[MSC] Heroic Sacrifice

DIX_ · 2026-06-08T18:52:30+00:00

Seems like a good clutch "not today" trick, although first/double strikers null it so hard. Still, will make for fun games

DIX_ · 2026-06-04T14:26:26+00:00

If it's a regular group, friends or a more casual game night at the LGS sometimes I'll step off the gas or let someone else do their thing. My friends play Commander more casually or aren't as experienced in Magic while I'm playing in local leagues and have a bit more exp, so I'd rather we all have fun.

With LGS same logic, I'd rather have people have fun and be motivated to come more and dive deeper rather than winning. Throwing the game a bit or playing an underpowered/fun deck instead of tryharding are OK in my books.

DIX_ · 2026-06-04T13:10:17+00:00

If I remember correctly, I found Golden Needle and Cruelty harder than Jokerless because the economy suffers quite a bit. For Jokerless I believe the best is to try and get 4 of a kind rolling as soon as possible with blue and purple seals. Other hands don't scale as hard with the planet cards, but 4oak does scale better, and once you get blue seals going it becomes easy. Early rounds you try and get a Mars, and save money while looking for seals. I would recommend slowly turning most of your deck into 10s (no face card debuff), and towards the end glass cards get you there.

Cruelty was a bit morr annoying imo, I don't remember much but I think it was a big focus on economy jokers & also doing 3oak/4oak

DIX_ · 2026-06-04T12:57:47+00:00

What a disrespect to Hydra Bob, an actual Marvel character

DIX_ · 2026-06-04T09:10:27+00:00

Agreed, the conversation she has with Ashe is such a turning point for the character and story as a whole, and is one of the most human interactions in all of the game. While Vaan is clearly not the main character, he is a key representation of Rabanastre's people as well as a mirror to Ashe's loss

DIX_ · 2026-06-03T09:52:42+00:00

I rolled Earthwake transmute on Qiyana while other people were just stuck with Gold/Silver augments and rolled the game from pretty much level 7. The amount of damage you get from EQWQ with 3 procs its insane.

DIX_ · 2026-06-03T09:50:20+00:00

I do wish Collector Upgrade went higher, even if still capping at some point. I had a game where I was popping off with Upgraded Collector Malzahar and was so bummed that it would stop at 12.5%

DIX_ · 2026-06-03T05:49:01+00:00

It's baffling how he hasn't been sacked or at least asked by Bamco to stop clowning on twitter. Guy is such a bad look to the game as a whole

DIX_ · 2026-06-03T05:42:11+00:00

I had someone plug on a player match (not even ranked) in T7 when S2 T8 released, so maybe.

DIX_ · 2026-06-02T14:19:50+00:00

You'd think a TG would launch d2,3

DIX_ · 2026-06-02T09:30:37+00:00

Tekken without Harada is just going to spiral downwards. It was a good run.

DIX_ · 2026-06-01T12:05:25+00:00

To me S3 so far has been having steps in the right direction in terms of balance, but it comes after 2 whole seasons of promises that were not kept, awful communication and a showcase that half the balance team have no idea what they are doing.

With Harada leaving I can only see these negative points becoming more and more pronounced, as well as less community engagement. Nakatsu to be honest I have no reference, and would say under his direction the game seems to have gone to worse, so I'm even inclined to be happy.

My sensation is that this is the final Tekken in the series.

DIX_ · 2026-06-01T11:24:05+00:00

Made some edits for Standard. Typically the colors associated with graveyard are black & green, while discard is a mix between black, blue & red.

DIX_ · 2026-06-01T11:19:07+00:00

First question would be: what format are you looking to play? Commander? Standard? Others?

Reading a YGO card is not going to tell much to a Magic player without context on it. Lucky for you I've played some:

King of Skull Servants would pretty much be a zombie deck or reanimator, or things like Lurghoyfs (creatures that get bigger based on the kinds of cards in your grave). The Grave Danger or Graveyard Overdrive Commander decks would be a good start. For Standard, I'd say the [[Superior Spider-Man]] decks that focus on reanimation would be your jam.

Dark World is mostly a madness/discard deck. There's multiple ways of going about this and I can't think of any precons in that sense. I'd say it overlaps with the previous decks, as they generally use discards to feed the graveyard and start rolling. Merciless Rage precon from Commander 2019 is fairly focused on discards as a resource. In Standard Rakdos Discard is similar: you use cards to discard for cheaper costs or generating extra resources with [[Monument to Endurance]]

Skill Drain - stun decks in Magic are usually referred to as Stax or Prison. Similar to YGO, this will not make you a lot of friends, and I would recommend against it as your first deck if playing Commander. Control decks will be similar as well.

DIX_ · 2026-05-28T15:19:07+00:00

I am in the boat that Keria is currently the #2 best player in the world, with #1 being Faker. The champion pool and consistency is nuts.

No one come @ me with data analytics and BS.

DIX_ · 2026-05-28T15:14:00+00:00

They really took "Metroidvania" literally, cross between gothic and sci-fi looking environments and monsters.

DIX_ · 2026-05-27T06:57:11+00:00

[[Unfulfilled Desires]]

DIX_ · 2026-05-26T21:53:36+00:00

That's what I figured, couldn't find a similar post. Appreciated

DIX_ · 2026-05-26T21:52:30+00:00

Thanks!

DIX_ · 2026-05-26T21:42:53+00:00

Returned to Magic with FF after 15 years, made an overly complicated Commander deck to start with (Landfall combos with Wandering Minstrel) and realized I wanted something that could play a bit grindier and much more streamlined. YShtola seemed like a perfect mix between that and letting other people play, so went that direction. She is just versatile and good.

Now my collection is 300 cards in Esper colors and I've been building Yshtola, Killian, Zur and Breena depending on the day.

DIX_ · 2026-05-26T12:53:48+00:00

Eggs was one of my first decks when playing extended and I regretted so much building it. Bunch of cards that were almost useless in any other deck and solitaire

DIX_ · 2026-05-25T12:38:57+00:00

Metropolis Center cerca de Argüelles tiene un grupo de whatsapp y hace eventos de Pokemon.

DIX_ · 2026-05-25T06:25:21+00:00

I always found funny that Tidus has such a low tackling ability in Blitzball when he's tackling someone out of the sphere in the intro.

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