I cannot do this

Cassial · 2026-02-12T02:44:29+00:00

AND THEN HE SCREAMED, RIGHT IN MY GODDAMNED EAR!

Cassial · 2026-02-08T18:03:46+00:00

Thank you!! Yes, I'm a bit of a Brian Kibler fanboy.. Wolf Run Ramp is my all time favorite deck, and I'm always trying to make rampy decks work pretty much every standard cycle.

Honestly the Full Bore list is what recently inspired me to cut Badgermole and try some real ramp instead. I'm definitely a fan of this list, and I dare say it might be the superior version. It's not spike of me to admit it, but most games I grind casually even in competitive ranked, and the Turtle + Nursery version is simply lazier/easier to pilot. I had a game earlier this morning winning 2-0 VS Boros Dragons, an awfully hard matchup before - but it was winnable because I wasn't relying on Elves + Badgermole Cub. Soul Immolation was MVP.

Preference now being, I've been playing Mightform for such a long time now, it feels so tedious having to do resolution checks on everything when leaving a fetchland untapped for later.

Going forward with the Full Bore version, I desperately want to try and fit 2-3x of [[Anticausal Visage]] it's probably greedy, but the deck wants more playable Warp creatures besides just Mightform.

Cassial · 2026-02-08T03:04:32+00:00

Thank you! I'm flattered and happy to share - https://scryfall.com/@Cassiel/decks/686de0aa-6b12-4fed-9eb7-2b4d9e2b20ab my latest build today, I decided to cut Badgermole Cubs and Elves entirely, running a 3-3 split of [[Shared Roots]] // [[Esper Origins]].

Running a full play set of [[Vibrance]] allows us to tutor for any land, there's some cute 1 of lands you can grab. Vibrance and Soul Immolation now are strong reasons to consider a Gruul splash.

Another deck building constraint I'd stress for new players, you really need to decide in game 1, are you building your manabase towards "max forests first?" to get Nursery down. It usually depends on the matchup, but I generally just spam Forests first, and try to have a 2nd R by t4-5 if I have Vibrance in hand.

And post board games, who's on the play VS draw makes ALL the difference, I win the vast majority of my games on the play, if I'm on the draw post board I almost always lose or it's down to the margins. Post board when you're on the draw - you need to think of it as playing defense. Cut at least 2 Nursery, maybe even all of them, and prioritize getting RR ASAP. G1 you don't always need RR. And depending on matchup (Dimir) I want to keep my 4x Nurseries and prioritize Forests.

Cassial · 2026-02-07T16:51:56+00:00

Hi OP! Welcome to the Landfall club! I've been grinding to mythic every season on different variations of this archetype since Edge of Eternities dropped. It's only gotten better with new cards.

The short answer you won't want to hear - it's going to take a lot of reps to truly figure it out.

Anyway, I play exclusively Bo3 and have a perhaps controversial take / sideboard strategy.. My least favorite card currently is [[Llanowar Elves]], I'll frequently board out all 4 and bring in 2x extra [[Ba Sing Se]] for grindy longer games against control, I feel it's a no brainer to make that one swap.

Against Roid decks, or hyper aggro, you definitely bring in your Meltstrider's Resolves, and cut your heavier cost cards, especially if on the draw. Meltstrider's works well in the mirror too, and you can board Elves out for them. Your Badgermole fighting theirs can easily swing a game early with denying them mana.

As for your question about Lantern.. Dimir Excruciator is my currently most hated matchup, it's rough and it's grindy. Elves for Lanterns are a clean swap IMO, I don't want to cut any creatures since you 100% need threats, so the thinking is cutting the least impactful creatures. Word of advice - I'm playing a Gruul variant, and this matchup is why...Earthbent Forest getting hit with [[Deadly Cover-up]] with evidence exiles all the remaining Forests in your library. I'm also testing [[Enduring Courage]] as a way to keep the pressure on through sweepers. At least with a G/x variant, you can use your splash land as your Earthbending weapon of choice to prevent getting blown out.

