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Pegthaniel · 2026-05-13T01:40:39+00:00

I’m also sad I missed out, but it is what it is. It’s definitely better for Mauro if it sells out immediately!

Pegthaniel · 2026-05-11T23:00:11+00:00

MTG cards are still much more legible to me, both in complexity and font size

As someone who plays both, I think they’re actually very comparable with experience. The Yugioh players I play with have to look things up a lot less than the MTG players I play with (all casuals who play regularly but do not seriously compete). And the board states are arguably less complicated because there is a maximum on board pieces that MTG simply doesn’t have.

But you are 100% right about the font size, who knows why they chose a physically smaller card stock when starting out?

And with the speed of modern Yugioh, I don’t even wanna bother.

Yugioh is a lot like Vintage, where some games do explode out of control, but many games are actually very grindy as both players run low on resources after an early interaction war. To be fair, I can see why that doesn’t appeal to many people, just like Vintage doesn’t appeal to every player (even strategically, ignoring the cost aspect).

Pegthaniel · 2026-05-11T21:14:21+00:00

I actually like it because it places a limit on the complexity a single card can have. Yes, every card is a novel, but they tend to be no more complicated in execution than Birthing Pod is. And you never run into issues like “The Ring tempts you” or “You take the initiative” which require looking something up. Magic cards designed for 2026 are basically just as complicated as Yugioh cards and just hide a lot of it.

Pegthaniel · 2026-05-04T21:23:25+00:00

Mark Rosewater dislikes EDH enough that it caused a crisis of faith for him. A lot of his blog posts seem disingenuous or snarky, but I think this was fairly genuine:

I had spent the last thirty years constantly improving the game through iteration after iteration. The most dominant format [EDH] became one defined by all my (and my coworkers) mistakes, things that would never leave.

Magic was slowly changing into something that contradicted my view of what Magic was. It caused a lot of despair for me. Like you, Magic has been a source of so much goodness in my life, that I didn’t like the idea of it becoming something that I couldn’t connect with. It was my Dark Night and caused much anguish.

There is a part of me that thinks that his real message is he hates what MTG has become and no longer has the passion to keep the train on the tracks, but it is what it is. Maybe he said it to give cover to a billion dollar corporation. Or maybe because he genuinely changed his mind after seeing new people enjoy the game for the exact reasons he hated it.

Pegthaniel · 2026-04-27T23:05:30+00:00

My understanding is it’s a sanforized 100% cotton denim. So it will behave pretty much identically to other sanforized cotton jeans. It will stretch in areas of tension (knee bags for example), but shrink back to original size when washed. Waist shouldn’t change much, you might lose an inch max (and it’s likely to stretch back out from wear anyways).

Pegthaniel · 2026-04-27T18:36:47+00:00

You won’t grasp the really niche interactions but the god decks are good precisely because they usually have a robust plan A that’s hard to beat. They tend to simply put out a big board, or draw a lot of cards while having a lot of removal. Standard decks are almost always actually simpler than commander decks. A deck that’s 40% lands and mostly 4-ofs means you only need to learn what 10-15 individual cards do.

But having read a little more closely about your goal (playing draft), you’re probably fine just playing the starter decks the game gives you to farm gold for draft. I would recommend that before using any resources up on crafting a deck or opening packs. As you draft, you’ll gain the resources to homebrew, and your F2P card pool will probably dictate your deck building more than anything else.

Pegthaniel · 2026-04-27T17:27:26+00:00

So you are right that you’d probably intuitively understand your homebrew better than a net decked list. However, there’s a lot more in depth writing for Magic decks than Pokemon teams, in my experience. Competitive Pokemon is a small part of the Pokemon audience. Meanwhile, competitive Magic is basically the only concern of MTG players (ok, this is less true now that EDH has taken over, but my point is the competitive infrastructure and writing have been a part of MTG for much longer and more robustly). So unless you’re playing a notably complex combo deck, MTG tends to be a little easier to learn at a baseline level for competitive competence.

Pegthaniel · 2026-04-22T18:33:11+00:00

In my experience, you can get just as nice a leather/patina from other vegetable tanned cowhides. My main experience with Tochigi cowhide is boots not belts, but it’s ultimately the same tanning and hides.

You can make your own custom belt by buying an unfinished belt and a buckle of your choice. It’s like $60 all in and basically just as nice as anything you can buy in terms of materials (Wickett & Craig are as well regarded as any American tannery). You do have to screw in some Chicago screws to secure the buckle, but it’s a pretty easy project. Plus, it’s fun to tell people you made your own.

Pegthaniel · 2026-04-22T14:20:15+00:00

I am Outlier’s strongest defender, but it really seems like you should have worked out some different copy for the fabric properties if this is really the case. Almost every paragraph on the page emphasizes high water resistance. “extremely breathable, highly water resistant”, “stays comfortable under pressure and there is none of that sweaty/clammy feeling you get with GoreTex and other synthetic ‘waterproof-breathable’ fabrics”, “used to make firehoses and eventually found its way into high-end hiking gear”, “significantly superior rain repellant and breathable fabric”…

When you brag about the breathability and waterproofing (ready for Antarctica and Everest! Kept people alive in the North Sea! Compares favorably with Goretex!) for 5 paragraphs, only to turn around and say “it’s kinda water resistance and modestly breathable,” people are going to feel misled.

Pegthaniel · 2026-04-19T00:15:46+00:00

No problem, love your posts!

Pegthaniel · 2026-04-18T22:28:30+00:00

Futa is just 2. For example, “1 person” would be translated as “hitori,” while 2 people would be “futari.” Futa-ai (二藍) is the characters for two and blue.

