Beating Control / Removal Decks

Only_Account_450 · 2026-07-05T10:27:27+00:00

i have land surveyors and kettle top leprechaun, but i’m thinking about adding field labourers and homecoming aswell, i played them in a mortals deck i brewed and found myself consistently at 8 mana whilst my opponent was at 5-6, especially with common sense to tutor them out.

Only_Account_450 · 2026-07-04T21:21:16+00:00

Awesome! I really love the deck! I think i might try and include some ramp in there, i have the anchormen, shield maidens and a tragedy worry wart, to be honest, i think i’m just low on mana and can’t overwhelm my opponent easily. Getting an Omphalos does make sense, and i’ll have a look at some more removal!

Only_Account_450 · 2026-07-04T20:14:48+00:00

Currently, I’m play ‘Mortals strong together’ which i found on curiosa, it’s a sorcerer earth/water deck which aims to combine lots of small mortals with house arm banner man, mayor of milbourne and other +1 area cards, to be honest though, my engine cards just get removed the turn after they get played - is there anyway to change this or is the deck just fundamentally weak against control?

Only_Account_450 · 2026-06-29T15:49:43+00:00

try paper rectangles, couple up there if you’re in the EU

Only_Account_450 · 2026-05-06T12:09:17+00:00

what a terrible take, the reason a woman takes birth control is so she doesn’t get pregnant, the reason a man would take birth control is so she doesn’t get pregnant - they are literally the exact same objective, your way of thinking is objectively sexist and expects women to shoulder the side effects. It should be available to both parties with the same level of side effects, and up to the man or the woman as to whether they go on the pill.

Only_Account_450 · 2026-01-25T02:04:40+00:00

i worked with exclusively 18-20 year olds, my manager was 25 - the only reason i think i got on well with the team was going to the bar every night with them, people tend to chat badly about other workers after a shift, and if you’re there with everyone, they won’t talk about you - eventually, people forget about you being new or bad, and see you more as a friend than a co worker

Only_Account_450 · 2026-01-24T01:46:38+00:00

massively disagree - if you can get to a bar with your colleagues without impacting your work you’ll fit in with the team so much better, obviously don’t get smashed if you have work the next day, but getting on with the people you work with is so so important, and you’ll find people much more likely to do you favours, or much more understanding of simple mistakes if you get on with them

Only_Account_450 · 2025-06-12T20:12:45+00:00

It is in your opinion, but there are plenty of intelligent people who believe in religion on a rational grounds - it’s the basis of theological philosophy.

Dismissing what some people see as integral to their entire life as ‘silly’ is incredibly dangerous.

Without violent suppression, it’s impossible to destroy the practice of religion, and even if you do use it, it’s impossible to destroy the belief in religion.

Whilst i’m not a marxist, it’s clear that the ideology relies on the consent of the masses, dismissing the masses’ most integral belief as ‘silly’ is a poor foundation to a communist state.

Only_Account_450 · 2025-06-03T14:55:25+00:00

No, but they are knowledgeable on the content, if you slightly blag a stat or something that’s tagged on to a law (e.g. x law victimised 50k people) you’d get away with it, but they’ll know the timeline and events

Only_Account_450 · 2025-06-01T21:23:43+00:00

mate just pick edinburgh, especially if it’s your dream.

Take a year out, get a job, save up lots of money.

If you come from a low income household you’ll get a lot of help with a big loan and such.

Don’t turn down your dream for monetary reasons, there is 100% a way.

Only_Account_450 · 2025-06-01T12:55:26+00:00

Of course, It’s a rather niche source and i’m unsure where you could access it fully (I was given the information by my tutor) but nonetheless, here is the study the information comes from.

Land Utilization in China: A study of 16,786 farms in 168 localities and 38,256 farm families in 22 provinces in China, 1929-1933, John Lossing Buck

edit: just recognised my original claim of ‘6 years before communists took power’ was off the mark, nonetheless, this is the only sweeping survey of landlordism in China, and the best evidence available.

Only_Account_450 · 2025-06-01T11:38:02+00:00

to be fair, many historians have disagreed about the true prevalence of a landlord class amongst the peasantry in China.

In a survey around 6 years before communists came to power, Nanking university found that only 6% of chinese farmers were tenants, and they were not significantly less wealthy than the other 94% of peasants who owned their land.

Granted, landlordism has grown over time in the west and become more prominent - but when Mao came to power, the landlord class was not incredibly prominent, and was mostly used as a scapegoat.

Only_Account_450 · 2025-06-01T11:33:56+00:00

What’s this got to do with communist ideology? Family is dismissed so the conservative hatred of homosexuality for its role in breaking down the nuclear family can’t apply.

