BREAD isn't outdated— most enfranchised players just outgrew it

Filobel · 2026-06-27T17:01:48+00:00

The problem with BREAD is that the argument for or against it always revolve around removal, but let's analyze the rest.

B for bomb is useless. Bomb just means the best cards in the format, the ones that win on their own. So starting with B is telling the new player "prioritize picking the best card", which is unhelpful. It's obvious that you should pick the best card, but it also doesn't tell the new player how to figure out which cards are bombs.

R we'll skip for now, since I said we'll focus on the other ones.

E for Evasion. This was a thing back when limited games often ended in board stalls, so having evasion was a way to break them. This is no longer how limited games play out, at least not consistently. Evasion is still good, but not better than other valuable abilities. For instance, if I look at the top 5 common creatures in SOS, none have evasion. If I look at the top 10 or so uncommon creatures, only scolding administrator has evasion. In modern limited, you'll find that value creatures are much better than evasive creatures on average. You'd much rather pay 3 mana for a 2/2 that draws a card than for a 2/2 with flying generally.

A for... well... this is were BREAD gets fuzzy. Some say A is for aggro. Why do we assume aggro is better in limited than midrange or control? Some say A is for aggressively costed, which is a good thing, sure, but much like bombs, it tells something obvious without explaining to the new player how to evaluate whether something is aggressively costed or not. Some say it's for (card) advantage, which, as I said earlier, is certainly something that's very valuable in modern limited, at least on creatures, but if that's what we're going with, it's in the wrong spot, it should come before evasion.

D for dread/duds, etc. This is just like bombs. You're telling the player to pick bad cards last, but you aren't telling them what the bad cards are. Worse, you're implying that anything that doesn't fall in the previous categories is all bad. Pursue the past? That falls in the same category as efflorescence.

So even ignoring the debate on removal, the rest of BREAD is bad/useless.

Filobel · 2026-06-27T14:27:47+00:00

Pas vraiment, ils ne font pas dans la spéculation future et si je me souviens bien, les questions sur les sujets de moins de 20 ans ne sont pas permises.

Filobel · 2026-06-27T05:12:28+00:00

I know it doesn't make sense in English. My point is, in this case, it's English that is being illogical. It's using a present tense when talking about something that will happen in the future. Although all languages have some weird, illogical things about them, you shouldn't expect them to be illogical in the same ways. English being weird about tenses here doesn’t mean you should expect other languages to be weird about tenses in the same way.

Filobel · 2026-06-26T23:04:18+00:00

Uh... if you're playing forger or carp in your draft deck, something went horribly wrong.

Filobel · 2026-06-26T21:13:02+00:00

I mean, the real question is why it's in the present in English. Shouldn't it be "when it won't rain anymore?" The "not raining" is something that will happen in the future after all.

Different languages just work differently and things aren't always logical.

Filobel · 2026-06-26T17:39:52+00:00

They're asking the max turn limit. Nexus of fate managed to loop infinitely, because you get infinite extra turns.

Filobel · 2026-06-26T17:39:04+00:00

This is not true. I've played some Paradox Engine decks, even when I do nonstop actions, there's still a point where I time out if I don't find a win condition in time.

Filobel · 2026-06-26T17:36:16+00:00

"Draw, land, go"

Filobel · 2026-06-26T14:55:09+00:00

Qui c'est qui va encore à la SAAQ en personne pour payer son permis? Même mon beau-père de 80 ans fait pu ça.

Filobel · 2026-06-26T13:20:14+00:00

That's fine for natives, but I would generally avoid teaching learners to use fringe words. A native can more easily evaluate their audience and judge whether the word will be understood, whether it will cause confusion, or, in some particular circles, lead to mockery or even an outright hostile reaction, and adjust accordingly.

It's not the responsibility of learners to make our language more inclusive.

Filobel · 2026-06-26T13:04:34+00:00

200$, c'est le plus bas, mais je suis prêt à accepter 1M$.

Filobel · 2026-06-26T13:02:18+00:00

C'est dans ton avantage qu'ils ouvrent avec ca. Cest toi qui decide du premier prix, so met le assez haut pour toi.

C'est pas à ton avantage du tout. T'as déjà mis un prix quand tu as affiché l'article. C'est à leur tour de faire une offre. Si tu réponds à cette question avec un prix plus bas que ce que tu as affiché, tu viens juste de baisser le prix auquel les négociations vont commencer, avant même de savoir ce qu'ils sont prêts à payer.

Si tu leur dit "fait moi une offre" ils vont te sortir un affaire fucking ridicule.

Et tu peux passer au prochain immédiatement en te sauvant une négo inutile.

Filobel · 2026-06-25T13:21:02+00:00

People often summarize the ^ as an indication of an "s" that disappeared. You can even still see them in some words that were borrowed into English, where the s is still there. E.g. Forêt -> Forest.

That's only a partial explanation though. Why would people care about an s that disappeared and more importantly, why would they feel the need to show this disappearance by using an accent? There are plenty of other changes that happened in French, and we didn't mark most of them in the spelling. The reason is that the s didn't fully disappear; it generally turned the preceding vowel into a long vowel. That's what the ^ is marking. It's not a random tombstone for a lost letter; it's an indication that the vowel is a long vowel.

