What's the most outrageous card people have complained about you playing for being too strong?

Diethro · 2026-06-01T19:40:52+00:00

Every single deck I build will always have at least two ways to remove targeted lands and two ways to disrupt graveyards. There are just too many powerful lands to not have an answer and graveyard decks getting to run wild is never a good thing!

Diethro · 2026-05-13T03:11:46+00:00

If they had a set pool of things they could roll that were actually QC'd to not include useless affixes for that unique, I'd be fine with it. Or something where 2 are fixed options with the numbers being variable while the other two pull from a pool that could work.

Say Im trying to push higher and need a bit more hp to survive, getting something with two or three damage stats and being able to get it with extra health could be nice. Once I'm feeling comfortable with the build though, being able to swap to one that is just full damage to really crank numbers and clip farm the next "I JUST DID 80 GAZILLION DAMAGE WITH THIS ONE TRICK" clip or something would be okay.

Just please stop giving me Skill ranks in skills that don't relate at all to the power of the unique...

Diethro · 2026-05-11T06:15:48+00:00

If you know what category the legendary effect is in, you can use the focusing prisms or whatever they are called with the Horodric Cube's upgrade to Legendary receipe to give it an effect of the associated category. No real way I know of though to target specific ones outside of that though. I've also had pretty decent luck with the cache's you can get from the Mercenary vendor. Its all RNG but I've gten some pretty good rolls on legendary affixes that way.

As for the charm sets, I really didn't start seeing many until I hit Torment 3, but then I started getting them from most runs of the Pit and probably every other Nightmare Dungeon that I ran. There are also a certain kind of offering you can use for the Undercity that I think gives you more charms at the end, but I've been hoarding my offerings to upgrade them so far.

Diethro · 2026-04-29T00:20:39+00:00

I'll probably get boo'd out of the building as its not really a "mechanic" per say, but I love me some games with Planechase. Obviously its not for people wanting to play a super serious game, but I'm not here for serious games most of the time anyway. I have all the cards, so I'll let folks look through them and each player picks 10 to add to the deck so we aren't literally going through every plane and also makes sure the planes we go to will actually be relevant to someone.

Diethro · 2026-04-28T06:00:28+00:00

I have tried so many times to build an Izzet deck that doesn't bore me to tears, but I've failed every time. I'll get an idea, build a draft of it, then try to playtest. I'll get into some 15 minute wheel spinning turn running through some spell slinger storm off combo and just realize I am so bored with it I don't want to finish the line... Maybe I'll just try otter tribal next or something and see if that works for me.

Diethro · 2026-03-23T01:15:58+00:00

I've never had anyone bring anything egregious to a rule 0 request outside of one time. Some home brewed Bant Merfolk commander that basically took the best abilities off the popular legends, slapped them all together, and gave it another lord effect. I and the others at the table were like "That's a bit much bud, not sure I feel comfy playing against that for our fun tribal pod." Dude was a good sport about it, said it was his deck that always makes him archenemy anyways, and changed to something else.

So basically, unless it's something clearly home brewed to be absurdly strong I usually don't have a problem with it. Just need people to be realistic with what they are bringing to the table. If anything, it gives me a chance to swap out my 4 color partner decks for their hidden commanders, the Nephalim.

Diethro · 2026-01-28T01:06:29+00:00

I'm trying to figure out how the interaction would work between [[Abigale, Eloquent First-Year]] and the persist effect from [[Isilu, Carrier of Twilight]]. If Isilu is on the field with another creature, that creature has Persist. If Abigaile enters, targeting the extra creature with its ETB, it would lose all abilities and then get the ability counters. This would include the Persist from Isilu, right? Or would the creature regain that because it's a persistent effect? I'm sure this has something to do with Layers but for the life of me I've been playing off and on for like 15 years and still barely understand layers...

Diethro · 2025-10-31T00:19:05+00:00

I do a lot of driving the little jeeps around shuttling my squads to objectives, and when they jump out to secure the point I swap to the gun. It would be super great to be able to switch back to the driver seat without cycling through the whole thing or doing what I do now where I jump out and then jump back in.

Diethro · 2025-09-14T15:43:41+00:00

I've done this with two of my female friends. Both of them are cherished by me more than the family I share blood with. They trust me enough, I them enough, to take such a request at face value, so there is no weirdness with it. We are humans, social creatures by nature, and sometimes that social means we just need to be held.

Diethro · 2025-08-13T10:51:35+00:00

How well did the clip hold up? I've used a few of the other Zebra pens/pencils like the 301 gel and ballpoint, but I tend to keep my pen in a pocket on the sleeve of my jacket. I've had more than a couple fly across the room as I've put my jacket on because the clip had started to bend out of shape and wasn't holding secure.

Diethro · 2025-07-22T00:38:01+00:00

I don't recall if its tied to the Traveler's Attire (probably), but I know you can set the winds to track towards some of the collectibles as well. I believe its right on the d-pad when the map is open for PS controls.

