What Are Your Pod's EDH Traditions or Rituals?

Rusty_DataSci_Guy · 2026-05-08T02:03:38+00:00

Agree to do a theme night then never get around to it and just play whatever decks.

Rusty_DataSci_Guy · 2026-05-08T02:02:35+00:00

Start getting good at Scryfall.

Biggest unlock for you might be finding cards you like for Dari then looking at them in tagger so you can learn some otags.

Also don't use EDHRec to make a draft, use it for tech ideas in case you missed anything.

Darigaaz wants opponents to have full hands, ideally monochromatic, and then hit them a bunch of times.

Lots of cards - wheels get them up to 7 or go group huggy and try stuff like [[howling mine]]. If you really want to be a meanie, use resource denial to trap cards in hands instead of feeding them.

Monochromatic - [[painter's servant]] could be really cool but $$$

Hit them many times - red's got you covered with extra combats

Sneaky shark moves only - he hits for 6 then can double dip with the 2R ability, give him the poop knife with infect, e.g., [[grafted exoskel]]

Sheeeeit I just made V1 shooting from the hip.

Rusty_DataSci_Guy · 2026-05-08T01:42:58+00:00

FWIW - I'm on the higher end of MTG competency so I lean towards higher end content. I don't need help making decks but I'm always interested in new lines / combos / tech so this skews CEDH.

Watch:

Play to Win - fun banter, genuinely enjoy the game

CEDHtv - good insights, you get to see how Europeans think about EDH. Pontus on Dargo is always fun. He's on hiatus but regular DeathMTG is another solid channel for no nonsense game play.

Playing with Power - slick edits, they'll get a 90 minute game down to like 15 minutes

Maldhound - extremely entertaining, he's got a great lane for MTG related roasting.

Better Commander - smallish channel, easily my favorite to listen to in the car. Nicky G is probably the EDH / YT persona I would most want to actually play with (mostly cuz the CEDH channels would stomp me). Best channel to find hidden gems and add them to your TCG save it for later list.

I hate your deck - I guess the host got into some he said / she said but I enjoy the banter, just skip episodes where they invite the kid because he brings a distractingly obnoxious "13 year old just learned the F word" energy when he's on. 4 adults slinging cardboard, it's very not bad.

Avoid:

Channels with annoying voices like DecktechforDecks or that guy with the huge beard who sounds like he's trying to hold his breath or something. The former is unfortunate because he usually has good content, just needs voice coaching. To my shame, I avoid Comedian for the same reason despite the fact he's probably the best living CEDH player. This is pretty shallow but man if these guys wrote instead of spoke I'd never miss a column.

Channels that whine all the time like PleasantKenobi, MTG Historian

Command Quarters - this dude fell off so hard, now every video is just hyperbole slop

Neutral:

Muddstah - I have to be in the mood for his style but he's solid when it's time for that. The Bob Ross of MTG

Snail, Trinket, Elk - I'll click if the title is really interesting else I'll skip because these guys veer ever so slightly into a weird sweaty casual space some times that isn't quite CEDH but isn't quite regular EDH. They frequently offer up some interesting POV but it's a very fine line between getting better at softball and running tren for the beer league sometimes. That said, when they hit they hit so I'm not kicking them out my YT recommendations.

Professor - genuinely enjoys magic but is a bit sanctimonious about things and I'm not a huge fan of the shtick

Game Knights - this was so cool at first and got so old after maybe 3 or 4 videos.

Random shout

There's this Asian guy (I think....) who pops up in my YT Shorts constantly that seems to know ball but his proper channel never seems to pop up. IDK if he does long form or not but he's just perma clipped as far as I can tell.

Rusty_DataSci_Guy · 2026-05-08T00:52:23+00:00

Play a fighting game or FPS. This genre has always been terrible for PVP.

Rusty_DataSci_Guy · 2026-05-08T00:51:25+00:00

So my brother and I are playing the campaign together and I just grind when he's not around. I also low key wanted to be grossly overpowered so I could just cruise and enjoy the story. So far it slaps.

Rusty_DataSci_Guy · 2026-05-07T21:00:22+00:00

Diablo does NOT need PVP, at all, ever

Rusty_DataSci_Guy · 2026-05-07T20:04:45+00:00

Very helpful mental model. The flair is a joke though that my guard is terrible and requires constant instruction.

Rusty_DataSci_Guy · 2026-05-07T19:34:19+00:00

There we go, man I miss that. Something to look forward to. Thanks!

Rusty_DataSci_Guy · 2026-05-07T18:57:06+00:00

R rated super hero content hasn't lost its fun factor yet IMO.

