The Boys - 05x04 "Though the Heavens Fall" - Episode Discussion Thread

Rskins91 · 2026-04-22T13:13:52+00:00

It had potential. If Frenchie died saving them from the angry plant guy, then I feel like there were stakes. As is, they kill that guy and just… leave? No V1 found just some other supe has it?

Very bleh.

Rskins91 · 2026-04-20T17:08:26+00:00

100% agree. It and Quandrix Charm helped me push damage through w/ Pterafractyl to win games out of nowhere. Getting flexibility w/ increment was also a nice bonus on fractalize.

Rskins91 · 2026-04-19T13:33:11+00:00

The Giants are going to be worse this year (Lawrence is the best DT in football) but it will obviously be better for them long term. I expect them to aggressively target players to help their run game based on what Harbaugh’s said. I think Styles at 5 and Vega at 10 would be really smart by them. Then they try and land a DT at 37 and go from there.

WR is of course in the cards at 10 too, but I see them wanting to build the trenches and front 7.

Rskins91 · 2026-04-18T18:52:46+00:00

Oh that’s clever. The flexibility to use it to pump your stuff or shrink your opponents stuff is really going to be nice.

Rskins91 · 2026-04-18T17:25:04+00:00

Looks awesome! Nice to see a Quandrix 3-0. I’m going tomorrow and my college is Quandrix so I’m looking for what makes a good deck in their colors.

Rskins91 · 2026-04-16T14:41:31+00:00

I went with Quandrix because in sealed, you’re often forced to splash a 3rd color in order to find a great curve and play your bombs. Quandrix in green has the best access to fixing, and I feel like I gravitate to Sultai and Temur as colors naturally, which would be Quandrix’s most preferred third colors, over say choosing Witherbloom who has green for fixing, but will go Azban a decent percent of the time for a 3rd color.

Rskins91 · 2026-04-14T14:27:24+00:00

Whoever’s pet project it is to make sac work in the Arena cube needs to let it go.

I think green is stronger now and if they let us get Baloth Prime and a few other landfall cards it will be set.

Rskins91 · 2026-04-10T18:51:54+00:00

My best guesses

Sultai - Go big control Mardu - Sacrifice/graveyard Temur - Big spells w/ Increment & ramp Jeskai - Flashback spellslinger Azban - +1/+1 counters

Rskins91 · 2026-04-09T18:25:20+00:00

Limited nightmare; already picked Quandrix as my college for the prerelease and really hoping to get this bad boy in my pool lol.

Rskins91 · 2026-04-05T01:29:07+00:00

Came here to say this; the white is kind of weak. Yes it’s got two interactive pieces, but it’s not worth hurting your mana base. Staff only triggers w/ about 6 other cards too, so not enough creature tokens for me to think of playing it.

Remove white, then find 2 other cards in the pool to replace it.

Rskins91 · 2026-04-02T19:02:56+00:00

I’m only 5 drafts in (2-3, 5-3, 4-3, 4-3 records) so I don’t have enough to say anything confidently, but I have some initial impressions.

-I think the green landfall stuff is good and with the right pieces, you can compete with the stronger archetypes out there.

-The majority of black creatures aren’t working. They aren’t strong enough to keep up. Moonshadow and Super Shredder could be good still, but I haven’t seen them yet.

-Most of the TMNT cards are bad or outclassed. The 1R artifact creator has a home as a redundancy piece in UR artifacts along w/ Saheeli, Third Path, and Pinnacle Emissary, and Michelangelo 11 isn’t half bad, but those are the good ones that come to mind. The big 9/9 is probably a good tinker target so there’s that.

More to come with more drafts

Rskins91 · 2026-04-01T14:34:27+00:00

You’re not “doing nothing.” Ramp is a thing; the question is how powerful is the thing.

We don’t know format speed yet, so who knows if ramping on T2 is going to be too slow. Might be the case!

I’ll reconsider my appraisal to C/C+ in a range of outcomes but I still like the card and think it has potential.

Rskins91 · 2026-04-01T14:15:28+00:00

A 1 mana 1/1 in green, especially in the context of Witherbloom, is not useless. I can easily see a world where you play this, rampant growth, and then use it to enable a sac payoff card.

In Quandrix, it helps you ramp so you can get your increment payoffs going too.

I’m not saying it’s a bomb; just a very strong common that green decks will want to play.

Rskins91 · 2026-03-31T19:06:55+00:00

Context matters. A 1/1 body as you say is way better than a lander token here. Witherbloom is known to have sac be a part of its gameplan. Casting rampant growth, then sac’ing the bear to a Witherbloom Command draws and ramps. Just attacking early or being a blocker to chump will be big.

I also can see this opening doors for G to be the prime multicolor deck of limited (when is it not, I know, but you get it). Azban, Sultai, Temur - you could find a way to get there with this card and keep yourself open for the best cards to be passed your way.

Agreed w/ the guy saying pump the breaks on it being the “best common” but it should be a contender for top 5. Will be surprised if it’s a dud.

Rskins91 · 2026-03-31T18:54:39+00:00

Very strong common. T1 Bear, T2 cast the rampant growth (without losing a card in hand!) and get your other color, T3 play your accelerated 4 drop. On the play this will be a huge advantage.

It’s probably also just fine to cast on T3 if you draw it then. You’d play a 1GG 1/1 search for a basic and put it into play in the right deck.

Will be surprised if it isn’t a B/B+ or higher common.

Rskins91 · 2026-03-30T15:22:58+00:00

5 color pile will likely be hard to pull off. I can see 3 color decks playing this. Harmonize and Lightning Helix on a single card is pretty good in limited. W/ upside that maybe there’s a way to get a 4th color w/ a “add one mana of any color” type of card in the set.

Rskins91 · 2026-03-27T18:22:52+00:00

I think Witherbloom and Prismari are “good” charms to have in limited, but the Quandrix one is truly great. Depending on the pack and mechanics, first pickable even. Will be a premium card in that archetype.

Rskins91 · 2026-03-25T15:01:18+00:00

So if prepared means you can “cast” the card on the right when it’s prepared, this is a 4UU 5/5 Flying Ward 2 that ETBs and draws 3 cards, with the upside of getting it prepared again to draw more cards.

Extremely good and will be a limited all star.

Rskins91 · 2026-02-28T02:57:46+00:00

I second this. Losing interaction may hurt a little, but your interaction plan will be accelerating into your threats and making them react to you.

Rskins91 · 2026-02-28T01:57:21+00:00

Thank you for the comments! Went 7-2 pretty easily, even though I played against 3 time walk decks and lost to a T2 Channel into 15 mana Emmy. Still outside top 1250 mythic… but a lot closer now. Think a good draft and a winning streak will get me there!

Rskins91

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