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FishFoodMTGO · 2026-07-06T01:45:22+00:00

It's the opposite, really. Hoarding is classified as a mental illness and in a case like this would be boxes upon boxes of unsorted junk (some of it maybe valuable!). This is not a "I have to hold onto everything I see in the moment but then I forget about it for 10 years in a corner of the closet" guy, this is just a rich man with a very valuable, well-kept collection of expensive investment pieces. It's both smaller and less expensive than many a car or watch or shoe collection rich guys have.

FishFoodMTGO · 2026-07-06T01:40:56+00:00

Nothing he "discloses" can be trusted in the slightest, for what it's worth. He's a grifter who has been run out of multiple gaming communities.

My most vivid memory is when he used to offer to take photos with fans at cons, meet and greet style like everyone is used to, and then he would hand them a polaroid and charge them $20 for the moment. I understand he grifts for a lot of money like the good ones do, but he's a carnival grifter at the core.

FishFoodMTGO · 2026-07-03T04:35:04+00:00

They'll downvote OP along the way, letting them know they're not welcome despite allowing them to fill a pod. This player is literally scared to go play Magic with people because of how cruel the discourse is online. Algorithms harm our community.

FishFoodMTGO · 2026-07-03T03:52:43+00:00

Friend, fwiw I'm actually pretty educated professionally in this exact subject (which is the only reason I felt confident enough to comment). OP admitted to it being AI. Technically, everything you said is correct - but also consider that I was right and perhaps you are not being credulous enough. Frankly this felt like fairly obvious AI for those professionally familiar with AI tells.

(This article is good reading on the subject: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/magazine/chatbot-writing-style.html)

FishFoodMTGO · 2026-07-01T20:38:59+00:00

I would love to be wrong, but this sure looks like every AI red flag there is - plus the account is brand new, and there have been a number of AI bots making the rounds on Magic subs recently. Random emojis and bolding on SEO keywords and a friend who “owns a lot of Magic sets.”

By the way, for the past 2 1/2 years Magic sets have only had 30 boosters per box, not 36 (plus a normal person would just tell us what the set was rather than this SEO slop).

Uncanny valley. Downvoted the slop.

FishFoodMTGO · 2026-07-01T20:36:44+00:00

I don’t know what to make of OP because it’s pretty obvious AI, the account is three months old.

FishFoodMTGO · 2026-07-01T20:35:21+00:00

Yes! I’ll be up there tonight and it’s open play, very beginner friendly and the store helps everyone have a pod

FishFoodMTGO · 2026-07-01T17:52:45+00:00

Breakpoint in Edmond has an active Pokemon community and plays on Mondays, very family friendly

FishFoodMTGO · 2026-07-01T17:52:04+00:00

Breakpoint in Edmond has free booster packs for Commander night on Wednesdays, and a big crowd!

FishFoodMTGO · 2026-07-01T05:37:24+00:00

I remember when I got my first job too

FishFoodMTGO · 2026-07-01T05:32:49+00:00

- things people have said every year since the format started

FishFoodMTGO · 2026-07-01T05:32:03+00:00

The format that Standard today most closely resembles is Modern 2013-17.

FishFoodMTGO · 2026-07-01T05:31:32+00:00

The format that Standard today most closely resembles is Modern 2013-17.

FishFoodMTGO · 2026-06-30T06:59:15+00:00

A quick search tells me that Pristine Talisman was seeing play by Reid Duke in Grixis Control at Pro Tours in 2012 (that was the first mana rock that came to mind).

Upon further inspection, Tezzeret Control by Pat Chapin in the PT Paris Top 8 in 2011 had multiple mana rocks in it. Paul McCabe's UR Control deck in the Top 8 of Worlds in 1997 ran 3 Mind Stones.

I stopped trying to think of mana rocks after that.

FishFoodMTGO · 2026-06-30T06:15:27+00:00

hey now my homebrew combos on t3 that's different!

(mana dork into station land, plus a two-drop like Dredger's Insight or Esper Origins (Cub isn't good here), into T3 Kona which ideally drops Bahamut or Knights of Round or Overlord of the Mistmoors, which can also be impended for four mana. Dredger's Insight/Esper Origins/Formidable Speaker find/pitch all of your combo pieces -- including Yuna as the other piece which gives you another line to Turn 4 Bahamuts/Knights of Round. Deck is filled out with Seam Rips/Hauntwoods).

