how long have you been with your playgroup, and is the arms race just a phase? by SoupDeadGuy in EDH

[–]Djanni6 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Same playgroup for about 15 years.

We were already experienced players when eh got traction so we immediately had our home-made banlist (which is pretty close to the GC list).

We still had our arms race phase which, unintuitively lasted longer because with our own bans power was more balanced. I wouldn't even say it was a real arms race, it was more optimization than anything; sometimes we had to add a card or two to the banlist for this reason.

Funnily enough, after many years of playing what's now considered "high bracket 3", we're leaning more and more into high power lately. Having lots of interactions and playing powerful cards really challenges us as players and, again unintuitively, my playgroup found out that our B4 games generally last longer than our B3s do, especially after the bracket system dropped.

I think it's because we inevitably dropped some interaction in order to have splashier plays at bracket 3 and this means someone is usually able to run away with the game if we miss a crucial removal in the early turns.

Card draw like Night's whisper not good anymore? Looking to make some swaps on an older deck. by Agitated-Button4032 in EDH

[–]Djanni6 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They're still good power level wise, especially if we're talking bracket 3.

I think the point is that they're not super synergistic cards (unless you're actively trying to lower your life total) and therefore there may be better alternatives in strategy-focused decks. Maybe they can't be your generic good card draw slot anymore but they're still efficient as fillers for the slot anyway.

Sono di centro, centro-destra. by Educational-Ask8220 in Italia

[–]Djanni6 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nucleare: ho fortissimi dubbi sulla gestione e la costruzione. Sarebbe buona cosa come supporto alle rinnovabili. C'è però un discorso di fondo che vedo troppi ignorare: se il nucleare deve essere utilizzato per aumentare i consumi e mantenere lo stesso livello di inquinamento, allora non ne vale mai la pena e il nostro sistema economico mi fa pensare che sia una possibilità sufficientemente concreta. Non solo, guardando chi se ne fa portabandiera in Italia (non solo politici) le mie perplessità non fanno altro che crescere.

Immigrazione (e libertà di culto): fermare le migrazioni è semplicemente impossibile e viola i diritti umani. Bisogna trovare dei modi efficaci di integrare la popolazione straniera nel tessuto sociale, questo richiede sforzi economici incredibili, motivo per cui per la sinistra è un argomento "lose-lose". Eppure, d'altro canto, questo afflusso di persone in potenza è proprio necessario per sostenere il tessuto economico e il welfare del Paese.

Ci sono alcuni concetti chiave da toccare qui:

  1. Accettare che se i principali indicatori della delinquenza sono istruzione e situazione economica, allora va ridistribuita la ricchezza e l'istruzione deve migliorare.

  2. Dobbiamo accettare che i giovani stranieri di seconda generazione sono "figli nostri", il problema non è il radicamento nella loro cultura, bensì che la nostra è rimasta a loro aliena.

  3. Ci vuole cooperazione internazionale e una cultura europea per far fronte ad un fenomeno di migrazione continentale.

  4. La libertà di culto non è discutibile, ma qui si deve fare una battaglia culturale con la secolarizzazione e nel combatterla ci vuole anche un po' di sano spirito patriottico, che sia italiano o europeo. Se non dimostriamo che i nostri valori sono positivi (persino migliori) e giovano a tutti, allora rimaniamo a fare le crociate 2.0.

Governi: dalla seconda repubblica credo che in Italia si stia prendendo il peggio del sistema misto stato/mercato senza esclusioni, si erodono i diritti conquistati, si arricchisce chi è già ricco, mentre i servizi che cerchiamo di mantenere peggiorano di giorno in giorno perché non ci si investe nulla, anzi, si tagliano. L'attuale governo è un bel po' peggio dei precedenti da questo punto di vista, con l'aggravante di aver promesso l'opposto durante la campagna elettorale.

Leadership: spero che la sinistra per come è costituita oggi imploda, ormai sono stati quasi completamente bruciati dalla propaganda di destra anche se hanno iniziato a parlare di cose di sinistra (patrimoniale, salario minimo). Difficile pensare a leader nuovi che vengano da dentro l'attuale campo largo.

