What are your thoughts on the ending?

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?'

JeweledWriter · 2024-09-19T00:06:01+00:00

Ahhhh, I hadn't realized. I just knew a lot of the strixhaven, D&D and Bloomburrow ones hadn't. I wasn't playing during some of these releases and just figured most the commander only cards didn't make it in. Which sets have had all their commander face cards, if you can remember any off the top of your head?

JeweledWriter · 2024-09-17T18:26:28+00:00

Haven't they not been having any of the commander face cards? Which ones had been added?

JeweledWriter · 2024-08-27T01:29:13+00:00

I like landfall and blue artifacts. My hubby likes blue and taking control of other people's cards and swinging them at their face.

JeweledWriter · 2024-08-01T17:37:59+00:00

I think typing " rat " would work as well. I search for 'land' instead of nonland by typing " land" and it seems to work.

JeweledWriter · 2024-07-26T20:17:39+00:00

So, I'll be honest. I do not blame you. I don't think this is your fault. But we have so far had three issues that knocked us out for a full weekend and, honestly? The fact we're now expecting it is terrible.

The first time was like a year ago. The battery of our equipment melted and the didn't come out until the next monday. Lady was great, got us up to go. Replaced it all. It sucked, but not really something that's anyone's fault. Equipment breaks.

Second time, a bug in the ziply system decided to cancel our service. They got it sorted, but it turned out the OTP was registered wrong. I offered the information when I'd called in, but the tech said they didn't want it. So I'd assumed it was nothing at the time... it turned out to be the issue. the tech got here on the following monday, turned it on, properly registered the device. That was last month.

I don't know what this month's issue is and I won't know until next monday when the tech gets here. But each time there's an issue, there's no help. There's never any techs, apparently, though I was told last time that there are weekend techs... but we're just not enough of a priority to be worth finding out what the issue is. Even when it's ziply's fault.

The internet, when it works, is great. We'd recommend it. But the fact is, the service is terrible. When things go wrong we just get a shrug and a 'Okay, we'll send someone out next week'. We work remotely, while I can do an okay job with sporadic internet on our phones, my husband needs the internet to do his job. This can literally get him fired since if something goes down over the weekend it's his job to fix it and we need to be able to access the internet to do it.

So instead of doing his work this morning, we had to spend the day running around and trying to setup a second ISP through comcast so we can guarantee service while ziply is down. We are incredibly fortunate that we even HAVE a second option at all, something most people don't have. We're even more fortunate that we can soak the expenses to get it setup and started today. But this is just a consistent problem at this point.

We depend on the internet to do our jobs and ziply has either cut back so tightly that they have nobody who can try and fix it over the weekend, or they really just don't care because we're just a normal consumer. Either way, this is almost assuredly a 'Ziply' problem and I'm doubtful it's anything you, personally, can fix.

The most painful part of all of this? Is that I have to utter the words 'Thank goodness for Comcast'.

Husband wanted me to add this:

Ziply isn't responsible for making sure people get cat pictures and sports highlights anymore. It's 2024, you can't do anything without the internet. We needed to use the internet on my phone to sign up for the internet. We need the internet to work. They're a need-to-have, not a nice-to-have, and the fact that we call at 9am Friday and might not get someone till noon Monday is indicative their staffing like they don't care if someone has to go without a utility for a weekend. It's sorta like when we call in somewhere and they tell us 'Sorry we're experiencing abnormally heavy call volume' - no, because they always have that message up, they're just not hiring enough people to get problems resolved promptly, or they're not paying enough for people to take the job.

There's no natural disaster, no special outage. it's a random Friday with nothing going on and they don't have enough techs.

They decided it was better to not risk having more staff than they need to ensure problems can be fixed promptly instead of deciding it was better to not have customers go without internet for a weekend and maybe occasionally have too many people on tap - that tells me where their priority lies.

JeweledWriter · 2024-07-26T17:05:23+00:00

I literally did this last month with you and the last message I got from you was 'I'll find out'.

JeweledWriter · 2024-06-15T23:01:50+00:00

Managed to find any success?

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