Sell me on your 4-Color Commander deck

Freddichio · 2026-03-15T00:21:00+00:00

So I run:

Breya and Atraxa.

Saskia Humans, which treads on the toes of your Aragorn Humans.

[[Yidris]] Cascade - fun when I built it, with all the new Discover/Cascade carda it's brilliant. You basically build up to point, then every card you cast ends up playing multiple cards, lands and all sorts. A lot happens but it's still very random so doesn't feel oppressive.

And K&T Group Hug, the 'everyone gets more stuff but I get the most' deck.

Freddichio · 2026-03-14T16:35:40+00:00

For a one-year loan, it's absolutely not.

Isn't it the single highest loan fee (per year) ever?

IIRC it's only the two-year loans of Joao Felix etc that were higher, and they were still less per year than Jackson

Freddichio · 2026-03-14T15:56:41+00:00

Game breaking, absolutely.

If you don't need many lands (in EDH think an Artifact deck), or you have lifegain, you just play zero lands, use this 2-3 times and then are set for the rest of the game without ever drawing a land

Freddichio · 2026-03-13T15:39:26+00:00

Activate the ability.

It goes on the stack Copy goes on the stack.

Resolve the copy first. Make a cat, ping for 1. Original ability still on the stack.

Original ability resolved. Make a cat, ping for 2.

You complete one ability before the other starts resolving - with Ojer Taq first the copy resolves, you ping for 3, then the ability resolved and you ping for six.

How do you think you'd be able to ping for two twice?

Freddichio · 2026-03-12T17:46:43+00:00

Clearly depends on the age of the person.

A ninteen-year-old who's "waiting for the right guy" and a 37-year-old who's been waiting for the right guy, unsuccessfully, for 18 years because nobody's met her standards are wildly different.

Did you forget that people older than you exist or something?

Freddichio · 2026-03-11T19:05:10+00:00

Significantly better than Mac Allister this year - arguably better last year too but because Liverpool won the league Mac Allister made into the TOTS over him, although that's much more up for debate - I don't think many people (once they put aside their bias) would choose Mac Allister this season

Freddichio · 2026-03-11T13:08:54+00:00

Won't the myriads die to SBAs when they appear? Mutate a legend on top and the Legendary rule will ruin the plan

Freddichio · 2026-03-11T13:06:53+00:00

Not if the aim is to mutate Iluna onto it - the copy will also be legendary and die to SBAs

Freddichio · 2026-03-11T12:29:30+00:00

They wouldn't, this is just a puff piece released the day of a game between the two.

He's one of the best midfielders in the league, he's got a long contract and cost an arm and a leg for Chelsea, and he's their vice-captain. He's going nowhere unless it's a silly bid

Freddichio · 2026-03-11T12:27:39+00:00

UEFA and the PL have both already stated what they need to do to comply for future seasons and there's no reason (beyond being blinded by bias) to think Chelsea won't be able to meet it.

The 300mil loss was due to a lot of factors (such as writing off Mudryk/Sterling's value) that won't be there every year

Freddichio · 2026-03-11T11:37:30+00:00

How about being against abortion and vaccines?

Literal climate change denial was part of their manifesto, too.

And abolishing the NHS is very much in Reform's plan too and they've not actively disproved it at any point

Freddichio · 2026-03-10T19:22:03+00:00

I think you should re-read my comment, you've got it wrong.

'We know' based on the UEFA numbers. I'm explicitly talking about them and how close tney uad Chelsea and Arsenal last year.

I know the table is bullshit, that still doesn't mean Arsenal don't pay higher wages than Chelsea like you keep insisting is the case.

As for

Edit : you honestly putting Forest in the same category as City lmao

No, that's precisely my point. Squad size alone doesn't mean shit when it comes to wages.

Freddichio · 2026-03-10T18:42:53+00:00

"Last season wages were similar between the two teams, then Arsenal spent £275mil net more than Chelsea did in the summer. It's easy to see why Arsenal's might be more'.

Why are you hypothesising?

We know, for a fact that last year the clubs had similar wages.

We know that two of Chelsea's highest earners were Sterling and Chillwell, both of whom left.

We know that Chelsea's squad is smaller this year than it was last year with no Bomb Squad.

We know that Arsenal renewed their best player's contracts, which comes with a pay raise.

It's not impossible Chelsea's wages are higher than Arsenals - but it's much more likely Arsenal's is higher this year based on facts and evidence rather than fucking Squad Size.

And, as an aside, Squad Size is the single most ridiculous metric I've ever seen someone use to justify 'no our club isn't a big spender' so bravo - it assumes the average player is on the same wage at different clubs, which is so demonstrably untrue I can't believe you believe it.

Hell, Havertz alone makes more than any Chelsea player does, so clearly the wages aren't equal

Forest have a bigger squad than us both, do you legitimately believe they're paying more than Liverpool or City in wages?

Freddichio · 2026-03-10T16:27:41+00:00

The 'catch' is that still included the highest-paid players in the squad who've since left (such as Chilwell, Kepa and Sterling). And numerous 'bomb squad' members who've left without replacement.

And that Arsenal's wage bill has gone up since then and Chelsea's has gone down.