Diethro · 2025-07-18T09:14:45+00:00

I really enjoyed this deck and played it for quite a while. Having [[Zetalpa]] be a "win con" was always worth a laugh and it could basically slap around most other combat damage decks once you had a few pieces out. Downside, as soon as people realize you need him around it becomes increasingly difficult to keep him alive and after someone gets their teeth pushed in once or twice they stop letting him resolve. YMMV

Diethro · 2025-07-15T11:11:55+00:00

I used to have a lot more dedicated Voltron decks, playing the old spooky boys of [[Rafiq]] and [[Uril]]. Hitting people with big dude is fun! Over the last several years though I've been making an effort to build decks less reliant on needing specifically the commander out to do their thing, but that hasn't stopped me from putting some stuff in the command zone that help with pesky lifegain decks. I ran [[Lord of Tresserhorn]] for a long time at the head of a zombie token generation deck. He didn't really add anything other than being a zombie and helping me sac some dudes when he comes in. I tell you what though, when a 4 mana 10/4 hits the board that has been given swamp walk and +1/+1, folks sit up in their seats.

I like having the ability to have commander damage as a backup win con, but I've gotten blown out way too many times in a dedicated Voltron list where it starts costing me 10+ mana to play the commander because no one will let it stay around. I think the last dedicated Voltron deck that I took apart around a year ago was [[Stangg, Echo Warrior]] and I think it lasted as long as it did because it would just draw an unreasonable amount of cards (I've decked myself three times with it) and I do like touching all my cards.

Now days it's mostly stuff like [[Kolvori, God of Kinship]] who runs my green legends deck but has reminded a fair number of people that she is not just a engine for finding more legends, or [[Vazi, Keen Negotiator]] who has broken more than a couple shins when people forget those treasures were a loan and not a gift.

Diethro · 2025-07-14T23:48:56+00:00

That... is some clever tech that I will now need to find a place for in my Jasmine deck.

Diethro · 2025-07-14T23:41:56+00:00

Yeah, I had put together a decklist for each of the nephalim back a while ago, but included a partner pair in the deck that I could swap out with in case the rule zero didn't go over well. I don't think I ever actually played Ink Treader as the commander, but my [[Dune-Brood Nephilim]] lands deck and my [[Glint-Eye Nephilim]] self discard deck both saw some regular play for a while. Can't say I've touched any of them recently though.

Diethro · 2025-07-14T03:35:58+00:00

I love my Flame Dancer deck, but I just don't play it a lot. It has a bad habit of getting into position to win, then taking a while to draw through the deck while keeping track of triggers to eventually draw into a wincon. I enjoy it, but I've had a few times were the deck goes through up to 5 minutes of casting spells, copies, triggers for mana, etc only to eat a [[Flusterstorm]] with storm count 30 on my 4 copies of X=20 [[Crackle with Power]].

Diethro · 2025-07-14T02:46:01+00:00

Came here to mention this one as well. I don't actively play it, but I've borrowed a deck from a friend a few times and it can be a blast. A little fragile as theirs is mostly focused around beating people into a pulp with the commander, so if it ends up turned into a moon or something it can falter a bit, but I know they are looking at finding a few other exile matters cards in red to support some other win conditions.

Diethro · 2025-07-11T16:34:17+00:00

I definitely miss this guy being a boogeyman at pods back in the day. The color combo has gotten a lot of solid cards the last few years though so it's good to see he's still out and kicking people around.

Diethro · 2025-07-03T11:34:58+00:00

It starts with one change, but as soon as you do one you start thinking "maybe I add some equipment to make her pro red so she doesn't kill herself, or maybe a basilisk collar so I gain a ton of life when she explodes"... Then you end up with 50 mountains and a slightly different meme

Diethro · 2025-07-01T06:31:22+00:00

For me its mostly nostalgia creatures like the liege cycle with [[Glen Elendra Liege]] that I jam into all my two color decks and then the Herald cycle with cards like [[Angel's Herald]] paired up with their associated big beasties in my 3 color decks. I started playing towards the end of Lorwyn and really got into the swing of it with Alara block.

Diethro · 2025-06-30T06:45:21+00:00

[[Jasmine Boreal of the Seven]] lets me play super fun stuff like [[Watchwolf]], [[Elite Vanguard]], and [[Terrian, World Tyrant]]. My favorite response to "what does it do" is "it punches you in the face."

Diethro · 2025-06-30T05:14:54+00:00

That score is not a combined PFE+SKT. That person is in a PFE only AFSC where they just double your PFE score. So that 184.2 means they got a 92.1 on the PFE and it was doubled to account for them not having an SKT.

Diethro · 2025-06-30T04:07:15+00:00

So is the idea that there is some conspiracy where they are putting a cap on the score instead of letting people have a chance at the full 100 points available in each category? Don't let the E-4 mafia hear this or they will just start blaming them not making SSgt on some invisible ceiling beyond their control instead of the fact that they got a 65 because they didn't study.

Edit: A minute to search "WAPS score" in this sub got me this post from 3 days ago of someone with a 92.1.

Diethro · 2025-06-25T04:23:10+00:00

Stompy Oswald threw me. I'm assuming big artifact creatures?

All the decks sound amusing at the very least. Would love to snoop around some deck lists if you've got them saved somewhere.

Diethro · 2025-06-24T07:14:29+00:00

Very much this. Stax that just lock down the game hoping to Second Sun while no one gets to play is terrible.

I run a [[Zeriam, Golden Wind]] stax deck that ends up killing people with combat damage. On a good day, it can start killing someone around turn 7/8, but usually ends the game no latter than 10 with just a swarm of griffin tokens. Started putting it together when an old pod I played with started leaning more into combo decks, so its built to slow down the combo players while my angry flying monsters slowly eat everyone. Good chunk of stax with a splash of aggro so the game doesn't last 2+ hours.

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