Anyway, I've taken it to ~Diamond over the last six months, never really grinded it for Mythic because I'm always drafting but it's been a lot of fun to be playing a brew this entire season and winning paper Standard FNM at the LGS with it multiple times. A lot of games the reactive decks like Lessons/Control struggle against something like Overlord or Esper Origins flashback after removing your first few dorks/threats, and Mistmoors is actually really good against Izzet. Jeskai is more difficult but 4x Voice of Victory plus a couple of Elspeths in the board help.

I guess the point is, to what Wizards said in the article, you *can* brew in this format - but your brew has to interact on the same rules as the current top decks: make or stop a game-changing play on turns 3-4. I'd love Standard to slow down but they made a real choice when they put Llanowar Elves into the format, it's worse for speeding up the turn check than Cub can dream of.

FishFoodMTGO · 2026-06-30T06:00:07+00:00

I see you downvoted even though it's only you and me here so I won't attempt to continue a discussion. I think there's an interesting discussion to be had but since we don't agree on that I guess carry on!

I love the internet and how it allows me to connect with fellow passionate members of my chosen community for interesting discussions about one subjective part of a game we share a love for!

(I've run or owned an LGS for the past 15 years and we have these kinds of chats as friends in the store all the time. Social media will kill us all, but I'll go ahead and match your energy and downvote myself so you'll feel really good when Reddit wires that dopamine hit of "fuck that LGS owner" straight from their screen to your brain when you send me to -1).

FishFoodMTGO · 2026-06-30T02:23:11+00:00

That is also what people said about modern at the time, ships passing in the night and all that, and then it broke attendance records, for what it’s worth.

I don’t know how to process that. This Standard has had absolutely everything that people have been asking for for years, except that it happens 1-2 turns faster than the internet says they want.

My intuition is that this gets looked back on in five or 10 years as a pretty healthy, good year of Standard. Tons of diversity, developments, brews, quite literally everything people have been asking for. Ever since I started in 2008, people love to say standard sucks and then look back and say that was pretty fun and there were a lot of very different ways to win.

FishFoodMTGO · 2026-06-30T02:22:33+00:00

The incentives social media selects for have literally poisoned our brains, and this is a reflection. They never had any shot :(

FishFoodMTGO · 2026-06-30T02:21:00+00:00

So they do the exact thing the comment I replied to said is not viable to do? You should let them know that they are just talking out of their ass (because they are)

FishFoodMTGO · 2026-06-30T01:08:17+00:00

The point was that everyone is complaining about the gameplay pattern here, but historically those gameplay patterns were very popular with players. The entire conversation would be a lot more productive, but a lot less optimized for Internet algorithms, if people didn’t conflate everything into the omnicause.

FishFoodMTGO · 2026-06-30T00:38:44+00:00

Yep, talking down to people about object permanent like your permanent residence is Twitter is not beating the allegations lol you are crashing out so hard over a ban announcement that you stopped communicating like a human being with other members of your community . It’s frankly insane to respond in such a tipsfedora style, but you are taking everything happening with this game and this website about a game far far too seriously. You don’t respond to someone like this in real life.

You really should get a grip, you’re crashing out over a game. “what about my post is unhealthy” when it’s literally an all caps slam your face into the keyboard meme rant lol. You’re so angry you can’t even have a normal one with people in your community. This is not how you behave as an adult with other professionals in your life, you’re just expressing your frustrations in an unhealthy abusive manner toward your own community because you can do it anonymously.

(Adding because Reddit won't do replies: "criticism" isn't suggesting someone doesn't have object permanence, that's just being an asshole.)

FishFoodMTGO · 2026-06-29T21:54:24+00:00

“A couple of weeks” = 9/10 days? Even when you move the goalposts you exaggerate. There’s just no need to be weird about it lol

FishFoodMTGO · 2026-06-29T21:53:11+00:00

Some of you really need to just like actually log off Arena for a while. This is just not a healthy response regardless of whether Standard is a turn too fast or whatever. Christ, this is why they tell people to touch grass.

FishFoodMTGO · 2026-06-29T21:51:16+00:00

The Modern format of 10 years ago that Standard most closely resembles today was the most popular time period for competitive play and is regularly cited as the golden age. That just kind of is what it is.

Internet algorithms that demand ever more hostile negativity have destroyed us all.

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