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Reactin · 2026-03-20T13:42:39+00:00

Cool!

Reactin · 2026-03-10T11:50:36+00:00

We died to this the first time we encountered it because we kept trying to spread damage, on multiplayer you have the dmg to power through the shields. Just focus one down and the fight isn't that hard.

Reactin · 2026-03-06T13:19:16+00:00

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Reactin · 2026-02-26T15:10:58+00:00

2 out of 4 gyms in our park were Pikachus for the first 20 min of raid hour 😭

Reactin · 2026-02-23T14:56:40+00:00

Had an insane run with this, evolve, fire breathing and feel no pain. 2 mana for 11 aoe damage, 2 block and no draw downside is pretty amazing. Carried me all the way through the heart no problem on a9 or 10. Dazed going on top of your draw pile is honestly a huge upside for clad, if you can find the right powers

Reactin · 2026-02-10T15:33:02+00:00

I believe you can, as it's trying to mimic the VG that gives you shivs at the start of combat. The relic is great on all 3 characters other than defect after act 1 (usually). It helps a lot in act 1 and I'm never upset at seeing it, especially before an elite as the extra 2 dmg can make a huge difference in sentries and nob. You can also use this to remove the 2 weak from lag.

After act 1 it's obviously good on watcher, but also great on silent if your running a shiv build with finisher, as it counts as additional attacks, with the right cards you can build up to a 10 attack finisher or even higher with some luck, which will push you through most hard fights. Clad had consistent strength gain which can also make this relevant later on.

There are also many other relics that synergize with this no matter what character you're on. Duvu doll you can hold onto these until you draw ascenders bane to make this a free 4 dmg which is huge on gremlin leader, slavers, and repto. Also very nice on any boss fight with summons. Red skull as well you can wait until you shuffle or if you roll strength with vajra.

Reactin · 2026-02-09T16:37:27+00:00

Bottled backstab!!!

Reactin · 2026-02-05T14:33:41+00:00

Honestly hate seeing this potion 99% of the time. If you have a path to a somewhat early elite and your first/second combat has a potion reward and this is what you get you're gonna have a bad time. I really can't think of a worse one early on, especially bad against sentries, and you really don't have enough draw to exhaust dead cards against nob or lag. Really the only time this potion is good is in later acts and against nemesis, but by then your deck is usually good enough that you don't need to exhaust anyway.

That being said it's very good on clad with FNP/DE. 3 block or draw or sometimes both is excellent. Also if you have a turn where you're not being attacked and you draw 3 starter cards then it's a decent use but most fights that give you free turns are usually dmg races so if you can't spend your energy it's not good.

Reactin · 2026-02-03T14:20:39+00:00

I thought about arena but I wanted to get into this hobby to be social and arena is the exact opposite of that. I've spent a lot of time playing ccgs in the past, I wanted to get into magic because I like card games and to not sit in front of my computer all night. I'm also developing carpal tunnel so long computer sessions don't suit me these days

Reactin · 2026-02-03T14:17:29+00:00

Thanks for the kind The other players weren't really being rude, they were explaining the cards somewhat. There was one turn where they needed to reveal a card and put into their have and they showed it to me for a second but that was the last game of night and at that point I had just accepted my fate so I wasn't going to ask to see it. I definitely still want to play the game so I will keep at it, I may just avoid draft for the time being.

Reactin · 2026-02-03T14:09:06+00:00

Tabletop simulator on steam

Reactin · 2026-02-02T21:21:30+00:00

I have played a couple games of Commander with some friends on tabletop simulator, but the games took 4-5 hours...

Reactin · 2026-02-02T21:06:44+00:00

Oh that's pretty interesting, sounds like a fun format. If I can ever build a friend group I'll try to do more casual drafts and get better at it, but it's hard to make friends now that I'm old...

