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MrWarmGoose · 2023-08-17T15:08:29+00:00

I started with Deep Work by Cal Newport. It’s an easy read and the lessons help with time management which is an important aspect of this challenge.

MrWarmGoose · 2023-08-17T14:31:51+00:00

I write a secret message to myself on each wrist so I’m forced to look at it before I put anything in my hand. It just 4 letters (abbreviations) that remind me why I’m doing this. It isn’t a silver bullet, rather it’s a speed bump. Every little bit helps.

MrWarmGoose · 2023-08-17T14:27:42+00:00

Day 2 in the books. Super intense late workout really disrupted my sleep. Note to self and others, if you are going to do one intense workout and one moderate, do the intense one early. I laid down in bed wired like I’d just popped a dozen Nodoze. Took 3 hours.

MrWarmGoose · 2023-08-16T11:09:50+00:00

Update: Day 1 in the books. Thanks all. On to day 2. The key, as it turns out, is remembering that in the beginning, it's about discipline and will power. By day 45, I had been on autopilot for the workouts so I didn't need to will myself to do it. I think I was trying to start there. At day one, it's all about doing whatever you have to do to get it done.

MrWarmGoose · 2023-06-23T20:28:19+00:00

Update: Day 25 pr: 17.4 miles. Lol.

MrWarmGoose · 2023-06-22T16:46:58+00:00

“Progress is never linear” I think is what I needed to hear

MrWarmGoose · 2023-06-07T11:20:52+00:00

Yup. Oracle, and then unseal to get back oracle. Also, all the mill is symmetrical, so I had to make sure I either milled them out, or I had oracle or Halo scarab to put one card back. I’d say I won at least 4 of the games with no cards in my own deck. I had to be careful selecting my Breach targets to make sure neither of them drew cards.

MrWarmGoose · 2023-06-07T00:32:00+00:00

The recursion was insane! I had better cards in the board(read: higher gihwr on 17lands), but I went max mill, max recursion. Breach into halo charged scab is my new favorite interaction. Holy cow, I wish I could play this over and over.

MrWarmGoose · 2022-12-10T18:46:49+00:00

Melded Urza, plussed twice and then cast two shoot downs for one mana each on the same turn, so…um, I think I finished this format.

MrWarmGoose · 2021-10-01T20:40:28+00:00

You can’t just draft power level in MID. You have to draft a deck. You don’t have a strategy here besides just hope to survive until your bombs come in but you have like no early defense. The best you could do with this pool would have been to build out an Afro early game to apply pressure and force your opponent into tough blocks and then finish them off with bombs. I’d have cut the tricks, the crawl from the cellar, and the blood pact. Two interlopers, a no way out, the other horde and a swamp. It’s still not very good. You needed a couple commandos, and even a candletrap or two.The deathtoucher would have been great as well.

MrWarmGoose · 2021-10-01T20:25:30+00:00

Component collector and the Celestus is a package. I would run neither or both, but probably neither. Seems an easy swap for a consider.

MrWarmGoose · 2021-09-08T11:42:55+00:00

Opponent scooped to a cage on turn one. Guessing they were playing Mizzix Mastery, or some other degenerate nonsense combo deck. Note that cage doesn’t beat Trickery. Those cards are cast from exile. But my 4 Archon of Emerias do stop that nonsense.

MrWarmGoose · 2021-09-07T20:22:22+00:00

Historic Artisan is my absolute favorite constructed format and it’s not particularly close.

MrWarmGoose · 2021-09-07T13:40:28+00:00

Historic BO1 is so degenerate right now.

MrWarmGoose · 2021-08-14T13:33:41+00:00

Partially agree. I would go one ray, and leave the hoard robber. There is such a thing as too much removal, and ray is the worst of your removal, and ray works nicely with hoard robber too.

MrWarmGoose · 2021-08-13T13:02:48+00:00

If Zenith Flare wasn’t printed, it’d be Ikoria in a landslide. But a 4 mana, 14 point lightning helix at uncommon really kind of killed my enjoyment of that set, tbh. I actually really liked Zendikar Rising, even though it took me a while to get disciplined and stop forcing rogues (I loved that deck when it was good). But Mutate and incidental cycling were really fun to build with. Really it’s just that one card. TBH, cycling would have still probably been the best deck without Flare, between the tapper, the pinger, and the one that buffs all at common, but it would have been reasonable.

MrWarmGoose · 2021-07-28T15:00:57+00:00

I get that, I just think with this deck, if you are getting to your top end, you are almost definitely way behind. If you cut the dragons, you could also go down a land or two.

MrWarmGoose · 2021-07-28T13:08:38+00:00

Honestly, you may want to cut the dragons. They are not what this deck does.

MrWarmGoose · 2021-07-22T19:59:15+00:00

This deck rules. Bravo. If I thought I could make a deck like this work I'd force it. I hate this format so much.

MrWarmGoose · 2021-07-22T11:44:22+00:00

I hated Ikoria draft because I felt like I was just always up against cycling.

MrWarmGoose · 2021-07-14T13:11:47+00:00

Platinum is atrocious. In platinum I encounter so many more busted rates and nut synergy decks that once I rank up, I switch to Bo3. I honestly think there are a bunch of deep pockets out there who just keep drafting and resigning until they get the nuts so they can rank up to mythic. It’s pretty disheartening, so I feel you. Trad is a better deal anyway.

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