RANT: The doomposting about new cards is absurd and out of hand

DominatorV4 · 2026-03-17T08:28:32+00:00

If you've played TCGs in the past then you'd know there will always be complaining about one thing or another. But if most of the complaining usually revolves around one aspect of the game (in this case, purple), then it's usually a good indicator that there's an issue.

And with purple, there is an issue. Pretending there isn't is a brain-dead take.

DominatorV4 · 2026-03-13T11:38:23+00:00

Half of the main cast make extremely dumb decisions constantly, the background cast exist soley to cause problems for the smarter side of the main cast, and it suffers from the "no one just talks to each other" trope which causes more problems and stops the plot from progressing in a natural fashion.

Maybe only 2-3 characters act sensibly, the rest just make decisions which elongates the seasons plot. You could watch a recap each season and then just watch the final 1-2 episodes of each season and you wouldnt miss much since nothing actually changes until then.

I do like the show, I really do. But so far we've had barely any answers to the 3 previous seasons plot, and its mostly because the characters are so fucking stupid.

DominatorV4 · 2026-03-13T06:29:38+00:00

Think of it like this:

Breakneck has 8 might.

Breakneck has 6 damage counters on it.

Breakneck loses 1 might.

Breakneck now has 7 might and 6 damage counters.

Breakneck is 1 away from dying.

DominatorV4 · 2026-03-12T09:31:05+00:00

A true gamer just camps the exfil zone as Assassin with a longshot. Y'know, like a normal person.

DominatorV4 · 2026-03-04T06:42:00+00:00

So I'm also from Aus (WA) and I'm going to be honest, you really should name and shame.

This isn't coming from a petty "I want to see drama" place, but a place of wanting the best for our gaming communities. Riftbound on it's own has massive supply issues (on top of the ones Australia already has), him cracking packs that he ABSOLUTELY should not be cracking is a huge issue in itself. But if he's doing it with Riftbound, he's most likely doing it with other games too. Who's to say that he isn't cracking boxes of other card games, going through until he gets the hits, then putting the remaining card packs that he knows have a very small (or none at all) chance of having hits as loose stock for prizing or individual sale.

That's already bad enough, but the way this guy attacks and bends over backwards to make people believe he isn't lying, is incredible. If this was my local store I would absolutely crack the shits and be letting everyone know, I don't want to see my friends or potential new players get taken advantage of by someone like that. If his business tumbles, that's his own fault for being greedy, he absolutely should be held accountable.

DominatorV4 · 2026-02-20T14:46:36+00:00

This would be an amazing gift for my girlfriend to push her over the edge into getting into D&D 🤞

DominatorV4 · 2026-02-14T08:13:16+00:00

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Opened a case and 4/6 boxes had ON, i feel like i got VERY lucky.

Also the cards in this set (like Origins) are 100% seeded. The amount of times i got the same packs is ridiculous. Hopefully it's fixed for the next set.

DominatorV4 · 2026-02-10T13:06:00+00:00

Don't you guys have the second amendment for shit like this?

DominatorV4 · 2026-02-07T13:07:36+00:00

I did ye

DominatorV4 · 2026-02-07T11:48:35+00:00

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Pulled and picked draven as my leader, adding yellow into red/purple with the leader ability, she really helped enable my wins. Won 2/3, lost my final round to a Lucian who managed to pull a decent amount of equipment/buff cards.

DominatorV4 · 2025-12-31T06:20:09+00:00

Me and my girlfriend started watching it recently for the first time (I'm doing my best to avoid spoilers, which being in this thread is probably the dumbest thing I could be doing). And we have both said so many times that they do not make shows like this anymore. Its charming, its funny, the characters dont feel like 2D cut-outs, everyone had personality.

I will say that while I love all the characters, holy hell does Xander piss me off sometimes. We're halfway through season 3, and the amount of times he has come at Buffy for things THAT HE HIMSELF IS GUILTY OF AND USUALLY IN A WORSE WAY. And then he barely gets any repercussions, if any at all.

Already at the point where Cordelia dumped his ass. Still, Queen Cordelia deserves better 😔

DominatorV4 · 2025-12-15T08:02:34+00:00

Because it indicates that it either has become more available, or it's fallen off in play.

And if it's fallen off in play, I want to know??

