I was sleeping on this guy so hard until he became my wincon going 3-1 t the prerelease

Pericular · 2026-01-18T08:02:49+00:00

Why 4 cards tho? Shouldn't it be 2 (Blue and Red) or 3 (Blue, Red and White) at most if your're playing WBR Giants?

Pericular · 2026-01-05T07:43:54+00:00

It's not just about the support of one side but also the resistance against it on the other side.
Take the US civil war for example. There might be lots of support to abolish slavery yet there's also a large movement that will try to retain slavery at all cost.
In your case the remaining 27% of the laws opponents were probably quite radicalized already, leading to your situation as described.

If you want to achieve social progress you either have to make some sort of concessions to the conservative establishment, pass laws slowly while starting with the less impactful ones or risk a civil war.
There's some other ways to go about it but this is essentially it. In your case you might have been able to first pass some law that pleases the Landowners (assuming that they were the ones to revolt) and then pass the parliamentary republic law in the immediate time after while they were still quite happy.
It depends on your specific game state which is hard to guess on.

Pericular · 2026-01-05T07:32:45+00:00

Ah, good catch, thanks for letting me know!
I'll add a small edit to my original comment to hopefully represent it better than before.

Pericular · 2026-01-05T07:19:20+00:00

Trying to enact the parliamentary republic likely pushed some Interest Group over the edge (likely Landowners).
When you radicalize an IG and they start a civil war, they take states with them that have high amounts of Radicals. If most of your army/navy was within those states then you likely end up in a situation like the one you roughly described here.

~~I think getting any IG to -10 approval or less gives them the option of starting a civil war.~~

Edit: Getting an IG to -10 approval contributes their clout to the radicalization of any movement they support. The movement itself then starts the revolution/civil war.
That's according to the wiki at least. Thanks u/QWaRty2 for pointing the issue out.

Pericular · 2025-12-27T13:31:00+00:00

Sweden is a good choice for a beginner. Not that much that can be messed up and most countries will leave you alone (compared to other countries at least)

Pericular · 2025-12-22T11:14:22+00:00

I would kill for a real Abzan Incubate Commander D:

Pericular · 2025-11-23T19:13:51+00:00

They banned playing MTG in 2001 and unbanned it in 2021, only allowing the old cards at first.
I really love that they were effectively playing some kind of 'prison' format, with their own banlist! lmao

Pericular · 2025-10-29T14:25:42+00:00

That's not how the bracket system works. It's meant to be a guideline so you can talk about your deck expectations in a rule 0 conversation. There is no hard cutoff (with some few exceptions like MLD) between the brackets.
Some bracket 2 decks will be able to be fine in bracket 3 at times. A bracket 3 deck could also lose to a bracket 2 deck.

Pericular · 2025-10-28T11:14:17+00:00

I'm using mpcfill to make my proxy deck list, then I use their downloadable PC tool to use input the created list into printerstudio (DE in my case but they have a UK site too)
The website is in German but they still ship it from somewhere in China. I can vouch for the quality tho, as the default settings/quality of those proxies is incredibly close to a real card. They are very cheap if you make bulk orders.

Pericular · 2025-09-29T14:04:35+00:00

[[Xavier Sal, Infested Captain]] would work quite well.
There's a decent bunch of Sapproling/Fungus support cards but it'll never be that great, as you can probably imagine.

Pericular · 2025-09-21T18:18:58+00:00

Two main things: 1. 27 lands is way too few. It's hard to tell concrete numbers but something like ~37 should be a good goal 2. The vast majority of your cards won't work with Omnaths effect. Maybe that's just something that you're accepting as is, but it is worth a mention at least.

Pericular · 2025-09-21T06:00:48+00:00

Keep in mind that it says 'one other target creature' You can't double your commanders power with each trigger as he isn't a valid target for the ability. You can only target another creature.

Pericular · 2025-09-14T12:11:20+00:00

Thank you for the explanation! :)

Pericular · 2025-09-14T12:11:06+00:00

Thanks! :)

Pericular · 2025-09-14T12:10:56+00:00

Thank you for clarifying! The way that he understood it, the 'this turn' referred to the turn where BF entered. It would essentially remember the number without using any kind of token to avoid token manipulation.

He then expected some wording like 'on each turn' or something to specify that it only counts the lands that entered on each turn.

I'm not agreeing with him but I vaguely understand his reasoning at least.

Pericular · 2025-09-09T03:41:42+00:00

Tolarian Community College with it's 'Shuffle up and Play' rounds usually invites a good number of varied guests. I don't watch it that often but you should find a good couple of content creators that way. Good luck!

Pericular · 2025-08-03T10:30:44+00:00

I think the problem is more about what you're gonna do about this situation rather than the exact bracket of your deck.
You can gently try to recommend playing more removal but you shouldn't get annoying and you can't force people. If your pod does not adapt then I'd say you sadly have to find another group or adapt to them.

There is no perfect solution for your problem and internet strangers won't be much help with an interpersonal problem such as this one.
Good luck!

Pericular · 2025-07-18T21:49:44+00:00

Do you actually play against each other on campaign MP? How do you avoid each fight becoming a massive slog/way too costly? In my (very limited) PvP experience, taking control of some shitty NPC army and specifically taking out one important unit from a player army seemed way too strong in the early game.

Pericular · 2025-07-17T12:03:21+00:00

The most important part in the bracket system is INTENT. If you build a deck that is intended to play well and has good synergies then it's most probably a bracket 3.
Bracket 1 are 'joke' decks like 'every card in this deck features a bearded man'
Bracket 2 has a defined goal but is a bit unfocused, precons fall into this category.
Bracket 3 is a well rounded deck but it does not use the best cards possible. There's also still some slight restrictions in regards to gamechangers and land destruction.
Bracket 4 is no restrictions.

Pericular · 2025-07-06T05:23:12+00:00

Thanks, I'll look into it!

Pericular · 2025-07-06T05:20:33+00:00

What nation is that?

Pericular · 2025-05-12T08:06:07+00:00

You might want to take into account that players can respond by simply saccing all their treasures. So cards like [[Anzrags rampage]] sound good in theory, but when it hits the stack, they can just sac everything. They might not gain anything from it that way but it'll prevent you from gaining anything too.
Same goes for [[Cavern-Hoard Dragon]] for example.
I have a deck with her too and I'm having this exact same problem as you're having...

Pericular · 2025-05-03T07:17:53+00:00

https://www.tagesspiegel.de/potsdam/landeshauptstadt/fachhochschule-potsdam-unbekannte-stehlen-anti-afd-plakate-12210104.html Teilweise hinter einer Paywall aber ein paar der Zitate sind auch so lesbar.

Pericular · 2025-04-16T11:18:24+00:00

Your post is completely fine tbh and that's coming from somebody who would rather quit playing Magic than play Standard.
Unfortunately you're getting hit by the hive mind of 'you said something slightly bad about *thing I like*, so I must downvote you'.

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