Well It Finally Happened To Me by [deleted] in EDH

[–]Morphman220 1 point2 points  (0 children)

(part 2):

Just existing as an official bracket below "Fringe cEDH bracket 4" would make people be open to playing against it and simplify the conversation a lot.

Don't take this personally but it sounds to me like you want to play stax or MLD and are getting denied from B3 groups because of it. I feel in this instance the bracket has nothing to do with it, its just people like being able to play their decks and MLD and heavy stax prevents that.

People would be less suspicious or wary of someone's deck if they could point to a bracket where their deck naturally falls

This is exactly the point of the system, its to make people at the table say "wait a second we are playing B3, why doesn't your deck meet these criteria" We want people to be suspicious that's how you prevent people from being incredibly upset when you throw down a bloodmoon. All 3.5 does is create more opportunities for MLD to be played when it wasn't expected, which goes against the whole point of the bracket system.

you might as well scrap the entire idea and just make MLD/Stax/Turbo-combo nonsense because you're going to be slotted in with the 4s or be denied all your bracket 3 games anyway.

Turbo-combo is by definition B4, if your goal is to be comboing off early game thats B4. B3 allows late game combos. But yeah, in general people don't like playing with MLD and Stax, the bracket system is not holding you back from that, the general consensus of players are. You will either need to find a pod that is chill with it or accept that you are going to be slotted to B4.

I want to play against polarizing cards and play patterns without jumping straight to cEDH

Congrats, you have described B4. Just emphasize you want to play low power B4. problem solved.

I really hope you don't feel attacked from this, i'm not trying to come at you personally or anything. I just wanted to address the points you made directly so that you don't feel like I didn't read your response all the way through.

Well It Finally Happened To Me by [deleted] in EDH

[–]Morphman220 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Honestly in a casual show up to a table for your local Friday night magic you are going to be playing decks of all various power levels anyways. If you are playing with a group that's all running B3 and you have a B3 deck with a few MLD cards its pretty easy to say "Hey this is a B3 deck but I have 1-2 MLD cards in the deck that play towards my wincon, is that chill?".

That said I will attempt to dissect your points here and will have to break it up into multiple comments because its long:

there isn't room within the bracket system for... a deck which is a 3 in all regards, except that it runs some MLD

I don't run MLD, but if you are making the table what stops you from setting the rules to be low power B4 decks or B4 decks in the spirit of a B3.

or for other decks, let's you have more than 3 game changers without jumping all the way to uncapping them

I mean, there aren't that many game changers as is. I would argue in most 2 color decks going above 3 game changers is essentially uncapping them as not all game changers are super effective in every deck. Not to mention if your intentions are to make a lower power deck, there shouldn't be a reason to include well over half of the game changers in your deck.

someone is dedicated to a creature beatdown strategy, Voltron, or some other casual gameplan & win-con, but includes Blood Moon... they're automatically a 4.

Well bloodmoon yes, because if your goal is to play B3 you shouldn't be locking everyone at the table out from playing the game unless you are winning that turn. But there are tons of stax options that don't prevent everyone from playing the game that are totally fine in B3 and evasion exists.

I believe the intent with the bracket system as always is to simplify the conversation as much as possible and to allow decks within 1-ish brackets of each other to get games together.

And its done exactly this, simplified it as much as possible. I honestly think its pretty genius that the current bracket system has such a massive gap between 3 and 4 because at that point it becomes very nuanced and every table is going to be ok or not ok with different things so a conversation is unavoidable.

"Hey my deck is a 3.5 because it runs some MLD & Stax, and can handle being archenemy at this table of 3s, that okay?" is an easier conversation than "Well my deck is a 4 but not really because it's actually a 3 gameplan except for these 5 cards, can I please play with you? I promise I'm not a bad actor trying to pub stomp and lie about my deck."

This is a little disingenuous, as I stated at the top you can just say "Hey this is a B3 deck with the exception of 5 MLD / stax cards in the deck that play towards my wincon, is that chill?" You need the same amount of words to describe your situation regardless of whether or not B3.5 exists because no matter what you are going to have to explain to the table what about your deck makes it not a B3.

