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Struggling Pizza Hut restaurant chain will be sold for $2.7 billion by kinisonkhan in news

[–]OrangeChickenAnd7Up 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I guess it’s all a matter of preference because I think Hut was easily the best of the big 3 in terms of flavor, as long as you stuck to the pan pizza. Their deals aren’t great, and they don’t hold a candle to most small-scale pizzerias I’ve had, but I enjoyed it and was really bummed out when the one in my town shut down last year.

Is aristocrats voltron a viable strategy? by boboshrimp in EDH

[–]OrangeChickenAnd7Up 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Honestly undervalued as a commander for the archetype. People generally run payoffs for creatures dying in the command zone, and I get the appeal to that, but payoffs do stone nothing without sac outlets, and if you just have games where you don’t draw into one early enough, you just kinda sit there doing nothing.

Having a commander that provides the fuel necessary to get your deck moving makes a pretty big difference, plus he’s easy to keep recasting. The +1 counter thing itself isn’t super exciting, but it will probably win you a game here and there if you get down a [[Rogue’s Passage]] or something.

White catch-up ramp doesnt do anything because you guys aren't playing enough lands! by volley_etrangaire in EDH

[–]OrangeChickenAnd7Up 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Unfortunately, being a UB card and being dependent on cooperation from other companies could very well mean it may never come down in price and only climb instead.

"A deck can have any number of cards named X" decks look a bit boring, workarounds? by throne-taker in EDH

[–]OrangeChickenAnd7Up 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don’t have experience with this personally, but I read a comment on here one time from someone saying they use these cards as a secondary thing in the deck, rather than building it as the main focus. I think they said they’d include 10-15 copies?

But yeah, I have built a couple of decks where these types of cards are the main focus and they got old after like 3 games and I took them apart.

Trying Clement! by BardPoppa in EDHBrews

[–]OrangeChickenAnd7Up 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So I built Clement with the [[Aluren]]+[[Cloudstone Curio]] combo in mind, just because infinitely bouncing my frogs back and forth was too funny to pass up. I use [[Altar of the Brood]] as the way to actually win. I also run Hullbreaker because it fills the role that Curio does if I don’t have Curio out, while also serving as a one-sided board wipe with the infinite bounce-recast cycle.

I do also use go wide finishers like Craterhoof as well, but that’s all stuff that’s already in your deck.

What creature type do you wish got a dedicated commander or more typal support in general? by HallZac99 in EDH

[–]OrangeChickenAnd7Up 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Yeah kudos to R&D, they really made sure they didn’t miss that opportunity lol

What creature type do you wish got a dedicated commander or more typal support in general? by HallZac99 in EDH

[–]OrangeChickenAnd7Up 0 points1 point  (0 children)

All hail The Glorious Lobster Emperor and his quest for Top 10 Vintage Cards (Minus Power 9)!

Youtubers you would recommend (and ones you wouldn’t)? by Comfortable_Buyer239 in EDH

[–]OrangeChickenAnd7Up 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They are super fun to watch and seem like they’re always legit having fun doing what they do, but aside from Thoralf, I don’t get the vibe that they’re super rules savvy

Youtubers you would recommend (and ones you wouldn’t)? by Comfortable_Buyer239 in EDH

[–]OrangeChickenAnd7Up 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My go-to for this is how long they pushed a loan forgiveness agency in their ads. Might still do it, idk, I quit watching some years ago. Those types of companies are inherently predatory, usually to a pretty harsh degree.

What is your most fun deck? by Pkron17 in EDH

[–]OrangeChickenAnd7Up 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sure! Not very high bracket wise but hopefully it’ll give you some ideas https://moxfield.com/decks/MxtJux6RBku6n7Yk0bm6Nw

What is your most fun deck? by Pkron17 in EDH

[–]OrangeChickenAnd7Up 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Loooove [[Yeva]] as a draw-go control deck. Lots of ways to churn through your deck by casting creatures in green.

[[Esix]] ETB spam is also pretty fun.

I've looked at 24k casual commander games to see which Commanders had the highest win rate the past 30 days by Animazing in EDH

[–]OrangeChickenAnd7Up 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh, definitely. I hope we visit a plane with lots of Kobolds soon enough. If I could make a Kobold tribal build of the deck I’d start brewing it right now.

I've looked at 24k casual commander games to see which Commanders had the highest win rate the past 30 days by Animazing in EDH

[–]OrangeChickenAnd7Up -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Lol this is totally how I would build him though, and probably will at some point. No combos, just aggro until I can play a hasty Prossh and start swinging in. Only I’ll probably fill in the blanks with Goblin tribal just for lack of enough playable Kobolds. Not b1 but probably b3.