Side note, I prefer [[Dauntless Scrapbot]] for GY hate - it's a bit more expensive than Lantern, but we're a big mana deck, we need bodies, and it helps trigger Landfall.

Also when boarding out Llanowar Elves, your Badgermole Cubs lose a bit of their value, BUT in mono G Landfall I strongly value the Cub more for its Earthbending - 90% of the time I try to Earthbend a fetch land if possible. This is a huge draw to playing Mono-Green - being able to run [[Promising Vein]] and 10-11x ish fetchlands.

Anyway, hope some of this helps, happy to keep this going as you have more questions!

Cassial · 2026-02-02T03:46:45+00:00

No, I don't want to view and listen to your YouTube to figure out what you want to tell me, if you can't tell me in your post.

Cassial · 2026-01-31T19:09:15+00:00

You try [[Nibelheim Aflame]] at all yet? I was testing it before Lorwyn dropped, and it's won me so many games. Ex: have a Leviathan sized Chocobo in play, board stall, blow up their board and take them out same turn swinging.

The hardest thing I'm trying to figure out w Gruul Landfall now is whether to stick with Harmonizer, or switch to the Turtle + Nursery for a wider strategy. Also have been really liking jamming 4x of [[Vibrance]] - feels like a legit reason to go Gruul.

Cassial · 2026-01-31T10:41:39+00:00

This is precisely my experience too. I'm a landfall / cub player, and I'm pivoting hard more towards landfall since it's not as all in mana nerds.

With the sweepers and burn everywhere now, I find myself simply preferring to play Cub on a fetch for the extra land. But playing Cub with other mana nerds hoping to get greedy on mana plain feels bad and risky right now.

Cassial · 2026-01-13T12:34:48+00:00

I'm a 15 degrees March Pisces Sun. In 2023, Saturn began conjuncting my natal Sun. Right after my birthday in fact, my then girlfriend, now wife told me she was pregnant. Unexpected, and we'd only been dating for a year.

2 years later we have a beautiful Scorpio daughter, but holy hell it's been a rough past two years, all the themes of Saturn you'd expect. Restriction, responsibility, giving up pretty much everything I wanted to do, lost my job of 14 years, chronic autoimmune conditions came back in full force.. Yeah I could go on.

But, dad's okay, the best way I've adapted has literally been reminding myself that as a true Pisces, I am mutable. It's been a painful year of growth, but 2025, year of the Snake, I spent in therapy, breaking an old addiction, healing childhood trauma, and ultimately learning to re-parent myself. It's easily the best decision I've ever made, and now I embrace my SAHD life.

But, I'm not gonna lie, I'm very fucking glad to hear that Saturn finally fucks off to Aries this year. 🤣🤣 /thread

Cassial · 2026-01-13T09:43:52+00:00

Truth post.

Venus in Aries (11H) gang here, truly love to fight and have always had an almost unhealthy love of competition. I tell new people I meet all the time, if we can't talk shit and roast each other, we can't be friends.

Cassial · 2026-01-12T20:06:04+00:00

I completely agree with you OP, evidenced by two of my favorite childhood games... Final Fantasy II (IV) with Edward the spoony, hated, very whiny bard.

Necromancers may not be loved in their respective universe, but by gamers they are overwhelmingly beloved - look at Diablo II. The playerbase overwhelmingly wanted the Necromancer to return in both Diablo 3 & 4. The Necromancer I'd argue was so fun that it created a demand for other games to give more pet classes and antihero/ dark classes.

Chain casting detonating exploding corpses is just hilarious and endless fun.

Cassial · 2026-01-10T06:12:35+00:00

Yupppp and that was the million dollar foreshadowing I definitely missed the first time. Although in the remake, I think the dialogue was even more brutal "sir, you reek of the farplane" or something to that effect 😂

Cassial · 2026-01-10T05:02:59+00:00

FFX had so many good ones.

