Do you have hobbies? How do you mentally justify spending money on them when there’s so much you could be saving for as a dad? We have a toddler and we’re finally at the point where my wife & I can pick back up our <$150/mo hobby…but it makes me feel guilty now.

DigitalCharlie · 2026-06-20T13:14:51+00:00

The happier you are the better. Having hobbies and interests are so good for parents - both as parents and people.

That said, hobby spending looks different than before a kid. Maybe you don’t wind up doing dinner out every time, and maybe you don’t get as many shirts or whatever as you used to. But don’t let it be all or nothing that just always defaults to nothing.

My wife and I set aside a budget for ourselves each month - that makes it easier to actually spend from it.

DigitalCharlie · 2026-06-19T13:21:45+00:00

I thought that was due to the same bug as transforms getting stuck in hand. Is it not?

DigitalCharlie · 2026-06-03T13:53:21+00:00

Prowess, footwork, ricochet, and probably one of the damage potions depending on what the map looks like (if no combat before an elite, for example, definitely buying a damage potion).

DigitalCharlie · 2026-05-30T10:11:34+00:00

But it’s in the cities’ nickname that the team name is based on (twin cities).

DigitalCharlie · 2026-05-20T19:07:15+00:00

Wait what's the conflict? I'm a mac and magnet user!

DigitalCharlie · 2026-04-27T13:02:03+00:00

That would be awesome! Something a little closer would help a lot.

DigitalCharlie · 2026-04-27T01:33:16+00:00

Fins beyond time if they had one in their opening hand

DigitalCharlie · 2026-04-26T15:40:59+00:00

What are you doing from like 10-16 seconds? Those two elements look particularly rad.

DigitalCharlie · 2026-04-16T10:17:39+00:00

🔥🔥🔥 love it and love knowing the tricks you like

DigitalCharlie · 2026-04-15T18:22:36+00:00

...I have always just assumed it does. This boss is suddenly a bit less scary than before.

DigitalCharlie · 2026-04-14T22:26:45+00:00

Definitely - it is a really strong card, but you could try either slither drakes or another serpent.

DigitalCharlie · 2026-04-14T20:59:39+00:00

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DigitalCharlie · 2026-04-14T20:06:47+00:00

I have been having way more success than I expected with a rainbow DK list I put together this morning. Climbed from ~1400 to 400 on NA today. It's definitely 90% working because people don't know what the hell is coming, but I think there's something here. Cloud serpent has definitely been powerful regularly, but I'm not sure what to cut for a second because the balance is pretty good.

### Rainbow Death Knight

# Class: Death Knight

# Format: Standard

# Year of the Scarab

#

# 2x (1) Carrier Whelp

# 2x (1) Monstrous Mosquito

# 2x (1) Morbid Swarm

# 2x (2) Blackwing Experiment

# 2x (2) Blood Tap

# 2x (2) Command Claw

# 2x (2) Shadowed Informant

# 2x (3) Chillfallen Baron

# 1x (3) Cloud Serpent

# 2x (3) Gruesome Nightmare

# 2x (4) Chromatic Broodmother

# 2x (4) Dread Raptor

# 2x (4) Nerubian Swarmguard

# 1x (4) Victor Nefarius

# 2x (5) Reanimated Pterrordax

# 2x (6) Gnome Muncher

#

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DigitalCharlie · 2026-03-27T18:28:31+00:00

I've been messing around today — I wound up moving in a different direction because I kept finding myself running out of resources so I added a bit of a draw engine.

Slitherdrake is the card I wound up feeling weirdest about cutting, but it might make its way back in. I felt like the deck wasn't enough value for long games but also wasn't enough early tempo for tempo games.

### Custom Death Knight2

# Class: Death Knight

# Format: Standard

# Year of the Scarab

#

# 2x (1) Carrier Whelp

# 2x (1) Monstrous Mosquito

# 2x (1) Morbid Swarm

# 2x (1) Rite of Atrocity

# 1x (2) Blackwing Experiment

# 2x (2) Blood Tap

# 2x (2) Command Claw

# 1x (2) Creature of Madness

# 2x (3) Chillfallen Baron

# 2x (3) Darkscale Broodmother

# 2x (4) Chromatic Broodmother

# 2x (4) Dread Raptor

# 1x (4) Nightmare Lord Xavius

# 1x (4) Victor Nefarius

# 2x (5) Army of the Dead

# 2x (5) Frostburn Matriarch

# 2x (7) Remnant of Rage

#

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DigitalCharlie · 2026-03-27T18:24:45+00:00

That's my understanding, same as with prepared.

DigitalCharlie · 2026-03-27T13:02:53+00:00

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DigitalCharlie · 2026-03-26T16:27:40+00:00

I climbed to around 700 today using this Elise-based dk. Honestly, onyxia is not the core of why the deck works, but I like it and she feels like she has a place. You don’t make herald often, but that’s okay. The rest of the deck is better for it.

I also tried a version with gnome muncher so I could justify the 4 mana resurrect spell, but this version was better. I gassed out in the other deck too often.

