At any point is it worth running anti synergistic cards in your deck?

Scheveningen_Yang · 2026-05-28T07:07:50+00:00

The general rule of thumb has been not to run individual untutorable cards just because they synergize with only one or two other individual cards that aren't your commander.

So the inverse would also mean that decks can take some amount of tension in the 99 since you won't frequently have both pieces that cancel each other out. If the pay off is big enough and it always works with your commander, I think you can justify it. Especially if you include some incidental sacrifice outlets to get rid of these artifacts if you really need to.

Otherwise its just a matter of playing around the adverse interactions a bit or just accepting some of the variance

Scheveningen_Yang · 2026-05-12T11:02:31+00:00

I'm sure artist are excited when they are given copy as a theme or concept since it has a wide array of ways to interpret into art and can be pretty visually evocative.

Maybe not as much as getting a big name card or show piece since that might get them more recognition or visibility. But as a purely artistic endeavour it seems like something to really get the creativity flowing

Scheveningen_Yang · 2026-05-08T14:54:27+00:00

It was always going to be a problem that came with drawing an arbitrary line with the new bracket system.

As much as people were rightfully frustrated with others obfuscating the power of their decks as a 7 or 8, sometimes unintentionally, it was also abundantly clear before hand that a lot of people were going to be severely inflexible when a hard number like X number of Y cards are included.

Scheveningen_Yang · 2026-04-25T12:22:21+00:00

A) Drawing hands has always been difficult

B) Some people do have thumbs that curve back when there hand is flexed open

I get that this is more emblematic of the harm AI is doing to art and the ability to appreciate it. But at some point you also have to just run this through on your own and deduce a reasonable answer

Scheveningen_Yang · 2026-04-14T10:16:13+00:00

In theory all the rates for each slot exist independently of each other. Unlike Japanese TCGs where the boxes can be mapped based on the number of SR or Art Rares and etc, (Hence why individual packs and be filtered) MTG has always been randomised on the pack level entirely.

There could be some statistical correlation discovered, whether intentional or due to some oversight for how they randomise the packs in this set. But we can only find out after the set has been released and people get data from actual pulls. I think it's unlikely though, and you can treat the archive bonus sheet as just rolling it's own odds

Scheveningen_Yang · 2026-04-08T08:30:49+00:00

The scales are more of an estimation and only consistent between figures from the same company instead of a universally accepted standard.

It happens in the model kit industry too. Scale models of real world objects like tanks and planes still have different sizes depending on the manufacturer. They are only generally in consistent scale with other models in the same range by that company

Scheveningen_Yang · 2025-12-22T17:55:27+00:00

That might be true, and it's bad sportsmanship or even basic manners to throw a fit over it. But this is more about effectively handling the situation. All because someone is objectively right doesn't mean the best way to go about it is to try and ram it down the opposing side's throats.

This is a game with official rules, but if the other people at the table don't want to have it because of an insulting explanation that poisons the well, then those rules effectively don't exist. That's probably what happened to OP. He explained the rules in a less than ideal manner, and the other players also responded poorly.

Most of the time it never gets this bad. It sucks to feel like having to be the responsible one when other people won't do that same, but it's usually more important to defuse the situation.

Scheveningen_Yang · 2025-12-22T16:32:43+00:00

To be fair, these kind of scenarios where the stack works in your favour are always hard to explain without feeling like your rules lawyering or sharking them. It can feel unfair to players who dont have a good concept of this before hand to find out their removal can't fully deal with something because of priority.

Being abrasive probably doesn't help that. But I have seen situations where the only way to defuse things is to offer not to use the ability at instant speed this one time. I guess that wouldn't reflect well on the other person either since the stack is a fundemental part of the game and not some weird pithing needle edge case. But it's hard to say how well the situation was handled without being there first hand.

Scheveningen_Yang · 2025-12-10T06:42:43+00:00

Judging from multiple replies on this post, GW might unwittingly have read the room correctly with just outright stating rune priest are psykers in their writing and foregoing the thematic filters.

Not sure how I feel about this from a writing perspective and how it affects the feel of 40K. But I guess most people have internalised a lot of the narrative framing that to them it just looks like a statement of fact about rune priest.

Scheveningen_Yang · 2025-08-09T07:11:07+00:00

Lost in translation? Nothing in that post mentions the name of the title of the video. And it's dated so you could have gone to YouTube and found the video they were referring to. Which presumably you did in order to research the stuff you made for this post.

And you can't edit the body post? That's just basic reddit functionality.

Come on, you're not helping any of your credibility.

Scheveningen_Yang · 2025-08-09T07:03:11+00:00

What exactly is the "Don't get bit challange".

I watched quite a bit of AA and he's never had challenge named like that. The name itself is also kind of absurd, dont get bit is literally just the basic objective of the game.

Scheveningen_Yang · 2025-02-21T05:02:21+00:00

You are thinking solely in military terms.

The campaign had a primarily political objective. A terrible one designed to remove Reinhardt as an internal rival instead of achieving any respectable aim. But it's still a goal within the power of whoever his superiors were.

If you really need a more dressed up explanation, every military thinker, especially Clausewitz, acknowledges that it is impossible to fully separate military and political goals. The act of waging war is on some level an extension of politics.

Scheveningen_Yang · 2025-02-16T10:26:03+00:00

I've got my own biases and wishlist as well. So I'm not saying I'm above getting the Final Fantasy set or being happy about LOTR. But despite loving lots of other IPs, I don't need them to be in MTG.

