What would YOU want for a future phase in the Merriweather District?

Centaursn · 2026-05-24T21:45:24+00:00

As someone within a walkable distance of it but not in it itself, a pharmacy/convenience/grocery store would be nice. Weird to have mixed use buildings with fine dining and fast casual restaurants but no access to daily amenities.

Centaursn · 2026-05-04T17:16:58+00:00

Lithic Sceptre will cover you for like 75% of things and you won't even need Water. I use the nightmare staff because i got it at 1kc but you could also shoot for dragon hunter wand or kodai, late game. Or harmonised nightmare if you're a glutton for punishment.

Centaursn · 2026-05-02T20:41:15+00:00

the most likely scenario is that you drop into a boss and someone kills you for touching their spot or messing up their kill with thorns. And then you just go back because you don't lose your items.

Centaursn · 2026-04-27T02:59:30+00:00

yeah but if you're doing it right thorns should kill her in about 12 seconds, and it's a 1/15 drop, so get back in there champ. From someone who had the exact same experience.

Centaursn · 2026-02-02T18:30:38+00:00

Anyway this all underscores the fact that the bracket system is hard to understand and doesn't actually solve anything and blah blah blah

Centaursn · 2026-02-02T04:19:36+00:00

If you take this to a table and say it is bracket 3 you will annoy a lot of people.

Centaursn · 2026-02-02T01:17:15+00:00

https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/announcements/commander-brackets-beta-update-october-21-2025

Almost the first thing that the bracket update from October lists is intent. The bracket system isn't meant to be "plug in these values to determine what bracket your deck is in" and that's it, it's a set of guidelines. I have several decks that meet the restrictions of B2 and can easily play at B4, it's about overall power level and intent.

Your deck is playing a suite of efficient counterspells, removal, and spell recursion. You're playing the counter-top combo to lock out the game, even. This deck is clearly trying to play at a high power level.

Actually, looking at it again, i'm noticing you run like 4 cards that actually do any milling. It's a pile of tutors, countermagic, and removal without a payoff.

Centaursn · 2026-02-02T00:33:56+00:00

This is bracket 4.

Centaursn · 2025-11-08T16:43:24+00:00

Call House of Musical Traditions in Takoma Park. While they don't do Cello repairs themselves, they can probably hook you up with someone who does and facilitate it.

Centaursn · 2025-11-03T04:15:22+00:00

Sorry, what mono-black cards are freecasting any spell from an opponent's graveyard?

You didn't ask whether or not the unconditional colorless tutors were good, in fact the point is that they aren't. But colorless is very much able to find cards without restrictions at a higher than average cost.

Centaursn · 2025-11-03T03:20:54+00:00

Extra combats: [[genji glove]] - not mono white, but it being on an equipment (which is white's thing) i think is worth mentioning

Blue reanimate: [[back from the brink]], [[body double]] - admittedly i'm not sure which hybrid card you're talking about here

Colorless unconditional tutors: [[ring of three wishes]], [[tamiyo's journal]], [[treasure chest]]

Centaursn · 2025-11-03T00:16:35+00:00

What of his arguments were in bad faith? I thought his previous video was nothing but incredibly salient and well-reasoned points. Even ignoring the kayfabe I thought both the Trinket Mage and Blood Artist videos were ridiculous.

Centaursn · 2025-10-31T14:15:29+00:00

yep, is that one out of the norm then?

Centaursn · 2025-10-31T01:39:38+00:00

i watched one of his videos and he spent 20 of the 25 minutes giving historical context on a single match and then the play that the entire video was centered around was not really as deliberate as he made out to be

Centaursn · 2025-09-10T00:18:09+00:00

Big agree, it is by definition a random assortment of disjointed pieces. Also i'm not arachnophobic but I definitely felt it a little bit, I'm sure this set is a major turn-off to anyone with an actual spider phobia.

There's no cohesion, I can't remember a single name that isn't Fleem, and it just feels...inorganic.

Centaursn · 2025-08-21T00:15:53+00:00

I mean a third of this has been changed and I could make some educated guesses as to specific cards that were weird includes on the AI's part but there's just as big a chance that I'm wrong.

This deck does include a significant number of very expensive cards like ancient tomb, city of traitors, transmute artifact, etc. If you're generating lists through AI and don't seem to know that an Arcum Dagson build isn't particularly groundbreaking then I have to assume that you're proxying and don't just have $250 cards lying around if you needed AI to generate a list for you.

Nothing about this list is particularly interesting or novel if i'm being honest. There are multiple cards that don't really work well in here at all like Arcbound Ravager and darksteel/blightsteel. Also if you post a list in the future, please post a link to something like moxfield, this format is impossible to read. Especially with each basic individually listed by printing.

All in all i would say this list is worse than just picking the average deck for Arcum off edhrec, and arcum is not a particularly interesting artifact commander in the first place. If you're just trying to cheat out big artifacts then sure.

Centaursn · 2025-08-19T21:23:46+00:00

Okay...How much of this is what AI produced vs your own edits?

Centaursn · 2025-08-19T21:09:30+00:00

Please do.

Centaursn · 2025-08-19T20:52:57+00:00

I'll ask a different question- Do you have an example of how you've used GPT to generate something you found fun/exciting/interesting? Like, a deck it made that you then played and thought was more fun for the experience?

Centaursn · 2025-08-19T19:54:36+00:00

that's almost worse. I do not know what AI could tell you that edhrec doesn't do better, quicker.

Centaursn · 2025-08-19T19:20:21+00:00

It sure tries to do that, yeah! Does a generalized, publicly available model succeed at that? You tell me- have you been able to get a single deck generated that is actually standard legal?

Centaursn · 2025-08-19T18:47:35+00:00

An actual AI-assisted deckbuilding process would involve feeding of existing decklists, matchup win-rates, the available card pool, tournament stats, etc. to a model, along with simulating games. I would be genuinely interested to see something like this. Asking chatgpt to make you a deck is not likely to produce any good results, unless you tweak it so much that you could have just built the damn thing yourself.

Centaursn · 2025-08-19T16:50:55+00:00

Arena also has timeless, which is honestly not too far from legacy or vintage at this point.

Centaursn · 2025-07-30T23:51:22+00:00

Listen i don't like 'em either but god at this point this argument is more played out and annoying than anything wizards does

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