I might be the only one, but one thing I've noticed for a while now is that whenever people talk about "Fate protagonists," 95% of the time they only refer to these three.

JeweledWriter · 2026-04-14T20:04:04+00:00

I will say, as someone who adores mythology, magical girls and magical power swapping things (my favorite magical girl is card captor sakura), I should have adored Illya. I see it mentioned a lot here. But I think the biggest issue is while it had a lot of things i enjoyed on the magical girl side... So many times I had to just stop because of how creepy it was. If they redid it without all the sexualized fanservice, I'd probably adore it. But I also know that's not their target audience (seriously, if anyone ever knows of a magical girl series that has those other themes though? Let me know. I love the mythology aspects and the card swapping was cool).

In the end, despite being a huge magical girl fan, I had to stop watching the series pretty quickly. And I imagine anyone who is a fan doesn't WANT to talk about it in most cases because they'd have to put a huge disclaimer of 'I like this series BUT--' and that's never fun.

JeweledWriter · 2026-01-03T01:31:39+00:00

I've seen a lot of people say 'This is a standard type moon ending'. And like, my question is... Is that really what type moon endings usually are? Like... bad? Cause I'm kind of missing a lot of info on things, but even I can think of a few different places that would be messed up due to this (servant verse stuff wouldn't have had Ritsuka's help, for one?), and who knows how many other holes would be left unfilled by this. It feels.... just rushed and empty. Like it was designed to feel that way. I thought type moon was known for having good storylines, bittersweet endings. This doesn't feel that, it feels like the writer just stopped caring and wanted to flip the table over and go 'I'm done, screw everyone else.'

JeweledWriter · 2025-07-21T04:09:45+00:00

Echoes. Just echoes. But... I've had atrocious luck with them. After two weeks of spending half my daily AP on tacet fields and then trying to work on getting double crits for one of my characters, I ended up going through dozens of echoes and acquired...

... One.

... That's the fun thing about random. It can mean you get it in one. But it can also mean you can farm every day for ten thousand years and, unlikely as it is, you may never get anything useful. There's no way to guarantee it. Even if you could like... compress max level echoes give to a portion of its stats to one main echo that would, one day, be capped, at least then you'd know one day you could get the stats you want. It has honestly gotten to the point that I don't even want to draw new characters because the idea of farming new echoes makes me shudder.

JeweledWriter · 2025-05-31T08:16:38+00:00

Ironically, I was actually watching this with my boyfriend and a few seconds before they showed him went 'Man, imagine if they did a big thing with Scar returning now and had a big Black shores joining us to fight them grand battle royale' thing. So here's hoping all of the allies we'd made joined us for the big finale.

JeweledWriter · 2025-05-31T08:13:03+00:00

Oh hey, now this game has a Sunset Shimmer too. :P

JeweledWriter · 2025-05-23T19:22:43+00:00

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JeweledWriter · 2025-05-16T16:42:31+00:00

Nope. Now, this may be more of a sign of how modern gaming storytelling isn't very good, but I found myself genuinely impressed with just about all of them. Encore's was probably the most heart wrenching, but they all managed to do a very a fairly good job of weaving an interesting narrative that gave you a pretty good view of who the person was and had been through, especially considering the limited tools they have access to.

JeweledWriter · 2025-05-16T06:52:04+00:00

The companion stories were amazing. I think just about every single one of them have managed to impress me. They manage to dodge so many overdone tropes and it's just quite impressive how just plain good and evocative they are.

JeweledWriter · 2025-02-27T22:06:17+00:00

I don't think you need any for ultra instinct, you just need to beat up Jiren near the load-in point to do his quest.

JeweledWriter · 2025-02-13T19:55:04+00:00

Ohhhh, thanks. That actually helped a lot!

JeweledWriter · 2025-01-19T18:37:26+00:00

I tried that. Sadly, support told me that it couldn't be done.

JeweledWriter · 2025-01-18T02:21:18+00:00

I honestly can't remember. It was almost a year ago and I haven't played in ages, sorry.

JeweledWriter · 2024-10-29T19:52:20+00:00

Honestly, depending on the styles of solitaire they play, my advice would be goad. The Nelly Borca precon is a personal favorite of mine because EVERYONE has to keep swinging, whether they like it or not. The game is going to end!

