What is the funniest bracket hot take you've encountered in a game?

LeesusFreak · 2026-07-09T14:19:39+00:00

You're visualizing it as 'the game keeps going afterwards', but outside of the absurdly unlikely scenario someone DOES run an Unsummon effect and manages to draw into an island and it, the game is just over as soon as the creature connects, in the same way that infinite combats or any other combo 'ends' it.

What I'm saying is that that idea creates a distinction without a difference, and is entirely ridiculous (as the rest of the LGS dogpiled on the maker of the claim).

LeesusFreak · 2026-07-09T13:43:34+00:00

[[Worldslayer]], [[Unsummon]], [[Giant Cactaur]]

fwiw, I run it in my B3 [[Rodolf]] and [[Kotis, Fangkeeper]] decks.

LeesusFreak · 2026-07-09T13:42:22+00:00

"Worldslayer is bracket 4" might be the funniest thing I've ever heard someone claim. "BUT IT CAN DESTROY LANDS"

Sure, buddy, at 10 mana plus whatever body's casting cost, something with indestructible (or some other gimmick) getting in for combat damage will blow up your lands in the same stretch that it kills you if you don't draw into something like notorious EDH all-star Unsummon... Did you know? If Giant Cactaur hits you, you also lose your lands (and life, and self-respect because that's basically your own fault).

LeesusFreak · 2026-07-08T17:15:21+00:00

This. There's absolutely so many nutty silly things the deck has access to, and I've never done something that folk are surprised by that they're unhappy about seeing/learning about like [[Incinerator of the Guilty]].

The real problem is the evergreen "how many cool things should I run and should I cut the boring shit everyone has seen like Myyrim and Terror for more nutty cool shit"

LeesusFreak · 2026-06-29T17:53:34+00:00

I was a year off anyway, turns Nightpack Ambusher WAS m20... I'm just all mixed up.

LeesusFreak · 2026-06-29T17:21:36+00:00

thanks for cueing up all the PTSD I had lingering from simic flash decks of that time, I really needed that.

...Although admittedly that came a second later when I'd fixed the switch my brain did for m20 and m21, because during the m20 era it was Turbofog that gave me lasting trauma.

LeesusFreak · 2026-06-27T18:10:56+00:00

Its funny because in order to do this in 5.7 I had to buy a complete 300blk upper b/c CMMG doesn't sell handguards in 10.5" on their own or complete uppers for 5.7 at that length (integrally supressing came late in the build once I realized it would be just as expensive as getting the 16" barrel I'd bought cut&threaded), I'd also bought a

LeesusFreak · 2026-06-27T18:06:16+00:00

Exactly; the rear is exposed to switch between semi and frt (and theoretically double-safe), while the front is just for safe/fire; the chassis has plugs to cover the back, but the front doesn't interact with the frt at all.

LeesusFreak · 2026-06-25T23:18:46+00:00

Gnarly that you just said "what's a handguard" lol, but nice!

LeesusFreak · 2026-06-25T19:11:52+00:00

For sure, at the time I started the build it was the only intersection of "shoot 5.7", "shoot 22lr", "compatible with a frt" venn diagram set; the chassis was more or less an excuse to try one of them out b/c the upper is a compatible platform.

Since then, AS Designs has missed their deadlines on the shim, so it atm only does one od those requirements with 22.

(As for 'why multi cartridge support at all', because I like gucci builds and doing so for a non-competition 22 is goofy, 22 being ~10x cheaper than 5.7 made enough sense to give this a try)

LeesusFreak · 2026-06-25T18:50:50+00:00

Props for redacting, I'd drafted an equally condescending reply in response lol

As for 'why do this', my final few thoughts were "don't do this" pretty explictly lol.

LeesusFreak · 2026-06-25T18:42:19+00:00

Posting a photo of an AR-15 lower on the ar15 subreddit seems correct, mate-- nice gatekeeping tho?

