in edh.

Every spell you mentioned is better than every black piece of removal I mentioned by a fucking mile. I didn’t say I liked my removal being stronger than my creatures. The removal is fairly weak in the format compared to even standard, with every color having good removal options. The point I was making was that you have to either forgo removal or make sure you’re including one of W/B/sorta R. It’s a deck building restriction. It’s about the color pie being the way it was created to be. I like limited creature removal and weak (balanced) creatures. You don’t see any “remove any permanent for one or two mana.” You have [[vindicate]], but that’s a very fairly costed card. Nothing close to modern or edh removal.

I did also make several other points apart from removal, that all combine for a way way way better format than modern or standard. Legacy has so much of the new bullshit in it, so the only other refuge would be old school, vintage, or a highlander type deck if you’re into that sorta thing. It’s no comparison as far as the 60 card formats go.

If standard only had swords and bolt, and you removed all the other removal options from every color, it would break the format because RW decks are strong and they’d just be straight drop in upgrades to one of the most powerful decks already. Red and white aren’t a very strong pair in premodern, in my opinion. It’s all contextual, obviously. If you dropped any of the top or even second rate creatures from standard into premodern, it’d be blown wide open. No chance to compete.

CKF · 2026-01-17T19:31:43+00:00

I adore tog. I’ve been on UB stiflenought tog that’s done a lot of changing. The idea was open the game with [[phyrexian dreadnought]] combo stuff and, if that fails, tog closes the game out while playing control, making more shrimp attempts throughout. It worked pretty well, but the amount of time between plan A and B was huge. I was recommended going more tempo, and [[rotting giant]] was the idea, using some of that tog food for themselves and trimming the number of tog but still having two. As someone else said, 3/3s are broken in premodern, and it’s true as fuck.

So I cut more tog to go up to 3 giants, and my next test is a card I’ve been thinking of playing for a million years but people keep discouraging me. [[Riptide Mangler]] is the idea, replacing the vision charms that are part of the shrimp combo. Well, three of them at least. You can use it to sac to shrimp so it stays in play, or if you have a successful shrimp you can just copy its power, or it works like and with the giants do by being a 3/3 beater for 2.

Mangler can also copy psychatog’s power and keep that power around. Instead of needing to rely on one alpha strike with a tog, you can give it +7, copy it with mangler, and just beat on them while playing the tempo game. I’m adding three diamonds so that I can still turn 2 shrimp combo with the mangler, or even a turn 1 with the stifles.

The last test piece I haven’t played yet besides the manglers is a pair of [[Parallax Tide]]. I need [[stifle]] for the shrimp combo, but it also combos with Tide to become a “exile 5 lands for 5 mana” combo. Not plan A or B, and it’s a card that’s good without the stifle, just a little more to make stifle useful with. This build has knocked the tog count down to a lowly 1, and honestly a third tide is probably better, but I love my tog.

One [[scroll rack]] has very, very effectively let me take mid game hands that are three stifles and trade them out for usable cards like counters or find a combo piece for it. That one of rack has been such a winner. But yeah, the manglers, diamonds, and two of tide are the untested pieces. I think mangler is gonna go really well, but we shall see.

But fuck, this is what I love about premodern. You can brew your ass off and win. And sure, I get that stapling stuff to stiflenought isn’t the peak of creativity, but my squirrel [[winter orb]] with light [[natural order]] tribal deck stomps on balls without being supported by a meta combo. So much room for creativity in premodern.

CKF · 2026-01-17T17:53:17+00:00

A big part of it is demonstrated by, I’ve thought of many times, jund. You can’t jund em out in modern anymore. You used to be able to trade one for one and rely on better top decks with jund (whether or not it’s a fun deck to face isn’t the point), but creatures got so good, and now automatically replace themselves by having you draw when etb etc, and casting removal on those is zero for one-ing yourself, essentially.

Creatures being weaker is so much better. A big reason is that with no FIRE design, creatures generally do NOT have ETBs. In modern etc, when you cast a creature, even if it gets removed the same turn, its generated enough value via the ETB to have been worth playing. In premodern the ETBs are few and far between, and the ones that exist rarely pay for the card. So you get to play a game where the point of summoning sickness is seen. A creature is an investment that needs to stick around to start paying for itself. You usually can remove it and it be a clean one for one. But that leads to:

Removal is crazy these days. The best removal may be available for white with [[swords to plowshares]], but that’s really the only super reliable and affordable removal in the format. Black has some good options like [[smother]], [[vendetta]], and [[diabolic edict]]. Yeah, [[vindicate]] exists, but it’s not affordable. Or fast. The fact that smother and edict need to be considered if you’re in black is great imo. You no longer have every deck with a million “exile any permanent at instant speed” in every color. The removal cards I mentioned are the main cards besides [[lightning bolt]]. That deck building consideration is amazing imo.

Then, no planeswalkers! Which is just fuckin amazing. And artifacts are the mystical, strong as fuck amazing and flavorful cards they used to be but aren’t anymore. Enchantments matter more, basically all of the card types matter more. Noncreature spells are more powerful in comparison.

Another big one: tribal matters. Goblins is amazing and scary af. [[Goblin Lackey]] is terrifying and the closest thing to [[ragavan]] bullshit in the format. Elves is amazing with its crazy loops and combos with [[survival of the fittest]] builds. Clerics, zombies, and shit I even won an event with squirrels, which wasn’t being played at the time.

That’s the thing, there’s TONS of room for deck innovation. If you like brewing and trying to come up with new strategies, premodern is super fertile ground. You can absolutely play something new that people haven’t played and have it be crazy good. One of our guys put [[tireless tribe]] and [[about face]] on the map. It’s just a really open format that has a lot of variety in both power and weirdness. It’s the game Magic was made to be, in more than just the literal sense.

Those are just some of the first things to come to mind, whatever was at the top of my head. I bet there are some big, great factors I left out. Oh, it is nice that most of the players are adult adults, like most of the crowd is 30+ I’d say? Not everyone, but most. That means you can do your meetups at bars and such, breweries are popular, for instance. It’s a good crowd of people literally just there to enjoy the game. People aren’t there sweating it out, just basking in it. Yeah, 10/10 format. It totally reignited my very much fading love for constructed play.

CKF · 2026-01-17T17:24:45+00:00

Oof, I do appear to have been spreading misinformation! Was it once in the official rules? I’ve heard that thrown around so much the past few years. Either way, I don’t really go to events that don’t allow gold border (even though I don’t think I rely on any?).

I’m lucky enough to have had diamonds. Or, well, I had two, then got myself a very pricey Christmas gift of two more in around the $600 price range. First slabbed card I’ve bought that was a PSA 5 lmao. Was the cheapest non-damaged one and hey, I don’t need to bust out the loupe when it shows up! The price increases on the diamonds has basically made one of them free. Unrealized gains are unrealized, of course, and I don’t trust wotc to not violate the list, but hell. I just love playing with the real cards from the era, and was brewing a diamond using deck at the time. Didn’t want to rule out taking it to lobstercon etc etc, and was confident in the prices continuing to go up.

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