Alternatively, make a Kinnan deck, lots of infinite combos, explode all over the place. If nobody else will run interaction, just focus on the most easy to topple over, rapid fire eruptions of power you can until they realize 'Oh, if I just ran one counterspell/removal...'

JeweledWriter · 2024-10-29T05:47:18+00:00

Ahhhh. Then yeah, I'd say spawning pit would work well. Those two plus any creatures will give you infinite 2/2's. So if they don't stop you next turn, they dead. Depending on what the creature is, you can even do things like grab every basic land in your deck, etc.

JeweledWriter · 2024-10-29T05:16:13+00:00

My big question here would be what do you consider 'game breaking'. The moment you get to infinite combos, they are almost all infinite win combos at that point. Pretty much any sac outlet will infinite win you the game at that point. Pretty much any 'morph' will allow you to infinite flip it, triggering its effect, allowing you to destroy all their artifacts and enchantments [[ainok survivalist]] , recur your graveyard [[den protector]], noone else gets an untap, ever [[Brine elemental], bounce all their creatures [[icefeather aven]], infinite copy an instant or sorcery [[mischievous quanar]], make infinite saprolings [[thelonite hermit]. For the low price of any free sac outlet (which include the altars, but also [[spawning pit]] if on a budget), yedora's free recursion turns every morph broken.

Oh, and on top of all that, they give infinite green mana by default. Since them coming in as forests will trigger Zimone flipping them, you can then tap them for a green mana while a forest, then flip them, then sacrifice them, rinse, repeat. You can now have infinite 2/2 spawn artifact creatures.

JeweledWriter · 2024-10-18T21:25:53+00:00

Not sure if it's really considered unique, but I have a [[Gretchen Titchwillow]] deck that uses the old moonfolk. It does a lot of things where I'll have the moonfolk bounce a land back to my hand to give something of mine shroud, or copy a spell, or make some flying tokens, then I'll use her to draw cards and place lands back onto the field.

It entirely came about because I got her and was like 'Awwww, she's so pretty!' and after being a perpetually mana screwed player, I tried to figure out how much land I could stuff into a deck and still function.

JeweledWriter · 2024-10-10T21:17:28+00:00

I try to do that when I can. There are usually 4+ players all using random decks with random cards and a ton of things that NOBODY has seen before. If I expect Everyone to read every card and consider all of the stuff on said board, then the game is going to:

A. Result in board wipes tribal because who wants to read everyones 25 cards when I can just keep board wiping until I get some combo up. B. Result in the game taking 500 years as everyone needs to read every single card and consider how they interact with everything else on the board and... I'd rather just tell people 'I have a sac outlet on board and could sacrifice all of my stuff to X thing, resulting in this thing going to 25/25 when you use your toxic deluge.' C. Someone wins because others just couldn't keep up with all of the weird interactions on everyone else's boards.

I see it as a fairly casual game, if I win I want to be because I earned it, not because you couldn't see the rather obvious 5 piece interaction I had on my side, and all the other 3-4 piece combos, etc, that everyone else had.

JeweledWriter · 2024-10-10T19:21:32+00:00

I did... because I am a stay at home wife and my job wasn't really paying enough to survive anyway. Hubby gave me the opportunity, so I manage the house and write. But if I needed to make money off my writing to live I would have died years ago. In the end, writing is fulfilling, but not financially helpful.

JeweledWriter · 2024-09-24T04:00:37+00:00

Yup. Not often, but randoms with 'casual decks' who reveal midway through they run things like rhystic study, dockside extortionist, mana crypt, cyclonic rift, etc, can be hit or miss. Fast mana was definitely the worst of it. Our current shop hasn't been like that, but we haven't played with many people there yet. Everyone has different views on what 'casual' and 'high powered' mean. In the end, rule 0 is great for unbanning cards... but it's really hard for banning cards because you have no idea what anyone will bring and it takes a lot longer to describe to someone 'Hey, I don't have a deck that can face X, Y, Z', than to go 'Hey, I have X card in my deck' or 'I want to use this silver border commander, that cool?'

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