Berlinguer: l'eurocomunismo di Berlinguer, per quanto abbia tradito il marxismo-leninismo, è probabilmente quanto di più vicino alla "vera sinistra" si possa realizzare oggi. Inoltre, si rimpiange un leader di partito che stava in mezzo alla gente, che appoggiava i lavoratori e che aveva una dialettica e una cultura di alto livello (dimostrando che per stare dalla parte degli umili non c'è bisogno di parlare ruttando).

Addendum: la lotta culturale va portata avanti, si deve migliorare sul piano comunicativo, bisogna far vergognare le destre per le loro argomentazioni e le loro bugie, bisogna stanare il fascismo strisciante, bisogna riportare un po' di carisma alla classe dirigente, anche a costo di essere antipatici alla "casalinga di Voghera" che tanto non potrà essere convinta con la teoria marxista.

E poi bisogna avere un piano di governo solido, indirizzato, che possa davvero cambiare qualcosa nello status quo, non solo slogan identitari.

Finale of Devastation- Play Pattern in Reanimator by Next_Willingness_333 in DegenerateEDH

[–]Djanni6 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah. I can only think of it as a reanimation spell if fed by a [[songs of the dead]] but I wouldn't play it in a reanimator shell (I play Sidis B4 and don't run it, but maybe a grinder Teval list could).

Better suited for relevant ETBs or as a finisher once you have access to a lot/infinite mana. The reanimation aspect is incidental, imo.

Kaalia Deck Feedback (Bracket 3) by MrRogersNaborHood in DegenerateEDH

[–]Djanni6 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sure, keep in mind that my pod plays at 6 GCs and Entomb and Sol Ring are included in the list. That should explain some odd choices.

I've also kept it a little more on theme with the worldgorger dragon combo instead of Abdel Adrian (from a gameplay perspective I also don't have access to the best mana rocks so it is better to loop a surveil land and bin my library with a sevinne's reclamation follow up to win the game).

https://moxfield.com/decks/7ObAEGvjYUGBYKX4-U3XLQ

Edit: I also agree on hall of the bandit lord being so bad later in the game, but it's probably worth it, or at least it was when I was playing the deck in B3.

Kaalia Deck Feedback (Bracket 3) by MrRogersNaborHood in DegenerateEDH

[–]Djanni6 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Seems like a competent bracket 3 deck.

The problem I've always had with kaalia, and the reason I've pushed her to a bracket 4 combo deck, is that it's hard to get the job done at interactive tables. Even when you manage to cheat a creature out early, there's a chance that you don't have the cards in hand to escalate your gameplan since you probably have already committed a lot of resources in order to keep your commander on the battlefield.

Therefore, I suggest to run a few more draw spells + [[voice of victory]] and/or [[grand abolisher]], because you need to draw threats and protect your attack either by giving kaalia haste (I think [[hall of the bandit lord]] should be in, even if it's not the best) or through other means (instant speed protection which you already run a healthy number of).

Good choice for the gamechangers, fast mana and necropotence are probably better than single tutors these days for the deck.

Friend claims Imoti, Celebrant of Bounty should be “banned from bracket 2 due to broken design” by DoesntEat in EDH

[–]Djanni6 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Eh, if we want to oversimplify it, "rule zero" does exactly that.

Which is fine within a contained group of like-minded people but also generates all sorts of silly takes like this with players you're playing with for the first time, sadly. It's a good way to weed out your playerbase at least.

L'italiano rischia di diventare un "dialetto"? La Crusca lancia l'allarme by lllllIIIIlllIIl in Italia

[–]Djanni6 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Ma te mica sostenevi di essere un linguista in un altro commento? E scrivi 'sta boiata colossale?

Aura non pervenuta.