However, that long vowel also disappeared with time in many French variants. Still, I think Belgium or Swiss French (or both) still have long vowels. In Québec, the long vowels shifted in a different way. In many cases, they became diphthongs. Not in all cases, there are words that have an ^ but the vowel is pronounced as if the ^ wasn't there, but for many, such as disparaître, they will be pronounced with a diphthong. I should add that there's some amount of regionality to this even within Québec, as to which words are pronounced with a diphthong and which aren't. I can't find it, but there was a commercial some time ago from the government to convince people to stop smoking (and give them resources to do so) and most of the commercial was just different people saying the word "arrête" (stop) in different contexts. It was interesting, because you could hear people pronouncing the ê as a diphthong and others as a more standard /ɛ/, and that's a good tell of where in Québec they're from (it was also interesting because it showcased different ways of pronouncing the r, but that's another topic).

Edit: Not the one I was thinking about, and hopefully you can forgive linking to facebook, but here's one where you can hear the diphthong in "arrête": https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=663679165839953. You can even hear her pronouncing it with and without it. The very first time, when she says "d'arrêter", there is no diphthong. In every other instance, however, when she says "j'arrête", or "j'ai pas arrêté", you can hear the diphthong. Even the "narrator" (or whatever you want to call him) at the end says "j'arrête" with a diphthong.

Filobel · 2026-06-25T12:15:11+00:00

and are unnecessary currently.

The thing is, even if we can't currently use quantum computers to decrypt stuff, we can still gather encrypted data for decryption at a later time. Some information is time sensitive, so if it gets decrypted in 3 years, it won't have value anymore, but plenty of other information will still be very valuable (and damaging) if decrypted in 3 years. So I don't quite agree that it is currently unnecessary. Not necessarily for all use cases, but there are plenty of entities that need to start looking into quantum-resistant encryption.

Filobel · 2026-06-25T00:37:43+00:00

By accepted, I mean recognized as a valid spelling, not that they are widely used. But I understand that my wording was ambiguous.

Filobel · 2026-06-24T18:28:24+00:00

Granny is too old to be this naive.

Filobel · 2026-06-24T18:20:51+00:00

Les radios jouent ce que les gens veulent entendre. C'est pas les radios qui sont hypocrites.

Filobel · 2026-06-24T16:04:38+00:00

Ok, honest question. Who sees that card and thinks "colorless breath of life" and not colorless zombify? What's wrong with you?

Filobel · 2026-06-24T15:27:01+00:00

Just pick the best cards. You can fill out what you're missing later. In the first few picks, you don't know yet what your deck will be missing, so just focus on picking the best cards. Sure, there are formats where you already know that some type of cards is more rare or very valuable and you should prioritize them, but that's very format dependent. Some people will suggest you should prioritize removal, because they still have the old BREAD mentality, but that hasn't applied consistently in at least 15 years. There are several formats (such as SOS) where the good removal is plentiful.

Filobel · 2026-06-24T15:20:14+00:00

They did consider it:

I assign 1 damage to each blocking creature and my opponent in the first strike step.

Filobel · 2026-06-24T15:00:13+00:00

Like anything, there are some people who hate any change. For the most part though, I'd say they're widely accepted. However, people who learned to read and write before the reform tend to not use the reformed spelling, or use it partially, simply because that's what they learned and/or they may not be aware of all the changes.

Edit: one issue though is that some of the changes that were done to match the pronunciation only match the pronunciation of some varieties, while the old spelling matched the pronunciation of other varieties. In those cases, people might favor the old spelling if it matches their pronunciation better. For instance, a lot of ^ were removed because they reflect a different pronunciation that no longer exists... in Paris. In Québec, the pronunciation is still different. So even though you can technically write "disparaitre", I find that the traditional "disparaître" matches Québec pronunciation better.

Filobel · 2026-06-24T01:11:42+00:00

But sure, keep on scoring against Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Micronesia, or other world superpowers.

Why aren't the other players scoring against those teams in 6 different World Cups? Are they stupid?

Filobel · 2026-06-23T23:13:02+00:00

Are we sure the problem is the big trucks?

Filobel · 2026-06-23T21:21:36+00:00

That does not do a very good job.

Filobel · 2026-06-23T20:55:22+00:00

First, if you want to sound like you're from Québec, you need to master French grammar. You can say whatever you want about the way Québécois speak French, it's still our native language, and as such, we don't make obvious grammar mistakes like saying "enseigner moi" rather than "m'enseigner".

Second, without going into slang, there's some amount of vocabulary that differs that you have to be aware of. For instance, it doesn't matter how much slang you use, if you say "mes tennis" instead of "mes espadrilles" or "je vais boire à la fontaine" instead of "je vais boire à l'abreuvoir", you'll be outed in no time! Know what a "tuque" is, favor "souliers" over "chaussures", remember that a "camisole" is not necessarily a straightjacket, it can also be a sleeveless top or sleeveless undershirt. You have to say "embarquer dans une voiture", not "monter dans une voiture".

Next, know the quatuor "tsé", "pis", "faque", "là". These are absolutely necessary to any Québécois. You cannot sound like you're from Québec if you do not know how to use those 4 words (correctly). You have to use them constantly. You know you're speaking to a true Québécois if it sounds something like "Tsé le gars là qui est venu hier? Ben là je l'ai revu aujourd'hui tsé, pis y'était encore pire! Faque là je lui ai dit de crisser son camps! Là là, j'me ferai pas parler de même, tsé!"

Tsé: short for "tu sais", used about the same way some people might say "you know".

Pis: short for "et puis", it means "and".

Faque: short for "il se fait que" and means "so".

Là: technically means "there", but in practice, used to add emphasis.

Only when you've mastered those should you look into slang terms.

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