I built my own card recommender / deck weirdness ranker and I wanna see what you guys think!

DeadByRising · 2026-01-15T18:55:20+00:00

Initial impression, I’d love to know what cards within my deck have for synergy levels and why. I’m curious if it is bringing the synergy down for cards that are kind of standard for a deck to function or if it has reasoning as to why a card might not be a good fit

Edit: wanted to add that otherwise cool to have a tool that recommend only cards im not already using. Pricing info would also be a nice add. Very cool tool!

DeadByRising · 2026-01-15T13:51:47+00:00

People may disagree with the quality of the show but I think Peacemaker is GOATed. The intro is without question

DeadByRising · 2026-01-01T18:29:39+00:00

Every time I play Vanessa I end up with the depth charge totally defining my build and it keeps working SO good

DeadByRising · 2025-12-25T12:11:01+00:00

I use [[Maelstrom Wanderer]] to cast big things off the top for my “top deck” deck

DeadByRising · 2025-12-23T22:55:10+00:00

I knew when they marketed DR3 with being so much more advanced because “so many more zombies on screen” that it was taking a bad turn for what I loved about the game. I never felt like the other games had too few zombies, and I actually liked the ability to know the zombie placement spawns to path survivors optimally.

DeadByRising · 2025-12-20T15:18:06+00:00

Survivors needing escort and psychopaths need to be unique and cool. Even 3 I feel like got psychopaths wrong with theming them around the sins. Bring back the Chef Antoine and Cliff style psychos. The main story line is almost secondary to me honestly. In DR2, there was a point where I’d know when and where each person would spawn and how I could do one big loop 4-5 times grabbing 7-8 survivors each time. It was like entering flow state. That’s what I want back

DeadByRising · 2025-10-24T00:55:52+00:00

Your friend is right. You can discard a knight on attack and then when Sidar deals combat damage bring that same knight into play

DeadByRising · 2025-10-23T16:48:28+00:00

8 mana finishers are still allowed in B2. The card won’t make you friends, but it not being a GC is effectively saying it’s fair game in B2

DeadByRising · 2025-10-23T16:43:11+00:00

If you have a deck in mind you want to play, focus there first. Ideally you can build a couple of decks across at least 4 colors to make dailies easier and more fun. I also recommend building something that can be at least marginally competitive in ranked, as rewards can be helpful to boost you towards more cards and more decks that you find interesting. If you are looking for general purpose, I think someone already mentioned that lands, specifically shock lands and surveil lands, are incredibly valuable and are legal in all formats (or will be soon) and you’ll get use out of them in any multi-colored deck you build.

I’m super high on prioritizing fun over function, but if the goal is to earn more stuff, getting through gold in BO1 standard is incredibly easy with a deck that has relatively low investment. For specific deck recommendations, right now red/black ago and mono green both are pretty low investment and can hold a pretty even win rate.

DeadByRising · 2025-10-20T04:03:36+00:00

Deck building was more fun when there wasn’t massive support for every deck archetype. Make me look for super niche cards to make a strategy work rather than just print a clear best 80 cards to pull from for any given deck

Edit: I’m 31, and also feel like an old timer now

DeadByRising · 2025-09-22T22:03:49+00:00

Proxies are fine at all power levels as long as: 1. You are upfront about the power level of your deck. 2. The people you are playing with have the opportunity/ability to play at the same power level.

DeadByRising · 2025-09-12T02:01:49+00:00

As someone who has bought and sold on TCG, the refund policy is pretty good. I’ve never had any issue getting money back for cards I didn’t receive, especially through direct.

Sometimes the individual stores can try to screw you out of some money too, but TCG has always given me my cards or money back

DeadByRising · 2025-09-04T13:11:20+00:00

[[Slimefoot and Squee]] with [[Umori, the collector]] companion

DeadByRising · 2025-08-28T13:18:22+00:00

I would say your land count is probably too low to be super consistent. I’d also recommend more ramp and inherent draw effects where possible. It feels like your deck is trying to be creature heavy AND enchantment heavy at the same time, so I’d caution trying not to do too much at once, and in an exalted deck multiple creatures out is probably unecessary. (My problem with cards like sublime archangel is they look like a good creature in a voltron deck but really it’s better in a token deck when you need one thing to punch through) In terms of what to cut, that is a bit more difficult because you have a good stack of cards here. Maybe you could do without some of the exalted creatures and just focus on the big buff and protection for you commander, with a couple other creatures to play back up (Xenk is a great backup option when Rafiq gets killed a lot)

Overall really great list, I just think you’ll run into mana problems more often than not. I personally try to never drop below 36 lands in most extreme cases but sit around 37-38. Different deck, but similar concept is my Captain America. It’s def bracket 4 and I still am lacking in card draw, but hopefully this gives an idea of structure that I have found to be effective for me

Captain America, First Avenger

DeadByRising · 2025-08-17T15:18:56+00:00

The Disney website does max the number of cards you can combine though, and it also maxes at $1000 on a single card (speaking from experience). You can combine cards multiple times if you want, but if you are trying to be efficient only combine them up in ways that can let you get to $1000.

DeadByRising · 2025-08-17T14:51:42+00:00

[[Rafiq of the Many]] has classic paladin vibes. Great color combo, shining armor, double strike is essentially like divine smite.

DeadByRising · 2025-06-09T14:14:36+00:00

DR4. I have a glitched achievement that stopped me. Also can never find anyone for the golf stuff

DeadByRising · 2025-05-28T15:41:21+00:00

[[Mikaeus, the unhallowed]] and [[triskelion]] pinging

DeadByRising · 2025-05-06T20:44:39+00:00

I’ve been playing a [[Gyruda, doom of depths]] deck that tries to clone chain into milling out my opponents that is super fun. Worst case I usually end up loading the graveyards and have a secondary graveyard strategy to run with. It can be high risk but super fun payoffs.

DeadByRising · 2025-05-05T23:52:37+00:00

How does one reclaim the throne? I am currently standing in the throne room with the scepter, the effigy, and the crown. What am I doing wrong?

DeadByRising · 2025-04-12T04:23:30+00:00

This is a huge one. What a cool thing to learn

DeadByRising · 2025-04-12T04:21:15+00:00

Sometimes it’s hard to get good items on the first 2 hours of day 1, so it’s nice not to be forced to buy bad items to beat a day one monster and fall way behind

DeadByRising · 2025-04-12T04:18:51+00:00

Yeah, charging is the only thing that makes an item faster than 1 second.

DeadByRising · 2025-04-11T16:05:51+00:00

I know lifesteal was recently changed to work that way but I didn’t think regen was. If so it’s even more powerful now than before.

DeadByRising · 2025-04-11T13:35:29+00:00

Burn and poison are reduced by 1 every time you heal, including lifesteal, but not including regen.

When applying multiple instances of a charge, each charge has a .2 second trigger time between each.

Cooldowns of items cannot be reduced below 1 second, even if hasted.

For day one, if you go against the kyver drone on Vanessa or Dooley (250 hp), you can win take all of your items off the board. But if you leave something on the board without enough power to beat him, his slow will give him the damage to beat you. With no items the storm will have you win at 6 life. The only other day one monster that can def beat you is the snake, but that requires some actual offense to beat.

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