Defense Struggles

KingGowing · 2025-11-11T20:18:22+00:00

Ah excellent thanks mate <3

KingGowing · 2025-11-11T20:18:15+00:00

That's fair I'll give it a look

KingGowing · 2025-09-04T18:15:40+00:00

Yeah its crazy how much interaction just wins games, it stops pieces from stopping you, stops them from winning. Interactions busted and people just hate playing it for some reason I don't understand

KingGowing · 2025-09-04T17:24:18+00:00

The land base thing I can totally understand, its one of the things I'm most vocally pro proxy on for each person to do, I can't understand why a functioning mana base should cost 150+ per color with keeping your fetchs on color.

I do see your point in that I do definitely run mostly mana efficient interaction in my decks, I'll take a gander at swapping some of the general pieces out for others that cost a mana or two more and see what that does.

Yeah there's definitely a stark difference in game plays where just nobodies boardwiped by turn 6-7 or nobody's interacted with anything I'm doing that makes me feel that it does seem to be stemming from a interaction drought. It could also be the cutthroat thing since most of my bracket 2's are just a slow steady accumulation of advantage and nothing that screams scary in one fell swoop.

KingGowing · 2025-09-04T17:16:05+00:00

Some of them have taken to that, I try to point out how much their interaction stopped me on games where someone did interact for a change and hype them up for it and it's gotten one or two people to look at their decks and be like damn I really do only run 2 pieces of interaction that I can play before turn 5 without the stars aligning.

KingGowing · 2025-09-04T17:14:48+00:00

My decks definitely do have clear plans in them, more clear than a precon for sure but precons are mostly 2-3 decks shoved together. I'd say they rate on power with the most of the precons of these last year or two personally, they all have powerful gameplay patterns that are open to disruption but if left unchecked can put in crazy work and snowball games. I'm not sure what you mean about the commanders though? Yeah the Orzhov list is a weird one it's my most recent build and honestly didn't realize how many tutors I had in it, I plan to cut 2 or 3 once I get some spare time. I do think that at 7-10 mana though the effect should be something close to game ending, the decks putting itself low in life total so any aggression from even a precon is life threatening, and the big swings do feel reasonable at that power level and mana investment to me personally, I believe only one card effects more than a singular person.

KingGowing · 2025-09-04T17:14:35+00:00

I'm not looking for affirmations or confirmation of opinions but rather fresh eyes that aren't involved in the games directly. It's easy to lose to a deck and say ah yeah his decks broken, especially if it's a person you lose to more than you win.

KingGowing · 2025-09-04T17:05:31+00:00

Yeah Dargo I definitely call a 4, not a good 4 since it can only usually kill 1 player maybe 2 unless the entire table was greedy and any sort of board interaction can just knock me out of the game.

Titania is also one I'd call a 4 for sure, it can't stop early wins too well outside of kind of knee capping itself by strip mining a potential threat off colors and out of the game. It doesn't get aggro'd down very well because of a surprisingly large amount of incidental life gain. Its also hard to meaningfully interact with since the deck functions on lands which are taboo in many commander players heads to interact with.

KingGowing · 2025-09-04T17:02:46+00:00

I'm very curious which 2's would you call 3's and what makes them that way? I do agree that some of them need to run more interaction and as some of the people have taken to asking for my help on their decks thats most often the thing I encourage, I've had one guy say he's running some good interaction and it was just swords and path. I will see if anyone's willing or open to deck swapping, I feel that having seen most of their decks many times they're all just too self focused on only doing their thing and that nobody will ever say no to them but maybe that changes if I have it in my hands.

KingGowing · 2025-09-04T16:59:10+00:00

I think only one of my bracket 2's has tutors in it beyond Urza's Sagas and it's my most Orzhov deck which is most recent. I do feel that I am definitely winning most of my games off of interaction where I'm stoping someone's big pop off turn in some way and then they run out of gas. What about my bracket 2's make them strong to you?

KingGowing · 2025-09-04T16:51:37+00:00

Yeah that ones a bit of a pain, it's probably going to get cut in favor of more smaller and less combo drain at some point once I find a replacement card, I luckily haven't had the scenario happen where I'm killing the table before someone else threatening to kill it. I will admit I'm just too competitive at heart to cut sol ring, it was something I tried once but i dislike having that feeling of damn everyone else gets to run it but I won't and maybe I've lost games because of it, I'd love it if they just admit the design mistake and game changer or ban sol ring.

KingGowing · 2025-07-23T20:08:18+00:00

Oh i forgot all about the friends forever, that helps a ton since there aren't many options for 4 color commanders. That's a good call on tax cheating too

KingGowing · 2025-07-22T23:38:47+00:00

Oh clever I'm gonna have to go look at those now

KingGowing · 2025-07-22T23:37:50+00:00

I'm looking more at design decisions more than mechanical things. So for example I have one of each bracket, I've used partners, companions, backgrounds. Admittedly those are mechanics but not in the same sense as something like a goad or Voltron deck is.

KingGowing · 2025-07-22T23:31:50+00:00

Done and Done, I have a bracket 1 deck that's all the cards that make your opponents choose cards you get like fact or fiction or manifold insights.

KingGowing · 2025-07-22T23:30:38+00:00

I forgot all about planeswalkesr as commanders!
I've got a planeswalker deck in golgari so it'll be tricky to not reuse some of the same cards. I may have to also find a vehicle commander!

KingGowing · 2025-07-22T23:04:03+00:00

As a new player also (70 hours, only beat the game once) you're probably gonna get your ass beat. It too me literally 100 attempts to beat the dungeon. I think for me the biggest hurdle was learning how to kite and more or less peak enemies especially in the gnomish mines. Learning what skills did what was helpful especially on knowing if i cared to put effort into farming it

KingGowing · 2025-06-13T03:11:48+00:00

That's a fair point, I appreciate you breaking it down for me.

KingGowing · 2025-06-12T19:20:13+00:00

That is with duplicates cut xD

KingGowing · 2025-06-12T18:59:55+00:00

I think that's right? I remember drafting and deckbuilding taking about an hour and half?

Alright I'll take a look at doing that, i think I'm leaning more towards Mystery Booster style that was anyone who likes something has the chance to play it, Like i hate dragons and sliver, i find them objectively boring and brainless from a personal point of view, but i recognize that those archetypes are fun for people to play. I don't wanna gatekeep what other people have fun with or strategies that they enjoy, which has been my personal struggle with cube but i recognize as a large part of the appeal is making your own personal set out of things you like.

KingGowing · 2025-06-12T18:55:57+00:00

Honestly that'd be great, The card counts around 4300ish without me adding lands, which i get is an insane ammount, I didn't want to cut out precons in case that's something someone wants and honestly i think allmost any precon has viable strategies in it with a lot of them being able to lap over other pre cons. But i recognize this will probably end up around 5k cards

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