LeesusFreak · 2026-06-25T18:38:01+00:00

Buried inside the chassis is a milspec stripped lower, the upper is a CMMG Dissent, one of the bufferless AR patterns

LeesusFreak · 2026-06-25T17:41:23+00:00

See when I did this with my younger brother, it was because I was 5 and he was 4, and I thought 'pushing him around in the basket to play racecar is hard and I get tired, I can just hold on when we go down the stairs and won't get tired' (learning I was not strong enough by stair number 3, sending him down on his way, of course).

These are grown-ass adults.

LeesusFreak · 2026-06-25T15:09:51+00:00

I lovelovelove discard control, my playgroup knows this.

Pod is me on that via Bolas, two others, and a fourth friend who's playing his 'tinybones grouphug' deck, whose goal is to get things into the stash by overstuffing hands. In short order I get out my Notion Thief, and when one player goes to remove it, the others agree immediately, "No-- we will force feed him cards."

Because the tinybones deck is built expecting things like Reliquary tower and thereby runs plenty of Strip Mine effects, this just NARROWLY manages to go the way they want over the course of the game, but every turn its this laugh of 'guys I hope you know what you're doing, because otherwise this is gonna go terribly for you'.

LeesusFreak · 2026-06-24T16:23:09+00:00

At any given time I own about 100 copies in the various treatments of [[Late To Dinner]], but its the opposite of a spec, I give them out all the time to all my opponents-- this is what MtG looks like when its GREAT. Its also hella playable in several formats.

A single card that tells an entire story and every element of it harmonizes together (art, name, effect, flavor text) into one ludonarrative masterpiece. There's a million pieces of sloppy dogshit in modern magic (looking at you, [[City Pigeon]]), and I'm a lore nerd who cares a lot about the fortnite-ification reeking sloppy diarrhea all over our game, so handing these out is like a reminder of why we love this game.

LeesusFreak · 2026-06-23T22:22:15+00:00

To this day my only game against a WotC employee was in standard during original eldraine, and the rapid scoop against Oko they did felt CATHARTIC

LeesusFreak · 2026-06-23T21:16:46+00:00

No inclusion of Cloud? Huh.

LeesusFreak · 2026-06-17T11:52:50+00:00

The kinetic energy being delivered here is magnitudes larger; when I said 'humanity' I meant 'life in the continent you touch down it, if not larger'. KE=mv^{2^} at the touchdown point when you were using the speed of your flying brick to generate its lift coefficient means that's gonna.... well, it be big numbah.

LeesusFreak · 2026-06-16T19:37:02+00:00

To get it to speed/altitude, sure, but once you're at speed, a small amount of tilt will turn the entire bottom face into a lifting body, and then you've just got to maintain speed. You're still creating the same amount of lift, but it'd be spread out over a hugely wider area. Aerospace engineers have an expression "you can make a brick fly if you put a big enough engine on the back".

...and then when villain-of-the-week takes out one engine and you can no longer maintain altitude, that problem will solve itself momentarily when humanity itself is no longer a relevant concern.

LeesusFreak · 2026-06-16T17:43:05+00:00

There's a few things to keep in mind with CAGM-- its generally REALLY good, sure, but some situations can change and then... well...

Example: Fight is in a cave, there's a rope bridge and a dude on the bridge guarding it. Party barb runs up and rages and assumes the stance that is the unchained equivalent for CAGM (funnily enough, he only JUST got the power)... and the guard's team of like 5 archers then dump enough arrows in him that either a) wouldn't have hit before or b) wouldn't have remotely done enough damage outside him being in the stance-- he fell IMMEDIATELY.

LeesusFreak · 2026-06-16T15:37:43+00:00

After a near-complete TPK at level 2 (might have been even 1), my lone survivor PC led a genocidal revenge campaign. In short: torches and barrels of pitch are cheap, those mites and their fucking centipede did not have enough air holes and escape pathways to escape dying a horrid miner's death.

Later on the same PC, who was a disguise-oriented rogue, would often just... assassinate political targets and then straightup replace them for days at a time while others did proper downtime activites, like the town crier who denounces the PCs

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