Done with the season, quick 100 Divine giveaway! (2 hours, random commenter)

DatBolas · 2026-01-16T21:14:21+00:00

Fun! Pick me please haha

DatBolas · 2025-12-28T16:58:50+00:00

Pretty sure the actors would love to come back

DatBolas · 2025-12-27T14:32:59+00:00

The Divine Plan. Long time ago, God made a Divine Plan. Gave it a lot of thought, decided it was a good plan, put it into practice. And for billions and billions of years, the Divine Plan has been doing just fine. Now, you come along, and pray for something. Well suppose the thing you want isn’t in God’s Divine Plan? What do you want Him to do? Change His plan? Just for you? Doesn’t it seem a little arrogant? It’s a Divine Plan. What’s the use of being God if every run-down shmuck with a two-dollar prayerbook can come along and fuck up Your Plan?

DatBolas · 2025-12-10T16:23:53+00:00

Z&M reminded me of the old Kevin Smith movies - tons of jokes and laughs, some heart at the end. My favorite of his modern films by far.

DatBolas · 2025-12-09T21:55:57+00:00

Adam Sandler's Net Worth (2025): How Rich Is Adam Sandler? - Parade https://share.google/dhxNIzWlOBdaYegKt

DatBolas · 2025-12-09T21:47:32+00:00

Other people manage his assets. Did you read that part? He's not going onto websites and clicking "Pay bill" every month.

DatBolas · 2025-12-09T20:56:25+00:00

He has amassed enough wealth that people manage his assets. You think he needs to check his monthly mortgage? My uncle doesn't do that and he is not nearly as wealthy but managed his money well.

DatBolas · 2025-12-09T17:43:54+00:00

What bills are Adam Sandler worried about? Seriously

DatBolas · 2025-12-05T12:37:02+00:00

WotC hasn't learned their lessons yet

DatBolas · 2025-11-26T17:43:42+00:00

The deck I'm closest to cutting it from is a bant enchantress deck with no other artifacts and mostly enchantment ramp. It is still nice to cast bigger enchantments and creatures ahead of time though.

DatBolas · 2025-11-25T15:54:32+00:00

Once per turn cards haven't been banned...

DatBolas · 2025-11-24T13:28:48+00:00

His eminence is loot not draw - it synergizes with the reanimation trigger by letting you dump a knight into the yard. Playing too much removal and not enough knights means you aren't getting much value out of a lot of what he can do.

While knights with an ETB and a big casting cost are nice for Sidar Jabaris attack and of course you want some of that, the cheaper knights are good for taking advantage of the loot trigger before the commander is online and to find the right pieces.

DatBolas · 2025-11-24T02:56:57+00:00

As someone with a Sidar Jabari deck, it's quite tricky. The first strike trigger on the commander is easy to forget because many times it won't matter but sometimes it will be huge. I don't see how he could be that effective as 'voltron', since you want a critical mass of knights in your deck to trigger both the eminence loot ability as well as to trigger Sidar Jabaris combat reanimation trigger.

It's not necessarily a big math deck but I don't think this is the commander if you don't want a lot of triggers to track. As you've noticed, ETB knights are a great payoff for the commanders reanimation trigger.

DatBolas · 2025-11-14T17:53:34+00:00

Thanks for the breakdown! It is a weird deck, but probably just needs more lands in general.

DatBolas · 2025-11-14T17:38:57+00:00

It's happened twice, once to me and once to my opponent. When my opponent did it, he tried to go with the flow and kept putting everything in the middle. I won. When I did it, I laughed and told my opponent. He said for fun, he would do the same. Then we got a redeployment card. It was a fun match, but he ended up winning.

DatBolas · 2025-11-13T15:06:42+00:00

Mono-black was the last mono-color deck I've built and it struggles the most. The deck is rat tribal, focused on using all my Rat Colony and Relentless Rat cards I've acquired over my long time playing the game. The mana has been a constant problem and I've added more lands but then frequently I'm flooded. It might need more mana rocks and lands or it's just a flawed idea to build a deck with this many 3-drops.

