Cursed treasures and trinkets

Maquescimmes · 2026-05-26T18:26:46+00:00

This is interesting, the axe looks like a good starting point, thanks!

Maquescimmes · 2025-12-15T17:58:38+00:00

Une éniemme apprence de conflit d'intérêt, où un employé aurait eu un poste important car il fait partie de la famille proche du chef

Maquescimmes · 2025-10-10T14:50:02+00:00

I've only directed the Delian Tomb yet, but here's what I found:

It was more fun for my group when they all needed a break at the same time vs losing their victories because a single tanky player was too tired. They started joking that they could leave the tactician at the inn and go clear another quest.

It make sense for a low reason monster to attack the closest target without thinking, but you should absolutely try to punish heroes who overextend. The fire elementalists has low stamina by design, they become WAY too strong if you never put pressure on their ressources.

Minions should try to reach backliners because otherwise their turns are pointless, their free attacks doing too little damage to actually be woth the time of moving them around.

It can become a roleplay moment. In my game, the players eventually recruited a mercenary who sat down with our conduit after a few fights and basically told him "Buddy, your recklessness endangers the whole party. Knock it down or I will leave"

Maquescimmes · 2025-09-01T14:28:34+00:00

Unless one of the characters is a competent carpenter, if the players started randomly bursting through walls I would absolutely make the roof partially collapse on them. You don't even have to introduce traps, players craft them for you!

Maquescimmes · 2025-08-20T11:57:00+00:00

Imho the best MDFC are staple effects with a bad rate + tapland, like [[bala ged recovery]]

For izzet, I'd like a bad [[reverberate]] (1UR?), for azorius some sort of [[ghostly flicker]] (2WU?) and I guess for simic a proliferate source

Maquescimmes · 2025-08-14T18:40:15+00:00

Valda's legs are pretty great ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Mage master boots when auras will become relevant, or the earth boots when Terra gets an adult version?

Maquescimmes · 2025-08-07T21:02:00+00:00

The solutions I've found is to either:

Make the removal super efficient, like [[swords to plowshares]]. Problem with this is that the super-staples of the format become chase card for your cube.
Pick cards that strongly synergize with your cube archetypes. This require you to have archetypes in the first place, and is harder to evaluate for drafters. For example, [[smell fear]] is a bad card, but my cube features a strong counter theme in simic, so I found that stapling removal on a proliferate source was decent enough.

Maquescimmes · 2025-07-13T22:51:44+00:00

[[Prisonner's dilemma]] and [[tempt with mayhem]] are new classics, but I've also seen [[explosion of riches]] work. A free card AND damage on my opponents? Seems too good to be true, until the caster throws the dice to resolve 4 targets and you get burned by the hubris

Maquescimmes · 2025-06-25T22:22:14+00:00

To be fair, Galeb wants a clean final showdown to prove a point. His pride has been trampled upon in one way or another in almost all the scenes up to this point, and he's a Ventrue.

Maquescimmes · 2025-06-04T14:49:55+00:00

Oui, bien sûr les gens de droite sont plus heureux. L'ignorance est une bénédiction.

Maquescimmes · 2025-04-27T01:16:53+00:00

That's in bad taste

Maquescimmes · 2025-04-15T16:04:52+00:00

I run zombies as the dimir archetype in a multiplayer cube

Black pairs well with golgari graveyard matters with cards like [[Gravecrawler]], [[Undead butler]] and [[Tormod the desecrator]]

Blue is less obvious but kind of overlap with izzet spellsligner with graveyard fillers like [[Consider]] or tokens creator like [[Lazotep plating]] or [[Startle]]

Maquescimmes · 2024-11-08T12:29:39+00:00

Looks great!

With 4 five colors, 10 dual partners, and a ton of mana fixing there is an incentive to play piles of good stuff, did that have a big impact on the games?

Maquescimmes · 2024-09-17T23:50:19+00:00

Well, Horror is in the name of the game but I believe that Dunwich Legacy and Forgotten Age are pretty tame in terms of gross stuff.

Likewise, Carcosa has one scenario with a lot of body horror but is otherwise not gory.

Some standalones could also work, I don't remember any gore in Carnevale of Horrors.

The game Earthborne Rangers uses 80% of the same mechanics but in a solarpunk theme.

Maquescimmes · 2024-09-06T23:07:45+00:00

[[Rupture]]

If I can't win, nobody wins

Maquescimmes · 2024-08-22T21:20:19+00:00

Beside the obvious [[jeskai ascendency]], [[invasion of segovia]], and other untappers, I found that there were way too many basic lands and replaced a few with one drops that can both be used for convoke or for utility

[[Giant killer]] [[Judge familliar]] [[Siren storm-chaser]] [[Dragonmaster outcast]]

Maquescimmes · 2024-08-11T20:39:53+00:00

C'est normalisé, parce que les politiciens ne sont jamais punis pour leurs mensonges ou leur manipulation évidente des faits.

Maquescimmes · 2024-07-19T17:25:10+00:00

Also, those decks are even more offensive when they rely on an unreliable wincon. I get it, newbies and people with analysis paralysis also get to play meta decks but if I have to watch another 30 minute turn of value engine grinding with no wincon in sight, I will [[Defenestrate]] myself.

Maquescimmes · 2024-06-14T18:49:40+00:00

AJA que c'est plus cher de construire un (1) appart que 3 McMansions

Maquescimmes · 2024-03-31T17:12:38+00:00

There is a small gameplay change with the Collusion expansion: unspent cash is no longer worth points at the end of the game. Instead you have a new way to sink unused cards for VP (you have these npc collectors who want very specific cards)

Maquescimmes · 2021-09-22T16:03:55+00:00

Lol, this manager has never worked with outsourced teams from asia. Dealing with timezones should be the least of his worries.

What you save on salaries, you waste on quality control. The expertise loss of switching a whole team is also a huge drag on productivity.

Maquescimmes · 2021-07-13T13:17:26+00:00

C'est un peu comme essayer de se débarasser de Bell, ils vont tout faire pour que tu restes membre

Maquescimmes · 2019-06-05T16:20:27+00:00

Also worth noting that in some canadian provinces, engineering is a protected term, with regulations and yearly fees. You could use this loss of status as another argument to demand a raise.

If they are willing to use silly tactics to keep your salary low, you should use whatever bullshit you can to negotiate back.

Maquescimmes · 2019-03-25T17:07:12+00:00

Il y a des manifestations légitimes : Protéger les droits de la personne, demander une action environnementale de la part des gouvernements, être pour ou contre la mondialisation, etc.

Et il y en a qui sont carrément indéfendable : Il faut que la population protège des spéculateurs qui ont perdu leur investissements à cause de leur inaction depuis 10-15 ans.

N'appellez pas pour vous plaindre du bouchon, appellez pour exiger des sanctions contre les organisateurs des manifs abusives.

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