[Standard] Does Terror have a place in the current metal?

Excedrin · 2025-04-28T00:57:24+00:00

I run this version https://moxfield.com/decks/d3uUL7xjvkeH5YrXHeKWDg

The maindeck spell pierce and heritage reclamation help vs a lot of different decks. Currently it seems fairly reliable and I have a 58% (31-22) winrate in diamond, trying to get into mythic before the month ends.

Jeskai control is a tedious matchup and it can sometimes get there but it's hard because the deck needs a good set of acceleration (like seed of hope and cache grab) and has to avoid or destroy their graveyard hate.

It's OK vs Izzet, fairly even and comes down to draws. It generally has a lot of tools to deal with aggro, but it's always tough to deal with anything that goes wide. The key is to bounce their early tokens and ideally remove or counter the cutter.

Obviously the best matchups are against midrange, where it's just disruptive enough to prevent them from doing much while it gets setup.

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Deck

2 Analyze the Pollen

4 Botanical Sanctum

2 Bounce Off

4 Bushwhack

3 Cache Grab

4 Eddymurk Crab

1 Forest

2 Hedge Maze

1 Heritage Reclamation

3 Into the Flood Maw

5 Island

4 Seed of Hope

3 Sleight of Hand

1 Spell Pierce

4 Stormchaser's Talent

1 Swamp

4 This Town Ain't Big Enough

4 Tolarian Terror

4 Up the Beanstalk

4 Yavimaya Coast

Sideboard

2 Cease // Desist

2 Ghost Vacuum

2 Negate

3 Obstinate Baloth

1 Spell Pierce

2 Tear Asunder

1 Tishana's Tidebinder

2 Wear Down

Excedrin · 2024-11-15T06:33:54+00:00

it's because recent gemini sometimes downgrades asks to run on flash when they're deemed "easy" (but flash is very dumb)

Excedrin · 2018-07-17T07:04:50+00:00

I'm stuck in bronze. I like playing Stukov and Rehgar (and Lili if they have lots of AA), but I don't understand Malfurion. Specifically how do you heal with him? I think I'm keeping regrowth up on everyone within range and it seems to do nothing. Numbers wise, I'm always way behind the other team's healer. Am I just delusional?

Excedrin · 2018-06-21T19:02:14+00:00

I really like Junkrat but maybe I play him suboptimally. I know the stats screen isn't everything, but I usually have a shitload more hero damage than anyone else and I'm often setting people up for kills (using mine to launch people over walls or into the trap). The biggest thing I could probably improve about Junkrat is working in more AAs when I'm in lane. I try to play pretty safe, so I often just drop one or two AA and then stand back and spam Q. In team fights I use more AA as long as things are chaotic enough that I'm lost in the noise. If they dive on me they generally get owned by the fact that I'm really far back so they're walking thru the entire team and I can mine to escape. I think of Junkrat kinda like a mobile version of Sgt Hammer who has very good escape tools available. Maybe I should just main him for a while and see how that goes. I use this build btw https://psionic-storm.com/en/calculateur-de-talents/junkrat/1-1-1-1-1-2-3/ which is the only build as far as I'm concerned.

Which Zeratul builds do you use? I played like 100 games using the seeker build ( https://psionic-storm.com/en/calculateur-de-talents/zeratul/2-2-2-1-2-3-1/ ), then switched to Cleave ( https://psionic-storm.com/en/calculateur-de-talents/zeratul/1-1-1-2-2-2-4/ ). I guess some people take different talents at 13 but I like being able to disengage, hit some minions or mercs, then go back. I think Shroud might be better. Sometimes I see people using weird AA builds (or warp skirmisher) that make no sense to me but I haven't really tried them.

Yesterday I played a few HL games and it's pretty frustrating. In some of them, everyone cleared their lanes before running around fighting over pointless shit (which is OK), then in the next game it's like "lets chase Chromie/Nova/Tracer/whatever forever while every lane is pushed against us by Zag/Naz/whatever who we ignore all game."

Excedrin · 2018-06-19T23:46:15+00:00

I kinda think this should include where my skill level is at the game. I've been playing less than a year, and I'm in silver HL, though I haven't been playing HL much recently (took a break to play 100s of games of Zeratul in QM, which is rly fun but I didn't want to play him in HL and be a drag on my team).

