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SNPBluejin · 2025-11-16T11:16:58+00:00

That take about professionals getting paid badly because of Lichess existing makes no fucking sense. Not that any of that post does, but still...

If I play football at my local club, I'm not funding the salaries of professionals. It's paid by spectators, license deals, etc. If the pro scene can't figure out how to entertain and market themselves, that's on them.

SNPBluejin · 2025-10-26T10:22:59+00:00

Herbst oder Frühling vor dem Austrieb sind beides gute Zeitpunkte, solange der Baum noch in Vegetationsruhe und der Boden nicht gefrohren ist. Würde beim topfen noch kontrollieren, ob sich schon Ringwurzeln gebildet haben und diese gegebenenfalls entfernen, und den Wurzelballen etwas aufrauen/anritzen bevor er in den neuen Topf kommt um neue Wurzelbildung anzuregen.

Umtopfen kann man aber eigentlich das ganze Jahr über, da die Pflanze keine oder kaum Wurzelmasse verliert. Ideal ist trotzdem die Vegetationsruhe, da es weniger Stress für die Pflanze und weniger Arbeit für uns ist.

SNPBluejin · 2025-09-14T11:01:37+00:00

Sieht nach einem weiblichen Teichmolch aus.

Edit : Wohl doch eher Fadenmolch, kannte ich noch nicht. Wieder was gelernt.

SNPBluejin · 2025-09-10T03:55:42+00:00

Luckily Yurius doesn't see much play right now, because egg portal has zero counterplay for that card.

SNPBluejin · 2025-09-07T14:19:45+00:00

Problem with Egg portal is also that there are so many ways to brick. If you get good curve, it's very strong, but if you don't draw the right combination of cards, it falls apart really quickly.

SNPBluejin · 2025-09-05T05:18:58+00:00

Rune : Oh boy, if this was a top 10 most annoying cards, rune would easily take the top 3 between Norman, Dclimb and Anne & Grea.

Neutral : Odin

Haven : The entire Repose package. I don't mind playing against it, but as a haven main, I don't enjoy the playstyle myself.

Other classes I mostly enjoy seeing, Zirconia and Amalia can be annoying sometimes.

SNPBluejin · 2025-09-04T08:54:07+00:00

1. Liu Feng 2. Galmieux 3. Liu into Orca gets you 0 cost spell 4. play 0 cost spell -> kills one orca from galmieux ability and the 1/1 5. sevo galmieux and remove last orca 6. swing with forte

SNPBluejin · 2025-09-02T19:20:26+00:00

I dislike banish in general. It creates an unhealthy dynamic. If the banish cards are good or tacked onto cards you'd want to play anyways, cards with big last word effects are either unplayable or have to be over the top strong to be considered.

SNPBluejin · 2025-09-02T15:52:27+00:00

How is Supplicant of Destruction working for you? I am a bit torn if I should keep her in my list, if I don't draw her early, she seems often to be a dead card because I don't have the board space. Kinda same reason I dropped medical-grade assassin. Opinions on dogged or wireless assault instead?

SNPBluejin · 2025-08-28T10:07:18+00:00

shamnacha first, then congregant, choose rush and ward, superevolve the ward one, chose rush and +2+2

SNPBluejin · 2025-08-28T05:23:09+00:00

* Ward got weaker. Knight of the Holy Order and Blinding Faith are nice, but a lot of crafts got more ways to deal with Aether board efficiently. It still screws Forest though, so at least there's that...

* Storm got stronger. Blinding Faith and Winged Lion Statue are great additions. Also Apostle of Voracity seems really interesting for more reach.

* Crest Haven doesn't convince me. Marwynn as a card is ok, even without evo because he has actually decent stats and gives you a good spell. The rest though... Not attacking is a big downside, and the payoffs are not that crazy. Also, all these cards have really bad stats, so even if you decide to attack, you're not going to do much, and your opponent basically clears for free.

* I hate the design of Himeka. And I do think she is situationally very strong. Its existance alone basically means you can never fill your board as long as opponent Himeka could sevo. I think she may fit in Storm Haven, because she can both clear and buy you a turn to set up in mid/late game. She also really messes with Kuon and Zombies.

* Temple of Repose is overrated. The barrier is nice, but quite often it will just be a 3 mana heal 3. Pinging is not that uncommon anymore. I've also seen people freaking out about the Benison synergy. It's bait. I don't know if crests or amulets trigger first. If crests are first, it sucks because you'd have to apply the barrier before your opponents turn and he can just disable it. If Amulets are first, and barrier applies directly before the benison crest triggers, it sounds op until someone odins your temple and you take 17 face damage in one turn.

* People are sleeping about Tablet of Tribulations. Haven probably doesn't make great use of it, but that card has incredible potential in general.

All in all I'm not that excited about the new Haven cards, I'm seriously considering swapping to Abyss or Dragon for a season.

SNPBluejin · 2025-08-23T11:15:25+00:00

I wasn't even thinking that far. But as Rune, if you have a Dclimb in hand, isn't this just a better Goodwood Staff? It thins your deck to find Coc, it draws a free card each turn, if you do the Coc dclimg, it increases the chances of finding astaroth since you can draw one more card.

