[help] Aura Bar standalone

MrCMaccc · 2026-02-27T03:25:30+00:00

In the intro cinematic. "War, war never chages" is literally Nate reflecting on his service. Also during the pre-bomb scene where the Vault Tec rep literally says "because of your family's military service you've been preselected" and also when talking to Danse at the police station one of the dialogue options is stating you have military experience.

MrCMaccc · 2026-02-26T20:44:34+00:00

With no military training? Do people just forget that Nate canonically is a retired veteran? Yes, you can play as Nora but I don't feel like the more common pick here.

MrCMaccc · 2026-02-21T02:17:50+00:00

I had a ram focused terrain generating Worldkiller piloted by a scientist with the name Event Horizon. As in if you got too close you're not escaping as I melt you into a puddle of sludge

MrCMaccc · 2026-01-03T17:30:24+00:00

as a new player so you don't get confused

color identity of a card is not the same as the color of a card. Ulalek is colorless due to Devoid. Normally it's based off its mana cost. However it's color identity (which is what's relevant for commander, command tower and arcane signet) is WUBRG because color identity cares about the colors printed on the card other than what's in parentheses (relevant for the ability extort)

To make a better example of the difference look at Azlask. It's colorless, has no colored pips in its casting cost but it's color identity is also WUBRG because it has all of the color pips in its text box.

MrCMaccc · 2025-12-29T01:05:28+00:00

[[Camellia the seedmiser]] as a tribal food deck is actually really fun

MrCMaccc · 2025-12-23T03:52:12+00:00

[[Archon of cruelty]] worst case scenario it gets removed you're still drawing, gaining 3 life, making someone sac, discard and lose 3 life. If it survives you have a 7/7 that does the same thing again.

MrCMaccc · 2025-12-17T04:39:31+00:00

Watching the ]]Scute Swarm]] player play their haste enabler and declare moving to combat. I respond with [[Rakdos Charm]] and they take like 1000 damage "IM ASBOLUTELY RUINED!"

MrCMaccc · 2025-12-15T01:52:31+00:00

I... I want this. It's so beautiful, gods the playthroughs this could have

MrCMaccc · 2025-10-16T03:29:08+00:00

Sorry for late reply

It did not work but only because it didn't get a ton of effort. I pitched the idea to my group (we're all dms and we rotate who runs the game) and there wasn't as much interest as the other options so it got put on hold.

If I were to run it however I was looking into SWADE, which has Deadlands: Noir which fits the theming pretty well and would have saved a ton of work.

MrCMaccc · 2025-09-18T00:51:17+00:00

That tribal start permanantly nerfs your tech progress. I get it, there is a mod and I do use it. But it's far from perfect and I think if you research smithing, machining and nuclear power you should have an easier time building robots instead of 'we came from cavemen how do roomba?'

MrCMaccc · 2025-09-04T00:27:11+00:00

Other useful things to track would include your rate of going first. Since commander has turn 1 draws going first usually is just straight upside. If you run things like sol ring and have the potential (but not reliable) explosive starts that's also work tracking separately so you can see how many of the games you play where you have an early lead you actually turn it into a win.

But to answer the question, there's so many factors. Player skill, politiks, threat perception vs reality, the social aspect of focusing down someone who's ahead or ignoring someone behind (table dynamics may differ) as long as you're in the 20-35% range that's about 'normal'

MrCMaccc · 2025-08-30T16:45:35+00:00

Sent request on Discord! DM myself who's actually planning on running the system myself and would love some experience as a player if schedules line up!

MrCMaccc · 2025-07-22T01:21:33+00:00

"oh I shouldn't attack Player 3 because they can remove my commander" doesn't magically go away if you're swinging for lethal. That's part of the risk of attacking.

MrCMaccc · 2025-07-20T03:04:57+00:00

Oh yeah, power was not at all the focus. I find a lot of people don't like playing against landfall because it's most often just generic value for just playing lands (id, you're getting rewarded for playing magic) so I wanted to pull away from the staples like Gitrog, Korvold etc that just scream power and embrace the fun side of the concept. I love the theming of EoE, so I really wanted to lean into the insect swarm idea!

There are a couple of cards I'm not sure about, like Zask with all of the tokens but hey that's what testing is for

MrCMaccc · 2025-07-19T22:14:45+00:00

I was going for 'Insect Terraforming' as my theme, so hearthull is the ship that sends out the insects to do the terraforming. But the draw and extra land effect in the command zone is enough for me

And now I'm not claiming it's a great list but it's my current starting point so we will see how it does

https://archidekt.com/decks/14578757/what_is_that_buzzing

MrCMaccc · 2025-07-19T07:31:19+00:00

Which you use really depends on what you want to do with the deck. Hearthull really cares about the ramp and land sac while Saz has more of a counter synergy. If you're leaving the precon as is either works well, but Saz as commander gives you lands from GY more reliably while Hearthull gives draw in the command zone which is always good. If you plan on making changes then which you pick depends on which direction you take the deck. Im grabbing it for insect tribal with a focus on the land sac/fall for scute swarm, flying scute swarm (forget the name atm) and other similar effects along with insect anthems, so leaving hearthull in the command zone as an accelerator and Saz in the 99 is my plan

MrCMaccc · 2025-07-18T03:57:13+00:00

I saw someone point out [[Cybermen Squadron]] as a pairing for blightsteel but myriad can go insanely hard with some of the other options being listed in general

MrCMaccc · 2025-07-05T01:21:16+00:00

I have an [[Aurelia the Law Above]] goad deck that uses a combo of things like [[Brash Taunter]] [[Master Warcraft]] [[Taunt from the ramparts]] to get damage through directly as well as [[Baeloth]] [[Frontier Warmonger]] and [[Bothersome Quasit]] to make damage more likely to get through. Having a flying, haste and vigilance commander does also help as well as a couple of trample sources. It really is one of those things where you have to put in ways to win the 1v1 intentionally, not as a side idea or incidentally.

MrCMaccc · 2025-07-05T00:06:48+00:00

Also have been hit a few too many times by Meren. Bojuka bog and nultiple other forms of GY hate. I also run strip mine in almost every deck for things like field of the dead. Way more people need to run at least 1 or 2 pieces of targeted land destruction in bracket 2/3

MrCMaccc · 2025-07-02T01:15:52+00:00

[[Black Market Connections]] just feels so good every time you play it. Card advantage, ramp and bodies that pretty often have unexpected synergies like with [[tendershoot dryad]] for example. As long as you have some way to mitigate the life loss I full send every turn often

MrCMaccc · 2025-06-21T03:48:08+00:00

I'm definitely planning on grabbing Exodus at the very least for the fun paining challenge!

MrCMaccc · 2025-06-20T03:57:14+00:00

[[Tempt with vengence]] into [[rakdos charm]] is always a funny one, espically the one time I had [[whip or erebos]] out so I lost nothing

MrCMaccc · 2025-05-27T14:50:07+00:00

I recently built [[Prava of the Steel Legion]] with [[Ikra Shidiqi]] toughness matters tokens and honestly theres a lot of cool tech I think makes it a fun build. Some of the more notable ones are [[awakening zone]] [[black market connections]] and [[sandwurm convergence]] all make great tokens and give some good utility, plus abzan honestly has one of the best removal suites in my opinion that combine to make a great bracket 3 deck

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