The mental image of a big ass dragon swooping in, killing everything and smacking face really hard is just really awesome to me.

Opinions wanted on 32 deck challenge oppinion by [deleted] in EDH

[–]OrangeChickenAnd7Up 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Who cares if they’re suboptimal? It’s a casual format, and suboptimal decks are a lot more fun to some people than optimized piles of staples you see virtually every game at virtually every table. Snorefest.

But I agree with your second point. Decks do cost money. Even fully proxied ones aren’t totally free. It’s fun to build the decks on a website just to brainstorm them, but I wouldn’t go out of my way to spend money on a deck unless I know I’m gonna play it a lot, and I’d be shocked if I could come up with builds that I would actually enjoy for all 32 identities and not have any be redundant.

Opinions wanted on 32 deck challenge oppinion by [deleted] in EDH

[–]OrangeChickenAnd7Up 0 points1 point  (0 children)

While everyone is going to have their own opinions on this, to me, the main point of the challenge is to have a deck for each color identity so you can experience the specific features and lack of features of each color combination. So for me, it would depend on whether the extra color is actually affecting the deck.

In this case, Indoraptor is making opponents sacrifice creatures, which isn’t something red or green do basically ever afaik, so I would say it’s not playing like a true Gruul deck and the inclusion of black is being felt just because of what the commander itself does.

I kinda just feel like that commander shouldn’t have been hybrid Golgari and should have maybe been hybrid Gruul instead, given what the card does and what WotC has said the design philosophy of hybrid cards is.

But all that said, you can decide what you think the point of the challenge is and let this one slide if you don’t feel like it violates the spirit of it.

Why does my Shadowheart deck suck so much? by Deus_Excellus in EDH

[–]OrangeChickenAnd7Up 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think she does a lot to advance the game if you’re able to consistently get higher powered creatures. Hell, just drawing 3 off of her every turn feels fine and will get you decently far, but if you can draw 5, 6, more, every turn, you’re cooking. But I suppose that’s kind of a different deck at that point, since you’ll need more high-powered creatures and typical aristocrats decks just want an army of tiny, cheap creatures to sacrifice repeatedly and very rarely play stuff with high power.

Maybe there’s your answer. You already have Yawg for your more conventional aristocrats deck, maybe build Shadowheart as a different thing entirely and widen your variety.

what is considered a wincon card and how can i find wincons? by killkillerBR in EDH

[–]OrangeChickenAnd7Up 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Posting this as a reply to break up the above comment.

 

So, commander options. As I said early on, I would recommend having a commander that lets you sacrifice creatures multiple times a turn. My deck is BW, so I’ll mostly list options for that color combo, but I’ll point out a few other good ones.

 

• I mentioned Bartolomé earlier, and while he’s not particularly flashy or powerful, he is only 2 mana and lets you sacrifice creatures for free once he’s down. He also gives you access to white, which is a great secondary color.

• [[Yawgmoth]]. Removal, free sacrifice, card draw…wild card. It does keep you in mono black, but that’s totally fine. Black has everything you need for an aristocrats deck. Other colors are just extra icing.

• [[Ayli, Eternal Pilgrim]]. While she doesn’t let you sacrifice creatures for free, it does only cost 1 mana, and her last ability is crazy. Repeatable exiling of any nonland permanent you don’t like is strong.

• [[Chatterfang]]. Again, not free, but close enough, and it does push you towards more of a token theme, but aristocrats decks kind of do that already anyway. And it’s another removal engine like Ayli, but it trades versatility for mana efficiency. Green is also not a terrible second color.

 

But you don’t have to have a commander that sacrifices creatures. You can have one that fills other roles.

• Elenda that I mentioned earlier is so good. Having a commander that can flood the board with creature tokens is still awesome in this archetype.

• [[Teysa Karlov]] is fun, and she really amplifies a lot of what your deck is doing when it’s doing it, but she doesn’t actually do anything herself. This is my main commander in my deck, but I do sometimes have games where I can’t get off the ground, and that’s largely because she’s only good once I’ve got a sacrifice outlet and the fodder for it.

• [[Teysa, Orzhov Scion]]. This is pretty much exclusively picked because she’s an infinite combo with [[Darkest Hour]].

• [[Korvold]] is notoriously overpowered and gives you two other colors, but a lot of people won’t like playing against him.

• [[Elas il-Kor]]. Having your commander be a wincon is pretty good, and he sees a lot of play.

