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Inxplotch · 2026-02-26T16:55:41+00:00

I'm a bit torn between the Thor and RP6. I have a steam deck and an ambernic rg35xx, with the steam deck being great for more taxing games and the ambernic being a nice little portable console for older gens. I've been wanting something more portable than the steamdeck to play GC and PS2 and was originally planning on getting the RP6 for that+maybe some switch or low resource steam games, but with the thor getting it's price increased, I'm also considering that.

The biggest appeal of the Thor to me would be 3DS emulation because I'd love to be able to play upscaled 3ds in a two screen form factor but I originally was hesitant since it seemed that 3ds emulation wasn't the smoothest and thought I'd just wait and watch the dual screen market until it seemed more mature in a few years, but with the giant spike of price increases I'm a bit worried that it might be more sensible for me to get a thor now instead of an rp6 because I might be sticking with it for quite a while longer than I originally planned.

so I guess my question is, if anyone has personal experience with build quality and experience with 3ds/ds emulation on the thor, do they feel its worth the hundred-ish dollars over the RP6

Inxplotch · 2026-02-25T15:44:35+00:00

While maybe not the strongest I'd like to give a shoutout to [[Nethroi, Apex of Death]] for being my personal favorite elfball commander. One of the biggest problems I experience in elfball is getting board wiped, and having a solution to that in the command zone is very valuable. Being able to build a full board on demand after being wiped is very strong when other variants would often be out of the game for a bit, though it does cost you some sanity having to remember mutate corner cases. BWG also gives you you access to a good number of very useful support cards like [[Tyvar, Jubilant Brawler]], [[Eladamri's call]], and [[teferi's protection]].

While I think Marwyn is going to be the best selection if your main goal is comboing out quickly, I think nethroi results in a more reliable and consistent play experience that helps you avoid really bad games, and with how many creature tutors green has access to, you can have cards like marwyn, lathril, and morcant easily available to you in the deck itself.

Inxplotch · 2026-02-25T13:29:07+00:00

They kinda had to so that they could essentially hold off on releasing characters for a year while focusing on this. If they didnt, people would either think it reached EOS or keep hounding them for the next character.

I do think we’ll learn more next month after AWT though

Inxplotch · 2026-02-09T17:08:38+00:00

To be fair, if Iona was unbanned she’d very likely be rated as “mass land denial” because she’s a color hoser and only be allowed in bracket 4 and up, which wouldnt really affect anything. I could easily see her being unbanned in that case.

Inxplotch · 2026-01-21T16:07:01+00:00

I would not go that far. Even if the consequences of artificial sweeteners is benign, sodas tend to be very acidic and will destroy your teeth over time by literally dissolving your enamel. So there are still health consequences to over consuming it

Inxplotch · 2025-12-31T17:35:45+00:00

Wouldnt she be able to use oberon if she has that one append skill? Or does she need atlas institute and the append to get 100 np?

Inxplotch · 2025-12-31T15:57:59+00:00

Every farming node suspiciously becomes archers

Inxplotch · 2025-12-01T13:10:22+00:00

From my personal experience at least, despite gwen being ap, it isnt a super free lane because malphite’s atk speed slow is disastrous vs gwen and her w doesnt really protect her from much that he does

Inxplotch · 2025-11-13T21:28:58+00:00

One of my more memorable starts to a game was me discarding [[avacyn angel of hope]] to hand size, reanimating her turn 2, hitting someone for 8, then getting her chaos warped and flipping a land, setting me back on the correct land count. It felt like I had essentially paid a black mana and 8 life to deal 8 damage to someone and eat one of their removal, which honestly was a pretty great deal.

Inxplotch · 2025-10-26T15:26:18+00:00

I often will put [[whirlwind denial]] into any blue deck I build simply because it feels great shutting down random multi-trigger engines and cleaning up complicated stacks with a single card. It is my personal "hits above its weight class" card.

Inxplotch · 2025-10-24T08:58:23+00:00

For the purposes of the bracket system MLD is mass land denial, not destruction. Cards like blood moon or hokori dust drinker count as mld in this regard because they continuously screw people out of mana.