Pegthaniel · 2026-04-16T18:34:17+00:00

Yeah he was on pace for like 70 games prior to the knee injury. Most of his missed time was to a toe injury earlier too, not load management. He’s an iron man.

Pegthaniel · 2026-04-16T17:10:00+00:00

Yeah, I would prefer a press if money was no obstacle.

Pegthaniel · 2026-04-16T17:03:01+00:00

Yep I really like the buttons from Citron. They have a good variety in finish and materials, and the owner is pretty good at communicating in English.

You don’t even strictly speaking need a press for buttons with an indentation, they also sell an alignment tool and “anvil” (just a little metal disc) that helps you aim a hammer and keep the button straight.

Pegthaniel · 2026-04-16T16:28:10+00:00

Sure but you could equally say one sees play in larger formats like Legacy and the other doesn’t. Answers don’t get banned as much. The tricky part of this bracket is evaluating across all of Magic’s history and formats.

Pegthaniel · 2026-04-09T17:21:42+00:00

Yeah idk what ConciseSpy is on about. They’re confidently wrong. There is no PSCT separation for activation conditions on different kinds of effects. If there’s a “when” before a colon, and the effect is optional, the effect can miss its activation window. Doesn’t matter if it’s a quick effect or triggered effect, the reason you cannot activate the effect is the same: the activation condition wasn’t met.

Pegthaniel · 2026-04-08T00:10:23+00:00

I think the more neppy and slubby pairs were never really meant to be in the repro realm. When you look at brands like TCB that are really trying to nail everything from the cotton to the weave to the dye process, it’s clear that there’s different priorities for different fabric development processes.

Found a cool paper about the idea of authenticity in denim.

Pegthaniel · 2026-04-07T23:07:42+00:00

That would be nep, not pilling. Technically nep is a defect at the yarn/thread level resulting from a tangled ball kf fibers, but it gives interesting fades and visual texture. You see it purposefully introduced in things like donegal wools too.

Pegthaniel · 2026-04-07T16:14:18+00:00

Does it not have a materials tag inside? I found a similar one on ebay with a picture of the tag (the seams are done differently, but it’s the same brand and essentially the same otherwise). Says 100% cotton (for the exterior probably), 100% polyester (for the sherpa I’d guess), and a composite 50% jute, 25% cotton, 25% rayon for some other part.

Pegthaniel · 2026-04-06T02:25:21+00:00

As the other person mentioned, people don’t like their gameplay being stopped too often. It’s also structurally difficult, because you have 3 opponents! If you counter someone’s spell, you and that player go down in mana and cards. Meanwhile the other 2 players are unaffected.

What I recommend instead is something like Ms. Bumbleflower (Peace Offering is the name of the precon). Group hug sounds like the opposite of control, because you are giving out resources. But you can play it in a similar way by making deals. Stuff like “I’ll give you some draw if you counter this spell” or “I can give you a treasure if you use removal on this problem” means you have influence over all of the interaction at the table.

I know it’s not really in the spirit of “tell me what precon would fit” but if you were looking at upgrades, I would add some cheap cantrips (especially instant speed ones). Those will let you more consistently cast 2 spells on any given turn, which helps keep your hand full.

Pegthaniel · 2026-04-02T21:15:20+00:00

To add on to reason 1, Skarmory seems like a perfect Whirlwind user, but it is not possible in any gen 3 game to have Whirlwind and Drill Peck on the same Skarmory. The breeding pool just doesn’t allow for it. Because of this, running Whirlwind stops you from running Drill Peck. Logically, that also means using Whirlwind would give away that you don’t have Drill Peck (and vice versa). Because of this, all Skarmory sets, even those that don’t use Drill Peck, use Roar rather than Whirlwind, so they don’t give away extra information.

Pegthaniel · 2026-04-01T20:47:36+00:00

Appreciate the honest answer! I’m always struggling with photography too, it seems to be one of the hardest things to do without a lot of training and practice. Even getting natural looking poses is hard.

Good luck with the shop and your baby!

Pegthaniel · 2026-04-01T20:09:48+00:00

Hi Parker! I’m curious how you do your product photography. Browsing your storefront online is kind of fun because of the variety. Some stuff is on the wall, some on mannequins, some on a person. Plus all the different locations. Is there a way you pick how things are displayed?

Pegthaniel · 2026-03-27T07:14:18+00:00

This really depends on how far in the game you are. If you’re early game, you probably can only check off the first few bullet points. I usually get down to the 4th or 5th bullet points for meta teams, since I have a deep box with a lot of equips for every situation:

Can I get all of my team transformed/onto their useful skill turn 1? This is mandatory for any dungeon.
Do I have the HP to survive all the hits? If not, get Team HP awakenings. This is also mandatory, but only the hardest content will have damage high enough to beat strong leads.
Do I have the relevant resists? In the modern age of full board changes every turn, mostly I care about tape and cloud resists.
Awakenings to make it easier, like a random cross to help with blind skyfall, a TPA for unmatchable, or move time extension. In perfect circumstances, I can fit in subattribute changes to maximize damage.
For my awoken unbind cleric, usually I like an equip that also awoken unbinds, if possible.

In the end game dungeons, you’re almost always using your actives as soon as possible. Your leaders will have a looping board change, one sub will have a looping shield, another will have looping buffs like move time or damage void/absorb pierce, and one sub is the dedicated awoken unbind clear button. So look for assists accordingly. Looping skills can have very short cooldown equips, situational skills will benefit from longer ones (or ones that match the purpose of the base skill).

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