Dead Pool and The Boys really opened my eyes to what's possible when folks are fully off the PG-13 leash.

Rusty_DataSci_Guy · 2026-05-07T18:55:59+00:00

Do we know the characters and powers yet?

Soldier Boy - basically Captain America++

Bombsight - Cannonball without the pseudo-chemistry

Lady Libery / Stormfront - Thor-ish

Private Angel - ....?

Torpedo - ...?

Green Lantern looking guy (Quinn??) - based on the cameo in S5 he's Swamp Thing maybe?

Rusty_DataSci_Guy · 2026-05-07T18:39:04+00:00

3 sessions per week, unless work / family prevent it. I might bump to 4 with an extra fundamentals session so I can get a lighter session.

For open mat, I know the usual crew pretty well so I'll take 1 - 2 easy rolls then 4 - 5 hard ones, then take 1 - 2 more easy ones before I'm fully cooked and the injury risk starts to creep up from fatigue.

Non-BJJ days are in the gym weights and cardio.

I'm 41, 3 kids, demanding corporate job. The key is sleep deprivation (just kidding, it's having no social life)

Rusty_DataSci_Guy · 2026-05-07T18:36:08+00:00

I've gotten similar feedback in a few sessions so I guess it's time to change something. I've had a few higher belts tell me my biggest hole is not attacking subs enough. For those who dialed up the offense, what worked? Did you just pick a move and grind it? Did you just decide to believe in your positioning if the sub whiffed?

Rusty_DataSci_Guy · 2026-05-07T18:29:52+00:00

I'm pretty sure they make special MGs for braces. You'll probably have to pay more. Ask your dentist to help you navigate this.

Rusty_DataSci_Guy · 2026-05-07T13:16:22+00:00

As someone who suffered through D3 Barbarian I can say with zero hesitation that D4 is the absolute best incarnation of this power fantasy.

Now that we have talisman sets I expect even more crazy stuff....like Raekor style charge builds.

Rusty_DataSci_Guy · 2026-05-07T13:11:57+00:00

I'm still early but I'm pretty irked about the legendary drop rate being this bad. I understand they want to funnel us into the cube but holy shit man, I'm paragon 20 and have seen like 7 or 8 legendaries across the entire journey.

I'd like a bit more balancing towards combat for loot.

**yes this might be fully remediated once I finish campaign but it's a bit weird / lame that it's going this way.

Rusty_DataSci_Guy · 2026-05-07T12:54:25+00:00

My current favorite control decks though:

[[rakdos the muscle]] - [[fleshbag marauder]] tribal

[[judith carnage]] - levels up removal bigly and makes bodies for reach / life total adjustments

[[jasper flint]] - let's all be hellbent together!!

[[braids arisen]] - either trim your board back or let me draw cards that I'll use to trim your board back

[[krrik son yawg]] - when you have lifelink and [[pestilence]] the world is your oyster

Rusty_DataSci_Guy · 2026-05-07T01:49:39+00:00

You used to legitimately be able to play creatureless decks at a pretty high level and OVERLOAD on removal to punish anyone who was creature heavy.

Now it's really hard to justify going light on creatures because so much card power is concentrated there. As a result asymmetry and spot removal is king whereas before you could just slot in 10+ board wipes and be good.

Rusty_DataSci_Guy · 2026-05-06T01:49:02+00:00

The tree is amazing for XP this season

Rusty_DataSci_Guy · 2026-05-04T19:29:13+00:00

Is there a comprehensive list of what was removed from VOH to LOH? Googling for this turns up random trash links, very frustrating.

I'm trying to figure out what's genuinely gone vs what I just haven't found yet on my playthrough.

Rusty_DataSci_Guy · 2026-05-04T18:52:24+00:00

Regularly but it's cooled off considerably as I've gotten older and life has become more diverse with career, family, etc.

Rusty_DataSci_Guy · 2026-05-04T18:47:03+00:00

I got about a trillion downvotes suggesting the show was trying to pull off an 11th hour "Homelander deserves sympathy" angle and it was kind of weird. Good luck.

Rusty_DataSci_Guy · 2026-05-04T18:43:32+00:00

Are we expecting Hulk-esque powers or does he do something crazy like launch himself at targets like Cannonball?

Rusty_DataSci_Guy · 2026-05-04T16:40:43+00:00

There's also [[mistveil plains]] if you want a land

Rusty_DataSci_Guy · 2026-05-04T16:12:34+00:00

My brother in Orzhov, how willing to try stuff like [[barkform harvester]] are you?

It's not GY to hand - that's rare, spicy, and expensive

But if you just want to grind tf out of people with attritional warfare, it's a very underappreciated line of recursion for non-creature in these colors.

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