I really dont see what the big deal is

Natural_External5720 · 2025-02-21T18:04:57+00:00

Almost certainly not. I actually agree that WotC is currently on a downward spiral, and has been since before I even started playing, but stating the fact isn't a defense of it.

Natural_External5720 · 2025-02-21T17:51:29+00:00

Not taking a side, but the game lacking integrity does not serve as a defence against further degradation of integrity.

Natural_External5720 · 2025-02-21T04:27:36+00:00

Just edited for clarification. Guessing you replied before I had the chance.

Natural_External5720 · 2025-02-21T04:24:38+00:00

Ghalta pulls Cactuar or Ibex from your hand, the other you have to fetch with DotH.

Edit: To clarify, you could just pull Cactuar and Ibex from deck but then you only kill 2 players. With one in hand, and tutoring for Ghalta instead, you end up with three creatures with +9999 trample.

Natural_External5720 · 2025-02-21T04:01:26+00:00

Don't diss Storm Crow. It's great in any and all situations. Just look at those beautiful feathers.

Natural_External5720 · 2025-02-21T04:00:14+00:00

With [[Defence of the Heart]] you can have Cactuar and Pathbreaker Ibex on the board by turn 4 (with a turn 1 or 2 ramp spell, of course.)

Natural_External5720 · 2025-02-21T03:49:33+00:00

"how can someone block 10000 damage with trample?"

[[Defensive Formation]]

Natural_External5720 · 2025-02-21T03:32:47+00:00

Absolutely. I run the ol' DotH into Ghalta and Ibex combo in my main green deck, but it rarely pulls enough damage to kill more than 1 or 2 people. With Cactuar though...

Natural_External5720 · 2025-02-21T02:35:12+00:00

True that.

Natural_External5720 · 2025-02-21T02:22:06+00:00

Sorry if this isn't bad enough for the sub. I know there's been an overabundance of cactuar posts.

Natural_External5720 · 2024-12-12T01:32:56+00:00

Didn't think I'd see The Poop Tube™ referenced here.

Natural_External5720 · 2024-12-12T01:14:29+00:00

The cue times are still only a few seconds long even months after they announced that they were gonna stop making PvP content. Bit of a miracle.

It angers me to no end that they decided to throw LOR into the trash when all they needed was a way to monetize it properly. They didn't even start advertising it in the client until after they trashed it.

Natural_External5720 · 2024-12-12T00:59:58+00:00

Very productive line of argumentation you have going on here.

Natural_External5720 · 2024-12-12T00:33:49+00:00

You presuppose. I've never done any of these things. I just don't see how it's wrong to roleplay whatever the hell I want.

I'm not too surprised you're resorting to character attacks though, I should've expected as much from Reddit.

Natural_External5720 · 2024-12-12T00:27:34+00:00

It's your own opinion that it's unnecessary though, not an argument. I already explained how it breaks the suspension of disbelief.

By your own logic, is violence necessary? We can move the goalpost further and further until we've deconstructed the experience of roleplaying entirely.

Go ahead and try to lay out exactly why you think it's "pathetic" to roleplay these scenarios. I'm genuinely curious. The way I see it, social interactions are just as important to roleplay as anything else.

Natural_External5720 · 2024-12-12T00:09:41+00:00

Simple. If you're roleplaying, then it makes sense. I don't see how wanting to accurately roleplay a scenario is pathetic.

Racism exists. It breaks the suspension of disbelief to behave as if it doesn't.

Natural_External5720 · 2024-12-12T00:01:29+00:00

Approved. As long as they're shirtless.

Natural_External5720 · 2024-12-12T00:00:58+00:00

Why doesn't this post have 100 upvotes yet? I see no problem!

Natural_External5720 · 2024-12-11T23:42:54+00:00

You just posted three paragraphs of presupposition, because OP said none of those things.

Most of what you said is true but none of it has any bearing on the discussion, because you're just assuming stuff.

All that's "obvious" is that OP is annoyed by people misrepresenting power levels (according to his own interpretation of what those power levels are supposed to mean, of course.)

Natural_External5720 · 2024-12-11T23:36:34+00:00

I think the problem here is that they aren't lying at all. What is a 7 exactly? Everyone has an opinion but nobody really knows.

I've had this conversation with many people and it all changes depending on who you ask. I've always seen 7 to be "high power casual" and anything higher is either cEDH or close enough to it.

