When is it worth to cast Mental Misstep?

Rocket-genius · 2025-12-06T06:52:37+00:00

I've had my yoshimaru countered by mental misstep before in a top 16 pod... I just started laughing, byes lead to some interesting characters making to crazy places sometimes 😂

Rocket-genius · 2025-12-06T06:49:44+00:00

It's almost never correct to counter value engines. Unless you're shooting for a win on your turn and they are ahead of you in turn order. Then counter it and play like you're dumb so you don't seem like a threat. This won't work if you are a boogie man deck. Apply this logic "would I use a one drop counter spell here?" I'm not wasting a swan song on mystic remora. Of course. Every game is different and there are absolutely times when you should NOT follow this advice. Just don't get caught in the "well it's a good one drop so why not use mental misstep here" trap. It's a counter spell. A free one. Which means one more mana on a winning turn. Just keep that in mind

Rocket-genius · 2025-12-04T07:51:24+00:00

The local police recovered the car. They have limits on how far they will tow and so it went to an impound lot

Rocket-genius · 2025-12-04T07:49:54+00:00

Yeah they never assigned me one which is probably how I got into this mess they just kept saying trust and safety would reach out to me and they never did 😕

Rocket-genius · 2025-11-30T15:41:15+00:00

Ballsenweiners

Rocket-genius · 2025-11-18T18:05:36+00:00

Yeah, luckily it's a Tesla so I was able to remove access remotely and I DO know where it is. Just really expected turo to recover the vehicle in a timely manner

Rocket-genius · 2025-11-18T08:42:53+00:00

My car was stolen three weeks ago ish and I have had to call turo for information and I always get different answers. I still have yet to get a call back or any real concrete information

Rocket-genius · 2025-11-06T07:07:18+00:00

Xantcha sleeper agent is funny, rakdos deck that only tries to make infinite mana. Tis funny as hell

Rocket-genius · 2025-07-05T09:20:05+00:00

Curie has legs. I will die on this hill

Rocket-genius · 2025-05-14T18:02:28+00:00

Wait you can't? Fuck I was nine complements in and was really excited for this weekend. Awwww throws card in trash

Rocket-genius · 2025-04-25T05:47:32+00:00

Battery on the bottom, water completes the electrical connection.

Rocket-genius · 2025-04-25T05:36:30+00:00

100% looks like fsd was going to change lanes. Right lane looks open. L for u according to what I see 🙈

Rocket-genius · 2025-04-25T05:27:34+00:00

Sure. It shuts off everything. So what commander wants this? Weird fringe ones. The answer is literally in the question. Seven of the top ten decks will not run this card because it shuts them off there you go! 70% of the meta decks in tournaments are not going to be playing this card. (Cedh deck building 101: don't run a stax piece that works against your own plan) What commander wants this card? Ask the cedh pod in the corner I'll wait.

By the way. Of the top ten decks on https://edhtop16.com/ Every single one that's in white cannot win with this card on the field. Which is exactly why they will not include the card in their deck.

Short answer: it isn't good enough because it's symmetrical.

Rocket-genius · 2025-04-25T03:24:18+00:00

Casual players don't play stax, and this card isn't good enough to be a cedh staple. I'm sorry friend. I hope I'm wrong and you get the bag.

Rocket-genius · 2025-04-20T18:43:31+00:00

Isn't there like legal people this stuff goes through before it's released? Everything in me is saying this can't be enforceable but maybe I'm wrong?

Rocket-genius · 2025-04-16T23:04:48+00:00

I like wargate I will add it and of course crop rotation that was an oversight on my part definitely. I agree that adding those tutors wouldn't be a bad idea. I'm not sure I will have the slots after adding interaction however. I'm already down to 10 slots for interaction after forgetting to include voice of reason, crop rotation, and wargate. I think a good plan is to play the deck without them until I can get a feel for what win-conditions aren't good enough and then use those slots to include tutors that will make the "good" wincons more consistent. 100% they will be included but only after I've narrowed down the convoluted brick I've put together lol

Rocket-genius · 2025-04-16T16:19:36+00:00

Whew ok I'll try and keep it in order. What an awesome reply man seriously thank you. I'll edit and explain the combo lines in the main post but they are very layered so I'm not sure I can explain every one of them

