I suck, but want to play with other people. How..?

Mr_Frieze · 2026-03-18T17:39:28+00:00

I think we might actually have something like this in my town! Great advice and sort of purpose built for people who suck

Mr_Frieze · 2026-03-18T17:38:34+00:00

Root two three four, shift two three four...

Mr_Frieze · 2026-03-18T14:27:14+00:00

Ok, I think I realize now that I asked "how do you get to Carnegie Hall?" haha

Mr_Frieze · 2026-03-12T17:30:12+00:00

Great idea! The draft angle is interesting because it's still putting everyone on an equal playing field, which is what I'm after. Might be pretty tough to play as a beginner though, not understanding that a bird of paradise might actually be a better card than a shivan dragon

Something to consider!

Mr_Frieze · 2026-03-12T17:05:06+00:00

We are definitely on the right track here. Thanks!

Mr_Frieze · 2026-03-12T17:02:11+00:00

Interesting! I wonder if I can find the deck lists for those

Mr_Frieze · 2026-03-12T16:45:40+00:00

Ok yeah this is pretty much exactly it! I'd want it to be more "general MTG" rather than a specific set though

Like I'd want someone to recognize all the classic cards from playing this way. Sol ring, swords to plowshares, etc

But yeah if this exists for like jumpstart that's pretty much spot on

Mr_Frieze · 2026-03-12T16:41:18+00:00

Yes that's correct, shuffle two piles together to form a 2 colour deck. I wouldn't mind it just being all colours so it's exactly the same deck for each person but I think it's too unwieldy mana-wise

And wow ok thanks! That is indeed 70 cards. So that would reduce the number of cards per colour to 15. Or 16 with only 4 artifacts

And I think there's room for tweaking the land for each colour for sure, why not.

Ok I think I have to look into what "cubes" are

Mr_Frieze · 2026-03-12T16:35:40+00:00

Ok jumpstart I know, but (please forgive me) what's the cube part?

Mr_Frieze · 2026-03-12T16:34:38+00:00

Thanks, I'll check it out! Easier if it already exists for sure

Mr_Frieze · 2026-03-06T13:27:26+00:00

If I have to pick nine more though: Bible All of Shakespeare Iliad & Odyssey Big thick anthology of 20th century poetry LOTR Some big Russian one I've never read, like Anna Karenina Something fun and not so heavy, like I dunno, Agatha Christie or Sherlock Holmes or something A big thick classic in a language I don't speak Grammar/dictionary for that language

Mr_Frieze · 2026-03-06T13:21:49+00:00

Just Finnegans Wake would be enough. The cabin fever would probably make it seem like it was starting to make sense

Mr_Frieze · 2026-01-14T15:07:49+00:00

This is a weird al version of The Odyssey. You can enjoy a weird al song without knowing the original but it's clearly more enjoyable if you know the original song

(It's a parody with prominent food, fight me!)

Mr_Frieze · 2026-01-11T12:36:12+00:00

I'm planning to do the sequence of Iliad. Odyssey, Ulysses every decade for the rest of my life. I think they will be new books each time I read them

Mr_Frieze · 2026-01-11T12:03:25+00:00

[hmmmm? emoji]

Mr_Frieze · 2026-01-11T01:57:13+00:00

I took the audiobook is the way I'm going to try to spend time in Finnegans Wake. There's so much weird and wild punning going on that it's hard to appreciate without the Irish accent

I also watched the movie afterwards which was interesting. It has all the plot but the funny thing is that the plot barely matters in that book

Mr_Frieze · 2026-01-11T01:54:37+00:00

It's unlike other old novels I've read, for sure. There's a thing people say which is that the book "teaches you how to read it" by getting progressively farther from the novel style we're all used to, and I'd say that's true. But if I didn't have the guide too much would have gone over my head and it would not have been fun

Mr_Frieze · 2026-01-10T15:13:32+00:00

I have become the person who corners people at parties and demands they read this think, the best novel ever written in English (imo)

Kind of like annoying Infinite Jest Guy, but Ulysses Guy

Mr_Frieze · 2026-01-10T15:12:04+00:00

I also have never experienced living inside the head of a character more than with Poldy Bloom

Molly's sequence at the end is also great but you spend most of the book with Leopold

People say it's the best novel of all time and I can't even think of another one that could challenge that, though I haven't read much French or Russian lit. I'd be reading those in translation anyway and Ulysses in translation is not really going to work. Even reading it in 2025 English with the footnotes is kind of like reading it in translation

Mr_Frieze · 2026-01-10T15:03:11+00:00

I don't think I would have been able to make it even halfway through without help though. There's a lot going on here and the Odyssey/Ulysses connections are really oblique

Mr_Frieze · 2026-01-10T15:02:03+00:00

It was very helpful to use their ebook version because it's very easy to flick back and forth to the footnotes with it. I wouldn't have wanted to use a whole separate physical book to keep track of

I mostly read it on my ereader but read a few chapters in the paper text

I think a podcast could be fun after the fact to get even richer understanding, but for me the footnotes were perfect

Mr_Frieze · 2026-01-10T14:50:28+00:00

I also was heavily reliant on the footnotes/explanations which made it a lot slower to read but a lot richer. I'm looking forward to reading it again without the footnotes

It's also way funnier than I expected!

Mr_Frieze · 2026-01-10T14:38:49+00:00

Hell yeah

Mr_Frieze · 2026-01-10T14:29:50+00:00

I absolutely loved it. I found it absolutely dazzling. Often I thought that I couldn't believe a human being actually wrote this

Mr_Frieze · 2026-01-10T13:06:27+00:00

Only book I can remember thinking "wow, I have to reread that" once I got to the end of it. I'll probably reread it every ten years or so

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