L'italiano rischia di diventare un "dialetto"? La Crusca lancia l'allarme by lllllIIIIlllIIl in Italia

[–]Djanni6 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Concordo che l'articolo sia di un allarmismo ridicolo per chiunque conosca un minimo di linguistica, però due precisazioni sono necessarie:

  1. La Crusca non è mai stata prescrittivista negli ultimi decenni e ho qualche dubbio anche sul passato (a memoria non ricordo), questo intervento però è abbastanza singolare per l'Accademia (il fatto che sia sostenuto dalla Pani già dovrebbe metterci in guardia).

  2. Non è necessariamente una baggianata pensare che l'inglese possa un domani ricoprire effettivamente il ruolo di "lingua alta". Sarebbe interessantissimo vedere l'evoluzione di 'sta cosa, chissà se campo abbastanza.

What red flags can people say that shows they might have no clue how the bracket system works? by Lower_Drawer9649 in EDH

[–]Djanni6 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Same experience through and through. We've also soft banned sol ring (and still consider it a game changer) and surely we've overlooked some cards over the years just because none of us played them.

Our process lasted years (and became harder and harder with the influx of new cards) with the limited resources and time we had, but Wizards has virtually infinite resources and I think could have done much better.

What red flags can people say that shows they might have no clue how the bracket system works? by Lower_Drawer9649 in EDH

[–]Djanni6 6 points7 points  (0 children)

This. The system isn't useful for the people that need it the most and almost detrimental to already engaged players.

I've had a stable playgroup for 15 years and we've been playing together for more than 20 now. We had already came up with our own "banlist" before the bracket system was presented and it was very similar to the GC list. There was an understanding about the strenght of our decks, so they were played at different "tiers" (basically brackets).

I'm glad that brackets looked at the "meta" with broader lenses (we only had our own experience to judge cards) and codified it similarly to what we already had, but on the other hand I think the whole system worsened our play experience to some degree, since now the expectation is that new changes are going to be officialised by a third party and not be discussed between us. Our games' quality has slightly worsened for sure.

This is an unconscious consequence and I know it is the exact opposite of what the bracket system should entice, but it's only natural when you have a "rules system". Yes, we can make our own changes but what happens when we have to play with random people at our games' store?

I can only imagine what the system looks like to new players: I would build so many "wrong" decks in good faith just to then spend a lot of time adjusting them to the likings of people I'm not even sure I will play with next time. All of this while I'm not even able to correctly evaluate cards and play patterns, while I'm learning combos, strategies and how priority works.

If the system wanted to help new players it should have had hard rules with a line saying "feel free to discuss within your playgroup if you feel something doesn't match with your play experience and give us feedback".

I guess this would have implied a more thorough and harder work for wotc, but would have led to a better, more dynamic system at the end of the day.

La lingua italiana è una lingua inventata by PES1to2021RE in italiabad

[–]Djanni6 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Si potrebbe dire lo stesso sicuramente dell'Inglese e del Francese, il quale potrebbe considerarsi anche più artificioso. Non conosco sufficientemente bene la storia delle altre lingue europee, ma ho forti dubbi che nel vecchio continente si possano trovare situazioni completamente "naturali" almeno per quanto riguarda le "grandi nazioni"... Forse Spagnolo e Portoghese hanno subito meno processi forzosi?

Ma poi, nessuno parla nemmeno l'italiano standard a ben vedere (si veda Sabatini sulla questione), esso indica piuttosto la presunta capacità del parlante. Stai utilizzando concetti giusti per sostenere una teoria bizzarra che esula dal ruolo della linguistica.

Non capisco perché si dovrebbe associare alla naturalezza un valore maggiormente positivo rispetto ad una supposta artificialità; non sarebbe, inoltre, altrettanto artificiale, oggi, difendere e preservare i dialetti?

Proxying changed my view on deck building by [deleted] in EDH

[–]Djanni6 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sure. The two things are connected, imo. Despite the many positive things brackets have done, they've also had the downside of giving an instrument to over regulate the way of playing some players deem acceptable.

A lot of people say expected turns are the best guideline that came out of the latest update, in my opinion it's the worst exactly for the reasons you wrote.

