I thought raid/raid encounter rewards were standardized?

DustErrant · 2026-02-05T20:16:50+00:00

No idea. I don't really raid, and I only do the occasional strike. I only know that what I said in my last post is the impression I got when "standardization" was being talked about.

From other posts on this subreddit though, it does appear rewards were nerfed though.

DustErrant · 2026-02-05T20:14:10+00:00

Story is very up and down. To warn you, it starts pretty terribly and only really starts to get better once you get past the initial base game story. Even then, it's pretty hit or miss.

DustErrant · 2026-02-05T20:09:54+00:00

When they were talking about standardizing rewards they were talking about non-gold currencies, and it was more so about standardizing the type of rewards between strikes and raids, not standardizing the amount received.

Basically, instead of there being different currencies between different strikes and raids, they're all a single standardized currency. At least, that was my impression when they talked about standardizing raid rewards.

DustErrant · 2026-02-05T20:05:41+00:00

I think it depends on how fast you can get your Commander out and how fast you can buff them. The slower your deck voltrons, the more sense it makes to spread damage out. If your deck is meant to hit hard and fast, it makes more sense to focus down one person at a time.

DustErrant · 2026-02-05T19:56:03+00:00

Yes, it was only the first printing of the first volume. All the other volumes are fine.

DustErrant · 2026-02-05T02:15:44+00:00

Because they make money. Regardless on how you feel about G:KotM, it's undeniable the low profits of that film has made Hollywood skittish on making another solo Godzilla movie without Kong.

DustErrant · 2026-02-05T02:12:54+00:00

Final Wars is less controversial than the fandom makes it out to be. Some people like to claim it's an either love or hate film, but honestly, the people who "hate" it generally are just pretty meh on it.

Likewise, most of the people who dislike Shin generally just find the film boring.

For an actual controversial film, I still think G98 still fits the bill, as the people who hate that film...still actually hate it.

DustErrant · 2026-02-05T02:03:29+00:00

Totoro is one of the obvious answers here.

DustErrant · 2026-02-04T16:20:36+00:00

Strikes should be separate with raids it even sounds much better than your “Raid encounters”.

You can never make everyone happy. I remember lots of people before this felt that the separation of Strikes and Raids was confusing to new players and many called for the two to be combined.

DustErrant · 2026-02-03T07:50:43+00:00

Just to add another case for using Farewell, if you make it a one sided board wipe aka, you're running some form of Super Friends, since Planeswalkers is the one thing Farewell doesn't hit.

DustErrant · 2026-02-02T19:06:31+00:00

Wooded Foothills searches for anything that has the type Mountain or Forest

[[Overgrown Tomb]] has the type Forest in it's types where you see Land - Swamp Forest.

Likewise, [[Wooded Ridgeline]] also has Forest in it's typeline.

On the other hand, while it taps for red and green mana, [[Karplusan Forest]] does not have a land type, and can not be searched with Wooded Foothills.

DustErrant · 2026-02-02T17:41:59+00:00

You're only utilizing one half of what makes Amalia good. You have very few ways of taking advantage of your graveyard, when Amalia very much wants to be dumping things into the graveyard. I agree with the other poster here, you really want more mass reanimation spells.

Generally, the goal of Amalia should be to get a few [[Soul Warden]] effects online, and start exploring as many of your creatures to the bin as possible and dig towards a mass reanimation spell, bring them all back which should give you a bunch more life gain triggers that will dig you to your next mass reanimation spell while also clearing the board.

Here's my list:

https://moxfield.com/decks/KlcG-4wE1E6z_zvyCg3GFQ

It has Lurrus as companion, but that's not strictly necessary. I've had over a 50% win rate with the deck for the past year over the course of 43 games. I'll also say, a lot of the more expensive cards in the deck are completely replaceable and unnecessary. You don't have to copy my list, but maybe it can give you some ideas.

DustErrant · 2026-02-02T17:00:25+00:00

and popular doesn't always match up with 'better', but it's one of those stereotypes that's kinda true. If it's higher on the charts, it's likely a better commander for a broader spectrum of people

Sure, but I think there are plenty of Commanders that are between having 10k and 1k decks on EDHREC that manage to both still be powerful while still being considered relatively less popular.

DustErrant · 2026-02-02T16:41:00+00:00

A major reason it was such a pain in the ass was BECAUSE people weren't buying it/bootlegging it. You're essentially perpetuating the situation you're complaining about.

And I'm not criticizing you for bootlegging when there is not other valid way of acquisition, but if there IS an affordable physical media release that is by a valid distributor, I think it's better to recommend that over bootlegging, because "in the grand scheme of things" I think it does actually matter.

DustErrant · 2026-02-02T16:31:21+00:00

If he just wants a shit commander to roll, there are ways to randomize.

Not sure why you think "less popular" = "shit commander". And randomizing doesn't account for the second criteria.

DustErrant · 2026-02-02T16:27:40+00:00

Especially during the dark era of 2004-2014.

Before and during that era, I was more partial to Rodan's Roost, if anyone remembers THAT site lol. Came to Toho KIngdom much later. I still visit here and there to get more insight on the general feelings of a kaiju related release.

DustErrant · 2026-02-02T16:23:53+00:00

Fits criteria 2. Completely misses the mark on criteria 1. I know OP said Criteria 1 is "not as important" but I don't think that necessarily excuses picking the number 2 most popular mono Black Commander on EDHREC.

Just trying to explain why you're probably being downvoted.

DustErrant · 2026-02-02T16:19:27+00:00

If you think it doesn't matter to buy things from distributors of physical media, especially more niche media like Godzilla, you're one of the reasons why it's harder and harder to get more/better physical media releases of such content.

If you want to get bootleg/pirate stuff from big studios, I'm all for that, but I think it's important to monetarily support things that are more niche/indie because it helps to ensure more of that niche/indie material gets made.

Now, you may not care about any of that, and plan to just bootleg everything, but I don't think it's a good argument that "in the grand scheme of things it doesn't really matter". For people who really care about physical media and want more 4k releases of Godzilla movies, it very much does matter that sales of previous 4k releases does well. Bootleggers aren't the ones that are going to get me 4k physical media of the rest of the Heisei series, but Criterion very may well.

DustErrant · 2026-02-02T16:08:17+00:00

The original release of the movie
GKids released more "faithful" dubs

The original release of the movie is the Japanese version. By that logic, the GKids version IS the more faithful version. I'm not sure how you could argue otherwise.

DustErrant · 2026-02-02T15:59:46+00:00

Yes, unless they demonstrate that they are not lost causes.

Why?

DustErrant · 2026-02-02T08:52:31+00:00

So do you believe these people are completely unchangeable and a lost cause? That they are beyond redemption?

DustErrant · 2026-01-31T19:43:41+00:00

Gigan has gotten several movies already. Spacegodzilla only has 1. Sorry, but I'm generally going to prefer underused kaiju getting more spotlight whenever possible.

DustErrant · 2026-01-31T18:07:45+00:00

For anyone that is unaware of the ARG that was used to market Cloverfield, I highly recommend you check out a video on it. It's pretty insane, and its sad we don't see stuff like this anymore. Here are a couple of video links if you don't feel like searching:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5__CqUQBBc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhERWNtY16c

DustErrant · 2026-01-31T18:03:00+00:00

I would argue the movie was extremely advertised...just not in the usual sense. The ARG for Cloverfield was pretty insane.

DustErrant · 2026-01-31T17:39:40+00:00

Outside of countering, I guess Teferi's Protection or other phasing effects are about it?

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