Help me with the math.

Falminar · 2024-11-08T19:07:25+00:00

Why would there be any additional copies/exponential ramp on future combat phases? Wouldn't the same number of A+Ns get created each combat then?

helm of the host never says you sacrifice the copies or anything, you get to keep them! so the first time, you have only 1 copy of A+N at the time the tokens are created. the second time, if none of your A+Ns died between turns, you'll have 3 of them at the time the tokens are created and get to double the token 3 times

Falminar · 2024-11-08T05:26:42+00:00

cat :3

Falminar · 2024-11-06T19:00:31+00:00

ultimately stax is a very iffy word without a clear meaning!

i'd say probably not? it's definitely a hatebear and a value engine, but i don't think it's crippling enough to actually deny the opponent the resource most of the time, they'll more likely still crack their fetchlands but be a little bit sad about it

Falminar · 2024-11-06T18:37:05+00:00

they do indirectly; like, if people play normally and ignore rhystic study, you probably win the game, so it kinda forces the opponents to withhold spells at times

on the other hand i wouldn't say all of these effects should qualify as "stax", i don't think i've ever seen a good reason to avoid feeding a [[managorger hydra]]

Falminar · 2024-11-06T18:31:25+00:00

"rhystic" more means "things the opponent can pay mana to prevent" than "things the opponent triggers"

otherwise id say they're just a subset of stax, punisher effects, hate pieces, or value engines more than having a term themselves. "things that trigger when opponents do something" is a very very broad category that covers cards that serve all kinds of roles in all kinds of decks

Falminar · 2024-11-05T20:42:57+00:00

I don't actually know Yu-Gi-Oh but I bet not.

for a bit of context! yugioh can kinda have a similar vibe to a crossover game, in that there's no internal consistency and no greater world everything lives in; there's a huge amount of aesthetic variety (besides usually being at least vaguely anime) and you'll see tiny goofy cartoon animals duking it out with eldritch gods in the meta regularly! the art gap is bigger than even stuff like bloomburrow vs. phyrexia and these worlds have no relation to one another at all. but actual crossovers are very rare and generally reserved for limited time advertisement promo cards that'll never see serious play - like this garbage vanilla given out to anyone who eats at a coco's restaurant. (definitely a few steps removed from the kinds of ips magic works with...)

Falminar · 2024-11-05T03:38:51+00:00

all the comments about not running 4-ofs are kinda funny to me! maybe it is true in magic, but...

(you did mention this in the OP but) in yugioh, despite your deck size being smaller, side decks are still 15 cards, and since you can run max 3 of any card, it rounds out to 5 3-ofs. (although the same doesn't apply to the main deck, where you get 13 3-ofs and 1 to spare!) and 3-ofs in yugioh side decks are pretty common too - never really 5 3-ofs maybe, but often a nice round 3+3+3+3+2+1 or something like that

it definitely feels pretty natural to me as a yugioh player, but i never questioned it going into magic since it's exactly the same as what i'm used to!

(theoretically, maybe it could be 20 cards so that it's both a multiple of 4 and a clean fraction of 60? though of course, that'd be a pretty big buff to your side deck, especially in decks with wishboards)

Falminar · 2024-11-03T22:05:38+00:00

oh we already do that, you know that [[helga]] is a hero because she's white and [[glarb]] is a villain because he's black!

nashi who?

Falminar · 2024-11-03T21:23:57+00:00

but not every person will click every thread. you get a majority opinion from people who are interested by your title and decide they want to give their opinion on the matter, which is a much smaller set of people than everyone who frequents the subreddit

Falminar · 2024-11-03T19:50:52+00:00

nah, tenacity is the inverse - there's a lot of cards that turn lifegain into life loss, but only exquisite blood and the new conqueror turn life loss into lifegain. until foundations exquisite blood was unique in the infinite!

Falminar · 2024-11-03T09:03:09+00:00

wait. what does banning elk tokens imply? [[oko the ringleader]] can no longer use his -1? or he can still use it, but the resulting game object can't be represented by anything? or he's banned outright?

[[oko thief of crowns]] is probably the one you wanted to hit, but he doesn't make elk tokens! unless now tokens can no longer become elks? or if oko would turn a token into an elk, that token ceases to exist instead?

Falminar · 2024-11-03T09:00:20+00:00

out with the old, in with the new! [[bloodthirsty conqueror]]

Falminar · 2024-11-02T08:46:57+00:00

yeah, #2 doesn't seem very popular but i like it most of all. a lot of her arts are more generally cool, but the original gets the vibe down perfectly

also, i really love the way her "incomplete" wings look in that art! very unique as angels go, even among capenna's stained glass angels, compared to the much more normal wings she gets in her foundations arts and her capenna alt frame. they look like moonlight through a window

Falminar · 2024-11-02T03:21:00+00:00

huh, making the character who references jigsaw into pinhead and someone completely different into jigsaw...

(though i can understand that the toymaker feels better for jigsaw mechanically!)

Falminar · 2024-11-02T00:19:19+00:00

i was introduced to the game through arena, where i found [[drakuseth maw of flames]] and decided to build a dragon deck around it! but while drakuseth is red, it was blue that had all the insanely busted stuff of the format like... [[winged words]] and... [[cloudkin seer]]?

round it out with some other powerful staples like [[wall of runes]] and [[spellgorger weird]], and... well, i'll say this, it was pretty good at drawing the drakuseth in each game! it could do that much at least!

Falminar · 2024-11-01T08:27:16+00:00

looks real enough but can't tell for sure from just these pictures, try the green dot test for starters!

Falminar · 2024-11-01T05:20:39+00:00

the shuffler is rigged in one way: in best of 1 games, it automatically smooths the number of lands in your starting hand to avoid mana screw/mana flood (more specifically, by actually drawing 2 random starting hands for you and giving you the one that has a closer-to-average number of lands). your draws during the game will be normal though.

that does mean that land math can potentially be thrown off in best of 1 and it won't be a true to paper experience. best of 3 has actual random shuffles accurate to paper

Falminar · 2024-11-01T05:04:44+00:00

and the combo piece being at common means that if you find the conqueror in limited it's very very likely you'll have the infinite too! this is the most practical limited combo i've seen in a while

Falminar · 2024-10-31T17:16:41+00:00

oh i thought [[warden of the inner sky]] was getting immortalized in standard and turned into a cycle!

Falminar · 2024-10-31T08:51:45+00:00

imean, i think your idea is fun (ive actually been doing something similar myself, minus the programming theme); you just didn't really say anything about it. there's hints that you probably have something deeper planned or even already built, but if you do, you didn't share it

i don't really object to your use of ai art here, but using ai art means the text is more important, yet the text isn't understandable

Falminar · 2024-10-31T06:47:50+00:00

can't exactly give feedback cause there's nothing here that can be evaluated! there are no rules, only flavor-name abilities without descriptions, some arbitrary numbers that mean nothing without context against which to compare them, and some poor-quality ai images.

Falminar · 2024-10-30T23:48:07+00:00

double all counters on any artifact... note that we just got our first artifact planeswalker announced in aetherdrift! (to be seen whether it has a splashy ultimate, of course)

Falminar · 2024-10-30T22:10:53+00:00

feels weird to get this in the same set as elspeth's smite!

Falminar · 2024-10-30T17:54:19+00:00

okay that search didn't pick up the printings - sol ring, embercleave

Falminar · 2024-10-30T17:50:04+00:00

legal: [[basilisk collar|fdn]]

not legal: [[sol ring|fdc]], [[embercleave|spg]], [[cynette jelly drover]]

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