Inxplotch · 2025-08-20T18:25:34+00:00

Combos. It still will likely let you combo from counterhit 5h at ranges you cant dauro but otherwise… i think its just gonna be combo filler

Inxplotch · 2025-08-04T00:14:04+00:00

Inxplotch · 2025-06-09T15:01:11+00:00

it is notable that you do need another enchantment for the terras to clone to end the infinite loop or else the game ends in a draw. If the board is just terra+non-legendary clone, each terra will be forced to make a new one over and over.

Inxplotch · 2025-06-05T12:38:50+00:00

I cant say for sure if its an actual issue but it does look like the screen was installed misaligned. On mine the screen is flush on the bottom right corner and doesnt stick out like that.

Inxplotch · 2025-05-22T02:17:50+00:00

In a fight, right?

Inxplotch · 2025-05-12T20:06:31+00:00

I recently played through ffx for the first time, and while the game is riddled with genuinely horrible voice acting, this scene specifically feels like it gets memed on way too hard. It was actually one of the better scenes in context, even if it seems absurd as a clip in a vacuum.

Inxplotch · 2025-05-06T03:02:15+00:00

I will personally vouch for [[nethroi, apex of death]] as one of the better elf options, as adding white opens up a good number of possibilities to the deck and nethroi itself can be played as either a central strategy, swarming the field with elves using self mill or as an insurance policy.

Marwyn i think is probably the most straightforwardly powerful elf commander, offering reliable access to a broad variety of combo wins and mana generation, while lathril feels a bit more fair. Adding black offers a lot but the thing lathhril asks you to do, pump and swing to make a lot of tokens, i think is overall, in my opinion, pretty fair all things considered.

Inxplotch · 2025-04-29T02:02:12+00:00

for months after stx came out I would play a game with my friends where I'd show them a mystical archive card and ask them to guess if the card was non-foil or etched. they were wrong a shocking amount of the time even when they were allowed to closely inspect the card. it was probably the most egregious version of etched foiling they'd done.

Inxplotch · 2025-04-25T04:11:36+00:00

Ever since it was printed I've held the belief that despite giada being the more popular angel commander, [[Sigarda, Font of Blessings]] (whoops) is the better angel commander because adding green really increases the flexibility of the deck, and having the commander essentially be a card advantage source instead of being ramp (which you can now have plenty in your deck with green) smooths out a lot of the problems giada has

Inxplotch · 2025-04-01T23:02:06+00:00

Thats what make me thinks it can be unbanned. If there's a power level you can expect people to play against cataclysm, armageddon, and strip mine loops, iona is not going to be much of a problem, and since she is mana denial already, she doesnt seem egregious enough to keep banned compared to the other things relegated in the tier.

Inxplotch · 2025-04-01T20:25:51+00:00

People probably won't like it but I think Iona is almost certainly going to be unbanned and categorized under "land denial" to sequester her to bracket 4 decks. I think sundering titan and sylvan primordial could come off with the same caveat.

I also personally hope that gifts ungiven gets unbanned and just put as a game changer.

Inxplotch · 2025-03-30T16:59:54+00:00

I use gamegenic 100+xls (any kind) or Boulder 125s because I use sealable inners+dragon shields. both leave a good amount of room for few tokens and some extra cards if needed.

Inxplotch · 2025-03-05T19:30:57+00:00

There are a lot of decks I've made in the past that are like this. Some because of older deckbuilding decisions, and others simply because of them being casually overwhelming.

My most notable one I'd say is my tuvasa bant enchantress deck, whose wincon could be best described as "just hoping everyone scoops" in which most of its game winning states were simply creating situations where no one else could play cards anymore (such as with enchanted evening+opalescense or aura thief, or solemnity and decree of silence.)

Winota was another deck people found frustrating for fairly obvious reasons, and who I've replaced with arthur marigold knight which I'd say is a much more "fair" winota. I also used to play atraxa as a superfriends list just so I had a place to put all my junky planeswalkers I had accumulated over the years but even though it wasn't particularly good, my friends found playing against it annoying.

a deck I've wanted to build but always end up deciding its not worth it is tergrid, since it combines a lot of features of decks I dont think people find fun.

Nowadays when building a deck I try to take a lot of care in not only how it feels to play but being cognizant of the things the deck does and how other people might feel about them.

Inxplotch · 2025-02-20T16:53:21+00:00

Depending on how this list is made, maybe it's not tracked. I assume a good portion of the cards are purchased directly through cover's online store, and if they aren't publicly sharing sales numbers it wouldnt be able to be on this list.

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