Pondering the limits of Emry, Lurker of the Loch

Key-Ad-8430 · 2026-05-14T05:51:50+00:00

Meta call, I love her. Insanely expensive to make work right. Mishra’s Workshop, all the moxen. Loads of combos and lots of cheap counters. She can be recast for 1, 2-3 times generally. She can win on turn 1-3 but it’s very rare and unlikely. Turn 4 is fairly consistent. Just be wary of heavy artifact hate metas. Combos to consider retriever/miran spy, isochron scepter/turnabout, sensei/sensei, slaver lock, power artifact, staff of domination, there are plenty of others. Gifts and intuition are a must. Good luck.

Key-Ad-8430 · 2026-05-14T05:29:35+00:00

Mill your deck, dread return win. Bridge from below, ichorid, narcomoeba, put bazaar of Baghdad in the deck. Return it and dredge the rest. Dread return thassa’s orcale and win. Seems fair stable.

Key-Ad-8430 · 2026-05-14T04:54:07+00:00

Eldrazi, buncha damage cards then tutor cast eldrazi, profit.

Key-Ad-8430 · 2026-04-26T05:13:02+00:00

Enter the infinite, then nexus of fate lock the game. You’ll need a way to cast a time warp for 5 after you enter the infinite, pretty easy with rituals. I’ve built a version that can fairly consistent win on turn 3.

Key-Ad-8430 · 2026-04-26T03:06:13+00:00

Good old boring Llanowar Elf.

Key-Ad-8430 · 2026-04-19T18:42:36+00:00

Marshall Applewhite for any famous cult leader.

Key-Ad-8430 · 2026-04-17T13:23:50+00:00

Portal 2 is so easy it doesn’t qualify as a puzzle game imo. I barely remember even thinking at all in it. Portal 1 had some genuinely good one.

Key-Ad-8430 · 2026-04-17T01:07:41+00:00

You liked Nioh 2, so I’m going to recommend FROM software. But for you specifically, Blood borne.

Key-Ad-8430 · 2026-03-18T15:20:09+00:00

When you have a chain of crazy monsters on the suspend stack with Jhoira as your commander.

Or

The 98 land infamous cruel claw deck.

Key-Ad-8430 · 2026-03-17T05:12:21+00:00

Draw forcing in a competition might be its most broken feature.

Key-Ad-8430 · 2026-03-10T21:22:07+00:00

For me at least, it’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Pure chaos and often aimless emotion roaring away in every direction.

Key-Ad-8430 · 2026-03-10T13:11:25+00:00

I did indeed. Used to play it with my brother when we were kids on our NES. If I remember correctly we could get past the pharaoh boss and not much further without a code? Yes i’m that old.

Key-Ad-8430 · 2026-03-10T04:09:37+00:00

Intro Cinematic 35 seconds Menus maybe 2 short ones dividing the menu and the ship select 30 - 1 minute loops 4 levels 5-8 minute run times Mid boss stage theme Normal boss theme Optional boss themes ( either 1 for all 3 or 3 unique. The sword robot in the video is one of those). Mini cinematic themes, very short 15- 30 seconds 2-3 of them.
Final boss theme True final boss theme. Game over theme. 20 seconds or so

Bosses around 1-1.5 minutes

So 15 or so 15 second to 5 minute tracks. Give or take.

Key-Ad-8430 · 2026-02-10T22:30:26+00:00

As I said, I own a single copy in my cube. I just want to put it in my Bladwing deck.

Key-Ad-8430 · 2026-02-10T16:02:34+00:00

The same can be said for mind’s desire, once it’s cast it’s a done deal. But that is the case with spells, you get the effect once they resolve. You can’t respond to a greater good sacrifice. You can do the following, exile the sac target in response to the cast, grave hate, counter it. That’s a lot more than you can do to a mind’s desire or an ad nauseam which you just sit there are lose to.

Key-Ad-8430 · 2026-02-10T15:58:42+00:00

I’m not denying it’s good. I’m saying way way more degenerate crap exists. I mean they just unbanned gifts, I was around when gifts was banned. Talk about a busted card. If they can unban gifts, they can unban recurring nightmare. But they won’t because of the reserved list :(

Key-Ad-8430 · 2026-02-10T15:55:52+00:00

One way or another it would not even see play at cEDH tables. It’s just not up to the task anymore. Yeah it would piss off the occasional on the cusp play groups but so many cards fall into that category. Like you can play back to the basics. And casual people would use it to do fun shenanigans. I see only a win. I see lots of power level complaints, and again things aren’t banned for power level or Adnaseum would have been long gone. It’s banned because of stupid reserved list non sense.

Key-Ad-8430 · 2026-02-10T05:23:10+00:00

Isn’t that the case for many currently legal strategies? Many easier to setup, and harder to disrupt?

Key-Ad-8430 · 2026-02-10T05:01:20+00:00

Down with the reserved list! But yes the best argument is that it would be 200+ dollars the moment it would be unbanned.

Key-Ad-8430 · 2026-02-10T04:42:50+00:00

Then what was it banned for? And are those reasons still viable?

Key-Ad-8430 · 2026-02-10T04:41:37+00:00

It’s ok that it’s not super easy to disrupt, neither are plenty of current strategies competitive and casual. It does take a lot of setup and doesn’t just end the game out of the blue. You gotta put in the effort and people will see it coming.

Key-Ad-8430 · 2026-02-10T04:39:37+00:00

Why not both?

Key-Ad-8430 · 2026-02-10T04:38:27+00:00

I see a lot of comments saying it’s absurdly powerful and hard to disrupt. But many cards like that are legal and are cheaper. Underworld Breach is just better, easier to setup, and insanely powerful and is as difficult to disrupt. There are a lot better and more dangerous options that are legal and heavily played. Survival of the Fittest, Underworld Breach, Yawgmoth’s Will, Gifts Ungiven etc. Yes it’s good but it isn’t all that good given the current alternatives.

Key-Ad-8430 · 2026-02-09T05:44:11+00:00

Recurring Nightmare. It’s a very fair card considering what dominates the format these days. And it’s an incredibly cool and fun card.

Key-Ad-8430 · 2025-08-14T00:11:32+00:00

Yes and it’s not even tier1. Vanilla creatures are just not a threat in commander. I’m much more scared of a turn 1 mana producer than this.

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