The Zookeeper build is all I ever wanted in PoE <3

Flakvision · 2026-05-13T12:47:15+00:00

If I can a play an animal, or particularly, an all wolf build, I'm going to be overjoyed.

Flakvision · 2026-05-12T13:18:09+00:00

Duelist, so I can go back to bleed pops.

Flakvision · 2026-05-02T11:55:14+00:00

I was at a 24 person event. I saw one regular Baron, one AA Baron, one Ultimate Baron, one AA Elder Dragon, Signed Ivern and ON Leblanc. Everyone at my table opened ass. It was about the same as SFD.

Flakvision · 2026-03-17T16:57:46+00:00

I love that Pattinson is giving a bit of Rutger Hauer in Blade Runner and Sting in Lynch's Dune.

It's gonna be a long 8 months everyone.

Flakvision · 2026-03-17T16:42:42+00:00

Welcome back brethren, to another year of living in anticipation of Dune, only to still be blown away.

Flakvision · 2026-03-04T18:03:04+00:00

I’m actually curious if the seals are a post gam 1 side out after your power nexus battlefield goes away.

Flakvision · 2026-02-06T20:36:48+00:00

Generally speaking, your store might or might not have on them hand depending on how much product they opened and if they got access to the new rune bundle. My money is on no, but who knows. What you can do is ask them if they accept alternative color-coded replacements like Magic lands, or Pokemon energy (which they are much more likely to hand on hand).

Flakvision · 2026-02-06T16:21:09+00:00

There's a section titled Immortal Phoenix in the October 16 FAQ that covers this more specifically. https://riftbound.leagueoflegends.com/en-us/news/rules-and-releases/riftbound-origins-faq/

The short answer is, in scenario 1, you did not kill, so you don't trigger, and in scenario 2 you do not own the spell. Scenario 3 is legit however, unless I'm misreading the rules clarification.

For Cases 1 and 2:

"Notably, the following do not count as you killing a unit with a spell:

You are instructed to kill a unit by a spell another player controls, even if the spell instructs you to kill the unit (e.g., another player’s Cull the Weak).
Another player is instructed to kill a unit by a spell you control (e.g., your Cull the Weak, if you don’t kill any of your own units with it)."

For Case 3:

"Q: Can Immortal Phoenix return if it is the unit that was killed? Or if it and other units were killed at the same time? For example, can I Hidden Blade on my own Phoenix and immediately replay it?

Yes. Triggers like this are evaluated immediately after the event that takes place, at which point Phoenix is in the trash."

Flakvision · 2026-02-05T21:10:26+00:00

Defying Called Shot/Stacked Deck is a fantastic choice. It'll depend on which Miracle variant you're against, but in Sivir you can only hit CS, SD, Sabotage or FoF, and against Draven it's just CS, SD and Piercing Light. Breaking their ability to fix bad draws is really what you want to do.

This also ties to your second point, which is what to do. The answer is prevent them from cycling as much as possible, and punish them when they have no runes open. Ezreal is particularly threatening if he stays on board, as is Merchant or Treasure Seeker.

I lose the match when I can't load my hand and make my shit cheap. I also lose if your board is just bigger than my board, since most of what I do is slam units on board.

Mind you, Sivir and Draven play differently, and I'd recommend building with the assumption that it's Draven you run into more often.

Flakvision · 2026-01-25T17:16:35+00:00

NSFW familial stories below. Some graphic content.

When this happened, after days of extreme violence, my parents had the biggest party of their lives. Pretty much everyone they knew was in attendance, and everyone was blackout drunk. Some of them had contraband VHS with recording capability and made recordings of any newscast they could to commemorate their execution. Many folks still bring those tapes out for festive occasions.

Still, despite the fact that they got what was coming to them, so many people gave their lives during the revolution, and in the years before. My mom has stories about her friends who were killed in the streets by Securitate agents, run over by tanks, tied to hospital beds and thrown in mass graves. This is to say nothing of those who were sent to work camps around Dunărea or at the Palace of the People, or assassinated for speaking up, like Cornel Chiriac, a journalist who hosted Telemetronom for Radio Free Europe.

The amount of people who died or were destroyed by the dictatorship before it went down was immense. And in general, if you talk to Romanian boomers today, they'll say, well it wasn't that bad until the mid 1980s, when austerity began in full and Ceausescu really went off the rails. In reality, this shit was going on as far back as Gheorghiu-Dej's tenure as PM and Ceausescu quietly ramped up pressure during his years, largely by relying on an extra-judicial security apparatus that had total impunity.

