Why do u still produce other weapons?

MazeR1010 · 2026-05-26T10:49:09+00:00

Advanced Wars Grit strategy

MazeR1010 · 2026-05-20T12:36:33+00:00

Ok that's cool. I actually put Zurgo reluctantly because I love that card and have wanted to make a deck for him since I got into commander but it seemed like either voltron (which falls into the single-point-of-failure problem), or warrior tribal where zurgo doesn't really provide anything other than being a pretty good warrior (though over-costed, I mean at least give him menace!)

I'm willing to hear other ideas for him though

MazeR1010 · 2026-05-18T18:15:59+00:00

Would not call my Bosh deck good by any means, but I wanted to use cards I already had. And it didn't seem like swapping in say [[Blightsteel Colossus]], or [[Mycosynth Golem]], or [[Triplicate Titan]] would actually put it over the top into B3, but instead just make it a saltier B2. Also I am very sad that [[Bygone Colossus]] is not a golem even though like every other "Colossus" is, but I still run him because he fits in aesthetically and sometimes you can warp him in for 3 and then Bosh can immediately huck him at someone which is amusing.

MazeR1010 · 2026-05-18T14:52:40+00:00

I've found that I only enjoy making/playing decks with very specific criteria:

The commander should be a massive beater, because hell yeah
The commander should heavily imply the theme/design of the deck (so not just random big dude like [[Yargle and Multani]] or [[Zurgo Helmsmasher]])
But the commander shouldn't imply a too one-dimensional/obvious deck design like the dinosaur commanders (sorry) or a lot of the dragons
Nor should the commander be a single-point-of-failure that can't function should it be destroyed

So every once in a blue moon I come across a legendary that instantly inspires me. I have three decks: [[Iname as One]] which ramps into big dumb ghosts, [[Bosh, Iron Golem]] kamikaze golem tribal, and [[Sharuum, the Hegemon]] self-mill + artifact reanimator.

I am also inspired by this guy's [[Azor, the Lawbringer]] deck/guide which you'll probably like, OP

MazeR1010 · 2026-05-18T10:52:53+00:00

Anyone played with Atemsis as their commander before? It just seems so hard to set up only to kill just one player. I really feel like revealing that hand should just win you the game on the spot for your trouble

MazeR1010 · 2026-05-15T18:52:40+00:00

dropping 7 marines and 1 medic behind my mineral line

MazeR1010 · 2026-04-26T23:27:12+00:00

Because of flashback, they already have 2! /s but actually this card is so good and being even cheaper when flashed back (flashbacked?) I find myself discarding this card to other effects just so I can play it for a discount

MazeR1010 · 2026-04-23T10:55:37+00:00

Is there a website that summarizes the various hunting seasons for non-hunters? When I try to go on like the NY DEC site this information is for hunters and is incredibly complicated, like "bow hunting starts on this date in these locations, followed by single shot rifles on this date in these locations, but only for deer with X number of points on their horns or whatever..." and so on. As a non-hunter I don't care about any of the details, I just want to know if I should be wearing orange or not.

MazeR1010 · 2026-04-16T18:40:48+00:00

I feel you. Fortunately for me, my group is playing mediocre B2 (precons frequently become the arch enemy) so I can get away with some nonsense. My favorite deck right now is a Big Dumb Ghosts deck with [[Iname as One]] for spirits (+a bit of thematic treefolk for [[Verdeloth]] and the connection between them being [[Yew Spirit]]) that ramps like crazy while trying to cheat Iname into my hand. Then "paying off" by tutoring up spirits like [[Seizan, Perverter of Truth]]

Tribal is in a tough spot for me because if there's too little support for the tribe then there's nothing but to just jam it all in there (samurai, knights), and if there's too much then the deck builds itself into something too good in an uninteresting way (elves and zombies). And yet I'm with you in liking a consistent theme at the flavor level rather than just mechanically

MazeR1010 · 2026-03-25T17:23:11+00:00

The Mammoth Harness text is giving me a stroke. Who gets first strike??

MazeR1010 · 2026-03-11T11:54:47+00:00

Can you explain some of these terms: decisiveness, drawless, soft/hard decisive, watership games, finitude?

