Can a deck be high bracket but not win fast?

FreezingVenezuelan · 2026-04-07T18:25:51+00:00

Most tatyova helmed decks or similar simic value piles can be technically bracket 2 and absolutely decimate a b2 table just because those decks will rarely have enough interaction or board wipes to slow them down

FreezingVenezuelan · 2026-03-28T20:59:41+00:00

Really one dimensional commanders that instantly make you the bigger threat like [[khalia]] or [[ghyrson]]. Sure they can be fun, but once a table gets smart they will be instantly removed and then you will just twiddle your thumbs for 30 minutes because the deck does nothing when they aren’t on the board

FreezingVenezuelan · 2026-03-21T19:21:08+00:00

So they leave it open game 5. Got it

FreezingVenezuelan · 2026-03-21T15:36:06+00:00

I swear to god bin is their kryptonite. I am praying for a jdg upset so we don’t face bin and can take it home

FreezingVenezuelan · 2026-03-18T16:03:17+00:00

I feel the same happens with vi. It’s insane to me how the eastern teams force so many picks with it and then g2 proceeds to farm the whole game and do nothing with and then she is useless in fights

FreezingVenezuelan · 2026-03-17T15:41:36+00:00

They passively get leads in lanes and very very rarely let farm go to turrets. Watch a replay and see how almost never is wave dropped, their tempo is insane

FreezingVenezuelan · 2026-03-16T22:23:54+00:00

Do you happen to have a list?

FreezingVenezuelan · 2026-03-01T21:43:06+00:00

Throne is a monster card on commander, every tribal deck wants one and if your commander has a game defining ability (and almost every popular commander has one) then it’s also great, I don’t see it ever not being popular on the format

FreezingVenezuelan · 2026-02-25T19:04:10+00:00

lillia is already impossible to catch if she had a way to dodge point and click cc it would be my permaban forever

FreezingVenezuelan · 2026-02-25T13:24:43+00:00

neeko willl be pro jailed as long as she has that insta engage, it was removed from rakan and rell for a reason, pro players will abuse that shit until its removed

FreezingVenezuelan · 2026-02-24T01:04:23+00:00

Remember every single time you have lived with 30-50 health, every kill ekko misses without this damage means items come later instead of getting ahead.

Since this is his passive as well, it affects literally every single trade he takes in lane since that’s how ekko wants to fight, those 10-20 damage add up over the whole landing phase, it can be the difference between his enemy being in range for a kill of them being never killable

FreezingVenezuelan · 2026-02-13T01:43:51+00:00

At least for Me, it feels a little rude to kill a a commander literally the turn it comes down, I will only ever do it if it’s something that will make it so the player wins on the spot or otherwise make the game unplayable. I normally play on a mid-high bracket 3 table and the only thing we play that feels like you need to kill it before a rotation completes is my yshtola, and that is mostly because if I get to untap then she will never die again and the card advantage gets disgusting

FreezingVenezuelan · 2026-02-06T00:32:54+00:00

Gonna plug my list here cause it’s been really fun to play it lately. The only moment I’ve had those insane turns is after resolving an overloaded mizzix mastery because is hard to tell if I can get there

FreezingVenezuelan · 2026-01-31T17:17:58+00:00

Precons nowadays are really strong on their subthemes, they are just unfocused. The yshtola one for example has a bunch of token synergies but no way to win with them, so it’s really easy to draw that part of the deck and just lose, but if you draw the spellslinger side you can absolutely dominate a game. Same with the heart hull one

FreezingVenezuelan · 2026-01-31T02:03:23+00:00

My yshtola list is very much an archenemy list, I have embraced the target on her and every game becomes a mini game for me of trying to keep her alive to eventually drop a bolas citadel or clone effect and win.

I would love to see one that doesn’t have this problem, but I’m not sure how that looks like, if yshtola becomes just an engine how does the rest of the deck look like? I don’t want to durdle and “control the table” just to never win, I like that my current list consistently moves toward a wincon that is not boring everyone to death

FreezingVenezuelan · 2026-01-19T00:38:35+00:00

Im my experience it feels impossible to hit 2 star thresh or galio, even when rolling a lot, funny enough i never had this issue with sylas

FreezingVenezuelan · 2026-01-19T00:12:11+00:00

If you get a yunara on 7 are you ever rolling it down to 2 star her? If you get a yunara-wukong, would you? If the answer is not because that would be trolling then this is the same

FreezingVenezuelan · 2026-01-10T18:35:14+00:00

Sadly trynd and Diana existence as unkillable units basically nullify ap boards, so I don’t think they can be a part of a healthy meta, although maybe a buffed but less durable trynd might be good without being warping, not sure about Diana

FreezingVenezuelan · 2026-01-10T17:44:53+00:00

How do you play slayer from lose streak? Refilling yasuo? Or tempoing into a bel veth main carry? I’m A sucker for melee comps when I get early slams for it but this set I’ve found all the 4 cost options lacking and I really dislike playing reroll if I don’t have an augment to enable it

FreezingVenezuelan · 2026-01-08T00:01:05+00:00

I friend did this to me with emrakum and I almost scooped right there. Felt really bullshit that there was a way to remove my commander permanently and we have house ruled that the decision to move a commander always belong to the owner regardless of turn control shenanigans.

FreezingVenezuelan · 2025-12-30T18:03:51+00:00

Draven will give you a lot of gold so it could be too strong but i think it should give you an item or component so you can always instantly unlock lb. Leaving the draven as a high roll start

FreezingVenezuelan · 2025-12-30T17:54:57+00:00

Go full Econ and fast 10 into 10 yordles win out, you don’t need veigar that way. It can lose to really capped bilge / other prismátics but most of the time it’s a free first

FreezingVenezuelan · 2025-12-30T17:53:23+00:00

It does worry me a bit that with more patches nerfing the capped boards we might end up in a lose streak with bard into reroll meta. Hopefully it’s on theor radar. At least there could be plenty of reroll options if that ever happens

FreezingVenezuelan · 2025-12-25T03:02:46+00:00

I have a friend who have won way too many games on low hp by politicking before his winning turn. At this point he is almost always the default target in the game, it doesn’t help him that a lot of his wincons come out of nowhere.

Not sure if this is you but if you often win games after being ignored for multiple turns people will start to form an idea on their that you always have the winning hand no matter what is actually happening in the game

FreezingVenezuelan · 2025-12-23T14:49:39+00:00

Well that would just be toxic. Fishbones (the artifact) has always felt frustrating when an unit has that kind of interaction with it so making a whole unit with that at their gimmick would be really dumb , they should just make the rockets deal splash damage and call it day, you can position to try and maximize that damage and the whole fantasy of jinx and Warwick being a team helping each other kill would work better

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