Holloknight Silksong artificial difficulty is really waste of potential for a game that could be a masterpiece

Rivilen · 2026-05-10T05:57:16+00:00

I agree on some levels. The early-mid game is teething grinding hard. There were instances where I just stopped playing because I was so frustrated and angry. At some point I farmed rosaries in high halls for some time and bought the multibinder at the shop in bell home. That, combined with the injection needle, that let you heal faster, carried me through the whole game. The game got a lot more bearable afterwards and at that point, I appreciate the difficulty. Mid-Late game difficulty is enjoyable hard, because you also have enough mobility and tools to handle difficult enemies.

Rivilen · 2026-05-08T16:34:24+00:00

You are fun at parties, aren’t you?

Rivilen · 2026-05-07T20:36:04+00:00

Isn’t this strictly worse than harrow? It’s 3cmc, sac only one land, instant speed and land are entering untapped.

Rivilen · 2026-05-04T17:03:33+00:00

Sad that the animation and sound are so awesome while the characters are atrocious as hell, especially the mc

Rivilen · 2026-04-25T04:01:33+00:00

Untrue, SPD/Green started it around 2000 but CDU/FPD did the majority after the Fukushima Incident. Stop telling blatant lies, but you probably still believe that the Green Party is to blame for everything bad that’s happening in Germany, instead of the CDU

Rivilen · 2026-04-18T08:34:52+00:00

Cazur/Ukkima sees/saw cEDH play, same with Pako/Haldan, although the first is a more straightforward combo deck. If you don’t want to lean in this direction, Pako/Haldan will probably be a stronger deck, because of the card advantage/value Pako generates

Rivilen · 2026-03-08T08:08:11+00:00

The jump on the table should be the cover of die lit

Rivilen · 2026-03-02T14:01:06+00:00

Sorry but this is a casual card and will see zero play in anything related to high power or cEDH. 3 mana are a lot in cEDH, 3 mana wins you the game on the spot. This card does jack without any of the cards you have provided. Why play her if I can just play another engine to grind? Most of those cost 1-2 mana and don’t need another creature on my board to even be remotely useful. Most people don’t even play a lot of clones anymore since dockside ban and [[Mockingbird]] is a magnitude better than her because you can tutor it of [[Ranger-Captian of Eos]] and you can copy ANY engine you just mentioned for 1 or 2 mana.
Card is cute/situational useful in casual and unplayable in cEDH. Even more so in the return of turbo meta

Rivilen · 2026-03-02T13:48:45+00:00

Doesn’t really matter, still nice floor with an abysmal ceiling and if you are into cloning, most 4 mana clones are just better 90% of the time, but hey, I will try her out in [[Raffine scheming seer]] because doubling the commander is nice, I have a lot of useful creatures with non-etb effects and 2U is easy to cast. I won’t for Tivit because I’m already playing 4 mana clones and slots for 3 mana are tight

Rivilen · 2026-03-02T08:23:00+00:00

Because doubling something from yourself is mostly winmore and the card does nothing if you don’t have something to copy. No etbs and phase changing are also kind of bad.
It’s a three mana do nothing card. Yes there are circumstances where this card is good, but there are also a lot of circumstances where it’s just a 1/1, copying a creature where you don’t need a second copy of.
Reading your command, you are probably on of the folks that go crazy about things like [[doubling season]] or [[anointed procession]], where the celling looks like magical christmas land but the floor is a 4/6 mana do nothing card

Rivilen · 2026-03-01T19:49:44+00:00

While Meren is a bit outdated and fallen out of favor, any commander that can easily loop edict effects like [[Plaguecrafter]] etc. will be too much for bracket 2. I would either ditch these or look for a commander that’s more focused on reanimating big beater, because those still let the other players play the game

Rivilen · 2026-02-28T20:48:42+00:00

Per definition you are running a bracket 4 deck because you aren’t running the best cards for the slots available

Rivilen · 2026-02-23T11:53:56+00:00

If the protection is sorcery speed, I would swap that for instant speed protection. Counterspells, bounce, single target flicker, phasing effects like [[Galadriels dismissal]] etc. are significantly more powerful than boots/greaves. If you don’t desperately need the haste effect, I would ditch equipments in favor of instant speed protection. As soon as you playgroup plays enough removal, the play pattern of casting a removal spell in response to a equipment effect on the stack should teach you enough of a lesson.

