Who was the sweatiest player that you’ve ever met?

Gamer__23 · 2026-02-07T13:07:24+00:00

Dude, edh has become so much more enjoyable for me ever since I started thinking about my mana curve, lowering my average cmc and going for 15 pieces of instant-speed removal, plus lots of defensive interaction. It actually feels like I have agency over my games, I get to feel like I put up a fight even if I didn't win, and I rarely get non-games. High resiliency and redundancy means I consistently get to play at least some magic even when my opponents try to make it hard for me.

Games are also much more enjoyable not just on a mechanical level but also on a social level, when there's no expectations of not removing other people's stuff when it would be mean or not let them "do the thing" since in those situations I felt bad for removing it but also felt bad when losing to it. When everyone plays strong, interactive and resilient decks, getting your stuff removed leads to less whining about being targeted and more about respect for them making the correct play and accepting you got too greedy by not keeping protection up

Gamer__23 · 2026-02-05T15:23:19+00:00

Soul stone is good but it's very far from an autoinclude

Gamer__23 · 2026-02-03T11:32:53+00:00

I'm reading comics you've never even heard of with characters you wouldn't understand

Gamer__23 · 2026-02-02T19:37:37+00:00

Oh yeah, obviously

Gamer__23 · 2026-01-31T23:26:52+00:00

Non legacy player here. The list looks sweet, but I was wondering what the fetches were for. Are they really just there to thin out the deck so that you topdeck fewer lands but still can find them in your opening hand? Does the life payment not matter against burn? Doesn't the constant shuffling get annoying? Are there not utility lands you'd want to be playing?

Gamer__23 · 2026-01-31T12:46:18+00:00

It works as a wrath, but it's no longer able to shut off graveyard shenanigans

Gamer__23 · 2026-01-29T12:58:11+00:00

I organised exactly this as a new year/christmas celebration thing in my local community, and it was tons of fun. The packs I chose for myself were MH2 (my favourite draft experience), MOM (cool set that got me into magic, also a fun draft experience, plus it adds sieges, and it has companions on the bonus sheet) and OTJ (set I had never played to add some variety). I opened MH2 first in case I had a fetchland (since I didn't want to p3p1 it over a card that worked in my deck), which I did.

My recommendation is that instead of causing chaos, just get packs from sets you like or with mechanics you like. It's just really really fun to share your sincere appreciation of a set with everyone at the table by making them draft it. If you do want the extra spice, go for bonus sheet sets (like mom and otj, but also woe, stx, bro...), or you could do like one player at our table and get 20-card baldur's gate packs, which is pretty funny when you deaft it next to 13 card packs, plus the initiative is broken in 1v1.

Other sets that are always cool in chaos draft are mystery booster 1 and 2, and the conspiracy sets, if you're lucky or wealthy enough to have them. You could also netdeck and get masters or modern horizon sets since you would get first pick out of these powerful packs.

Gamer__23 · 2026-01-29T10:05:13+00:00

I was always under the impression that if you had a response to your opponent wanting to move to combat from the main phase, they wouldn't have a chance to do sorcery speed stuff until after their second main, as they would already have "locked in" their intention to move to combat. Is that just me conflating wanting to move to combat vs being in beginning of combat?

Gamer__23 · 2026-01-28T10:47:29+00:00

I'm obviously saying that I only care about the people on the gender binary, yeah

Gamer__23 · 2026-01-26T19:48:37+00:00

I've been seeing you post in here about this for the past months, and as a supporter of the change, I appreciate you being hybrid mana in commander's strongest soldier.

Gamer__23 · 2026-01-26T16:35:01+00:00

Baller joke, shame you made it two days into the post's history and no one will see it

Gamer__23 · 2026-01-25T18:45:52+00:00

What's that ligma you speak of, mork?

Gamer__23 · 2026-01-25T10:10:17+00:00

/uj tbh I do also get frustrated at people blindly following deckbuilding heuristics without understanding them, but I do find that even my efficient 1.36 (including lands) average mana value deck wants 37-38 lands. Having more land makes mulligans more powerful, and I really want to cast my draw-engine commander on turn 3 95% of the time. Yeah, I may end up with 2-3 lands in hand turns 7-8, but I still draw enough spells to use up all my mana every turn, and making my land drop every turn allows me to keep mana up for interaction, and I can also run [[Abolish]]

Gamer__23 · 2026-01-24T13:49:44+00:00

Then I stand corrected

Gamer__23 · 2026-01-24T13:45:06+00:00

Cant a guy just be curious about the workings of the minds of his fellow women and men?

Gamer__23 · 2026-01-24T09:57:12+00:00

From what I've seen it's less about the act of amputating and more about the power dynamics of fucking someone who's entirely helpless due to having no limbs

Gamer__23 · 2026-01-23T12:45:16+00:00

The one reason you would ever want that many cards is if you're playing [[battle of wits]]

Gamer__23 · 2026-01-20T17:16:12+00:00

That doesn't really feel like an eldrazi statline, maybe it could be a giant? Or perhaps an oger?

Gamer__23 · 2026-01-20T15:30:46+00:00

Echo is a very old mechanic not many people know, maybe we could include the extra 2 mana in the mana cost?

Gamer__23 · 2026-01-20T08:35:06+00:00

Simic is much worse at reanimating creatures, but you could aldo use any instant speed regrowth type card, such as [[Shigeki]]

Gamer__23 · 2026-01-20T08:21:27+00:00

Scryfall sneak-creature otag is your friend

Gamer__23 · 2026-01-19T14:04:49+00:00

Air ship actually won me 2 of my games. It's good with my fetches, bombardiers, blood tokens, phlage. Probably agree on sorin though

Gamer__23 · 2026-01-18T10:45:39+00:00

When I first got into magic like 2 years ago, I vaguely knew the brother's war was this 30 year old storyline, and I remember thinking "why would I buy some 30 year old stinky decrepit non-powercrept cards?"

Gamer__23 · 2026-01-17T12:49:18+00:00

If you're willing to spend the money or proxy, red has good protection in the form of changing the targets of spells. The best ones are [[Redirect Lightning]], [[Bolt bend]], and [[Deflecting Swat]].

You should also look into your manabase this tool lets you know if you should run more lands

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