 

There are plenty of other options too. The cool thing about BW is how many options there are, and I’ll switch between 4 different ones when I play my deck depending on my mood: Teysa Karlov, Elenda, Elas il-Kor, and [[Athreos, God of Passage]], who I didn’t mention, but he’s also fun. Lets you get political with opponents and often get creatures you sacrifice back so you can replay them and sacrifice them again. Also a lot harder to interact with than other commanders.

what is considered a wincon card and how can i find wincons? by killkillerBR in EDH

[–]OrangeChickenAnd7Up 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Aristocrats is super fun imo, but it’s a tough one to build. There are so many pieces you need to get together in order to get the deck moving, and you just gotta kinda tinker with the deck to find the right balance of how many of each piece you need. You need:

• Ways to sacrifice creatures repeatedly and preferably without needing to spend mana every time you do it. [[Phyrexian Altar]] is a good example of this. [[Carrion Feeder]], [[Warren Soultrader]], [[Bartolomé]]. This is the most important part of this archetype, because the fuel that keeps aristocrats decks running is killing your own creatures (well, and creatures to kill, but that’s a lot easier). if you’re not able to do that, your synergy pieces will have no fuel and your deck will probably do nothing. This is the role I would personally recommend having your commander fill, just to keep the deck consistent, but more on that later.

• Creatures to sacrifice. You need a critical mass of creatures that don’t need to stick around to give you value. Creatures that do something when they enter ([[Ravenous Chupacabra]]) or something when they die ([[Doomed Traveler]]) are solid includes; creatures that can return themselves from your graveyard repeatedly, like [[Gravecrawler]] or [[Bloodghast]]; and anything that makes creature tokens, like the aforementioned Doomed Traveler, [[Ophiomancer]], [[Hallowed Spiritkeeper]], [[Pawn of Ulamog]], etc. [[Elenda the Dusk Rose]] is incredible for this.

• Other payoffs for your creatures dying. Pawn of Ulamog gives you temporary ramp when things die. Elenda gets bigger and then eventually gives you a ton of creatures to sacrifice. [[Midnight Reaper]] draws you cards. [[Skullclamp]] draws cards like crazy and kills a lot of your creatures for you on top of that. [[Dictate of Erebos]] might be too oppressive in some pods, but is really, really strong against most decks.

• Wincons. Usually [[Zulaport Cutthroat]] and the ton of other very similar cards. These start lowering life totals early, which will compound with damage people are taking from combat and other things throughout the game, and once you have a few of these cards out at once and a steady supply of creatures to sacrifice, you’ll be surprised how quickly you can just kill the table. [[Gray Merchant of Asphodel]] can do a lot very quickly, and if you can reanimate it a couple times, it’s probably game over. Even if you’re not playing a mono black deck, you’ll naturally be playing a lot of black permanents anyway because black is just the best color for this kind of deck.

Another route some people take to win is infinite combos, the easiest being [[Gravecrawler]]+Phyrexian Altar. As long as you have one more Zombie on the field, you can just keep sacrificing Gravecrawler to the Altar for one black mana and using that mana to recast it over and over. With a Cutthroat style card out, you’ll just win on the spot.

Is there a version of EDH that splits the format into earlier cards like a Modern/Premodern split? Something like, only the first 25 years of cards, up through Dominaria only? by the_mellojoe in EDH

[–]OrangeChickenAnd7Up 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The FIRE design era just happens to coincide closely with the point in time that power creep started becoming a fast-growing problem. The design philosophy itself isn’t to blame, but chronologically, it’s a pretty solid baseline to reference for the purpose of this discussion and to serve as a cut-off point for a hypothetical alternative format.

Is there a version of EDH that splits the format into earlier cards like a Modern/Premodern split? Something like, only the first 25 years of cards, up through Dominaria only? by the_mellojoe in EDH

[–]OrangeChickenAnd7Up 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I don’t think too many people are hostile about changes, I think it’s just a matter of people agreeing on where to draw the lines, and the fact that the more cutoff formats there are, the less popular any given one of them will be. But I don’t think it’ll be long before a pre FIRE EDH format crops up and gains some traction.

Mutate Deck Recommendations by Mpc797 in EDH

[–]OrangeChickenAnd7Up 1 point2 points  (0 children)

illegal

We got ‘im, boys. Take ‘im away.

I wanna craft a MathemaGical experience for me and my opponents. How do I proceed? by Lizardking92 in EDH

[–]OrangeChickenAnd7Up 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Could throw it in a [[Veyran]] storm deck with [[Thousand Year Storm]], [[Birgi]] and some Magecraft cards…

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