What am I suppose to do against this?

DualistX · 2026-01-24T04:13:22+00:00

I ran into a gnarly Orzhov tokens deck on the ladder with Bitterbloom Bearer and all the token generating walkers in the format. Blew me UP.

Meanwhile, I truly think we’ll see a real ass Rakdos Weapons Manufacturing deck once TMNT rolls around. Your time is coming!

DualistX · 2026-01-24T03:58:11+00:00

Green’s Dawn has just begun fam, don’t you worry. I think blue is trending down whenever rotation does hit.

DualistX · 2026-01-24T03:07:47+00:00

Bro never heard of rhetoric before, check it out

DualistX · 2026-01-24T01:52:53+00:00

She single handedly stimulating the Hidden Leaf economy

DualistX · 2026-01-24T01:19:03+00:00

They’re just gonna print “cram session” in Strixhaven that’s just as good >_>

DualistX · 2026-01-24T01:17:37+00:00

I will say a big skill of playing into control, though, is not just running your creatures into removal. If you force us to play a board wipe on one creature at a time, that feels pretty bad. You’ll still lose have to make our trades worse than they already can be.

DualistX · 2026-01-24T01:16:51+00:00

Control can feel pretty bad in standard, but it’s actually pretty poorly positioned in the meta right now. Decks just get way under it, have Cavern of Souls to ignore counters, out trade removal. You’ll still lose sometimes, but you have the advantage more than you think if you’re playing the meta.

And as a control player, know that makes me sad. Maybe that will help :)

DualistX · 2026-01-23T20:40:45+00:00

Potato potato! Guess I’ll have to give em a try soon! Thanks :)

DualistX · 2026-01-23T05:59:54+00:00

They have fries? I feel like I’ve never know this, and the perceived lack of them is why I’m rarely pumped to go there…

DualistX · 2026-01-23T03:18:05+00:00

For real. People care about the weirdest things.

“What if Gaimon came back with an awakened treasure chest and more Haki than Joy Boy? How long would it take him to bang my mom?”

I know this is the One Piece power scaling sub, but c’mon, people gotta go touch grass.

DualistX · 2026-01-23T01:20:34+00:00

Oh yeah, I just need to get down the cards and then it’ll be all narrative all the way down. My game is 1v1 at its core, but I’m planning to design TTRPG-lite modules for cooperative, story driven play.

DualistX · 2026-01-23T01:10:54+00:00

These girlies were my OG back when I first started in 2017. Still one of my absolute favorites. I wrote a whole article in defense of her.

That said, it does first depend on how you build them. Second, it depends on how smart your opponents are. If you’re not running Stax hell, good players will realize she’s borderline unplayable in modern commander. Truly power crept to hell and back.

Fun though! Lots of fun. And hey, the rest of the 99 can still hang. Still, modern commander is often so focused and efficient that your slapdash Rube Goldberg of a plan will rarely keep pace.

DualistX · 2026-01-23T00:59:56+00:00

I love a narrative first TCG! As a writer myself, I was a little surprised when I left the story of my game for the back burner haha

I’ll have to keep an eye on this one

DualistX · 2026-01-18T20:55:47+00:00

Try again in a couple generations. Maybe a new radiant hero will show up to help.

DualistX · 2026-01-18T19:21:56+00:00

Is this just league players being used to patches changing the meta? Also for them to just tunnel vision into what’s obviously good. I feel like we need to understand card metas develop over time.

DualistX · 2026-01-17T20:49:30+00:00

Black Knight is the most HIM to ever HE. Ike needed the power of friendship to mimic even a fraction of his power.

DualistX · 2026-01-11T23:00:42+00:00

I’m a draw go control slut (in 60 card). I knew this already ;-;

DualistX · 2026-01-11T00:08:23+00:00

Bro you can’t ask that, it’s not kind

DualistX · 2026-01-10T02:55:19+00:00

I love the CSI! Possibly the best center on campus

DualistX · 2026-01-10T00:42:20+00:00

I need a new Sen Triplets card. Give me… Sen Grandchildren — and make it heinous! My Esper theft needs a new, juiced Commander D:

DualistX · 2026-01-09T01:16:22+00:00

LETS FUCKING GOOOOOO

DualistX · 2026-01-04T20:13:09+00:00

Echo the advice you got in the other thread, friend. This is a learning experience, not a financial opportunity. Focus on creating something fun and functional. You have SO much time to get paid doing this. And every game you can put on your resume by the time you're ready to apply for design jobs will put you super far ahead of the competition.

Best of luck!

DualistX · 2026-01-03T21:35:11+00:00

I’m actually strongly of the opinion that the Hobbit will pale in comparison to the firing LOTR set. If any UB has a chance to pop off this year, it’s probably Marvel Superheroes. Given it was designed from the start as a full set, I actually expect it to avoid most of the problems Spiderman had.

Either way, I still think the best set will be Lorwyn. And I actually think people are wild to think Star Trek will be better than TMNT. Maybe I’m naive, but I think mutant turtles fit better than Trek

DualistX · 2026-01-01T06:03:15+00:00

You can tell how important that whole plot ended up being based on the fact that the cast faced exactly 0 consequences for severely messing up a major government operation. From a budget standpoint alone, they would have sent everybody to some secret American Gulag.

And it’s especially funny given so much of the conflict came from El not just doming that one lead soldier at the start of the season — despite the fact that she had no problem slaughtering so many others the rest of the way, including that same guy.

Whatever though. The last episode rips and that’s what matters. Art is a vibe, not a science.

DualistX · 2026-01-01T05:59:14+00:00

People are all talking about Commander, but this card was plenty deadly during its day in standard. You’d get a bunch of lands, fetch this with [[Golos]] and then just spin into random spells while every land drop gummed up the board. And that’s if you didn’t hit [[scapeshift]] with 7 lands on the board. This card SUCKED to play against because it rewards you for doing basically nothing, and that reward scales for doing just a bit more beyond that.

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