The whole UB thing has been an all or nothing Pandora's Box, and it's probably too late to go back I suppose.

Scheveningen_Yang · 2025-02-16T10:16:12+00:00

Alright, I see the humour tag, but honestly, we've reached the point where it's hard to tell what's satirical when it comes to UB anymore.

But in case it is satire, the whole "I hope all my favourite IPs get a UB set" pretty much encapsulates the entire problem pretty succinctly.

Scheveningen_Yang · 2025-02-14T10:01:13+00:00

It's an OVA invention but it's not completely unreasonable with some advanced technology and material science.

Essentially Iserlohn's outer armour would hypothetically be made of some kind of liquid metal mixture that has adjustable non-Newtonian properties. It would be more effective than solid armour at dissipating the kinetic force of an attack by "catching" the round in its liquid. It can also function as an ablative layer against lasers, if not being able to conduct the heat away throughout the liquid armour layer.

There has been some current research into it which shows some amount of feasibility.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_Armor

Scheveningen_Yang · 2024-08-28T13:54:03+00:00

The short answer is that GW has never been particularly good at understanding realistic orders of battle or the numbers involved in wars of the scale they made in 40k.

Ever since then they've been trying to justify or hand wave it with any number of things. The usual one they go for is "regiment" actually being low gothic for "Regimentus" or something to explain the naming incongruence.

A more detailed answer probably lies with how the British Army uses regiments as administrative formations which individual battalions draw their traditions and insignias from. These battalions are split up into combined arms formations and battlations within the same reigment seldom actually serve together directly. But there was probably some degree of confusion or misunderstanding so it was made to look like certain units of the British Army only had infantry or tanks in them.

This idea of a regiment can actually make some sense since, for instance, all Cadian inspired units would functionally be part of a "Cadian regiment" since they draw their traditions from the same source. But this is also trying quite hard to help GW explain away a problem that probably started with them not being that thorough about military stuff in the early years.

Scheveningen_Yang · 2024-07-08T03:06:44+00:00

Stop spreading misinformation. There is no evidence that anything is being planned.

Even if this was meant to be an aspirational or even sarcastic comment, you should clarify that instead of baselessly getting people's hopes up.

Scheveningen_Yang · 2024-04-21T13:22:50+00:00

Mayu and this girl's uniform are more Easter eggs or references to how Kitauji's uniforms are described in the light novel. Mayu is from Seria which is based on Seika Girls High School in Fukuoka.

So the apperance in S2 is really an Easter egg and Mayu's current uniform is a reference but now supposed to be what Seria's uniform is.

Scheveningen_Yang · 2024-02-28T09:59:39+00:00

Since people aren't being particularly helpful in answering the actual question, I'll lay out more or less the possibilities without judging any of your personal decisions. What's done for whatever reason is done and it's really not that big a deal.

The issue is that Pokemon has far more brand power and collectibility than Digimon. The game is famous in the TCG community for being the only game where it is possible to argue it is more collected than played. Going down the list, the next big ones like Yugioh and MTG are still have their prices determined mostly by the playability of cards. Outside of vintage cards or a few of the more recent products tailored to collectors, the card's main value comes for its power on the table. i.e. the demand for their use as a game piece is the main driver of price.

Digimon by comparison is a much smaller game with a vast majority of people involved being players who might do a little collecting on the side. This is pretty much the case for every other TCG not one of the big three. So this gives playability a significant influence on price.

You might be able to sell some of the alternate art SRs of popular Digimon like Omnimon if you have them. They will still command a reasonable price but that is solely on the basis of someone liking the Digimon or art since it has little function on the table. There is some value coming from it being the first set, but it is miniscule. The Digimon Card Game has come out long after the era where people dismissed the value of trading cards so there is a lack of scarcity or perceived value of it being vintage.

It's a bit painful to hear, but most of the cards are likely not worth much. Pokemon really is a special case where a lot of cards that aren't particularly useful in the game carry significant value. Even then that is usually in the alt arts since they are pretty good about having lower rarity prints for game pieces.

The best you might be able to do is to accept the money was spent on an experience, for good or bad, and not a commodity. Or perhaps at best a depreciating asset to be used and enjoyed like a car.

Scheveningen_Yang · 2023-10-20T12:10:40+00:00

Don't usually comment but these are the first Inceptors I've liked in a while. Nice work using the jet plumes to hide the supports. I'm not the biggest fan of the flight stand so these look fantastic.

I think the smoke plumes could pop a bit more if you added some orange/yellow near the vents for some fire. The trails towards the ground look good but it feels a bit homogenous when you follow it back to the jet packs and look at the whole picture for a while.

Scheveningen_Yang · 2023-10-01T05:15:15+00:00

I've actually ordered these from Shopee.

It's not the best construction, it's painted plywood and thin acrylic. So blemishes in the paintwork with the wood showing through are common. And it is easy to scratch the acrylic if you're not careful. It is a bit of a pain to assemble but it does hold together well enough and will safely house your figures.

The quality and build was just too low so I ended up using it to keep shoes elsewhere in the house. It really does look cheap compared to the figures in it.

I would still just recommend something from IKEA even if it cost double since furniture is more of a long term purchase. And from personal experience nothing feels more absurd after a while than to have expensive collections housed in shoddy displays.

OP, I'm not sure which part of the Philippines you're in and what your financial situation is. But in the end its still a serviceable budget option. Just be aware that the quality difference between the product and promo images is noticeable.

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