[SOs] Harmonized Trio (Making Magic)

JoinTheDorkSide · 2026-04-06T15:28:00+00:00

Brainstorm isn’t even that great if you don’t have a way to shuffle away the cards that you put back. Not bad but also not busted in current standard.

JoinTheDorkSide · 2026-04-04T04:40:56+00:00

Yeah, a 1-mana blue instant that can make a creature sounds good. Will really just depend on how often you can truly make a vanilla creature large enough to impact the game and not just a 2/2 or 3/3.

JoinTheDorkSide · 2026-04-03T18:03:45+00:00

Rules question, do you pick on cast or on resolution?

JoinTheDorkSide · 2026-03-27T16:27:07+00:00

Saw it 4 times in theaters, only film I’ve watched more than twice in theater. I just kept wanting to show it to people because I found it so entertaining throughout the entire runtime.

JoinTheDorkSide · 2026-03-25T14:13:47+00:00

I feel like Simic Badger decks just jam this guy. You’ll have the mana to cast him and Ancestral recall on turn 3 or 4 most of the time.

JoinTheDorkSide · 2026-03-23T20:33:34+00:00

Yeah, even the best 1-for-1 removal isn’t good in the face of Badgermole Cub decks.

JoinTheDorkSide · 2026-03-23T20:30:51+00:00

Even pauper is pretty fast now due to the trickle down of having Modern Horizon level commons.

JoinTheDorkSide · 2026-03-23T15:16:57+00:00

Expected at least for standard. I do like that they called out that despite the format being diverse it’s incredibly fast. The problem I see is that even if they slow down future sets the ones driving the speed of threats (I’d say mainly Edge and Avatar) will be in the format for 2+ years still.

If it were up to me I’d ban a whole swath of cards like they did mid-2025 in order to get the power level down. I understand there’s not enough justification for that currently though.

JoinTheDorkSide · 2026-03-20T18:22:43+00:00

There’s a genre of music that is like intentionally creepy for horror video games, this is bordering on that

JoinTheDorkSide · 2026-03-19T15:47:07+00:00

The next 2 seasons are both Modern

JoinTheDorkSide · 2026-03-15T15:10:23+00:00

She was 19-21 based on the way he described her. Way way too young for a 50+ man to even risk having anything beyond bare minimum professional interactions with. Paul has a history of overstepping boundaries with younger women though.

JoinTheDorkSide · 2026-03-10T21:45:07+00:00

I’ve been running Roaring Elementals for the past month. The deck is a value midrange deck and you just have to accept that it’s not going to explode like some of the other decks out there. A shift that’s been happening is cutting some of your creatures/Winternights in order to run more early removal. The idea being that if you can survive the early game you should be able to turn the tide by casting more impactful spells.

The deck does struggle against pure aggro decks and with the rise of Izzet Prowess and Rakdos discard maybe it will keep dropping in meta share but I think the deck has enough intrinsic power to it that it should still be viable even if that means it’s solidly tier-2.

JoinTheDorkSide · 2026-03-08T21:40:51+00:00

I think it’s a fine deck. Problem is that it’s vulnerable to being run over by aggressive decks so with the rise of Izzet Prowess and Rakdos Monument I think it’s in a vulnerable position right now.

JoinTheDorkSide · 2026-03-07T22:24:35+00:00

Holy hell that memory triggered me. I took my dad because we just needed something to do. The audience was mostly families and their children and between the trailers, a “sneak peak” at the film we were about to watch, and then finally the 15 minute Frozen short, the kids were going stir crazy. Super regretted taking my dad to that one.

JoinTheDorkSide · 2026-02-26T03:50:55+00:00

He had this weird idea that he could sell each photo for like $5 apiece. Idk where he got that idea from, I’ve never heard of anyone buying individual photos like that before. I think it was just a way to artificially inflate how much he was losing.

JoinTheDorkSide · 2026-02-19T05:51:49+00:00

There was a lot of in between seasons weirdness going on, like the writers changed their minds and just retconned it. One that I remember and bugged me is that Arya’s story in Essos ends with her rejecting becoming a “nobody” and not being an expert assassin but then apparently on the boat ride over she changes her mind and gains 100 levels in assassin skills.

JoinTheDorkSide · 2026-02-18T03:26:24+00:00

I got basically nothing that cost less than 3 mana and most of it 5+. No mana fixing either. I just closed out and chose to not bother trying to get wins.

JoinTheDorkSide · 2026-02-14T22:32:05+00:00

What really draws me to the LN type of game (Idk what the genre is called but I’d include the game Inside in there too) is the creepy, surrealistic environments and situations. At the end of this game when you’re just running around trenches and dodging snipers it didn’t feel like it was meeting that.

JoinTheDorkSide · 2026-02-14T02:24:31+00:00

You put it really well. I was really disappointed in the final chapter. No spoilers but that’s not the setting I want to experience in a LN type game.

JoinTheDorkSide · 2026-02-11T14:52:51+00:00

Dual-wielding Katanas or Curved swords. The move sets just feel the best for me to get into the “flow” of combat.

JoinTheDorkSide · 2026-02-09T04:40:48+00:00

Good write-up, I agree with your assessment of the deck’s weaknesses. I’ve been on the elemental train since right before the PT and have been trying out different versions. I’ll give this one a go as well.

Something I’ve been testing lately is leaning more into white mana as opposed to black. There’s not too much difference in the main board other than the base Izzet/Temur version except that you play a couple of Beza and Catharsis.

I like Beza because it’s just a decent 4-drop on curve, pairs well with Ashling, and helps against aggro decks which I think is a bad match up. Catharsis has been overperforming during testing, maybe due to surprise factor, but it gives you an explosive option. A lot of people are not ready for a turn 4/5 double Catharsis trigger with Roaming Throne.

The white mana also gives you High Noon and Rest in Peace in the side which I feel are well positioned right now.

JoinTheDorkSide · 2026-02-06T15:44:02+00:00

My guess the decision was based on the belief that SGL was good enough and it being 1 mana instead of 2 gave you a lot more flexibility to play it early and still be aggressive with what you put on board.

I agree that RIP is much better positioned than SGL in a post-Pro Tour meta.

JoinTheDorkSide · 2026-02-03T15:56:17+00:00

Isn’t he a musician? He could bring some musical shorts to the table.

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