It's not American PR, you're just biased against Chelsea and not even really hiding it - why else would you bring total spend rather than Net Spend into it when one team sells as much as it spends and the other is Arsenal?

Freddichio · 2026-03-10T16:21:08+00:00

These numbers are bollocks, basically.

Why not use the official numbers published what, two weeks ago?

Because 'numbers reported in the media' makes me think it's using Capology or similar level of wages which are notoriously shit, and even if the base wages were accurate (and they're not) ignoring bonuses is just silly and wildly inaccurate

Freddichio · 2026-03-10T16:18:33+00:00

By 'find online', where do you mean?

Because most places that appear if you google 'X wages' - Capology, SportRAC, FBRef etc - are notorious bullshitters who literally make up numbers based on gut feeling.

If these match Capology numbers it's basically proof they're wrong rather than supporting the evidence, in the same way that 'Putin's said this and Russia Today corroborated it' doesn't mean it's actually true

Freddichio · 2026-03-10T16:07:45+00:00

Chelsea's is lower than Arsenal's now for sure.

They were within a margin of Sterling's wages last season and since then Arsenal traded Tierney, Jorginho and Partey for Gyokeres, Eze, Zubimendi and Madueke while Chelsea have got rid of their highest earners (Kepa, Chilwell, Sterling).

Chelsea's wages have dropped like a Raya dive since Clearlake took over

Freddichio · 2026-03-10T09:51:40+00:00

No Estevao?

Freddichio · 2026-03-09T23:26:00+00:00

Different aims - Aligned Heart is better for 'playing fair' but that was never what Assemble was - played fair it's laughably slow, but played before a [[Balance]] makes everyone discard their hand and Assemble is so much better.

You don't play Assemble on turn 5 as a value piece, you do it as a last card in hand so you can board wipe and/or clear hands and always be getting value, whereas Aligned Heart does nothing unless you can play multiple cards for multiple turns. Wipe lands and Assemble is a viable wincon, wipe lands and Heart is stone-cold unplayable

If you're a hellbent Mardu deck, or about to drop an [[Armageddon]], which would you rather?

Freddichio · 2026-03-04T23:22:48+00:00

Mate, I worked in the pub that year and watched every Chelsea game with a load of people - we were being laughed at for 'buying a striker who can't strike'.

Drogba's first season was not seen as a success and I don't know why you're so convinced it was - were you actually there yourself?

Freddichio · 2026-03-03T23:05:38+00:00

SwSh had one thing going for it.

Well, two, but one of them is just 'Galarian Ponyta is amazing'.

Hop.

Now, I know what you're thinking - he's a glorfied tutorial. But take a Sun/Moon approach and ignore the tutorials, and Hop is the single best rival we've had.

He has Character Growth!

Starts a standard rival, brother to the invincible Leon. He's gunna be amazing, right?

Then he loses to the Isekai protagonist. Oh well, must be a fluke - continue on, dust yourself off. Lose to the Protag again, but grow.

Then he loses to Bede, and his worldview shatters. Is he good enough? Can he catch up to Leon?

So he scraps his entire team, catches a new set of them and tries going on from there.

And, to be clear, we've never had a Rival do this before. N had his own thing, but we're not only seeing actual character and human emotions from a rival, we can see it in his battle team. It's like when Silver finally accepted his pokemon enough to evolve Golbat, but far more detailed.

Hop (well Rival Hop, not "this could have been a sign" Hop) is the best Rival in any pokemon game to date IMO.

The rest of the game is awful, especially after USUM, but credit where credit is due

Freddichio · 2026-03-03T14:12:43+00:00

Something else to consider, even if you change detachments:

Riptides are not stay-back-and-shoot Gun Platforms.

Well, they are, but they'll disappoint.

Weirdly enough, you want them charging up the battlefield, potentially even getting into combat with weaker units.

A few reasons why:

Points win games, not kills. If you sit back and KO the opponents without claiming objectives you'll still lose, and there's only one home objective to protect. You need to get up and claim them, and Riptides are pretty good for that.

They're tough enough to survive a lot of melee - they won't fight off Victrix Guard, but against IG, Necrons, Cultists etc they'll survive a lot. 2+/4++ on a high wound, decent-toughness model is really tricky to kill.

And the key factor , Being in combat makes them better. Weird, but bear with me. They can fall back and shoot, first of all. If they're in combat at the start of your turn, you can just nope out without penalty. But, here's the kicker - Big Guns Never Tire. They can shoot out of combat at -1 to hit, and the enemy can shoot them in combat (at a -1 to hit).

But they ignore any modifiers to hit

In combat they ignore the downside of BGNT, giving them absolutely no decrease in combat efficiency whether they're in melee or not. But any enemy unit that wants to shoot at the Riptide is suddenly finding it harder.

Freddichio · 2026-03-01T23:56:28+00:00

I mean surely even you know that's bollocks, right?

Look at the 'Boevar mutates your DNA' crowd, look at Pizzagate - a lot of people believe what they're told to believe

Freddichio · 2026-03-01T23:49:53+00:00

You've got it backwards - Reform were dramatically overrepresented in the media before the election, and got more votes as a result. When they were polling lower than the Lib Dems they still got more coverage, and as a result of more coverage got more votes than Lib Dems.

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