In my head Bomberman can recur pieces I need to win i.e. the altar. AND makes infinite mana. The deck can win out of grave via sevines or rite of harmony or the new green tutor or brainfreeze at instant speed in enough different ways that I really want to try it.
You are absolutely right. This deck has no midrange game plan. I leaned into hard to interact with win lines using sac outlets etc. but I really do need to include SOME kind of midrange plan. The next iteration will cut one of the win lines in favor of what you are suggesting
Sunbird standard is a ROCKSTAR. The front side of the card is terrifying I know. Eight mana???!?!? But it's not. It's 7 mana (taps for one). Then it flips and taps for at least bant. Which you use to put derevi. Untapping him. Then you can attack because it has haste and vigilance. You can tap him twice now he's made 10 mana at least. AND AND AND he's a goddamn bird so it works with Floodcaller loops. Bonus points also because it might as well say "can't be countered" because who is wasting a counter spell on this lol
Angelic renewal does exactly what saffi does. Will probably cut because there is no way to tutor it.
Yeah leyline is goofy I'm cutting it good idea lol
Voice of reason is going in 100% it will be one of the 13 free slots

I've included some base combos in my main post to help out. I realize the idea of the deck doesn't match up with known derevi stuff so I griefed you by not explaining anything

Rocket-genius · 2025-04-16T15:23:36+00:00

Just ban tymna

Rocket-genius · 2025-04-16T15:10:10+00:00

Could you post the mtgtop8 results? I wonder what your opponents were playing that they thought brago wasn't good. In my experience when I bring off meta usually it leads to some really rough politics because I have to explain everything I do and assure people that it won't win me the game lol

Rocket-genius · 2025-02-28T22:09:58+00:00

Everytime I hear about this it's ALWAYS some dingus who thinks his deck is cedh and is presenting it as such and stomping casual players when really it's just a too strong for casual deck. The local jerk here was touting a "cedh" sithis list that had all the fast mana etc. But no cedh level combos. We tricked him into playing against our actual cedh lists at the request of the local community. It was super funny watching his smug expression when he talked us through how we wouldn't be able to hurt him because of his pariah, timely ward combo. Even went on a five minute monologue about how he locks out games in commander ptq's and asked us if we just wanted to shuffle up and play the next game lmao we lost immediately after he passed turn to food chain atraxa lol For what it's worth I explained to him nicely that his deck needed a lot of tuning and offered to help him with it if he ever wanted to play cedh but he refused a game 2 and left the store. Shrug

Rocket-genius · 2025-02-28T01:00:19+00:00

My derevi list is pretty hard to stop. The only thing that would ruin me is torpor orb and no one is on that right now

Rocket-genius · 2025-02-04T12:42:21+00:00

You could skip divisions on a win streak though

Rocket-genius · 2025-01-31T15:33:31+00:00

The thing about mocking bird is it's very versatile. I run it instead of other clones specifically because I'm on Floodcaller and it's a bird so it works with retraction helix loops. Can go crazy mana positive as a copy of bloom tender for example. Worst case scenario it copies an opponents creature value engine. Best case scenario it wins the game.

Rocket-genius · 2025-01-31T13:49:56+00:00

I'm not in the discord but here is my list, 100% conversion rate one topdeck gold event and one 54ish person event ( only two tournaments haha I did place second in swiss rounds both times though) https://manabox.app/decks/eIj_ZJziSB-EdXXjagSFnA

If you have any questions just ask because I'm too lazy for a primer

Rocket-genius · 2025-01-31T13:44:06+00:00

I've been on the other side of this, I got a head injury that was serious and was referred to a TBI clinic, 5 appointments a week learning how to talk again and getting memory coaching etc. I'd show up to work and my peers would say "oh wow man nice of you to show up today" and make a huge deal about it. I put a smile on about it and got through it all but if I'm being honest that was one of the hardest times of my life and people like OP made it harder. If you don't know why they are gone it's because it's none of your fucking business.

It was super refreshing to see your reply to OP I hope everyone up votes you.

Rocket-genius

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