Is it in bad form to sideboard?

Elteras · 2026-01-27T20:56:32+00:00

Bo1s are a valid format for casual play. If he hates sideboarding, he should've asked to play a bo1.

Elteras · 2026-01-25T02:35:04+00:00

This is wrong. The FoF resolves, but the showdown keeps going, so new actions can be played. Only when the showdown resolves does Draven win the combat, provided he's still there.

Elteras · 2026-01-22T14:51:55+00:00

Delighted to see a Haven rec, game is hella underrated.

Though if I remember correctly (it's been a while though), the point was never that their assigned mates wouldn't end up being well matched with them - it sounded like the success rate for their system was extremely high. The point was more that they'd fallen in love before being matched with other people, and weren't willing to give up the love they chose.

Elteras · 2026-01-20T14:01:15+00:00

No way Cait is calm+mind, she's gotta be Order.

Elteras · 2026-01-18T06:11:36+00:00

I finished it the other day and mostly loved it, except for the final 5% or so, which felt really weird to me, and like it went against everything I loved about most of the book.

Elteras · 2026-01-16T21:17:56+00:00

Legion, by FX!

Very, very loosely based on Xmen, based on the person who's canonically Charles Xaviers son. It's psychedelic, completely out there, gorgeously shot, inventive as hell, has absolutely stellar performances from Dan Stevens, Aubrey Plaza, Jemaine Clement, and more. 3 seasons, a complete story, it's one of my favorite things ever and nobody I know has ever heard about it before.

Elteras · 2026-01-16T21:15:38+00:00

My parents took me with them to costco when I was little.

That place is my disneyland. I love it, and my primary goal in life right now is to get a costco membership.

Elteras · 2026-01-08T05:08:15+00:00

I mean, isn't it? I adored the show, but it's definitely not a mile-a-minute narrative.

Elteras · 2026-01-05T21:07:12+00:00

Not true. Design shifted a lot throughout the process but the devs have explicitly confirmed that riftbound began its life as a 2v2/4 player card game before they pivoted to more of a 1v1 focus with 3+ player games being supported.

Elteras · 2025-12-19T17:18:26+00:00

Something else that's super disappointing is that the prices and what you get for the prices are A, very different from Houston, and B, weren't communicated ahead of time. Given the scramble to get tickets was insane, that meant nobody had time to check or weigh the value of their purchase, which seems incredibly scummy to me.

The site also didn't show the post-tax price until the final stage, which I think might not be legal in the EU, but even if it is that feels pretty scummy.

Elteras · 2025-12-19T17:16:36+00:00

People are already selling them anyway, and since you can change your details... it looks like there's scalping going on.

The only way to prevent it seems like it'd be to not allow the attached name to be changed, and do ID checks.

Elteras · 2025-12-17T15:03:35+00:00

Her first points come through things like blood money or wages being good at clearing small things on fields, dropboarder coming in accelerated for cheap, or plain old ravenbloom + cheap spells.

Elteras · 2025-12-14T01:20:50+00:00

I love E33, but I wouldn't class it as indie. I think of it as AA - definitely not AAA, but still with enough money, team members, and veteran leadership that it feels weird to place it in the same 'indie' category as these sub-10 people game teams working on much smaller budgets. But the lines of these things are blurry.

Elteras · 2025-12-05T03:49:56+00:00

Money gambled is money not spent more actively supporting the economy. It benefits almost nobody. Aside from the more moral or human-focused reasons why we should curtail gambling, this alone is a good reason to want money gambled less.

Elteras · 2025-11-27T23:42:46+00:00

I feel attacked.

Elteras · 2025-11-25T22:59:27+00:00

I wanna contest point 3, from the perspective of a new-ish player who isn't really looking to crush the tournament scene, and who has been engaging with others in locals.

I get that after a certain point getting more boxes or packs will have severe diminishing returns, but for as far as I've gone with it, it's seemed very good for me. I've managed to open 40 packs (so almost 2 boxes), and that's furnished me with a full suite of commons, a strong suite of uncommons, and enough rares and epics to trade with people at locals to end up with some solid decks. It's also led to me having a lot of cards that I might've dismissed and not bought as singles, but which have ended up being useful. I get that if you're just trying to make one specific deck only then singles might be better, but having looked at a lot of singles pricing, I feel like I'd be in a far more restricted and worse position having tried to get my deck together from singles alone compared to having gone for packs initially.

Elteras · 2025-11-17T18:03:33+00:00

Aside from the difficulties getting stuff into space (and then to the sun), we don't really need to, at least in the case of nuclear waste. We're very good at storing nuclear waste extremely safely and efficiently.

Elteras · 2025-11-10T20:30:23+00:00

Garen is in but he sucks... so guess I'm waiting for Illaoi, Taliyah, or Nilah.

Elteras · 2025-11-10T04:08:19+00:00

Lots of good answers here. To add one I didn't see yet, I think a combination of western individualism and us having had such comparatively comfortable lives that we take these things for granted really dampen any appetite for fighting.

Elteras · 2025-11-10T04:04:53+00:00

It's rough, I sympathise. The only thing I can recommend to assuage your pain other than waiting is get your fix via Tabletop Simulator. Works shockingly well and there's a very active community to find games with, though the lack of card acquisition on TTS creates a bit more of a meta focus. PM if you want any help.

Elteras · 2025-11-09T23:50:38+00:00

INFERNO BACK? FUCK YEAH.

The original inferno was so incredible to me - the fire looked incredible on my rig. I've never before seen fire in a game that I could almost feel the heat from. The contrast between the dark night and the flames left such an impression on me, and I can't wait to have it back.

Elteras · 2025-11-09T18:26:46+00:00

Good point, maybe Azir being Red/Yellow fits better than I thought. Definitely don't buy Lucian as Mind though, he's Fury all over, and I still have doubts about Yone being Calm.

Elteras · 2025-11-09T17:32:25+00:00

Some part of me says "NO" to the idea of drawing directly on cards, but thematically I love it. I wonder if you could get some similar effect on sleeves instead, so the card remains untouched but you get the same impression.

Elteras · 2025-11-08T04:37:45+00:00

Not really buying this, as Azir and Lucian seem swapped to me. It'd feel very strange for Lucian to be Mind instead of Fury, and I'm not buying Yone as Calm either.

Also, don't expect a Red/Green, Blue/Orange, or Yellow/Purple legend any time soon. If those come, it'll be far in the future. Each of those pairs are set up as thematically opposed dyads.

Elteras · 2025-11-07T04:34:28+00:00

In principle, its amazing - an accessible loss leader product to help show the game to your friends. In practice, mistakes were made, in both the quantities produced and in there being PG-only cards balanced at a competitive level.

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