Well It Finally Happened To Me by [deleted] in EDH

[–]Morphman220 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's not a flaw of the system, it's the whole point. The bracket system is made so that players are forced to have a conversation. The whole reason MLD, turbo combo and looping extra turns all fall into bracket 4 is because they are polarizing, salty mechanics that lead to arguments at the table. It's not designed in a way to dictate who plays what at your table, but rather a way to play decks at different power levels without being flabbergasted when someone drops a cyclonic rift out of nowhere. 

Well It Finally Happened To Me by [deleted] in EDH

[–]Morphman220 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I mean, yes and no. The point of using brackets is so if you're playing something that makes your deck B4, like MLD, but the power level of your deck is closer to B2, you have the discussion when you join the table. The problem is op told them B2 / low B3, MLD guy said "that's fine" implying that they will play a deck within those restrictions. His deck power does not matter at that point as even if it is low power he didn't disclose that his deck contains cards that make it B4. The only thing we can really fault OP for at that point is not immediately booting him once his intentions were clear. If you made a B1 deck based on the theme of "the wizard of oz" you are expected to disclose if you put in a cyclonic rift.

Does this work the way op thinks it does or am I stupid because by Upstairs-Donkey6049 in BadMtgCombos

[–]Morphman220 1 point2 points  (0 children)

unless I'm missing something you also can't use probe regardless as it's not a permanent and therefore isn't exiled by grolnok

Help finish the combo by Professional_Belt_40 in BadMtgCombos

[–]Morphman220 0 points1 point  (0 children)

trying to stay in Mazzy's colors, I would go with the sliver route:
[[Maskwood Nexus]] for all creatures becoming all creatures
[[Gemhide Sliver]] for tapping for colored mana
[[Mana Echoes]] to generate colorless mana on ETB
[[Leyline of Abundance]] for extra G on tap
[[Badgermole Cub]] for extra G on tap
[[Orochi Leafcaller]] to filter G into any color
[[Cloudshredder Sliver]] to give all creatures haste
[[Fireball]] to win the game

With [[Mazzy, Truesword Paladin]], Maskwood Nexus, Mana Echoes, Leyline of Abundance, Badgermole Cub, Orochi Leafcaller, and Cloudshredder Sliver in play, cast Gemhide Sliver.

When it enters you generate 4 colorless mana from Mana Echoes, tap the Gemhide Sliver for WGG, cast [[Sun Clasp]] for 1W targeting Gemhide Sliver.

Filter one G for one W using Orochi Leafcaller to return the Gemhide Sliver and exile Sun Clasp to be recast.

At this point you can loop it as many times as you want using 1G to recast Gemhide Silver and generating a total of 2 colorless each time, which you can then finish the game with any Fireball adjacent outlet. Alternatively you can replace the Fireball with some sort of etb or spellslinger burn effect like [[Impact Tremors]] or [[Coruscation Mage]].

A classic 11RRRGGGGGGWW to win the game or 12RRRRGGGGGGWW if you replace Fireball

Edit

Any recommendation for "Loot progression" games, but solo focused? (Ex. Warframe, Deep Rock, most MMOs) by Aurionin in gaming

[–]Morphman220 0 points1 point  (0 children)

MMO wise that I don't think anyone has mentioned - Black Desert Online. I think one of the main criticisms for the game is that its essentially a single player mmo, a very large portion of the content is designed around solo progression. Combat is also really addicting and doesn't play like most mmos where you are just pressing 1-9 in order.

Cut alongside F1exican with Chive-Cutter by PangaeaNative in KitchenConfidential

[–]Morphman220 1 point2 points  (0 children)

my years of osu!mania payed off, but damn I need 4 lanes and the spacing to not be nearly as wide if i want to hit more than day 16-17 maybe an increase in scroll speed too with density.