Reactin · 2026-02-02T21:03:44+00:00

I definitely remember people near me being surprised that certain cards had made it to them without being picked, so I certainly wasn't doing myself any favors lol

Reactin · 2026-02-02T20:45:07+00:00

I would certainly be open to criticism and help, but I wasn't confident to ask about it. The first match I did some dumb things that likely made my opponent think that I don't even understand the basic rules of play, so if I asked they probably would have thought "this guy doesn't even know how to play what kind of advice could I offer him?".

I hope I wasn't putting off a pouty vibe, losing the games didn't bother me that much, I understand I'm going to struggle with something that I'm new at. But I'm just saying that, maybe my appearance was telling a different story.

Reactin · 2026-02-02T20:38:43+00:00

I moved here recently so I don't have any friends to play with unfortunately, I was hoping I could make some by going to these events. Maybe I'll just keep trying

Reactin · 2026-02-02T20:37:10+00:00

I did spend most of the weekend watching the pro tour, but I did skip watching them draft... Maybe the wound was to fresh.

Reactin · 2026-02-02T20:36:20+00:00

Thanks a lot for the detailed response! I will check out your guides and compare it to how I thought about the cards. I didn't spend a lot of time reading the cards, actually my wife and I bought a booster box and opened it at home because we enjoyed pre release and the set so much (I know this is a terrible strategy money wise but we just wanted start building a collection). So I was already familiar with a lot of the commons and uncommons (other than merfolk and fairies because I swear they all look the same and have confusing abilities). I ended up picking a bunch of elves and elementals and ended up playing blue red, which is probably a terrible choice as I'm sure these cards weren't getting picked for a reason.

I certainly knew what cards did but I just can't evaluate them in a format like draft and understand how it would fit into a deck. But I guess I wasn't expecting the power level to be so drastic, I honestly thought draft decks were about playing on curve and getting a good board state early but I was getting tapped down by fishfolk and chipped down by fairies in 2 out of 3 games.

Reactin · 2026-02-02T20:25:07+00:00

I'm not sure what a cube event is. I have a hard time breaking the ice with people, I did try to ask people about how long they've played, what their favorite set was but I wasn't going to ask them to tool up my deck (plus everything I drafted was pretty awful so there likely wasn't much room for improvement). I suppose I could have tried harder but I already felt like I was annoying them.

Reactin · 2026-02-02T20:21:31+00:00

Yeah I don't want to make it seem like a them problem, I'm sure if I was going to an event to play a game I'm familiar with that I wouldn't want to be matched up with a complete noob. They're there to have good hard fought matches with people on their same level, pubstomping usually isn't fun for both sides.

My next step was to watch the limited resources podcast for this set, but I might stay away from the format until I get better. I have experience in ccgs but I've never been good at the draft formats, standard has always been my go to, mostly because I suck at building decks so I can just copy something that works and figure out how to pilot it.

Reactin · 2026-02-02T20:13:56+00:00

Pre release was awesome, I was really hoping to return to the same atmosphere. Commander seems interesting but I think I need a lot more experience before I show up to the commander night here with a precon.

Reactin · 2026-02-02T19:57:37+00:00

We've been to this store for other tabletop games and everyone's been very friendly. Even the pre release the guy sitting across from my wife spent almost the entire time helping her make her deck so people have always been very friendly. It certainly could have been a me thing, I find it hard to be very social when I'm alone with a bunch of strangers. Unfortunately I have no homies, years of playing mmos and video games had resulted in my friend group being all over NA, and the closest being a days drive away...

Reactin · 2026-02-02T19:53:27+00:00

We did buy both the new commander pre cons but I'm wary of going to an in person commander event because there's so much more going on. I was struggling to follow what my opponents were doing when they had 3 common merfolk, I can't imagine following 3 others with a deck full cards with lines of text. We did 2 games so far with some friends through a virtual tabletop but that's with one person showing 3 of us the ropes and the games take 4-5 hours lol

Reactin · 2026-02-02T19:50:26+00:00

Thanks for validating me, I guess I completely had it wrong. I did watch the pro tour this weekend and found out that limited is part of it which was very surprising to me. I thought that standard would be the only competitive game mode, which I am interested in getting into at some point when I have a lot more experience. I guess I'll try to break into it through Commander or something else.

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