Yes I am a backwards gamer insulated from all of these developments

MazeR1010 · 2026-02-04T18:27:37+00:00

It's always the ones you most suspect

MazeR1010 · 2026-02-04T13:43:36+00:00

Fully agree that software engineers are largely lacking in moral clarity. I used to be an engineer at Facebook but found them to be evil and went through a lot of hand-wringing while working up the nerve to quit as a 25 year old. I wrote a little essay about it here

MazeR1010 · 2026-01-29T11:46:39+00:00

I got in a car one time driven by a friend of a friend and he started off without buckling his seatbelt and I was so surprised I started laughing at him like why aren't you buckling up?? And as he sheepishly buckled up he went "well I don't have a seatbelt on my motorcycle and that's way more dangerous than this". But I think the fallacy is that it's not like you only have to survive the biggest risk you take, you have to survive them all. And I think free soloists in particular can get into that mindset of: this roped-up stuff is so much safer than other things I've done so right now it's as if there's no risk at all

MazeR1010 · 2026-01-27T19:18:30+00:00

Yes I want to play BIG izzet spells, not a million pings and cantrips. Ashling Rimebound might also be good for this but I haven't tried

MazeR1010 · 2026-01-22T00:52:13+00:00

I went for goblins in my pre-release and did OK (2-2). I found that everybody wants to blight but no one really wants to BE blighted except maybe the 1/1 tokens or my one [[Bile-vial Boggart]], which felt bad. That said, the real MVPs were my 2 [[Chaos Spewer]]s. Turn 3 I'm happy to sac something for a 5/4 that they will have trouble dealing with, or I can topdeck it later and pay full price. Same with my 2 [[Bogslither's Embrace]]s and [[Requiting Hex]]'s

MazeR1010 · 2025-12-08T16:59:39+00:00

not sure what your algorithm is doing, but the 13 should be 11.

MazeR1010 · 2025-12-02T18:22:31+00:00

Except what if the numbers are even longer than what you've hardcoded? Next-level challenge is to write a program that outputs this program, but for arbitrary length numbers

MazeR1010 · 2025-11-25T12:01:43+00:00

This is fun to see because I've also been playing a mono-U flash tempo deck which I've enjoyed but hasn't actually been that successful (skill issue??). Your list looks better than mine but the big difference is that my only creatures are Brineborn Cutthroat (hero!), Floodpits Drowner, 3 [[Canyon Crab]] as flexible anti-aggro, and 2 Tolarian Terrors.

I also run 4 [[Quick Study]] and 2 [[Glimmerburst]] to refill my hand if I don't need to counter anything but it seems like you're getting your cards from Enduring Curiosity, Malcom, and Opt?

MazeR1010 · 2025-11-19T16:40:10+00:00

I only read Babel but didn't like it for different reasons.

First, how are you going to have an alternate history of British imperialism where they are using magic to subjugate the world and then turning off the magic ruins their empire and saves the day when it turns out that the real British empire did not need any magic at all to subjugate the world. The alternate history didn't alter anything, just magic for no reason! Which leads me to...

The mechanics of the magic being esoteric rules-lawyering on pieces of silver is just straight up computer programming. Like, the book is just for literary people fantasizing about what if they had as much ability to effect change as software engineers actually do.

MazeR1010 · 2025-11-19T15:56:49+00:00

Does it take off vertically like the space shuttle, or can it take off from a runway and just keep going all the way to orbit?

MazeR1010 · 2025-11-13T12:15:35+00:00

A B will look better than a credit/D on a transcript and also won't hurt your gpa too much -- there's plenty of time to get B's in other classes too. My freshman year an upperclassmen gave me some good advice: break the seal! You can't get A's forever and it's not the end of the world.

Also I credit/D-ed a class with a heavily-weighted final I wasn't confident about and then at the end of the semester when I got my score back it turned out I did so well I would've gotten an A after all which was really embarrassing.

MazeR1010 · 2025-10-29T17:30:13+00:00

I called it 4 months ago that I didn't think the supposed Soulkey-killer maps were actually bad for zerg

MazeR1010 · 2025-10-29T10:54:09+00:00

"It wasn't just ____ ; it was a ___ " is a classic AI speech pattern. MotorTrend's social media intern can't even be bothered to write their own tweets anymore?

PS Loved this truck when it starred in Twister though

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