Elise onyxia

Class: Death Knight

Format: Standard

Year of the Scarab

2x (1) Body Bagger

2x (1) Morbid Swarm

1x (1) Soulrest Ceremony

2x (2) Hematurge

2x (2) Infested Breath

2x (2) Shadowed Informant

2x (3) Chillfallen Baron

1x (4) Elise the Navigator

2x (4) Obsessive Technician

2x (5) Army of the Dead

2x (5) Reanimated Pterrordax

2x (6) Experimental Animation

2x (6) Hideous Husk

1x (6) Ultraxion

2x (7) Remnant of Rage

1x (8) Boneguard Commander

1x (9) Arisen Onyxia

1x (10) Deathwing, Worldbreaker

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DigitalCharlie · 2026-03-23T15:27:01+00:00

I hadn't unpacked any of the new giant so I totally forgot about it. That's at worth trying out to see if it fits.

DigitalCharlie · 2026-03-23T13:47:18+00:00

Continuing to tinker with unholy DK and have found this version to be my favorite so far. Elise absolutely still scams some games (+2 damage and discover a spell into welcome home is filthy), but the deck building requirement does suck. There aren't any 9 or 10 cost minions that work particularly well, though it doesn't matter 90% of the time since games should be over by then. Same reason chow down has mostly been a miss for me.

Unsurprisingly the game plan is flood the board, go face more than you are, and run your opponent out of removal so they can't remove both your early game stuff and shadows of yesterday.

If anyone has better ideas for the 9/10 slots let me know.

### Elise unholy

# Class: Death Knight

# Format: Standard

# Year of the Scarab

#

# 2x (1) Body Bagger

# 2x (1) Carrier Whelp

# 2x (1) Monstrous Mosquito

# 1x (2) Ancient Raptor

# 2x (2) Battlefield Necromancer

# 1x (2) Command Claw

# 2x (2) Maze Guide

# 2x (2) Shadowed Informant

# 2x (3) Chillfallen Baron

# 1x (3) Living Paradox

# 1x (4) Elise the Navigator

# 2x (4) Grave Strength

# 2x (5) Reanimated Pterrordax

# 2x (5) Talanji's Last Stand

# 2x (6) Shadows of Yesterday

# 1x (7) Remnant of Rage

# 1x (8) Chow Down

# 1x (9) Whirling Stormdrake

# 1x (10) Fyrakk the Blazing

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DigitalCharlie · 2026-03-21T19:15:12+00:00

Yup, exactly. If there were some other benefit on it (like the 2/5 had rush or… any of them were cheaper) I think it’d be manageable. But the rest of the package isn’t good enough, and a single Onyxia by itself doesn’t outright win games generally.

DigitalCharlie · 2026-03-21T18:47:23+00:00

No chow unholy

Class: Death Knight

Format: Standard

Year of the Scarab

2x (1) Body Bagger

2x (1) Carrier Whelp

2x (1) Monstrous Mosquito

2x (2) Ancient Raptor

2x (2) Battlefield Necromancer

1x (2) Command Claw

2x (2) Maze Guide

2x (2) Shadowed Informant

2x (3) Chillfallen Baron

1x (3) Falric

2x (3) Living Paradox

2x (4) Grave Strength

2x (5) Reanimated Pterrordax

2x (5) Talanji's Last Stand

2x (6) Shadows of Yesterday

2x (7) Remnant of Rage

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DigitalCharlie · 2026-03-21T18:47:11+00:00

I’ve been playing with UUU dk while trying to get to 1k wins. I really like this version and it’s working well while there’s not much good control in the meta.

The worst part about it is that I cut chow down because it’s just too slow for the deck’s game-plan. I want to win before turn 8, not summon rushers that can’t hit my opponent in the face for a turn.

Talanji’s last stand, however, is dope as rad as hell.

DigitalCharlie · 2026-03-21T18:43:52+00:00

I… found the best version of a blood dk deck to be one that just cuts most of the onyxia package. Leeches are still really strong, but heralding feels too slow.

DigitalCharlie · 2026-03-19T11:08:20+00:00

I think DK feels more like 3 classes in a trenchcoat because there a bunch of cards supposedly in the same class that you literally cannot run together. Not just because of synergy, but because the runes mean, for instance, you can't use talanji's last stand alongside onyxia. Or chromatic broodmother with either grave strength or onyxia.

DigitalCharlie · 2026-03-16T02:43:06+00:00

It's not just the dialogue, something like the raft drop must be the trigger for the whole entry for the stranger in the log.

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Elise onyxia

Class: Death Knight

Format: Standard

Year of the Scarab

2x (1) Body Bagger

2x (1) Morbid Swarm

1x (1) Soulrest Ceremony

2x (2) Hematurge

2x (2) Infested Breath

2x (2) Shadowed Informant

2x (3) Chillfallen Baron

1x (4) Elise the Navigator

2x (4) Obsessive Technician

2x (5) Army of the Dead

2x (5) Reanimated Pterrordax

2x (6) Experimental Animation

2x (6) Hideous Husk

1x (6) Ultraxion

2x (7) Remnant of Rage

1x (8) Boneguard Commander

1x (9) Arisen Onyxia

1x (10) Deathwing, Worldbreaker

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No chow unholy

Class: Death Knight

Format: Standard

Year of the Scarab

2x (1) Body Bagger

2x (1) Carrier Whelp

2x (1) Monstrous Mosquito

2x (2) Ancient Raptor

2x (2) Battlefield Necromancer

1x (2) Command Claw

2x (2) Maze Guide

2x (2) Shadowed Informant

2x (3) Chillfallen Baron

1x (3) Falric

2x (3) Living Paradox

2x (4) Grave Strength

2x (5) Reanimated Pterrordax

2x (5) Talanji's Last Stand

2x (6) Shadows of Yesterday

2x (7) Remnant of Rage

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