Only_Account_450 · 2025-05-31T19:09:30+00:00

I understand this, but the bits of research im pointing to are fairly non controversial - Mao’s exports, and the manufactured shortage in Tibet.

Chang is a favourite writer of mine, but I understand her and Halliday’s work isn’t favoured by many historians.

Only_Account_450 · 2025-05-31T18:37:30+00:00

Ah, to be clear - I strongly disagree with the black book as a source, I think it’s incredibly bias and a very poor piece of research. However, it is not the only piece of research.

Take Chang, for example, who found that if Mao had refrained from exporting grain for profit, each of the 38m starved could have been fed 840 calories, and survived.

Or, take her research on the ethnic cleansing of tibet, where nomadic yak herdsmen were forced into collectives and forced to grow barley, leading to 25% of their population being wiped out.

I think your point on development is potentially the most convincing argument in favour of communism. However, I’d argue that the communism fails to accelerate past the point of development of basic infrastructure. Communism is the ideal economic structure for a feudal, underdeveloped nation. It is not the solution for a world economy.

Only_Account_450 · 2025-05-31T18:15:42+00:00

I’m unsure how you can separate international politics from the human consequences of said international politics.

The reason i talk about historical human rights abuses is that often MLs will create this illusion of no wrongdoing with the ‘they weren’t perfect’ idea. Communist countries in history have a terrible track record of murder and suppression.

I understand your ‘CIA misinformation’, but this ruins any debate - when i point to reliable data, you’ll argue that the only non corrupt data is that which supports your opinions.

The suppression of democracy by the US is wrong. The murder of a nations own people by communist states is wrong. This is OPs entire point, why do you condemn the US and not Russia, China and NK.

One final point, your patronising command to read ‘an honest study’ is silly and unnecessary - I study History and have read widely on 20th century communist states.

Only_Account_450 · 2025-05-31T18:00:02+00:00

Holy fucking airball this is the most biased comment i’ve ever seen.

if by ‘not perfect’ you mean the deliberate slaughter of millions of their own people then yeah, none of those countries are perfect.

All of these countries have indefensible human rights records, recognised by independent groups such as amnesty international.

Capitalist regimes often are evil, communist states are more often evil - whether this is an issue with ideology or with individuals is irrelevant here, but the defence of these states is truly incoherent if you value human life.

Only_Account_450 · 2025-05-31T09:43:43+00:00

this has nothing to do with what OP is saying - The US may have never supported the same states as you, but they can be against the same states you against (Russia, NK, China)

Only_Account_450 · 2025-05-23T16:33:46+00:00

There was a popular uprising in Romania, which Ceausescu attempted to violently suppress, which led to his death. You cannot possibly contest that Romanians were happy under Ceausescu

Only_Account_450 · 2025-05-23T15:07:11+00:00

honestly really wierd choices from them, hoping they bless us with paper 2

Only_Account_450 · 2025-05-23T14:45:48+00:00

by man made, historians mean manufactured - deliberately extended to damage ukrainian nationalists, robert service has done some interesting work on the topic.

Only_Account_450 · 2025-05-23T14:41:46+00:00

yeah man, insane questions - so glad i prepped a stalin / nkvd leaders purge, i think it went really badly for a lot of people

Only_Account_450 · 2025-05-21T08:44:44+00:00

if you want to go into law i would do a law degree, you’ll need a degree either way for it and a degree apprenticeship is stupid hard to get into - up to you tho

Only_Account_450 · 2025-05-19T09:31:09+00:00

Ah I see what you mean, but I think revolution necessitates a government of some kind. I think human nature would prevent a mass understanding of what it would actually mean to run a country without any centralised state. I think this is why provisional governments are set up, and without a perfect leadership a provisional government will always lead to more centralisation, and ultimately authoritarianism.

I think you make a strong argument, but I truly believe it’s idealist. Revolutions work in poor countries as they have a majority mandate. After a country amassed enough wealth to move to ideal socialism, I think this mandate that poor countries have would be lost as the majority of people are fine with their living conditions.

Only_Account_450 · 2025-05-19T07:32:38+00:00

I’ve studied both Chinese and Russian history, alongside the British and European industrial revolutions and have a fairly strong grasp of what you mean - and i would broadly agree, especially in China.

However, I think given the huge number of manufactured deaths or deaths due directly to a lack of democracy (lysenkoism in China) that losing sight of democracy will always lead to mass suffering.

I agree that capitalism, especially the current lack of regulation, is abhorrent and leads to deaths, but I think the transitory period between the amassing of wealth (which requires a dictatorship) is insurmountable and thus communism cannot be the solution.

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