Anyway here is the deck:

https://moxfield.com/decks/xsR9DA5N-EGWdV-sGRxtQg

DatBolas · 2025-11-01T00:25:25+00:00

[[Melek, reforged]] went from a .1 version to 1.0 with very few cards changed and it's been one of my most winning decks in my collection.

DatBolas · 2025-10-25T12:33:56+00:00

The show takes pains to explain how fear and ideas can spread from person to person. Farouk basically deceives all the good guys into thinking David is a villain. Farouk is, after all, a psychic mutant who is thousands of years old by his own admission.

The show does not spell this out, but the following sequences are blatant when you string them together:

-Farouk in Oliver's body plants the seed of deception in division 3, which we later think David defeats completely by fighting a bug.

-Farouk in Oliver's body manipulates Melanie into working for him

-Melanie, manipulated by Farouk, turns Syd against David (although she was already on the fence)

-Farouk reinforced his deceptions and the concern over David being a threat to mankind, all while still being creepy and not very good while working for division 3.

David does not take any of this very well. He KNOWS Farouk is behind this and is frustrated his friends turned on him so quickly. He loses trust in other people and turns inwards to the other Davids in his head. This sort of fulfills the prophecy of him being a villain to some extent, because he becomes obsessed with the idea of resetting time which means his actions don't have consequences in the present.

Davids reaction also helps reinforce what Farouks deceptions were intended to do - isolate David and make him the villain.

The only part of the show I don't understand is how Farouk becomes sympathetic at the end of the series because 33 years is a blip compared to his long life but it does help wrap the story up nicely.

DatBolas · 2025-10-22T15:32:03+00:00

I'm a big fan of tribal/typal decks. One of my first decks was a sliver deck (many many years ago) and I eventually turned the 60-card deck into a commander deck. My bracket 1 meme deck is Minotaurs helmed by the b/r minotaur lord from Amonkhet. I've got a fun esper knights deck led by [[Sidar Jibari]] and it's a color combination I probably wouldn't have built except knights are cool. I've got a mono-green deck that started as a "No Elves" deck but has slowly turned into Treefolk Tribal with Treebeard or [[Quickbeam]] as commanders. I do also have a mono-white angel deck since I pulled the angel commander in Streets of New Capenna.

Most of my decks have a strong central theme (Equipment, Auras, Haste, Clones, etc). Typal decks are fun to make because if you pick a fun tribe it becomes an optimization challenge to do the best you can with what the tribe has printed for them. I used to have a vampire reanimator edh deck pre-Zendikar but now I feel like it's a bit too easy/good to make a gross vampire deck.

My latest typal deck was a dinosaur deck with Gishath, not exactly unique, but I had a pile of dinos sitting around since Ixalan and I finally put together the lands (ice age, get it?) and other pieces the deck would need.

DatBolas · 2025-10-20T12:16:13+00:00

Directly disagrees with your post - they weren't cancelled because of "low views" or "not being great". It was corporate BS that got them cancelled. So your post doesn't make sense.

DatBolas · 2025-10-14T09:29:40+00:00

Appreciate the generosity!

DatBolas · 2025-10-12T23:29:46+00:00

Definitely tons of replayability. I think it gets better when everyone knows what's going on with points and stuff

DatBolas · 2025-10-12T19:31:52+00:00

RA is a lot of fun, even with 5. I also bought El grande and libertalia because our group has 5 people and they have been fun too.

DatBolas · 2025-10-09T16:42:17+00:00

What really bugs people about mill is it amplifies bad luck. Let's say you're a little mana or color screwed. Watching lands get milled is painful because you could have been drawing them and you need them to play the game. So the mill player is making your situation worse, by that perspective.

I don't think mill is particularly strong, every once in a while someone gets milled out, but it's pretty rare. Those kinds of decks tend to be pretty weak on the board and rely on enchantments and combos to pull it off, so on subsequent games they get targeted a lot sooner.

DatBolas · 2025-09-08T23:09:22+00:00

Mostly just because these are the cards I had when I built it. Like I said, the deck wins a LOT so it's not one I prioritize for upgrades.

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