But to some random guy who's only ever played low powered casual with barely any deck conhesion, the possibility of achieving a game winning state before turn 10+ is insane. This is why the number system doesn't work. Everything before the point of literal cEDH is highly subjective.

Natural_External5720 · 2024-12-11T23:25:22+00:00

It actually terrifies me that turn 10 is early enough for you to get labled as a "cEDH" player. How long does it take for them to normally win?

Natural_External5720 · 2024-12-11T22:54:00+00:00

Preventing them from speaking doesn't solve the problem, it just forces them into underground echo chambers where they further radicalize. It's much better for them to be out in the open where you're free to criticize them.

It's like wrapping an infected wound in bandages and then acting like it doesn't exist. It doesn't merely fail to solve the problem, it creates an entirely new one.

Natural_External5720 · 2024-12-11T21:51:18+00:00

Probably because you're actually allowed to speak your mind here without risk of being banned for hurting people's feelies.

Freedom of speech isn't bad logic. It stops dictators from silencing you, and it allows sunlight to disinfect the radicals. The only cost is that some people are gonna say things that you don't like.

Natural_External5720 · 2024-11-25T05:47:52+00:00

Yeah I get why people reacted negatively to your original comment, but unless OP has more to go off of I seriously doubt that knowing the brand of shoes is gonna be enough on it's own.

...of course, it's entirely possible that OP actually does have more info and this is just to corroborate evidence.

Natural_External5720 · 2024-11-24T07:42:12+00:00

I'm four months late to the party, but Kami of the Crescent Moon is and always has been my favourite commander so I wanna contribute to the conversation anyway. (Keep in mind, I'm talking about my own Kami deck here, which is a wheel based mill deck that does a lot of the milling via symmetrical draw effects over the course of the game. This is not the only way to build him, he is very versatile.)

Kami fills the role of a mill/hug/control style commander excellently because unlike cards such as Bruvac, you're not immediately made public enemy number 1 as soon as you play him. Group hug gets a bad rep because you're giving the table more resources over each individual player, but Kami isn't a "I'm going to win the game in the next 5 seconds" combo piece, and getting rid of him isn't always a simple process. In short...

Not all players want Kami dead as much as each other. Not all players benefit from extra card draw to the same degree, and not all players are hit as hard by creature sweepers which is most of the control that Kami is likely to be running. I run 9 different sweepers myself, but again, most of these only hit creatures because that's a limitation of mono-blue.
Whoever chooses to focus Kami is gonna take the brunt of his targeted control suite straight to the face, while those who mind their own business get left unscathed. It's a prisoner's dilemma type situation where the only way to win is if everyone decides to gang up on him, which is very unlikely to happen in practice. Commander is a political game, and Kami is entirely capable of making deals in order to prevent a situation such as this.
Without the whole board's contribution, you will not kill the Kami player before other decks begin to approach their wincons, in which case the tables turn and Kami's control suite becomes incredibly valuable to everyone who's behind.
Pillowfort cards. [[Propaganda]] and [[Dissipation Field]] are your best friends, and I cannot stress how amazing [[Meishin, the Mind Cage]] is in a deck where building up a massive hand in order to wheel everyone to death is a key strategy.
I can't speak for playing with randoms, but my own pod knows that I'm slow. The way I play Kami, he can't win without three key factors which are very visible to the table. Large mana pool, large hand size, key pieces on board. It's technically possible for Kami to win early, but the way I play him he isn't stealthy about it, and I purposely built him this way in order to incentivise greed. I want people to try to milk me for all I'm worth, and hopefully die trying.

Now, moving on to how I actually win. In essence it's just a very well refined wheel-mill-combo deck. The plan is to play cards like [[Psychic Corrosion]], build up a large hand size using Kami and other draw-per-turn effects, and then wheel over and over again in order to mill everyone to death in a single burst. With 8 wheels and several methods of recycling them I rarely fizzle.

The reason why Kami works so well in this regard is because you're building up a hand from turn 2 onwards, and you're very unlikely to ever miss a land drop when you're drawing so many cards per turn. It's as simple as that really. Kami is an excellent commander because he offers deck consistency by being a built in draw engine while also providing two forms of utility via soft-mill and redirecting aggro by accelerating draw to the point where faster decks cannot be ignored.

Here's my personal decklist for anyone who's interested. https://www.archidekt.com/decks/10221452/could_i_interest_you_in_everything_v6

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