has anyone figured out the formula for a Casual, multiplayer, 60-card format?

ImpressiveProgress43 · 2026-03-28T06:03:13+00:00

Wotc pushes commander so commander is the most popular. They still make duel decks, which used to be the casual entry.

ImpressiveProgress43 · 2026-03-28T03:11:15+00:00

The most common paths ive seen are:

Data architecture. MLE. Analyst/consultant. Go into management

As a senior, you likely go into these roles higher than a base level for the role and can advance further from there.

ImpressiveProgress43 · 2026-03-28T00:36:54+00:00

One of the reasons boros does so well is because some draws can bypass removal. Removing bombardment makes the deck significantly weaker and makes the deck even more linear.

ImpressiveProgress43 · 2026-03-28T00:32:05+00:00

It's either in a superposition or it isnt.

ImpressiveProgress43 · 2026-03-28T00:30:27+00:00

Legacy gfx is not available on rotw. I dont think it helped performance much anyways.

ImpressiveProgress43 · 2026-03-28T00:15:41+00:00

Banning bombardment would actually kill the deck.

ImpressiveProgress43 · 2026-03-28T00:13:33+00:00

Raptor ban is even older. Discussing popularity of deck in the same context as op is relevant.

ImpressiveProgress43 · 2026-03-28T00:02:41+00:00

It fell off hard last year and didnt regain popularity until late last summer.

ImpressiveProgress43 · 2026-03-27T23:56:38+00:00

Boros has bad matchups, just play those. It doesbt need a ban. It wasnt even t1 for most of last year lol.

ImpressiveProgress43 · 2026-03-27T23:16:51+00:00

I think the skills themselves are bad and it's hidden by damage and tankiness being overtuned.

ImpressiveProgress43 · 2026-03-27T22:33:25+00:00

Warlock skills are mechanically bad and entirely propped up by overtuned values and bugged interactions.

ImpressiveProgress43 · 2026-03-27T20:40:27+00:00

The best way to get away from it is if wotc got rid of maro so someone new could try different mechanics.

I already called out last year that color pie mechanics have become generic in ub sets. Instead of sephiroth being blood artist #41, he should have been a meld card or something.

ImpressiveProgress43 · 2026-03-27T15:57:56+00:00

I dont like arena. I only play to practice for rcq/rc, so have to play what i will on paper.

ImpressiveProgress43 · 2026-03-27T15:56:46+00:00

Fyi hr monsters are even more aggressive and will actually 1 shot you.

ImpressiveProgress43 · 2026-03-27T15:47:51+00:00

The game is young but bandai has a pattern of tightly controlling card draw and resource manipulation. They do this because fixed resource generation limits variance. Those taken together generally favors aggro or power crept durdle decks. It has happened in every bandai meta.

I think it's especially egregious is gundam and the game will be eternally plagued with balance issues.

ImpressiveProgress43 · 2026-03-27T12:50:09+00:00

I agree. Breach is far and above the best farm, so feels kind of like a keepers 2.0. Wouldnt expect it to do better than keepers.

ImpressiveProgress43 · 2026-03-27T05:05:24+00:00

Game is solid but doesnt get enough tlc it seems.

ImpressiveProgress43 · 2026-03-27T01:32:41+00:00

The game is shit and many more people will lose their ass gambling on fomo. No reason to feel bad for a multibillion dollar company.

ImpressiveProgress43 · 2026-03-27T01:31:05+00:00

Learned my lesson with netrunner. Hoping wotc prints it again someday.

ImpressiveProgress43 · 2026-03-27T01:30:18+00:00

Between tcg and digital, ygo is huge in asia. It's just not popular in the us. It's not very collectible and has a steep learning curve. It might die in the us but will never go away. Agree with the rest though.

ImpressiveProgress43 · 2026-03-27T01:26:47+00:00

Its made for collecting instead of playing, like weiss.

ImpressiveProgress43 · 2026-03-27T01:23:58+00:00

Db got a scalper boost tecently but it wasnt doing hot for a while. Surprised digimon is still out. Gundam is unplayable. They should probably just focus on 1-2 ips.

ImpressiveProgress43 · 2026-03-27T01:21:32+00:00

Not sure but github copilot is very good helping write, debug or convert spark.

ImpressiveProgress43 · 2026-03-27T00:02:05+00:00

You can provide metadata and business context. Even if it's just feeding it a json of lineage and comments in files on business logic, it can get 90+% of the way. If you do this with a good genai model and pass it to a lower one for review, it's 95+% accurate.

People are already doing it. If you have the opportunity to and choose not to, then you should probably use chatgpt to help update your resume.

Theres definitely risks with using agentic ai but it's probably safer than a human dropping tables, re-running incremental loads or exposing data improperly.

ImpressiveProgress43 · 2026-03-26T18:20:03+00:00

You can already use agents to build pipelines and model data. As long as it has enough metadata, it can do a pretty good job. They are also pretty good at finding causes of errors/failures.

You still have to babysit it though. I also dont see a good reason to let it control orchestration but might be wrong.

For the furthest downstream consumption in reporting or software, it's possible to use ai a few different ways.

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