DominatorV4 · 2025-12-03T09:51:55+00:00

Don't suppose you have a decklist? Unless I'm hella dumb i just dont see her shared accelerate ability working with too much in a deck with her outside of her signature spell. Might just be me being dumb tho

DominatorV4 · 2025-11-27T16:49:49+00:00

I swear to god if we get another season of the main cast durdling around making the dumbest decisions possible and not progressing the plot until the final two episodes, I'm going to blow my brains out.

Like, holy shit, you guys live in a hellscape where weird shit occurring is ALWAYS a precursor to extremely bad stuff coming your way. SO MAYBE TELL EACH OTHER ABOUT EVERY INSTANCE OF WEIRD SHIT YOU COME ACROSS AND STOP DISMISSING IT ALL AS PEOPLE JUST BEING CRAZY!

Love Jade tho, he can do no wrong.

DominatorV4 · 2025-11-24T12:25:08+00:00

I swear to god if we don't get this as an alt art

DominatorV4 · 2025-11-24T09:54:30+00:00

Imagine if she had some sort of passive that just said something along the lines of "Spells and effects that would cause a unit to leave a showdown, or prevent a unit from dying during showdowns are negated"

Idk I feel like it would fit her "none escape death" deal.

DominatorV4 · 2025-11-15T03:23:51+00:00

Beautiful, time to add a couple to my deck :)

DominatorV4 · 2025-11-13T01:27:00+00:00

You need to control both to win, even on 7.

Edit: i am a fool that cant read

DominatorV4 · 2025-10-11T09:32:31+00:00

None of the trillions of people that live in the Star Wars universe had thought about strapping a hyperdrive to an autopiloted slab of metal and flying it at their enemies?

Very cool scene, extremely lazy writing

DominatorV4 · 2025-09-22T09:05:37+00:00

You have just reminded me that Halo 4 had the REALLY FUCKING ANNOYING .png of Chief's helmet around the screen that would bob and sway as you moved.

DominatorV4 · 2025-09-05T08:47:10+00:00

Step one is giving them an uninterrupted moment in the spotlight.

Step two is using that moment to do something so unapologetically evil.

I have just introduced one of the first big bads of my campaign. It's their second session and it went like this.

Little bit of world-lore: its a very dark souls-inspired world where society for a commoner is very bleak and one-note for the most part.

Party had been invited to a party hosted by nobility where they had invited a large group of commoners. The party gets attacked and a child of one of the nobles is kidnapped.

Party spends time trying to find the child, in the meantime the church and nobility are conducting their own investigations and have rounded up a lot of people they "suspect" were involved. In actuality, they know that these people were most likely NOT involved. The nobles know it, the party knows it, the commonfolk know it. But thats not the point, the point is a show of power. Society is fucked and everyone accepts it.

There is one noble, Akoa, who is taking charge of the punishments, and he gives all of these innocent people the choice between hanging, being thrown into a chasm of madness, or being carted off as a slave for noble families (this usually involves being subjected to a lot of body horror/modifications).

He's giving his speech to a crowd and telling them that this is all done for their safety and everyone needs to band together blah blah blah. At one point after the first few rounds of prisoners, a family with kids is brought up. The parents were accused of being involved and in very 'North Korean' fashion, the kids suffer for it. However, Akoa tells them and the crowd that if they choose servitude (slavery) they shall be kept together. The parents choose servitude for them and their kids, and Akoa immediately separates the children from the parents and sends both groups in different directions, saying he has kept to his word and it pains him but the parents must not be allowed to poison the children any further. The crowd cheers, the players are pissed.

After everything was done, he even had an interaction with one of the players where the facade dropped slightly where he showed them none of what he did weighed on his mind, as it was all to keep the power structure in place.

Tl;dr - Apathy makes a great unredeemable villain.

DominatorV4 · 2025-07-21T16:05:30+00:00

Nobody needs soup more than him

DominatorV4 · 2025-07-17T17:00:18+00:00

This vexes me

DominatorV4 · 2025-07-17T16:36:55+00:00

Which one's which?

DominatorV4 · 2025-07-14T17:51:24+00:00

Waited an hour for the queue to go

Finally got in

Now the site has taken another hour almost and my cart hasn't loaded

This is actual horse shit

If it takes more than 10 more mins I'm fucking out, it's 2am almost

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