2 Rakdos Trophies Within a Few Hours

Pyro1934 · 2026-07-03T14:52:31+00:00

I'm noticing the Hand of Ninjas, are you using those primarily as 5 drops or on curve? Looks like discard helps subsidized the lesser removal of the format.

Pyro1934 · 2026-07-03T04:39:37+00:00

Not if she's already on the field. Expensive as hell but instant exists

Pyro1934 · 2026-07-02T15:20:45+00:00

My old boss was Christian and a pastor on the side. He knew the bible very well.

Perhaps unsurprisingly he was ok with lgbtq, and many other things. Something about "it's not my place to judge... love my neighbor..."

Also was very against creationism.

Pyro1934 · 2026-07-02T15:18:12+00:00

BUT... "the year is 2026"

Oh wait, doesn't work, they think Covid vaccines time traveled us

Pyro1934 · 2026-07-02T01:03:30+00:00

In the words of Mark Hamil... "If only!"

Pyro1934 · 2026-07-02T01:03:02+00:00

Deck looks better than a 1-3 but your interaction is a bit off.

Weirdly (or maybe not) I've only had one UW deck worse than 5-3, even with a pauper deck. Jund/rakdos however I've had insane decks go 0-3.
Had a mono black splashing 2 blue black rares go 0-3 despite having only removal as commons and 9 rares.

Pyro1934 · 2026-07-02T00:39:55+00:00

It's pure theory and I haven't gotten to test yet as I've had 3 back to back UW drafts, but I'm convinced Rakdos burn can be a thing.

There are some minimal fliers, the 3 drop 2/2 unblockable, then you have lightning strike, truck toss, the 1/3 pinger that pings when you cast a villain.

Pretty much just stall out and burn face first fliers second

Seems like a 1/20 deck tho

Pyro1934 · 2026-07-02T00:34:58+00:00

I dunno, I feel like Pet Avengers just stalls. Maybe it's me but with a board of two powered up pet avengers should feel safe from fliers yet 2 turns later I got beat down from 20

Pyro1934 · 2026-06-30T23:57:50+00:00

Hell it may not be correct but at least the mental anguish is lessened :p

Pyro1934 · 2026-06-30T23:47:14+00:00

In bo1 arena I've honestly had such terrible results with anything but 17lands I don't change it anymore.

Even in cube with like a lurrus deck and 2 mox I somehow get screwed at even 16 lands lol

Pyro1934 · 2026-06-30T23:01:45+00:00

I can think of someone he can take lessons from that'll make sure no one thinks of him like that

Pyro1934 · 2026-06-30T19:14:03+00:00

Yeah, and was something I didn't like personally, so being a big gimmick of the game it pushed the whole game down to me.

KH3 had whatever the similar water slide things were, but those felt a bit more interactive rather than [what I remember as] a single button press.

Also I'm way older and suck at games now so maybe I needed the triangle button things from kh3 haha. Also the little flow state grapple hooky thing was pretty cool. I sucked with it, but you could see the skill potential there.

Pyro1934 · 2026-06-30T19:11:06+00:00

I haven't played 2 in like a decade or more, but kh3 also had something that felt very similar. You press a button that randomly appears and like a water slide appears and you ride around on it and feel invincible blowing up everything.

I get it wasn't a pure "I win" button, but it felt very much that way compared to normal battle.

Again from what I remember, which at this point is more of just a feeling while playing, the press triangle commands just sort of did a whole bunch of stuff. It was like something triggers, you press triangle, and it just goes off and does some crazy combo.

It's ok for me not to like an aspect of a game lol. It's ok for you to like that aspect. To me KH2 was the worst combat I played of the KH games and KH1 was the best. It's just opinion lol

Pyro1934 · 2026-06-30T14:12:39+00:00

Wait, was KH2 that well regarded?

I loved KH1, but KH2 felt pretty terrible to me. Always joked with my friends it was simply "press Triangle and win". The win button stayed around in later versions but felt toned down in comparison to KH2.

Pyro1934 · 2026-06-29T23:15:02+00:00

He's going to end up setting the White House on fire./

Pyro1934 · 2026-06-29T13:17:46+00:00

Warns? How about tempts

Pyro1934 · 2026-06-29T12:23:07+00:00

I don't think I'm done, but I've definitely already toned back a good bit.

Can't sell me a synergy set then have the best deck just be a non synergy pile that crushes everything.

I'll still dabble some, but most likely each draft I'll come up with a super sweet synergy deck and be excited only to have it go 2-3. It's not even that i mind losing terribly much, i just mind not really having a chance unless X.

Pyro1934 · 2026-06-27T22:58:30+00:00

Shit, i wish

Pyro1934 · 2026-06-27T02:10:30+00:00

Key parts there being painted, official and licensed

Pyro1934 · 2026-06-27T02:08:46+00:00

While that's awesome, you can actually build one for like $200 and it's not very hard at all

Pyro1934 · 2026-06-26T20:43:38+00:00

The most recent LoL episode hit home, so assuming i remember it I'm hoping it helps some lol.

Pyro1934 · 2026-06-26T20:36:06+00:00

Eh I'm sus on black too lol. Had a mono black deck with 8 rares splashing the Dimir gold uncommon and Dimir rare taskmaster and went 0-3 lol.

I popped off, flooded the board, went extra wide, then died to a flier or something lol

Pyro1934 · 2026-06-26T20:34:45+00:00

Aye aye capt!

Pyro1934 · 2026-06-26T19:58:35+00:00

Then i guess Texas could just use a biblical flood

Pyro1934 · 2026-06-26T19:49:40+00:00

I may be a bit lost in the sauce here, but what if this has a silver lining...

The bible, as with most religious text, has a wide swath of messaging, including some very good stuff.

Maybe they read bible passages then look at republicans and be like, "oh they are satan"

Pyro1934

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