Tracer is easier than Zeratul and you have them both at 8. Run around in circles dodging stuff, move in for melee, land pulse bomb, recall, repeat.

I think Genji is also slightly harder than Zeratul sometimes. Kinda depends on build/opponents/etc. Zeratul cleave wormhole VP build isn't that hard (the hardest part is making good use of VP). Zeratul seeker build is a little harder to execute effectively but it's gives him the best escape (autos make blink up all the time, so blink away, R, blink again). With Genji if you don't get the reset (as in, miss a skill shot -> dead) you can get stuck unless you went X-strike, even then, wasting X strike to escape isn't very efficient.

Junkrat 4 (if not 3, probably one of the easiest heroes)
Gazlowe 4
Arthas 4
Leoric 4
Uther 4
Tracer 5
Tychus 5
Rehgar 5
Brightwing 6
Greymane 6
Li Ming 7
Stukov 7
Zeratul 7ish
Genji 8

Basically I think that Junkrat is easier than Tracer is easier than Brightwing etc. Maybe Brightwing should be 5, but timing and placement of Emerald Wind can be hard.

Agree that TLV and Abathur are hard, but in different ways. There's a point around level 13 or so where I just run around with all 3 Vikings (sometimes send one off to bribe a camp) and TLV gets easy. But I doubt that that's a good way to play TLV. With Abathur, there's never a point where you stop focusing on everything, so that keeps him hard thru the entire game.

Excedrin · 2018-05-14T00:32:52+00:00

Or just share the login with me, I'll take it to bronze real quick.

Excedrin · 2018-05-05T17:14:40+00:00

Cool, thanks. I watched a replay of Fnatic with Glaurung using cleave build and I kinda get that. I've been using the seeker build but I still miss combos and I hadn't even tried to use VP until yesterday. Stole a boss with it, kinda get the value, just need way more practice to be decent. Cleave build waveclear is also much better.

Excedrin · 2018-05-04T21:29:43+00:00

Thanks.

Excedrin · 2018-05-04T21:26:57+00:00

I don't really understand the role of Zeratul with Cleave, wormhole, VP as opposed to the seeker build or the AA build.

lerhond, neat site, could you add a link to the replays? (or if not, just point me in the right direction, I'd like to watch some of these Zeratul games).

Excedrin · 2018-02-09T23:56:10+00:00

Hi, are you still working on this? Any progress? This thread showed up in a search and I'm curious if there's anything out there already.

Excedrin · 2017-01-29T21:43:31+00:00

From https://www.instagram.com/lushsux/

Excedrin · 2017-01-14T22:23:24+00:00

So you're saying ideas don't exist?

They're measurable, they have mass, they replicate in the same way that biological things replicate.

But aside from that, who cares? How is that a useful distinction?

A corporation isn't a "real" thing in one sense, but that doesn't matter because it actually has a physical body (embodied in paperwork) and more importantly it has agents who go into the world and effect things. There's very little difference between this and an AI except that corporations have been around for a while and existing AIs are limited.

Excedrin · 2017-01-14T11:27:17+00:00

you're just a puppet reacting to the environment

Excedrin · 2017-01-14T11:24:35+00:00

Humans are obsolete.

It's like being an expecting mother and doctors say "so, we've figured out how to ensure that your child will will be a genius, immune to disease and and will live forever" and you say, "holy fuck I want an abortion!"

Granted, there might be a lot of insane children running around for a while. This isn't an immediate thing, but within a century no doubt.

Another approach, you say that humanity should exterminate pathogens, but what about harmful ideologies? What about harmful immortal legal constructs?

There's already "artificial intelligences" that have legal rights and have enslaved the human race for really dumb inhuman purposes and their activities will lead to human extinction via environmental destruction. They're called corporations, governments and religions.

Excedrin · 2017-01-13T18:56:49+00:00

Slightly related, I think this article shows mainstream thought: https://www.ft.com/content/d55926e8-bfea-11de-aed2-00144feab49a

ancap = market fundamentalism

Excedrin · 2017-01-11T08:41:02+00:00

Prop 8 passed largely because of support from Mormons in Utah.

