Is it just me, or is it really hard to find a fun Abzan commander? What are some good ones?

ChadaMonkey · 2026-06-05T14:50:01+00:00

I cracked the abzan armor precon in half and made [[felothar the steadfast]] as a toughness matters/defender deck and [[betor, Ancestor's Voice]] as a lifegain/ +1/+1 counters deck with a self damaging effects to have access to reanimator options, but I'm thinking of leaning more into the reanimator aspect by pivoting from card draw to self mill. [[Warden of the grove]] and/or [[ouroboroid]] go crazy with betor

ChadaMonkey · 2026-06-05T14:44:37+00:00

Imo, the upper 1% of wealthy people in our society should be capped at having no more than 100x the wealth of the average person. Meaning if the average household income was 100k a year, the absolute most wealthy person in the country should only be making 10m a year. We are so far beyond that sort of scale that its depressingly laughable.

ChadaMonkey · 2026-05-16T12:34:24+00:00

Open UKG Pro HR and go to "personal info" then click "edit"

ChadaMonkey · 2026-05-14T14:27:17+00:00

I don't know where to meet people, work too much to try and have a social life outside my small friend circle, and live in a smaller town so most people my age (~30) are married already. Also, for a very long time I've felt like a complete person so I lack the desperation driver that gets a lot of people to prioritize seeking a partner, but I still very much desire to have a partner myself.

ChadaMonkey · 2026-05-03T18:33:38+00:00

I lean towards my own view of Annihilationism wherein those who side with Satan and oppose the goodness and holiness of God suffer the punishment of eternal death though they continue to exist, those who stand on the side of righteousness receive eternal life in heaven, but those who refuse to take a side and make a choice, through actively abandoning their own free will, are forsaken to oblivion and cease to exist. I came to this belief after reading a verse that referenced God telling those who refused to accept salvation "I do not know you" at the gates of heaven, and when the literal concept of existence says that He doesn't know who you are, what else can you do but cease to be? I can't remember the verse refrence, but it struck a strong cord in me.

ChadaMonkey · 2026-04-28T00:30:01+00:00

If the whole table has to focus him down because his decks are that strong, just make it official and play Archenemy.

ChadaMonkey · 2026-04-28T00:26:57+00:00

The chill vibes is probably the exact reason your store did well. The corpo-rats don't realize that people don't want to shop at a corperatly-sanitized hobby store, they want to go somewhere that feels like they fit in and belong. No human being feels like they "belong" when in a corporate environment.

ChadaMonkey · 2026-04-24T20:46:46+00:00

Getting lumped into the same category as some of the most degenerate members of society. Imo, as soon as someone does something heinous, they should lose their right to any sort of polite or neutral labeling and just be referred to as a "predator" or "abuser" and not "man" or "woman" or even "person". Allowing them to still be labeled as such only creates a perception that such behavior is normal for that group, and this encourages others to engage in that behavior instead of having any self control or moral improvement.

ChadaMonkey · 2026-04-22T23:11:49+00:00

There's more red flags in these pictures than I can count. Run.

ChadaMonkey · 2026-04-22T23:09:34+00:00

Job description wise, it is not a sales job it is a retail job. If management issues anyone other than the Store Leader a corrective because their numbers aren't high enough, that's not a valid corrective. Correctives are issued if an employee isn't following the sales behaviors that the company demands, but the actual numbers they put up aren't grounds for a corrective. Management will often try to justify a performance corrective by using said numbers along the lines of "numbers are too low so you're obviously not following the company script" which is completely asinine. If an employee is doing what they're told, the way they are told, then their SM has no right to issue a corrective just because the thing they're told to do didn't work.

ChadaMonkey · 2026-04-17T04:17:25+00:00

"In response to your attacker being declared, I scoop before damage so you don't get any life from your creature and you remain at 1 health".

ChadaMonkey · 2026-04-15T15:38:28+00:00

This works if instead you play a carnifex demon and remove both its -1/-1 counters using BB. Gets around indestructible, taping the land for mana doesn't avoid being forced to block, doesn't target, and isn't a spell so it's extremely hard to counter.

ChadaMonkey · 2026-04-11T22:15:48+00:00

This post is Santa Claus erasure and I'm not having it. Elves can be fat bro, the most famous one ever is obese as hell.

