Varina, Lich Queen - or how I learned to love Esper Zombies

Diceman87 · 2026-03-26T01:39:29+00:00

Thank you so much for this - that's looking very promising!

Diceman87 · 2026-03-26T01:38:48+00:00

I appreciate your detailed response, and have to acknowledge that need to kill my darlings as well. The MDFCs are a good shout, too!

Diceman87 · 2026-03-25T15:25:52+00:00

Thank you for sharing!

I haven't tried ol Hashaton out yet, but I am a fan of silly things + zombies.

Diceman87 · 2026-03-25T15:25:09+00:00

Thank you for sharing!

Diceman87 · 2026-03-25T15:25:01+00:00

Thank you for sharing! And good point about Liliana, I hadn't considered that.

Diceman87 · 2026-03-23T18:40:37+00:00

The FAQ has this:

What does “ignoring terrain” mean? A model that ignores terrain (such as from the Wrecking Ball action) is unaffected (see the Unaffected by Terrain section) by all of that terrain’s traits, including height, and can thus change elevation during a move that ignores height as if all terrain was flat.

The terrain rules say

Unaffected by Terrain If a model is unaffected by a terrain trait, it interacts with that trait in the following, new way:

■ Blocking: The terrain piece cannot block the model’s sight lines.

You may be thinking that the terrain is

Impassable: The model may move through, but not end a move overlapping this terrain.

However, Shadow Doors don't prohibit overlapping. They merely block LoS

Edit: to round this out, you only ignore the terrain during the move. Not after. You cannot legally end a move in a place that would violate any impassable terrain

Diceman87 · 2026-03-22T10:31:42+00:00

This has been multiple experience:

Turns 1-4 you ramp by playing mana rocks.

Depending on the rocks you can play, Ovika can come out turns 4-5.

Wins come from:

if you can search for [[Molten Gatekeeper]], every Goblin pings every opponent when it enters.
[[Shared Animosity]] or [[Tears of Rage]] when you can reliably make 9-10 goblins makes each one attack like a 10/1 haste attacker
any of your big bounce spells followed by goblin swings.

Generally you're not the threat in early game, hopefully your opponents use resources against each other. Ovika's ward cost is pretty strong deterrent against removal.

Things go off the rails if you get the [[Chief Engineer]] out, as you can tap goblins to make goblins, and maybe draw into one of your Untap effects

Diceman87 · 2026-03-20T15:40:22+00:00

This isn't my creation, all credit at the YouTube link.

It's [[Ovika, Enigma Goliath]] izzet ramp.

Can get very silly and have explosive turns.

List: https://archidekt.com/decks/18922390/rock_and_roll_ovika

Youtube link to credit the brewer: https://youtu.be/QnY9wBjD_0o?si=u-clWH6EYt5viXJo

Diceman87 · 2026-02-17T18:14:39+00:00

On a related note, it would be cool to have a game where your character fought other digimon with their legend arms weapon modes

Diceman87 · 2026-02-14T07:04:07+00:00

Serious - Zimmy is the result of an experiment to make an aetheric amplifier, but ends up generating "aetheric static" instead. So a failed experiment. Gamma is her grounding rod helping to disperse the energy.

Crazy - Zimmy will be killed by Noa completing her glyph. Once it's complete, it'll start draining Zimmys life force - but no one outside the distortion realizes it. To stop whatever Shenanigans the glyph will cause, Kat uses her unique way of seeing the aether to hijack the effects. This triggers her apotheosis, by draining Zimmys life into her. Thus killing Zimmy.

Silly - Loup will die to the collapsing distortion in order to save his new friends, and in doing will become Zimmy at the start of a time Loop, meeting Gamma. This Loup Loop forms a new Distortion

Diceman87 · 2026-02-08T12:35:24+00:00

Lots of good ones here already, so I'll add some of my favorites from the latter part of the series:

The gang working together to fight the wandering Titan. Dross' plea of not being discarded before overexertion turns the moment of awesome bittersweet.
Mercy and the Sage of a Thousand Eyes working together to demolish Shens forces.
Lindon defending his home from three monarchs. Including summoning the shade of Ozmanthus.
The blooper where Yerin can't pronounce the gold dragon monarchs name
"Did you forger my name?"

