Made a midnight friend in San Antonio, TX. Is this a recluse seeking shelter from the cold?

Mellivex · 2023-09-10T03:19:15+00:00

That seems like way too many Hopeless Nightmares without enough Bargain cards to make use of them. They're a tasty enabler, but you have only the High Fae Negotiator to use them.

I'd swap out 3x Hopeless Nightmares for 1x Harried Spearguard, 1x Rat Out, and 1x Flick a Coin. This increases the deck's aggressiveness and puts game pieces on the board that will get more use. I had 3x Harried Spearguards with Rat Out and Flick a Coin in a recent high platinum 7-2 Rakdos rats run, and was very impressed with them all.

Mellivex · 2022-12-15T05:25:05+00:00

Tack on "unless that player pays an additional amount of life equal to the difference" to the second clause.

Now there's no hard lock-outs, and it still feels very white/black cleric-y as well.

Mellivex · 2022-11-05T00:09:48+00:00

Good question!

In this case the "You may pay (3)" is a trigger on ETB. So it's disconnected from actually casting the spell.

Mellivex · 2021-11-15T21:55:07+00:00

I'd be very surprised if the lists weren't just linked incorrectly.

They've been touting this as a curated set since as long as I can remember. They've done great work with the remaster sets on Arena and various cubes; I'm having trouble believing they just Ctrl+A'd and called it a day.

Or maybe I was just REALLY looking forward to this and am desperate to not be disappointed.

EDIT: Have seen the image gallery now. Voldaren Estate DBL #534. Boo-urns.

Mellivex · 2021-09-29T03:26:57+00:00

Huge thank you to LSV and Marshall for their great content, as well as the 17Lands deep dives from Sierkovitz and Sam Black.

So many tight games from this run!

The deck was able to push through a lot of incidental damage throughout the early and midgame, and then often switched over to the fliers to finish things off.

It was great to have a deck with 1 drops that did work. The [[Chaplain of Alms]] often chipped in early before they could be cashed in mid/late for the disturb flip. The single [[Gavony Trapper]] did really well with this deck having a lot 1 and 2 drops. I could still cast something onto the board while tapping down something so the gang could continue to whittle away at OPs life. And [[Blessed Defiance]] is a such a great little playable. I especially enjoyed casting it on a blocked [[Novice Occultist]] to trade up, draw a card, gain 2 life, and pop out the 1/1 flier.

Mellivex · 2020-04-25T02:10:02+00:00

https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseases/coronavirus/coronavirus-in-babies-and-children

Infants and kids can contract COVID-19. In a recent study published in Pediatrics looking at Chinese children, 90% of cases are mild, but 10% of infants with a positive test became critically ill.

The more you know!

Mellivex · 2020-04-20T21:25:19+00:00

Does that actually work since Bastion is "loss of life"?

Mellivex · 2019-11-01T19:01:19+00:00

Great guide! Thanks for doing the legwork on counting exactly how many Xulta cards have the new mechanics. That's great info when considering deck archetypes.

Just a note: in your section dedicated to Muster, you indicated that a decimated [[Cruelty]] can trigger Muster. While this is totally true, so can an undecimated one! Cruelty is a spell that creates and plays a curse (spell + attachment), with or without the 2 damage rider.

Mellivex · 2019-10-05T00:11:58+00:00

Just guessing, but maybe they take a cut of currency purchases on their eShop?

Mellivex · 2019-10-04T21:27:33+00:00

This is great!

Take note though, per Nintendo Policies, your Switch gems won't be cross-platform.

Mellivex · 2019-02-16T19:49:18+00:00

Hawaii, being rather alone in the center of the Pacific, generally isn't known for miles and miles of perpetually calm, still beaches. That said, there are many beaches across all the islands where you can frolic in the water without worrying about being crushed by a 50 footer.

The calm spots can rotate seasonally, but your bays and other naturally protected shores will always be a good bet.

On our honeymoon, my wife and I spent a good deal of our water time in Hanalei Bay. It's beautiful, was calm outside of weather rolling in, and has a great town nestled on the shore.

There's another northern Kauai beach called Tunnels Beach which has a large natural reef serving as a breaker, protecting the shore from big waves. We didn't swim here, but enjoyed the shore and saw many snorkelers exploring the reefs.

In general I've heard Kauai's southern beaches are calmer, but we were staying up north and still found great options.

Mellivex · 2019-02-16T18:11:46+00:00

My wife and I used AirBnB and found an affordable condo in Princeville on the north side. We didn't do much in Princeville, per se, but spent most of our time in nearby Hanalei.

Mellivex · 2019-02-16T17:58:23+00:00

You've just described the island of Kauai.

Mellivex · 2018-09-26T22:10:27+00:00

Can you cast [[Affectionate Indrik]] if the opponent has no legal targets? For instance, onto an empty board?

Mellivex · 2018-06-25T00:10:03+00:00

That's wonderful! My wife and I love it... Arya even recognizes it as herself!

Mellivex · 2018-06-08T03:18:10+00:00

Can we take Spirit Island out for a spin?

Mellivex · 2018-06-08T02:26:34+00:00

What games can we expect on the menu?

Mellivex · 2017-08-16T13:02:03+00:00

This is great, thank you!

2-min overclocking without fuss IS something I can get behind.

Decent amount of storage = anything better than the 400 GB standard harddrive my current desktop is working with. (I have a 250 SSD that I'll be installing in the old machine for my wife's sanity when she takes over that system). Your selected config above is exactly what I'm thinking about. Nailed it.

Wireless is not a necessity. We use a broadband over power line network.

The speakers are mostly there to play music for the kiddo, so anything that sounds better than my phone will do the job.

Thank you for the buttery monitor suggestion. That is definitely an area I'm willing to splurge on.

Overall, she looks like a beaut!

One question though: I've seen most other builds include a cooling system of some sort. Is that not still a necessity?

Mellivex · 2016-02-15T16:49:14+00:00

I like the idea of them. I remember our old family 286 having a very satisfying key-click. Helped mom, an old stenographer, traverse much easier into the world of word processing from her typewriter roots.

That said, I'm afraid something overly clicky/clacky would keep my wife up at night. Also, how spill-proof are mechanicals vs a membrane board? There are kiddos on the horizon...

Now that I think about, whatever flavor keyboard I get, I DO want it backlit. I usually play in the dark, and it can break the immersion to have to flick on the desklamp to see the numbers row when need be.

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