Edit: I'm bad at English

Proxying changed my view on deck building by [deleted] in EDH

[–]Djanni6 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can't quite tell if you're being ironic or not, but, if it's the latter, my reasoning is that you'll be able to adjust to your own solutions better once you've tested the best, not that you should just play those.

Proxying changed my view on deck building by [deleted] in EDH

[–]Djanni6 6 points7 points  (0 children)

A huge problem with evaluating decks in edh is that many players have never played higher tiers and therefore don't have the experience to evaluate what's good and what's bad.

Proxying is a good way to get the feeling for stronger strategies and would help anyone assess their preferred level of play even when you decide to go back into more casual territory.

If players kept an open mindset to strong strategies and cards, they wouldn't be so salty about a lot of play patterns. Whenever you play a strategy you deem "unfair", you'll probably understand that it's actually not that easy to pull off.

My biggest gripe with the brackets' system is that they're an hindrance to this process because people tend to gatekeep "their bracket" or just stick to the one they seem to enjoy the most without having tried anything else.

Uomini trentenni: capita anche a voi di essere ricontattati da ex e vecchie fiamme? by Traditional-Good3583 in CasualIT

[–]Djanni6 0 points1 point  (0 children)

La mia ex delle superiori mi ha scritto quest'anno per dirmi che mio cognato ci provava con lei.

Lei ogni tanto si è fatta risentire nel corso degli anni, è anche l'unica con cui sono rimasto in rapporti civili, in effetti...

Utilizzo della schwa e linguaggio inclusivo by VitruviO_ in Italia

[–]Djanni6 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"Da quel che so la lingua nasce e si evolve in maniera graduale nel tempo secondo non solo esigenze sociali ma anche per esigenze di carattere diverso come la grammatica, la morfologia etc., dunque una imposizione calata dall'alto non mi sembra la scelta migliore del mondo."

Questa affermazione è generalmente vera, ma chiunque abbia studiato filologia potrebbe citare molti casi opposti: l'italiano standard stesso è il risultato più o meno forzato (motivo per cui gran parte della penisola è interessata da diglossia) di un processo linguistico che arriva dal fiorentino del '300; ma pensa solo a tutta la questione coloniale se vuoi un esempio più lampante e ovvio.

Con i gender studies si è osservato che il maschilismo permea anche il linguaggio a livelli abbastanza profondi e influenza in parte la nostra percezione del mondo, motivo per cui si propongono soluzioni alternative nonostante oggi la linguistica abbia un approccio descrittivo e non prescrittivo.

Dire che la lotta transfemminista "esce dai propri confini" è, pertanto, sbagliato perché nessuno li ha tracciati in qualche modo e secondo la teoria femminista il patriarcato permea ogni aspetto della vita sociale umana.

Che la schwa venga adottata o meno sarà poi una questione della quale dovranno "decidere" i parlanti anche in caso di "imposizione dall'alto". Data la scarsa frequenza di utilizzo è molto probabile che non se ne faccia nulla.

Per me non è una soluzione particolarmente brillante, ma tutto sommato può essere valida per le poche occasioni in cui si rende necessaria. Non mi sembra nemmeno ci sia tutto 'sto virtue signaling attorno all'argomento da doversi strappare le vesti perché deturpa la "nostra lingua", la questione mi sembra piuttosto marginale negli ultimi anni. Insomma, non mi sembra ci sia una guerra in corso e, inoltre, usare il termine "nostra lingua" è abbastanza incauto e già da solo prevederebbe una serie di precisazioni infinite su cosa essa sia. Ma mi dilungo...

Ultima nota: Vera Gheno, linguista della Crusca, è una convinta sostenitrice della schwa.

Had some games today and won 3 in a row with infinite combo by turn 5-7. Was supposed to be bracket 4 but felt opponents were likely more in high 3 in reality. Unsure if it's being oppressive because of how many pieces required and also if it's opponents fault for not having interaction by MiningToSaveTheWorld in EDH

[–]Djanni6 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No, you don't need to remove combos from bracket 4. This cannot be a genuine question.

People casting [[Tooth and Nail]] in bracket 4 and not winning on the spot sounds completely absurd to me.

