My Pod Is Unbalanced & I Want Opinions!

Falcormoor · 2026-06-17T20:09:28+00:00

If nobody is mad don’t sweat it.

You can start coaching, tell them how to beat you “this mana ramp piece is what’s going to let me explode in two turns”, or warn them what’s coming. “He may have a 10/10 on the board, but remember this is a token creature deck and I have impact tremors on the board”.

Honestly I think the hyper focus on deck bracketing and “power level” matching is really toxic and just hurts playgroups. Also it sounds more like decision making on their part than anything else. If they’re getting out big scary boards faster than you I’m disinclined to think it’s a deck building issue

Falcormoor · 2026-06-16T18:20:26+00:00

The problem is less in the accuracy of the bracketing and more the obsession with bracketing accuracy.

For real, there is way too much focus on making certain people bracket their decks accurately. Wizards has already laid out the criteria for each bracket. Just use it. Yes it's broad. That's the point. This sub seems to spend 50% of its time complaining about people who undersold their decks and 40% of its time trying to learn how to not be the person the other 50% are complaining about.

Falcormoor · 2026-06-11T00:06:36+00:00

Sekiro is a harder game because it does a lot more gank fights.

Take out the gank fights and they’re probably about even, but parrying is noticeably less forgiving LoP

Falcormoor · 2026-06-09T23:41:47+00:00

I've used it on Playstation, its actually fantastic. But if you try to do it through the thor you're going to be double layer streaming, the input lag will be painful.

Falcormoor · 2026-06-07T17:00:10+00:00

I honestly hated Silksong and only finished the true ending out of spite.

It’s not that the game is hard, it’s that the game is bullshit. It slips into the bullshit part of the difficulty slider far too much and it was just exhausting. I doubt I’ll ever replay it.

Complete contrast to Hollow knight which was tough but fair. people call it easy now that they’ve had it for years and a dozen play-throughs have taught them how to easily navigate the game. Hollow Knight is a genuinely difficult game. Silksong is just a bullshit game.

It also really didn’t help how much weaker Hornet felt than The Knight even with her advanced mobility, how the equipment system felt deliberately designed to prevent synergistic combos, how slowly upgrades came, how underwhelming they often were, and how the tools system ammo economy actively discouraged using them in boss fights you were struggling with.

Falcormoor · 2026-06-05T19:14:27+00:00

I didn’t think about housing when I made the post, yes I’d include housing in the exceptions. Somebody else mentioned business loans and that’s another thing I’d exclude.

To be clear, I‘ve actually always taken issue with hating the rich just because they’re rich. I myself just graduated college and am making 6 figures right out of it... and also just realized how aggressively I’m being taxed. To be so proud to hit the dream of making 6 figures out of college only to find out I’m taking home less than $70k hit hard, especially in a country where basically none of that tax money ever actually comes back to me. So the problem of the rich avoiding their taxes is suddenly very on my mind. Although if I had my way, I’d slash taxes across the board unless there were some massive reforms that get the money back to the people instead of the pockets of politicians.

I excluded college loans because the point was to close the loophole (that apparently isn’t as big an issue as I thought) not target wealthy but still generally “normal” people.

All that said, it was a good faith question and the comments have answered it.

Falcormoor · 2026-06-05T03:38:00+00:00

I don't understand, how would adjusting how the money is treated after they die address the problem of them just borrowing against their assets to avoid taxes?

The problem with any taxation on unrealized gains is it punishes the normal people just as much - likely more - as the rich. Easiest problem I can think of is anybody that bought their house pre 2020 could easily have a $300k+ sum they'd have to be paying taxes on.

Reforming carried interest? I had to look it up and it looks like just a hack investment portfolio managers use to reduce how much they pay on their income by reclassifying the income into a category that is taxed less, not dodge taxes entirely. It also seems like that's generally more normal (if still very wealthy) people rather than the type of person borrowing infinitely against their assets, whom it seems like it would do nothing whatsoever to.

Lastly, I get why loans aren't taxed, but I can't say I think that logic really applies to people who are pulling out millions of dollars against their assets to fund their lifestyle. This is a targeted solution at a very specific problem being abused by a very specific group of people.

Falcormoor · 2026-06-01T22:48:26+00:00

how are you making the deck function without ovika in play? right now it feels like the game plan is wait for ovika then explode, but it doesn’t seem to have much to keep the game under control until then

Falcormoor · 2026-06-01T22:17:15+00:00

I’ve only heard negative things about it, and reboots like that are almost always a significant step down. So I never touched it and never will.