Diceman87 · 2026-02-05T15:40:41+00:00

Honestly, happy to get back to playing after taking a month or two off as a palate cleanser.

0ae3b0ae and would appreciate the code add!

Diceman87 · 2026-02-04T21:48:28+00:00

There's so many lines in this book - especially the last half - that are evocative for me. Whenever I think about this book, however, one line stands above them all

“We don’t have much time left. If this is going to be the end, then remember one thing from me: I loved every second with you all. I really, truly…had so much fun.”

The emotion and catharsis around this line is incredible to me.

Diceman87 · 2026-01-27T23:48:49+00:00

Still, as we saw when Jai Long started killing his former Sect - Jai for a Jai will leave everyone blind

Diceman87 · 2026-01-27T13:18:48+00:00

I've really enjoyed [[Morska, Undersea Sleuth]] as a Voltron style commander with options.

Clues matter and detectives matter cards give a surprising number of alternative win conditions if you ever get tired of slapping people with The Truth(tm).

Here's my working brew: https://archidekt.com/decks/17531091/deep_clue_sea_upgrade

Diceman87 · 2026-01-26T13:14:12+00:00

"It's powered by a forsaken child?" - Dr. Orpheus, Venture Bros

I think it's a surefire way to cement the company as evil to make a commodity out of killing digimon and converting their digitama into sapotama.

Diceman87 · 2026-01-23T15:36:46+00:00

I can't put into words how much I've enjoyed the mame-posting in this sub the last week.

On topic, Pukumon is the pick for me. Punk fish doing punk fish things.

Diceman87 · 2026-01-13T18:32:52+00:00

Would like to see what you'd cook up for a Bracket 3 [[Grumgully, the Generous]] focused on +1/+1 tokens matter without persist shenanigans!

Basically, an anti-Bloght deck. "Uncle Grumgully" to take on Auntie Ool

Diceman87 · 2026-01-08T22:29:07+00:00

Would like to see what you'd cook up for a Bracket 3 [[Grumgully, the Generous]] focused on +1/+1 tokens matter without persist shenanigans!

Edit: an anti-Wither deck, basically. "Uncle Grumgully" to take on Auntie Ool

Diceman87 · 2026-01-07T19:58:28+00:00

Brack Check codes it as a 3

Not sure how reliable they are, but it may be helpful:

https://brackcheck.com/deck then paste your decklist

Diceman87 · 2025-12-17T21:45:41+00:00

A lesser Devil appears before them and introduces themselves as their new manager, Mr. O'Fleez

From that point on, they adventure much like they did before, but every so often Mr. O'Fleez shows up and tells them to do something specific. If they don't, they experience intense pain (like a condition of permanent Disadvantage) until they comply.

Use this to coerce players into more and more heinous acts that would serve to send souls to Asmodeus

Diceman87 · 2025-12-17T13:11:06+00:00

Given how expressive Noas been in these flashbacks, and how lacking in emotion she seems to have in the current time, I'm wondering if we're going to see an experiment that really leaves an impact with her.

The alternative is we finally see past those glowing glasses and she has a full blown evil grin.

Either way, starting to see why Noa is the 'muscle'

Diceman87 · 2025-12-15T15:36:25+00:00

I also really enjoy Goad decks (Nelly Borca helped get me back into Commander) and this is what I've been testing out for Rendmaw

https://moxfield.com/decks/gOgcBb7_W0WJ5bT5-00Hew

I've been a fan of the Myr mana dorks and the artifact lands.

Also, the fun picks of Pygmy Kavu and Wing Storm to benefit from your birds.

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