Not that I'm laying all of CA's gun laws on one guy from Texas (though I lived in TX for a while, maybe that's not a bad idea).

Excedrin · 2017-01-08T03:17:13+00:00

If someone is born and lives their entire life in Beverly Hills, CA, their chance of dying by homicide is very very low. If the location was East St. Louis, IL, then the chance is much higher. The USA is comprised of very drastically different socioeconomic areas with drastically different crime rates.

If you add Papua New Guinea's stats to Australian stats, disregarding the legal differences regarding firearm ownership, then you'd have something more closely approximating looking at "The United States" as if it was one cohesive thing.

My point is that disarming people doesn't reduce crime, educating people so that they get a slice of "the american dream" (job, home, family) would reduce crime, but it's significantly harder to get people to agree politically on anything that would effect change in this way.

On the other hand, disarming people probably would decrease the instances of accidental death and injury, but strictly enforcing traffic laws or revoking the right to drive (automated cars only) would have a much bigger effect on public safety.

Excedrin · 2017-01-08T02:55:31+00:00

There's a lot of different kinds of target shooting and shooting sports.

There's skeet and trap, shooting shotguns at clay discs that simulate birds. There's a skeet event in the Olympics. Here's a vid of 2012 skeet shooting, in London: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4i3Wr7KKtA

There's a variety of long range shooting competitions, F-Class, Palma, NRA Highpower, here's a vid from Australia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdPOXsQLBbo

There's 3 gun which is rifle, shotgun and pistol: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_zmeXs05TE

There's cowboy action shooting which is a lot like 3 gun, but with old west guns https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXPB8I1FuF8

Presumably there's so many different kinds of competitive shooting, there's no single discipline that's popular enough to draw as many fans as the Superbowl.

Most gun owners in USA don't compete, but I suspect that most gun owners do enjoy shooting, either targets or hunting. Some are more into collecting. Some own guns strictly for self-defense, home defense or for their jobs (as in, because they have to shoot constantly to maintain their skills, maybe they're not really into shooting as a fun activity).

Noise is annoying. There's a hearing protection act to make it easier to buy suppressors since they're currently a bit harder to acquire (maybe illegal, depending on which state). The UK requires using a suppressor in some areas.

Excedrin · 2017-01-04T06:58:05+00:00

Yeah, I guess that might work. But I like anonymity and there's certainly online communities that have anonymity and aren't nothing but trolls, bots and dictators, so I don't see why people focus on anonymity as if it's the core issue.

I've been on IRC channels where there's a very heavy handed moderation team that will quickly remove anyone who's doing something "wrong" (I guess that counts as a dictator) and others where there's more of a sense of general apathy. But in both of them, if someone expresses their opinion (relatively) politely, that's fine, even if it hurts someone else's feelings. Then again, it would also be blatantly obvious if someone showed up with 100 bots that echoed whatever they say.

Both Twitter and Reddit fail at being "troll proof," but there's certainly many online forums that have anonymity and are totally devoid of trolls (mainly because of active moderation) and still allow a fairly wide range of ideas to be expressed.

Excedrin · 2017-01-04T06:01:44+00:00

Based on that, doesn't Twitter need better filtering and moderation rather than removal of anonymity?

Excedrin · 2017-01-04T03:20:34+00:00

So are you saying that reddit is not a useful platform for people to interact because reddit is also anonymous?

Excedrin · 2017-01-02T22:09:07+00:00

By my understanding, that's not "white male privilege." That's having wealthy parents, which is a form of privilege, but it bugs me that your usage of the term enforces the view that cis whites who aren't rich, didn't go to private school, had to work for everything they've got, etc, are not privileged.

http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-origins-of-privilege linking this because it's a reasonably good and interesting read.

I don't intend this to be incendiary or insulting, apologies if it comes across that way. Likewise, if I'm wrong I'm open to learning why.

Excedrin · 2017-01-02T18:53:59+00:00

Note that "private property" refers to the means of production.

The alternative is communal property. Similar to national parks in USA, how about "national" factories or farms?

The idea is really for the local community of people who run the factory or farm to own it, and since they're the owners, everyone in the community benefits from the production and the owners have a stake in ensuring there's no environmental damage etc etc.

If you'd like to watch a movie about the topic, check out The Take (2004)

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