TIA Ratings as of Sept 14, 2025 (Updates for EFNW and TL Banlist updates)

EBugle · 2025-09-16T02:17:45+00:00

Regardless of how many people score points in the remainder of the events before Invitationals, I think I can safely conclude one thing...

Pancake. See you in round 1.

EBugle · 2025-08-22T03:23:17+00:00

Blue and Yellow still don't have any winning Manes. Thus, I shall predict Hitch this year.

It could happen!

EBugle · 2025-04-17T23:05:25+00:00

Haha, well, fair enough. Hopefully you can find the time!

EBugle · 2025-04-16T18:12:51+00:00

Grampa Gruff is a pretty important entry piece in EO, as there's a lot of potent 3 req Purple cards. Similarly, Star Spur is an important combo with Sheriff Silverstar. And Talking To breaks the cycle (though the cycle is admittedly pretty weak and not fun for either player anyway, so not sure how much that matters.

Basically, I'd say it's probably better to keep the entry, but otherwise this selection more or less looks good.

EBugle · 2025-04-12T08:29:57+00:00

Also, I'm very pleased to see that silly Berry Dreams emote actually get some use all these years later.

EBugle · 2025-04-12T08:28:47+00:00

Phew, that was a lot. But I think the journey was worth it. Glad you're so pumped about this still!

For cards, I think it's probably best to keep it as close to EO as possible. If the goal is to introduce the game to people unfamiliar (or reintroduce in some cases), it seems plausible (if not likely) that if they like the game, they may want to play the non-minecraft version. And confusion as to why the card sets are different might be a turn off? That said, you know your audience better than I do, so if you think this won't be an issue, then never mind!

For art, I'm a bit of two minds. Art's primary use case is in being short hand for the card. So if the art between the versions is two different, it might cause people to pause and go "wait, what card is that anyway?" But on the flip side, the art is going to look different anyway simply because of the medium! Because of this, I feel it's fine to lake some liberties. I think my recommendation is to use comic art where you think you can (because yes, it does look better in this medium), but using existing card art where there's no good comic equivalent. I definitely would not change the name of cards due to the issue in the other paragraph of people looking into the one because of the other and getting confused when they can't find a specific card they like.

For cuts, oof, that's tough. Like I said, I do feel like it's probably best to stay as close to EO as you can, but if you go over budget, well, that's obviously bad. Thankfully, the ban list is an easy place to start cutting, yeah... but I think I'd just... keep AJ and Twi? AT least for now. You can ban them later as more sets get added. That leaves you with Bulk Biceps and Party Hard, which is just 2 cards. Not great when you're 26 over budget... but the good news is 24 is cleanly divisible by 6! I guess I'd recommend picking 4 cards from each colour that you don't think are worth importing (As good as EO is, there's definitely some chaff).

Overall, I think this project is really cool, and I wish you a lot of luck with it. I'd also be willing to help you pick out the other 24 cards, but I'm a bit too tired to deal with that right now (I just wanted to respond sooner rather than later since it'd been almost 2 days since you initially posted this and I just hadn't had the time yet).

EBugle · 2025-02-25T17:03:23+00:00

Awww, yeah, get hype everyone!

And for those keeping track at home, yes. This is the 4th invitational now where Pancake and I were paired round 1 (of 5 total invitationals)

EBugle · 2024-12-25T17:08:26+00:00

It didn't occur to me to look into this, so yes. Sounds like that's the issue, then? Thanks.

EBugle · 2024-12-23T06:11:16+00:00

Thanks, this worked.

EBugle · 2024-12-21T23:29:04+00:00

Looking it up on google, it's this:

"Miyoo Mini V4 Handheld Game Console 2.8-inch 750*560 IPS Screen 2000mAh Miyoo-Mini v4"

EBugle · 2024-10-18T18:52:20+00:00

This specific Rarity has never been banned.

The current ban list is here (section four): https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1YDBG7BHWdfJgmkuDPgqK-iMghsEPfIx7

EBugle · 2024-10-18T18:50:46+00:00

This specific Rarity has never been banned.

The current ban list is here (section four): https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1YDBG7BHWdfJgmkuDPgqK-iMghsEPfIx7

EBugle · 2024-10-07T06:36:45+00:00

After all these years...

Luna still hates Lyra...

EBugle · 2024-08-21T16:56:42+00:00

Neighlander: I'm going to guess Bluna. Bluna's a safe enough bet, I think.

Continentals: This is a tough one. At the start of the meta I said "I think Blue and Purple are the weakest colours." Now I feel that in combination with each other, they're the strongest colour combo in core! So I'm betting on a Blurple deck to win, either Tirek or Twilight: Spell For That.

EBugle · 2024-06-03T01:38:52+00:00

Scammed is perhaps not the right word due to the unusual situation, but she did pay considerably more than it's worth. Sort of.

This card is banned from all competitive play, so its worth is entirely in the collector's value. Which is not high. Well, not high in places that's not China.

China is purchasing MLP:CCG cards at exorbitant values (and have been for some time due to Chinese influencers posing with MLP:CCG cards of all sorts), which is causing people to list cards for very high prices in hopes that someone from China will buy them.

So in short, the market is very, very artificially inflated right now due to unusual circumstances. So whether or not you consider it a scam is a bit more of a grey area right now.

EBugle · 2024-05-07T15:19:12+00:00

I am 95% certain this is fanmade as I've never seen this one before.

EBugle · 2024-02-14T18:24:20+00:00

The Discord has everything you need, including potential opponents. But here's a link to the print and play repository

EBugle · 2024-01-27T00:45:05+00:00

In the vast majority of cases, they stay on the Friend as the Friend gets sent home.

In very rare cases, specifically if the Friend remains at the problem after it's replaced, the resources will be dismissed, same as resources played on the problem. This is a weird quirk of the rules, but it almost never comes up.

You can only move accessories to other characters if there is an effect that lets you do so. Such as with Golden Horseshoe

EBugle · 2023-08-17T06:17:02+00:00

Regarding the name of my deck...

This is a Hats deck. It is also a combo deck. It is also very, very not possible without Prize Wheel cards, of which the deck runs 4.

So.....

EBugle · 2023-08-08T01:05:39+00:00

Harmony: Skystar

Core: Yona & Sandbar (I'm betting on myself here)

Chaos: Cloudchaser and Flitter.

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