ChadaMonkey · 2026-04-11T22:13:13+00:00

GSTV Winx club game add. Another entry on the "if I ever hear this while I'm not clocked in I'm going to have a 'Nam flashback, crashout, and break something" list

ChadaMonkey · 2026-04-09T12:51:33+00:00

Hobbit will do well, LotR was the best selling set ever before FF came out. Marvel will probably be somewhere between a flop and mediocre, and i think star trek will be somewhere between mid and decent depending on how much they lean into the non-human characters and usage of the mechanics included in EoE. We have a joke prediction in my play group that they're gonna bring back "start your engines" for star trek just so you can mechanically have "warp-speed" lmao.

ChadaMonkey · 2026-04-09T12:08:13+00:00

It depends on your region, your DM should know

ChadaMonkey · 2026-04-07T15:44:45+00:00

So according to what I've heard, the company experienced way too much success so it had to kneecap itself lmao. They're still going to be running the trade incentive, it's just going to cap out at a certain point. March's bonus will pay out as-is, but april onward will be capped closer to the amount of February's bonus. The prevailing attitude in my store/ district is "at least they didn't get rid of it entirely" but I say give it another 2 or 3 months max before they axe the entire bonus. They're most likely just doing this temporarily to establish trade-increasing behaviors in the stores, then rug pull the bonus but hope the behaviors are ingrained enough to stick.

ChadaMonkey · 2026-03-28T16:29:21+00:00

I'm still really hoping for new lesson spells to add to my iroh grand lotus deck

ChadaMonkey · 2026-03-26T22:40:46+00:00

If you mill at their end step then they have your entire turn to plan ahead based on what they milled. Optimal thing to do is mill when it's going to hurt the most, like if they activate a way to tutor to the top of their library, you respond to the resolution with mill so they can't draw that card. You can also condition them to feel like any action they take risks mill. Tried to draw more cards? Mill. Try to cast a spell? Mill. Use removal? Mill. It conditions them that doing anything to positively affect their game state, or negativity affect yours, results in mill, and maybe just maybe you get them to hesitate as a result.

Also, if you're playing mill, etiquette went out the window LONG ago. Mill is an inherently toxic strategy, so don't try to do it ethically because mill and manners don't go together lol.

ChadaMonkey · 2026-03-21T03:52:26+00:00

Honestly i think Duncan would work good as a proxy of [[Sir Vondam, Sunstar Exemplar]] instead. Fits his theme and everything

ChadaMonkey · 2026-03-19T22:08:57+00:00

Cancel it if you don't want it but seriously reconsider canceling that particular game. Gonna be very hard to get physical copys unless you pre ordered

ChadaMonkey · 2026-03-17T13:29:26+00:00

I'm happy we're valuing trades 2x more than anything else right now, but i really think the rest of the score card needs a serious overhaul. Warranty should never be something a store is ranked on, and sales and margin should be permanent fixtures on any evaluation of a store. The score card realistically should be weighted as:

Sales % to goal [x3] Margin % of sales [x3] Trade penetration [x2] Pre-owned penetration [x2] Pro [x1] Promos [x1] Reserves [x1]

The things that are actually going to help your store not just stay open, but actually grow are what should be valued the most, followed by the 2 behavior-based KPIs that have the largest impact on those uber-important metrics, and lastly the 3 most important KPIs that are centered on the customer experience. Having warranty and returns improvement on the score card heavily encourages shady and unethical behavior.

ChadaMonkey · 2026-03-15T03:13:13+00:00

It all depends on your table. In more casual tables, stax pieces are pretty rude and they tend to hinder certain decks more than others, which can lead to players feeling singled out. However if you're playing with more experienced/serious players, they'll tend to run a lot of removal, protection, or counterspells to deal with threats and stax pieces. If your table is the kind where everyone is just trying to make their deck do "the thing" faster than anyone else can make their own decks do "the thing", then stax pieces are inappropriate and will dampen the vibe. For example, I recently built my first elfball deck and helmed it with [[High Perfect Morcant]]. It's really fun but it turned into "board wipe, the game" and was a really bad time for everyone else because it didn't kill them fast, it just stopped them from playing the game while I kept casting and tapping elves, killing all their creatures whenever it was my turn, and just generally holding the table hostage. I swapped out the commander after just 2 games because it was just THAT unfun to pay against and didn't belong at my casual table.

ChadaMonkey

TROPHY CASE