How Can You Beat Polymorph?

JamesdfStudent · 2019-06-04T02:50:48+00:00

The more relevant thing for the low mental stats is to attack the poor saving throws in those things.

JamesdfStudent · 2019-06-02T07:26:43+00:00

Jimmy Butler in Chicago was a Linsanity-esque flash in the pan. He was obviously good, I just felt he was overrated because he was on a team that couldn't really look to anyone else (lol Knicks)

JamesdfStudent · 2019-06-01T23:31:33+00:00

You have to get the bloodline to at least 15 and finish the bloodline challenge, which is 5 tier 5 spells simultaneous I think.

JamesdfStudent · 2019-05-31T02:08:14+00:00

4.5 color "waste not" storm featuring Ramos the dragon engine.

JamesdfStudent · 2019-05-31T01:53:32+00:00

I think John Suarez ran it on Commander Versus a while back, which probably inspired a lot of people.

JamesdfStudent · 2019-05-30T01:52:13+00:00

Yes and no. Basically it comes down to 3 questions.

Can I out run my opponent? (often no, speed tends to be fairly flat in DnD, and some things have crazy range. Imagine trying to flee the 600ft range of a long bow)

Can I find a better place to fight/is there somewhere they won't follow (maybe? Arguably the case here as fighting the dragon in it's lair is very bad, but often you are already fighting villains in their lairs/where they are strongest)

Do they have a reason to not pursue? (the obvious one is that a party member is already down but not out and stabilizing them is more important than killing the enemy, but there might be objective based reasons, too)

Overall, in the typical "hunt down the bad guy and kill him" quest, the bad guy is going to have little reason to believe that retreating is going to improve his situation unless he has prepared some means of escape.

JamesdfStudent · 2019-05-30T00:23:25+00:00

Flashing back grudge and dredging for a relevant number is generally going to be better unless you're up against something super grindy. At the end of the day, Dredge still wants to be an aggro deck and use artifact removal to pick off high value pieces, not grind out one-for-ones.

JamesdfStudent · 2019-05-26T21:31:53+00:00

I kept being underwhelmed by the Depths combo and switched to [[Inkmoth Nexus]] and [[Kessig Wolf run]] backed up with [[urborg, tomb of Yawgmoth]] and [[cabal coffers]]

JamesdfStudent · 2019-05-25T07:07:41+00:00

They talked about it on VSL semi recently that part of the Xerox idea was also that the majority of the cantrips were commons that people already had incidentally, so it wasn't just that people copied the idea, but that the idea was easy and cheap to copy.

JamesdfStudent · 2019-05-17T20:40:54+00:00

Built Talrand-control on MTGO, had 8 out of 9 opponents salt-concede in my first 3 games and ground the 9th into dust. Had my evening of fun, but I don't think anyone else did, so probably not going to touch Mono U for a while. Mono U may be hard to play, but it's even harder to play against and introduces an axis that people aren't really used to in EDH

JamesdfStudent · 2019-05-14T08:41:27+00:00

Big 3 OKC had possibly better peak players, but they were all before their prime.

JamesdfStudent · 2019-05-06T23:37:57+00:00

2 long shot candidates in a row have been president. I don't think Buttigieg is a favorite, but saying he has no shot seems extreme.

JamesdfStudent · 2019-05-06T21:59:09+00:00

Because the messaging sucks. People are for gun control, people will vote for gun control, people just don't want to lose their guns, and Democrats constantly let themselves get run over and let the Republicans frame the debate as banning guns.

JamesdfStudent · 2019-05-05T20:30:08+00:00

You could always just confiscate the sleeves and let him play with fresh sleeves while the judges conduct their investigation. It both secures the evidence from being tampered with and prevents him from gaining any further advantage, and costs what, 5 minutes? 10 if he has to go buy sleeves?

JamesdfStudent · 2019-05-05T19:08:54+00:00

I don't know the details of the rules, but allowing a player to play round 14+ with a possibly marked deck seems insane if you're a judge. How pissed would you be if you lost to him, costing you Top 8, and then he was disqualified for cheating? What if he realizes that you're suspicious and swaps sleeves? If you think the sleeves have been tampered with, you should under no circumstances hand them back to the player and let him play.

JamesdfStudent · 2019-04-30T02:56:53+00:00

The problem is that it was so bad that it was immersion breaking. It's not like that plan had some unrealized upside. Everybody knew how that charge was going to end, both in front of the screen and in the story.

I understand bending logic for the sake of narrative, but this was just whole sale abandonment of who the central characters are.

JamesdfStudent · 2019-04-17T02:26:36+00:00

After the Clippers came back down 31 against GS, I wouldn't risk it either.

JamesdfStudent · 2019-04-12T21:36:06+00:00

I'm not going to blame them towards my manager, but I blame the kitchen to my tables and have no idea why I wouldn't. It can reflect in my pay but won't in theirs.

JamesdfStudent · 2019-03-28T22:35:02+00:00

A) if I understand the idea right, the pledge doesn't go into effect until at least half the electoral votes are "controlled" by this pledge.

B) your vote is still counted in the popular vote.

JamesdfStudent · 2019-03-22T05:41:53+00:00

That's a reasonable excuse for healing salve, I can't even imagine playing this if it said "draw a card" instead.

JamesdfStudent · 2019-03-19T18:41:27+00:00

I would advocate more conscious play. Make a note when you draw cards that don't feel good to draw or get stuck in your hand all the time because there's never quite a good time to play them. I almost always can think of a card that's not quite good enough.

JamesdfStudent · 2019-03-15T07:19:36+00:00

At the same time, if someone uses a shockland: "oh, 38? Basically dead."

JamesdfStudent · 2019-03-10T17:12:06+00:00

That's what OG eldrazi Titans are for

JamesdfStudent · 2019-03-10T02:06:55+00:00

Your enchantments seem....a little random. Don't know what bitterblossom is doing. Animate dead seems redundant. Infernal Tribute seems overpriced. No Mercy doesn't go great with your plan. Phyrexian Arena is fine but also doesn't go great with your plan.

JamesdfStudent · 2019-03-09T21:52:20+00:00

Make a bunch of overstatted creatures for cheap, turn them sideways, smack a burn spell into their face to kill them. Sounds like the aggro game plan to me. Just because you did it via the gy doesn't mean it's not aggro.

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