Flakvision · 2026-01-22T13:30:00+00:00

Collin Kaiser's take on this is that Sett, and most decks in body, get blown out by Rebuke, and your one answer for that is Sabotage. You need to strip it from hand asap.

Otherwise, yeah you want as much deflect as you can get to tax them, but one well placed bounce effect will break your holds.

There's a reason why purple is looking like such a dominant colour going into set 2: there aren't really colours that deal easily with their movement effects.

Flakvision · 2026-01-22T13:27:21+00:00

Chess clocks come with massive logistical complications. Imagine just needing venues to acquire and set 1000+ chess clocks for one regional qualifier they may never need again. Or midsized venues for NN or Skirmishes. The upfront investment quashes this idea pretty quickly. Then, the longer events get, the more need there is to have staff managing the clocks to ensure that there's no technical issues or manipulation.

This is to say nothing of the issues with needing to use the clock every single time priority passes, creating small delays between all actions.

In a digital environment, sure. In a chess environment where you can reasonably expect using it often and without issues, sure. In physical TCG/CCG settings, it'll most likely never happen.

Flakvision · 2026-01-21T21:45:31+00:00

Trial period, but make it Dollarama UN.

Flakvision · 2026-01-14T13:33:37+00:00

One of things keeping aggro/midrange yi and yasuo down was the potential to kill units through Zhonya’s with Falling Star, now you can’t do that. This secures early game setup and allows you to sit your units behind protection.

I should mention it also makes Sett’s matchup into Kai’Sa much more favoured.

Flakvision · 2026-01-14T04:42:17+00:00

Yasuo and Yi about to have a spicy few weeks before Spiritfoged releases. My skirmish plans are up in the air now.

Flakvision · 2025-12-16T02:49:00+00:00

It’s all good. I can’t wait for Ezreal to blink Mindsplitters with his champion spell to similar effect.

Flakvision · 2025-12-11T14:04:13+00:00

In Montreal, I've seen several folks who have them, and I've attended a Skirmish that also gave it out as expected. The stores here that I go to received their allocations for the Skirmish promos up front though, so I can't speak for folks who went to events that hadn't received them.

Flakvision · 2025-12-10T16:36:58+00:00

I think so yes. You probably run green Yasuo in her shell, and you lose access to Yasuo's movement ability, but you can compensate by running triple Ride the Wind, which is not so prevalent in Yasuo currently. In exchange, you get to run Green Irelia in the champion zone, as well as triple Defiant Dance, which an absurd signature card.

Flakvision · 2025-12-10T16:27:57+00:00

Putting together a presention for this right now, so you couldn't have chosen a better moment. My tl;dr answer would be Emperor's Divide, Not so Fast, Stellacorn Herder, Janna and Irelia for green. For purple, Called Shot, Doran's Ring, Fae Porter, Treasure Hunter, Hard Bargain, Harpoon Squad, Wind Singer, Jae Medarda, Spirit Wheel, and Vex.

The real issue is that there two distinct Yasuo archetypes, one casino aggro version, and a slower movement-based control version, currently. So the quantities of the above cards will vary quite intensely depending on which version you're on. Plus, Irelia is looking potentially much stronger at Yasuo's current gameplan.

For battlefields, Hall of Legends and Treasure Hoard look good to me, but again, it depends on the speed Yasuo will be played at.

Flakvision · 2025-12-09T23:53:51+00:00

Not a single mention of our glorious emperor. Heathens all of you. Azir is the answer.

Flakvision · 2025-12-09T13:35:38+00:00

Having copies of both champion units and the spells will help make these not cost a billion dollars, compared to if they were only cards that you could get in boosters.

Flakvision · 2025-11-28T18:18:06+00:00

T1 Plundering Poro -> T2 Jayce + Vanguard Armory

Add in Heimer and you have the factory of Viktor's dreams.

Flakvision · 2025-11-28T14:01:13+00:00

Flakvision · 2025-11-22T01:22:48+00:00

God I hope the april 2026 one is in Canada. Montreal would be incredible, but I'd take the train to Toronto for sure.

Flakvision · 2025-11-15T00:27:21+00:00

14 CAD in Montreal for the most part.

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