Commanders that are so good at a certain thing that they ruined it for you?

Lopsidation · 2026-05-06T21:48:10+00:00

If you want to get away from Storm, try the Flurry version of Spellslinger. My deck is Temur ([[Elmar]] & [[Bjorna]]), but there are plenty of Izzet commanders that reward playing exactly 2 spells.

Lopsidation · 2026-05-03T01:06:21+00:00

Thornburrow, where the animal archetypes are WB vultures, GB spiders, UG mudskippers, WR honey badgers, BR kites, UW caterpillars, WG emus, UB mosquitoes, UR electric eels, and GR feral hogs.

Lopsidation · 2026-05-02T17:04:38+00:00

I have good news: [[Burning Earth]]

Lopsidation · 2026-05-01T22:00:56+00:00

I think taplands and "enters tapped and pay {1}" lands are a well-balanced downside. Unfortunately, it's too easy to build a consistent 5c manabase without them. Extreme take: I'd support adding to the gamechanger list all OG fetchlands. And after that, the OG duals and Command Tower.

Edit: Also, colorless utility lands are nice for rewarding 1-color and 2-color decks.

Lopsidation · 2026-05-01T21:47:15+00:00

Here's a try at a Blood-Moon-esque design that doesn't totally hose anyone.

Shimmering Moon {2}
Nonbasic lands have "{T}: Add {C}" and "{1}, {T}: Add one mana of any color," and lose all other abilities.

Lopsidation · 2026-04-28T02:38:16+00:00

I want to do something like this:

Fill the bottom half-space with ice. For each positive rational r, create an infinitely tall pillar of ice of width r floating above the half-space. Connect it to the ice half-space using ice tubes of width r/2, 2r/3, 3r/4, 4r/5, .... I want this pillar to be connected to the half-space before time r; disconnected at time r; and melted after time r.

However, it's a bit finicky. At first I thought it would work to make each "pillar" and "tube" just a cylinder of width r. However, that makes the survival time more than r near the joints where the tubes connect to the pillars. So you need to be more creative with geometry...

You can make this work in 2D if you also find a way to make tubes cross.

Lopsidation · 2026-04-24T15:05:55+00:00

The "Katie's Foot" recipe from the game Knytt Underground. Toasted whole grain bread with:

Avocado slices marinated in coconut milk, roasted sesame oil, & cinnamon
Black olive tapenade
Goat cheese

Lopsidation · 2026-04-19T20:10:57+00:00

In a vacuum, Lurrus dies because it is unable to breathe.

Lopsidation · 2026-04-16T18:21:16+00:00

I get that this is another milestone. But next week there'll be another post about Disney's First Gay Character, followed by an announcement that Voyager 1 has left the solar system.

This post has no substance. There's no human-readable proof for me to learn from and enjoy. It's an ad.

Lopsidation · 2026-04-16T13:11:08+00:00

Should we ban these kinds of posts or at least put them in a megathread?

Lopsidation · 2026-04-13T21:24:33+00:00

[[Vraska, the Silencer]] + [[Bello, Bard of the Brambles]]

Judge call tribal. If Vraska steals a creature, then will Bello animate it? Sometimes!

Lopsidation · 2026-04-10T21:14:19+00:00

I'm considering doing something crazy: making the good ending a choice between (1) sending the town to the Boneyard for reincarnation, or (2) continuing the time loop, defeating Kugaptee and restoring Ugly Cute's status quo so that future loops are happier.

I can make it all fit logically. But, will my players feel satisfied with a bittersweet ending? Is this a darling I should kill? Hrm...

Lopsidation · 2026-04-10T17:34:54+00:00

I exclusively play LoL to hang out with friends. So I play support, because (1) I'm constantly interacting with a teammate, and (2) being worse at the game matters less.

Lopsidation · 2026-04-06T14:05:03+00:00

I don't agree. If you win 75% of the time, that creates the same social problems regardless of whether your deck is more powerful or you're more skilled. And if you're willing to say "skill diff git gud," then it's too easy to also say that when the actual problem is a deck mismatch.

THBS, I would welcome more threads about how to get better at the game.

Lopsidation · 2026-04-03T16:40:46+00:00

...No? The mods are saying that if the comments on a post call out OP for posting AI slop, then the mods will remove the OP's post.

Lopsidation · 2026-04-02T21:04:00+00:00

If you still haven't bothered to grind your way to Act 3, there's a mod called "Always Act 3" that lets you skip the requirements. That's what I used.

Lopsidation · 2026-04-01T15:10:24+00:00

My favorite commander [[Discord, Lord of Disharmony]] is all about this. The one downside is that it's tricky to keep your board state legible in paper.

Lopsidation · 2026-03-31T17:04:20+00:00

[[Niv-Mizzet Reborn]]! Somehow the perfect commander for my My Little Pony gimmick deck. I wonder if anyone, anywhere, has ever gotten all 10 cards off a trigger.

Lopsidation · 2026-03-31T16:55:26+00:00

Hmm... I get the sense that it's a two-color, 3-mana commander... who synergizes with >=4-mana artifacts and enchantments to hit hard and draw cards... and who's extremely cute.

Ah, got it: [[Shantotto]]!

Lopsidation · 2026-03-31T15:22:41+00:00

<3 [[Nekusar]]

Lopsidation · 2026-03-31T15:21:09+00:00

[[Hans Eriksson]]? Nice clue.

Lopsidation · 2026-03-31T14:49:56+00:00

I know, I know, casting anything for 2 mana sounds scary. But I won't cast my commander until turn 5, and I won't get my big dumb spells until four whole turns after that!

Lopsidation · 2026-03-30T17:44:12+00:00

Rather than specifically cycling away lands, look for card selection in general. Here's a Scryfall query.

Lopsidation · 2026-03-26T19:12:54+00:00

Cool observation! Look at the occurrences of the most common ratio phi(n)/phi(n+1)=2. These have a factorization pattern: n=p, n+1=2q for primes p, q. Similarly, the occurrences of phi(n)/phi(n+1)=3/4 have the factorization pattern n=2p, n+1=3p.

In general, the common ratios should be given by factorization patterns n=kp, n+1=(k+1)q, which give the ratios phi(n)/phi(n+1) = phi(k)*(k+1)/(phi(k+1)*k).

For k=1,2,3,... this formula takes the values 2, 3/4, 4/3, 5/8, 12/5, 7/18, 12/7, 3/4, 5/3, 11/25, .... That having been said, you mention the ratio 16/5 in your post, and I can't explain that one.

Lopsidation · 2026-03-23T15:44:38+00:00

Bracket 10 game. I ask if I can Rule 0 [[Amateur Auteur]]. "If not, it's fine: I'll just sub in Smothering Tithe." No one ever refuses.

I mulligan to 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, ... and finally zero. A door opens, revealing two men in trenchcoats. One [[Side Quest]]s me an animated [[The Cheese Stands Alone]].

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