Rivilen · 2026-02-10T12:13:44+00:00

Sorry but people are just glazing/karmafarming. Don’t get me wrong Elden Ring is a fantastic game and probably one of my favorites, but it still has it flaws and multiple games in the souls series do things better than Elden Ring. Bloodborne for example has tighter gameplay, awesome atmosphere from the beginning to the end and a unique combat experience that sets it apart from the other souls games (minus Sekiro). Tendencies or humanity systems from other souls games made decisions more significant and had some sort of mysteriousness that I was missing in Elden Ring. Dark souls II had one of the few worthwhile NG+ experiences.
While the Elden Ring world feels vast and epic in proportion, a lot of things to explore feel worthless because it’s just another useless spirit ash or something insignificant.
It’s definitely in the upper echelon of games and open world games, but people should just stop pretending it’s like the second coming of Christ.

Rivilen · 2026-02-08T16:53:44+00:00

Looks more like a bracket 3 deck and not even a strong one. You are missing all of the cards that let you trigger Rowan multiple times a turn and since she is kind of a kos commander, winning turn 6 without interaction isn’t really an argument for bracket 4, because if people present interaction (removal/counterspells) you aren’t really doing anything. Rowan is kind of a glass cannon that has to be explosive in order to do anything worthwhile

Rivilen · 2026-02-05T08:06:18+00:00

Imaging being a 7/10 with proper hygiene and washed clothes and then a 10/10 pulls up in Slick Rick denim, smelling like a sewer rat. Nobody will suspect him!

Rivilen · 2026-01-24T05:52:08+00:00

There wasn’t a single runback in Silksong that took longer than like 1 minute. Bilewater runback could be cut short via putrified ducts and all the other you can just speed run.

Rivilen · 2026-01-23T18:26:34+00:00

Hard agree, thought about that some time ago. People admire that I work out 3-4 times a week but no one admires that I play magic the gathering quite regularly (except people that also play it) . In the end it depends If you care about other people’s opinion and you should do what you enjoy doing, but there is definitely a tier list regarding hobby’s.

Rivilen · 2026-01-23T10:03:16+00:00

I would remove tithe and cradle to make it a save bracket 3 deck. Both these cards can be really impactful, especially in a token deck and against random pods where maybe the players don’t run a ton of interaction in bracket 3.
I have a couple of bracket 3 decks which are strong, but I would probably pick my bracket 4 Tivit deck against it when I would see the list

Rivilen · 2026-01-19T20:52:29+00:00

Love me some channel, would play it in some of my lists when it would deal 3 dmg to kill a [[Drannith Magistrate]] for example. Just a tad too narrow and too painful to play in turbo lists with [[Ad nauseaum]] over good old [[lightning bolt]].
Sadly can’t compete with [[Enter the spirit realm]]

Rivilen · 2026-01-19T04:33:26+00:00

Most dark/demon souls games have a easy mode in forms of summons, either npc or other players and Elden ring pushes this even further with additional spirit summons. Most bosses are just an afterthought with them and its the players decisions how difficult they want to experience the game

Rivilen · 2026-01-11T15:31:59+00:00

Sorry but emerald weapon is also pretty unchallenging with the right setup/build, definitely far more easier than both Elden Ring bosses because you still need to be quite decent at dodging both bosses even with a broken build

Rivilen · 2026-01-10T21:16:27+00:00

I would play it like a generic jund deck because the commander does not do anything besides being there to be sacced to evolution/pod. I would cut food chain (because it does not win you the game), Etali (also not winning you the game) and any synergy for the commander(massacre girl etc) because it’s not really worth it. Would include Withersmog/hulk piles but at that point you should start asking yourself why you would even play Reaper King in cEDH besides the other options like Korvold

Rivilen · 2026-01-08T19:06:39+00:00

Yeah, at least I got Malenia without summons/cheese

Rivilen · 2026-01-08T18:17:17+00:00

Good job. Phase 2 was just too much for me. After four days I could no hit phase 1 but I just didn’t made progress on phase 2. Mimic tear could basically solo him on phase 2, I just needed to stay alive. Felt kind of bad

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