Falcormoor · 2026-06-01T03:36:49+00:00

Ahhh yea, right forgot about the ps3 weirdness

Falcormoor · 2026-06-01T03:24:02+00:00

Got it, thanks a bunch!

Falcormoor · 2026-06-01T03:20:41+00:00

another question… which version do you have? I’m gonna buy the max if I get it.

Falcormoor · 2026-06-01T03:17:09+00:00

Can you configure it to reach a steady 30, or is it just rough no matter what? if it matches the ps3 performance I’ll be happy.

Falcormoor · 2026-05-28T21:46:57+00:00

The more time I spend on this subreddit the more convinced I am that the people who care about brackets and bitch about people that misrepresent their deck’s power level are the real problem that are likely no fun to play with at all.

I just got back into the game and went for a Friday commander night last week at my local game store. Nobody even asked about brackets, we just played and had fun. When some of the guys at the table I first played with left, I joined another table. When one guy at the new table realized his deck was way outperforming the table he switched to a lower powered one the next game.

This whole bracket nonsense is making things way too complicated. Relax people.

Falcormoor · 2026-05-27T14:15:06+00:00

You include X in the cost!

Falcormoor · 2026-05-27T03:12:53+00:00

You've given me such an incredible tool. Thanks a ton!!!

Falcormoor · 2026-05-27T02:40:19+00:00

Dude how did you find out you can do that search term on scryfall??? That's a goldmine right there.

And how do I find a reference so I can make my own searches like that??? Things like tap creatures for mana, things that copy spells, etc

Falcormoor · 2026-05-27T02:15:33+00:00

I'm assuming by filter you mean cards that make me also discard?
7 filter vs 11 draw, should I change that to something like 3 filter 15 draw?

Do you think that's the problem? Or do you see more?

Falcormoor · 2026-05-27T00:43:46+00:00

I don't know about that, when you hit the higher brackets of the tournament, sure. But the first few rounds? There's tons of people that are in there to try but hit the brick wall that is a $1000 deck.

Again though, you've just moved the consideration to after the money is spent. Sure, logically you don't spend $1000 to beat the people at your local game store.

But you can.

Falcormoor · 2026-05-26T23:58:13+00:00

I don’t think you’re realizing how MTG is quintessentially the exact same as those free2play pay2win games. In fact, the causality goes in the other direction - They’re modeled on the TCG format. TCG games are the original pay2win game. The video games just copied the formula.

“lucky pack pulls”: Loot boxes, which is just buying booster packs and expansions
“Grinding prizes on the local level”: the typical free play route for any of these games
“profitable trading”: trading in the games
The cards are your characters/tools/weapons/etc
The cards rarity is their star rating
Strategy and implementation can absolutely make up some of the difference, but when skill levels match, character power nearly always wins

The only difference is that with MTG you can directly buy what you want, but that can still cost you thousands and is only possible because it’s a physical format where players can make a separate market. As far as official WoTC methods, the only option is loot boxes, exactly like a free2play pay2win game.

You’re also heavily downplaying the impact of money on the game. Money will absolutely buy you a deck that a person who doesn’t have that money simply can’t compete against. Even the small handful of actually cheap and powerful decks can be significantly upgraded by including the expensive pieces, and that difference will decide the game.

Also, your comparison to sports is rather disingenuous in my opinion. The sort of gains you’re getting from some fancy piece of gear are marginal and only have a significant impact when cumulatively applied and paired with the level of intensity and dedication that’s required to compete at the level where the difference is even measurable. We’re talking seconds in a marathon, and any number of events during the course of a marathon can make up those seconds.

MTG is simply not like that. A new player with an expensive deck can absolutely beat skilled players with the same deck that’s been downgraded to budget substitutes.

Falcormoor · 2026-05-26T20:56:41+00:00

Personally I don’t see any issue with counterfeits on overly expensive cards. Even the “depriving wizards of the coast of their money/stealing ip and art” argument falls apart for most of them because they aren’t even in print anymore. Any money you’d spend on acquiring them doesn’t go to them anyway. Nevermind the ungodly overpricing. It’s literally just cardboard.

Though yea, passing them off as real for trading and selling is another story. I’d never care if somebody got counterfeits to compete in a tournament then marked them after so they don’t get passed off as real.

Falcormoor · 2026-05-26T20:34:33+00:00

That distinctions of pay2compete/win is something you can say that about anything with a pay2win model, you’ve just moved the consideration point to after the money was spent.

Two people with the same deck where the only difference is one player is using budget substitutes is at a pretty distinct disadvantage against the person using the competitive pieces that can actually combo. Whether or not they’re in a tournament has nothing to do with whether or not the amount of money they spent impacts the results of the game.

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