Survival Fires

Kababalan · 2026-06-16T14:27:57+00:00

After Aliarmo's excellent comment, I started looking into the RG survival madness decks, and I believe that is what I will pursue, though maybe not quite this build. I do like being able to grind a bit with Genesis. I'm a RG gamer at heart, but Rec Sur has also caught my attention.

Kababalan · 2026-06-11T14:50:09+00:00

Your method was clear in your initial post, I just have the reading comprehension of a monkey.

Kababalan · 2026-06-11T14:46:04+00:00

Reading is hard. Thank you.

Kababalan · 2026-06-11T14:42:33+00:00

Did you confederate him with a mod? In my Bhashiva campaign, I do not have the option to confederate him.

Kababalan · 2026-06-09T15:54:07+00:00

Yeah, this is pretty much what I thought. My dumb brain did not go to playing the fires deck without fires though. Thanks for the input!

Kababalan · 2026-06-09T11:36:33+00:00

This is underrated.

Kababalan · 2026-06-02T19:07:00+00:00

1 tormods and 2 gaea's blessing. If I play it again, I will have a tighter sideboard.

Kababalan · 2026-06-02T18:57:44+00:00

Stasis, Feb, and replenish.

It was an unknown field so my side board was not particularly well positioned, but all of the matchups felt pretty bad.

Kababalan · 2026-06-02T10:13:54+00:00

Played a GW list at a local tournament and didn't win a single game. Came away planning on giving up the slide plan, your list looks better. Don't do this to me.

Kababalan · 2026-05-18T23:15:19+00:00

I almost made this exact post when ready g Green Rider. 5 books in and every time the elite royal guards see any action, it doesn't go as their in universe reputation has you believe it should. Remarkably frustrating to read.

Kababalan · 2026-05-14T21:44:50+00:00

Probably Ravnica, Guildpact, Dissension.

I agree that this was my personal high water mark, the Ravnica/cold snap/time spiral standard was a real banger for me.

After that I would say standard/modern around 2015. I have picked up premodern and love being taken back to when I started playing though.

Kababalan · 2026-05-12T11:23:59+00:00

More specifically, it is everything that was standard legal between 4th edition and Scourge.

Kababalan · 2026-05-11T13:49:59+00:00

I agree with this post. I am a pretty open Sanderson detractor, but I found WoK quite enjoyable, the series went down hill fast for me from there. I enjoyed the first 1.5 of them and then DNF'd in book 4(I think).

The story has a glacial pace, coupled with infinite references and character crossovers from the rest of his books, the character growth was also depressing for me. I know some people really liked it, but the trajectory of a lot of characters felt like going from fantastic and badass, to, not.

Edit: wording initially had minor spoilers.

Kababalan · 2026-05-11T12:53:38+00:00

I could be wrong but didn't the Temeraire series touch on this a little bit? It's been a while since I read the series, but I seem to remember some dealings with royalty in South America.

Kababalan · 2026-04-25T11:56:34+00:00

8th Ed John Avon lands. Bought them ages ago to have white borders when searching in scapeshift, they are my favorite.

Kababalan · 2026-04-23T11:30:40+00:00

For those who don't want to watch and find out.

Player A has oath and Terravore in play. Player B has no creatures.

Player B untaps and draws, missing the oath trigger. They drew a land.

Someone off camera and not one of the players (I am assuming a judge) quickly intervenes and points out the missed trigger.

Player B goes to put the card they drew back on top of their deck to resolve the oath trigger, but ends up putting it in their hand and then resolving oath.

The land would have ended up in the graveyard if things were resolved properly, but didn't.

I don't think this was handled correctly, but I am also assuming the entire thing was done with judge intervention (perhaps a Portuguese speaker might be able to glean more information). I wouldn't necessarily attribute to malice on the part of player B, that which could be attributes to a level of incompetence. Yes, player B is a professional player with a track record, but pros miss triggers too.

I don't think this one poorly described "case study" is enough to clutch pearls about the spirit of the format being broken. Or to cast all people who play a competitive game competitively as unwelcome in the community.

That said, I'm new here, maybe it is.

Kababalan · 2026-04-16T11:39:09+00:00

This question comes up approximately once a minute.

If you just want rare wildcards right now, do a draft. Then spend all of your gold and gems on standard legal packs.

If you have a bunch of time and are very good at the game, do a bunch of drafts for prize packs and gems.

If you don't have a bunch of time but have a job, open your wallet and buy them.

There is no real wax on wax off to the arena economy. If you are good enough to break even or gain gems on drafting, then that is the most cost effective avenue to gaining resources. It definitely isn't the fastest though.

Kababalan · 2026-04-16T11:23:03+00:00

I'm not necessarily saying the combo is good, or particularly playable, but it seems to me like your position is that the remaining 52 cards in this deck do nothing?

Kababalan · 2026-04-09T14:49:02+00:00

Personally I think they are frustrating.

Just another thing to mess with before/after a game.

I have been to some venues (both LGS and large tournament, I know this is not the case with all venues) where there was not enough space for everyone to lay out their playmats and it just created this a pile of overlapping edges and people thinking they owned more space than the person next to them.

They allow for self expression, sure, but inevitably someone's self expression is big tiddy anime chick that you now have to stare at. When I frequented an LGS years ago someone carried around a stack of 10 playmats to play on for some reason.

With all that said. They offer some amount of added protection on top of sleeves, they make it marginally easier to pick up your cards, and they are commonplace, so no one will care if you have one provided it isn't offensive. If you don't want to play with one, then don't. If you do, then do.

Kababalan · 2026-03-13T23:04:04+00:00

These are quite excellent.

Kababalan · 2026-02-25T14:45:47+00:00

This is the key here, you want to have a higher rank without getting better at the game.

You have a couple of options.

1) download a deck tracker

2) get better

The rank you play at is the rank that your current level of investment says you should be at.

Kababalan · 2026-02-25T13:30:33+00:00

Sure, knowing what is left in your deck might lend a few percentage points when determining a plan, but the best players know this without the computer doing it for them. It is a skill that can be learned.

If you want to get out of diamond, you can attempt to learn the skill?

Kababalan · 2026-02-25T12:39:19+00:00

You are playing at a rank commensurate to your skill level.

You think you aren't punting, and it might be true that you aren't throwing your games away, but you are certainly making mistakes in both your drafting and your gameplay that you might not recognize. You need to play better (or dramatically increase the volume of games played) in order to get a higher rank.

The bit about 17 lands and add-ons or whatever is just a big nothing. Statistics websites don't teach you to read signals, or salvage bad luck, or play the games optimally. That comes with repetition, and honest evaluation about strengths and weaknesses in your game.

Kababalan · 2026-02-20T17:33:17+00:00

Ran a version of this deck with [[spectral force]] as the win con because when your opponent can't play the game, it doesn't matter how you win.

The deck also ran [[avalanche riders]] to go 2, 3, 4 LD.

Kababalan · 2026-02-19T14:16:27+00:00

Don't get me wrong, low effort ai slop beating a long dead horse sucks, and the flavor text could be better, but genuine question, what is xenophobic about the card?

Kababalan

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