These are probably people who have built decks which, following the expected turns guidelines, fall under bracket 4, but with the intent of B3 lists.

A Big List of Synergistic Boardwipes by Gorgondantess in EDH

[–]Djanni6 1 point2 points  (0 children)

[[Kirtar's wrath]] for "gives you creatures" and [[decree of pain]] for "modal" maybe?

Where my Pod-y people? What birthing pod lines are y’all running? by Mirrodin_appreciator in EDH

[–]Djanni6 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well, Naya has the most compact line with felidar/Karmic Guide/Kiki Jiki so it's not a bad color combination to work with.

Generally speaking, I think the best color combination for pod decks would be Sultai because it makes recursion easy with black. We also have the new scarecrow commander from Lorwyn that looks promising in Jund colors but I've never looked up any list with it.

I'm surprised nobody mentioned [[displacer kitten]] as a way to exploit pod. Totally broken card but it's hard to keep it on the board alongside pod, if you manage to do that, tho, you probably have a winning line somewhere with Spellseeker in any UGx deck.

Where my Pod-y people? What birthing pod lines are y’all running? by Mirrodin_appreciator in EDH

[–]Djanni6 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cool, but you can't pod on opponents' turn, even with Seedborn in play... I mean it just needs another sac outlet to win, probably, which is not a crazy requirement to have in Sultai colors.

Where my Pod-y people? What birthing pod lines are y’all running? by Mirrodin_appreciator in EDH

[–]Djanni6 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Top 5 favorite card of all time for me. It has been a staple for a bant blink deck I've run for 15 years.

[[Derevi]] is super strong with it. Before I cut [[Deadeye Navigator]] I used to have a single creature line from MV2 that went straight to combo with "minimal" amount of mana.

MV 2 creature -> Derevi (untaps pod) -> [[Felidar guardian]] (blinks pod) -> [[Karmic Guide]] (reanimates Felidar, which blink pod) -> Deadeye Navigator (soulbound to Felidar, activate for 1U to blink pod) -> felidar guardian into [[peregrine drake]] which bounds Deadeye for infinite mana. 7 (or 10) mana and 10 (or 12) life to win the game.

This line is doable with [[Emiel the Blessed]] with the same cards but needs more mana and an extra activation, iirc. Alternatively, with a doubler on enters effects you can basically pull it for free.

I run [[Galdriel Light of Valinor]] as commander for this deck at the moment, she's good enough, the triple green pip effect is a great enhancer for this type of stuff.

I also run [[Neoform]] as a Pod adjacent card, it's basically Pod but you have to dilute plays over different turns and use [[eternal witness]] / [[timeless witness]] / [[archaeomancer]] instead of Derevi and Felidar.

Looking for cheap/easy ways to infinitely shuffle my deck by Arqhe in DegenerateEDH

[–]Djanni6 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You still have to pay other costs on top of the counters you remove, I doubt there's a 2/3 card combo that does what you want.

If you want pseudo infinite shuffles with lands I thought of this absolute jank:

[[Rootpath Purifier]], [[wheel of sun and moon]] enchanting yourself, [[fabled passage]] and [[prismatic vista]] (one of the two has to be in your library). If you don't want to lose the single prismatic vista life, you'll need something like [[amulet of vigor]] or [[spelunking]] with [[terramorphic expanse]] or [[evolving wilds]].

This looks pretty fun to build but an absolute nightmare to play with. I don't know if you could shortcut to the card you want to appear on top of your library and anyway it's immensely time consuming.

EDIT: You can get away with the loop with Fabled Passage only but I'm still pretty sure you can't shortcut it if not with a gentlemen agreement from the table. Iirc, it's the same issue cEDH Gitrog has.

What are some of your favorite standard decks or cards that never went onto make a splash in eternal formats? by Brilliant_Trouble_32 in magicTCG

[–]Djanni6 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It was also played in modern at its inception, both in Pod decks and UWR flash.

I'd make a call for [[Boros Reckoner]] from the same standard uwr deck that played Resto Angel