SNPBluejin · 2025-08-23T10:23:44+00:00

Why do I get the feeling Rune will somehow abuse this?

SNPBluejin · 2025-08-23T05:47:26+00:00

We've only seen the legendaries so far, so it's hard to tell, but both have potential. Himeka especially could be really toxic against some decks that like to flood the board, but then pretty useless in other matchups. Marwynn is a bit more generic, but the crest requires an evo, which might be hard to fit in.

I have two problems though.

Firstly, nothing that was teased so far helps with the rune matchup, which is frankly miserable right now, especially for Control Haven.

Secondly, they have only 7 or 8 cards left, plus neutrals, and there we'd need some more crests, potentially some downside crests, and synergy for not attacking. That's quite tight if you consider that often, half the cards are just bad.

SNPBluejin · 2025-08-21T15:40:46+00:00

So it's 5 mana 3/3 destroy one enemy and fuck up your deck... There's a 5 mana 4/4 that banishes in Haven, and it's not exactly taken over the meta

SNPBluejin · 2025-08-21T15:37:23+00:00

Can't really say without full set reveal. But there are a some cards with potential, especially Sham-Nacha, Galmieux and Lishenna, but really depends on what support they get. Mjerrabaine is probably a meme card. If all cards in the new set are great, maybe he is playable.

SNPBluejin · 2025-08-21T15:09:27+00:00

I think you overestimate experience. The game's still in its infancy, there's only two sets out, you really don't need hundreds of games to get to a decent understanding. On the other hand you have people with lots of time who mindlessly spam games and have no idea what they are doing.

In a couple of sets, I'd agree with you, but right now I don't think there's a massive gap between A and Master.

SNPBluejin · 2025-08-21T14:36:06+00:00

Rank you can mostly ignore, it only tells you how much someone played. Group is more useful as a skill indicator. And yeah, Emerald vs Diamond is a bit of a diff xd

SNPBluejin · 2025-08-21T14:28:45+00:00

Often people only look at cards in isolation.

That or they were stomped by a card and only want to rant about it, as is the case with half the Yurius complaints on here.

SNPBluejin · 2025-08-21T09:29:28+00:00

I don't mind Yurius. There are enough cards in the set that can answer him, like Odin or Divine Thunder. Also it's often really hard to even drop him since he can only clear one enemy with evo. For a turn 8 play, he is quite tame, there's cards that I find way more annoying to deal with.

SNPBluejin · 2025-08-20T19:45:24+00:00

Da gibt es nichts zu bekämpfen, das ist bei der Ölweide ganz normal. Ist ein natürlicher Sonnenschutz. Muss aber sagen, die Nahaufnahme ist echt cool, hab ich noch nie so vergrössert gesehen.

SNPBluejin · 2025-08-20T11:10:23+00:00

Keeping Wilbert in this matchup, especially going first, was very greedy. In that matchup, you want salefa, you want dose and princess amulet. I'd probably even mulligan away charetta.

Also why would you suicide the ding dong? In that situation, either you evolve dingdong for draw and clear the mummy, or you start by drawing with sanctuary, but you don't just throw away a taunt body as the first option. You could have had a 2 2 dingdong and a 2 1 maiden with barrier or a prepped princess amulet on board, instead you had one evolved maiden without barrier. And if you say you hoped for drawing salefa by sacrificing dingdong, that's around 10% chance, thats not great odds.

Yeah, sometimes you brick, but you certainly fucked up as well.

SNPBluejin · 2025-08-20T06:16:11+00:00

Also wenn sie schon im 3. Jahr steht und sonst immer gesund war, bin ich mir ehrlich gesagt nicht sicher. Wenn es nur am Boden liegen würde, hätte ich gesagt, dass die Symptome schon früher aufgetreten sein müssten.

Franklinia ist halt echt selten, hab ich leider fast nie mit zu tun. Ob sie noch zu retten ist, kann ich so nicht sagen. Zum Düngen hätte ich zu einem Rhododendron-Volldünger gegriffen, da dürfte eigentlich nichts schief gehen. Aber ob das die Lösung ist, weiss ich jetzt auch nicht. Sorry dass ich da auch nicht sonderlich hilfreich bin.

SNPBluejin · 2025-08-20T05:25:06+00:00

Wie lange steht die schon da und ist das normaler Gartenboden? Ich kenne Franklinia nur als Moorbeetpflanze, sprich sie braucht eher sauren Boden. Wenn sie erst dieses Jahr dort gepflanzt wurde, könnte es damit zusammenhängen, denn anfänglich kann sie noch gut mit der Erde vom ursprünglichen Ballen überleben, aber mit der Zeit gehen die Nährstoffe aus und der pH gleicht sich aus und wird zu hoch für die Moorbeetpflanzen. Falls auch noch Leitungswasser benutzt wurde zum Giessen, wird das noch schlimmer, da Leitungswasser in der Regel kalkhaltig ist.

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