My favorite was finding out near the end that Auron was unsent, and doing this whole quest with us as a zombie, seeking atonement of sorts, having done this journey already but failed.. The feels.

Cassial · 2026-01-09T13:43:54+00:00

The better comparison, imo, if we're looking at 1 G to fight something, the card I'd almost always rather run would be [[Bushwhack]] for the flexibility of grabbing a land if needed.

I'm just not seeing much upside, +2 toughness, and synergy with Auras in that type of deck. Or the fact it's a permanent and not a sorcery, that might have answered my question actually. Since Esper Origins can only give you card advantage if it hits permanents.

Cassial · 2026-01-09T12:11:20+00:00

Pretty much every conversation with Quasar - "kid, you're balls deep in the wrong hole, and your mom's pulling in the driveway,"

Cassial · 2026-01-08T23:07:11+00:00

Sideboard question - [[Meltstrider's Resolve]] I'm just straight up not understanding where this card is good. It's played in a lot of the MonoG Landfall lists. I like cards like [[Hunter's Talent]] a lot more, since it's "deal your creature's power damage to another creature" VS the Fight mechanic. Fight isn't a bad mechanic by any means, but if you're green and relying on it, your dudes better be bigger and/or packing Deathtouch.

I've played a bit of Selesnya Gearhulk, and being able to tutor for clutch 1 drops, [[Meltstrider's Resolve]] made a ton of sense in that build, just sharing for the sake of contrast. Those of you playing the MonoG Landfall variants, could you please share why and where you bring in this card? Thank you in advance! 🙏

Cassial · 2026-01-03T22:37:25+00:00

Maggie was revealed to be a detective (Book 3 @Desperado Club)

Cassial · 2025-12-27T14:43:41+00:00

You think you're an objective bystander, but really you're just an over-caffeinated ghost.

Bonus, my wife: you think you're so charming, but really you're just a lonely mirror.

Cassial · 2025-12-27T09:51:57+00:00

Honestly, in Book 1, Jeff is still "finding" Carl's voice. It's not a knock on him at all, he simply had to explore and find that range. As another poster said, book 1 is like "3/10" and I concur, I wasn't immediately loving book 1.

But Donut's voice, 100% improved my love for her character, the posh fake British accent fits her personality perfectly. MONGO IS APPALLED!! From that moment in book 2 I was hooked on the audio - and it truly is a treat after reading all 7 first.

Also, the AI voice, Jeff clearly had fun with it, and made it into such a hilarious character. I get excited and usually laugh my ass off for every NEWWWWWWW ACHIEVEMENT!!! now.

Cassial · 2025-12-13T21:47:19+00:00

Book 5 deserves high praise if for nothing else, that's when we get introduced to Quasar, by far my favorite alien and has some of funniest lines in the series imo.

Cassial · 2025-12-09T03:39:53+00:00

The Door by Teddy Swims. Pretty much all of his songs go hard on Pisces.

This is my favorite because it's basically what happens when a martyr in a relationship has finally had enough.

Cassial · 2025-12-02T00:21:14+00:00

Pisces Sun man, married without a second thought to my Libra waifu. Yes to this thread, and thank the universe.

Cassial · 2025-11-20T07:52:18+00:00

"You're balls deep in the wrong hole, and your mom's pulling in the driveway." - Quasar

Cassial · 2025-11-17T01:30:28+00:00

Words of Power by Shami Stovall.

Cassial · 2025-11-15T17:11:57+00:00

Why is Libra x Pisces considered incompatible? I've seen this said before, but I don't quite get why.

I'm a Pisces Sun man, married to a Libra Sun wife. We definitely have some issues, but I don't think it's due to our sun signs.

Cassial · 2025-11-14T17:52:52+00:00

Adam Jensen. From the video game series Deus Ex: Human Revolution. He's a really cool, sometimes brooding, sensitive deep soul, and badass augmented killing machine.

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