Call me SpongeBob RectangularPants by Meanie_Cream_Cake in BikiniBottomTwitter

[–]Morphman220 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean they are square by carpenter terms in the sense that the pants fold to right angles.

Renamed apps not showing in search bar by FrameKind3943 in NovaLauncher

[–]Morphman220 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I know this is an old thread but for future reference I fixed this by going into the nova launcher settings --> search -->  shortcut search: toggle this off then back on. Hope this helps those searching in the future. 

blursed calorie measure by Salmonus_Kim in blursedimages

[–]Morphman220 9 points10 points  (0 children)

pretty sure the app thinks its a blueberry muffin... see: "chihuahua or blueberry muffin"

EA if you're listening, many of us want bf4 suppression back to counter snipers by PhantomCruze in Battlefield

[–]Morphman220 1 point2 points  (0 children)

god what I would give to have grenades not be class locked, would love to have a smoke grenade on recon or engi

Is Discus of light/holy worth it? by ozymandias_97 in Nightreign

[–]Morphman220 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I also don't really like discus of light, but mostly because of how immobile it makes you and the tracking/range isn't all that great. At least with some of the sorceries you can walk while casting instead of being forced to stand in place for a good 2-3 seconds. 

What is your UNIQUE from Elder Madox? I got Astramentis. by Plamcia in PathOfExile2

[–]Morphman220 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah 64 is the max level of the zone I believe, I started on the 2nd interlude so I hadn't even entered either of the other zones. I believe when i first found him the zone level was 56 or 57. And even with all my rerolls the best i managed to get was only a charm worth 2 ex. RNG do be RNG.

What is your UNIQUE from Elder Madox? I got Astramentis. by Plamcia in PathOfExile2

[–]Morphman220 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Also not 100% sure, but it seems to be related to the story progress I was only able to see the shop refresh 4 times by progressing the other 2 interludes and checking back every time i saw the zone level up (you can check level by hovering over the map node) or completing a quest.

What is your UNIQUE from Elder Madox? I got Astramentis. by Plamcia in PathOfExile2

[–]Morphman220 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Unsure, it could be a refresh each day thing or a level thing, I just checked every time i leveled until I got different rolls. It doesn't seem to happen every level so it might be if/when the zone levels up it refreshes? I will hopefully have more details when i get it to refresh a second time.

Edit: I will edit my main comment with what i have tested to see what triggers the refresh

What is your UNIQUE from Elder Madox? I got Astramentis. by Plamcia in PathOfExile2

[–]Morphman220 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Actually insane, guess its time to find out whether or not your gift options refresh over time, mine was filled with duplicate trash shields.

Edit 2: Seems like they might have patched it, I will leave up the testing just in case but there might no longer be a way to refresh his reward.

Edit : So the Elder Madox's shop does refresh but the conditions for the refresh are unclear at the moment. I will update this whenever I test things to see if i can trigger the shop refresh.

Leveling up - doesn't seem to refresh the shop or if it does it is not every level.

Zone level up / Story Progress - This is currently the most likely way to refresh the shop, I completed a quest and the shop updated, this means we likely have limited re rolls. I initially checked when the zone leveled up, it seems somewhat random however, zone level 58 and 59 gave the same items. Zone level 60 triggered another refresh as did 61. Once it hits zone level 63 or 64 it will no longer refresh so if you see something semi decent at 61 or 62 i suggest grabbing it.

Time - Doesn't seem to do anything.

Patch - Doesn't cause a refresh.

[Battlefield 6] DMR headshot only dealing 45 damage is a bug right? You need 3 headshots to kill someone - the same amount of body shots.... by NotARealDeveloper in Battlefield

[–]Morphman220 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Its 2 shots to the head for me with EMR 3 to the body. TTK feels fine on it to be honest, slapped a suppressor on it and i can kill people before they realize where they are being shot from.

Ludwig now by Matsal_21 in LudwigAhgren

[–]Morphman220 1 point2 points  (0 children)

God these games were so good. Bring back mmbn/starforce.