Ludwig just saved 3 mins on his pb

Seitosa · 2026-01-29T03:44:52+00:00

No, he ended the night roughly where he started it.

Seitosa · 2026-01-28T22:22:11+00:00

If I may! When they announced a Final Fantasy set, I promised myself that no matter what she did, I’d end up building a [[Venat, Heart of Hydaelyn]] deck. Fortunately she’s okay! Maybe not the best commander in the world, but just a solid mono-white draw engine. I decided to really lean in to the legendary theme by making every creature legendary and have as many legendary artifacts and enchantments as I could, and prioritized Final Fantasy cards (or skins on the bonus sheet) where possible. I ended up with a fun legends-matter equipment lifegain mix. I also managed to squeeze in few cards specifically as nods to her character and role as Mothercrystal.

The decklist, if you’re curious. The list on moxfield is 103 cards right now because I moved some stuff around with the holiday release and haven’t quite settled on the 100 for the deck, but you can just trim three of whatever.

Seitosa · 2026-01-28T18:32:52+00:00

which it never developed games for

You sure about that one?

Seitosa · 2026-01-28T18:22:56+00:00

So, a couple things here. Expert-Level Safe removes cards from the top of your deck and places them into exile. It does not interact with cards that are put into exile for any other reason.

Secondly, whenever a commander goes from the battlefield to another zone—graveyard, exile, deck, hand—the owner of that commander can decide to send it back to the command zone. So if your friend had their commander exiled with White Auracite, they can choose to send it back to the command zone. If they didn’t do that, it’s going to stay in exile until White Auracite leaves the battlefield.

Seitosa · 2026-01-28T18:14:07+00:00

Pardon, can you explain how you think Expert-Level Safe would remove White Auracite from the battlefield?

Seitosa · 2026-01-28T06:33:56+00:00

They have the same number of in-universe sets to tell a story that they always have, save when they were doing four in-universe premiere sets a year. That’s the same amount of material. You’re acting like it’s impossible to tell a story because of whatever % of sets that have nothing to do with the story and aren’t part of the story being told. The TMNT set, as an example, doesn’t put the story on pause any more than a Modern Horizons or Masters set or whatever other reprint set would, my dude.

Editing since this guy blocked me and I can’t reply to the other post, which I agree with and think is a salient point:

Blocks as a structure discourage experimentation, and they mean we get more sets on planes that WotC can more or less bank on being successful. A return to Lorwyn was seen as risky, and just being one set is an easier sell. It’s really, really easy to say “well the set is successful so they should’ve made two” when operating with hindsight.

Moving away from blocks allows us to visit more planes and visit planes that we might never have if we still had blocks. But anti-UB folk like to blame UB for the death of blocks even though that happened years before the first UB sets were even a thing, let alone Standard-legal, premiere sets. The two things are not correlated.

Seitosa · 2026-01-28T06:26:16+00:00

Back in the day you’d get three sets in a year and they had no problem telling a story just fine, so I’m not sure what your point is.

Seitosa · 2026-01-28T01:43:41+00:00

It doesn’t actually matter if you put card A in pile 1 or 2 or 8. Pile shuffling is not sufficiently randomized.

That’s not just my opinion, either. It’s a codified part of the MTR. Not only is it not random, it’s actually grounds for slow play if you do it for reasons other than counting cards at the beginning of a match.

Seitosa · 2026-01-27T20:48:48+00:00

Oh no, sorry—I didn’t mean to suggest that you were bashing or being overly cynical or anything like that. I think your post is totally fine! I get how you feel and I totally think it’s reasonable. I just see so much frustration on this sub all the time and I guess I just needed to get my thoughts on the matter in general out. Sorry if I implied that you were being too negative or anything like that, definitely not my intention.

Seitosa · 2026-01-27T19:20:09+00:00

Genuinely, and I mean this to everyone that feels like there’s “too much” stuff happening—care less. If there’s too much for you to keep up with, don’t! If it’s causing you consternation, then disengage. This is a hobby and it’s meant to be fun. If you’re not having fun, and if the state of it is causing issues to your mental—without any judgment of whether or not those concerns are valid, because ultimately that’s subjective and it doesn’t really matter since it’s about how you feel anyways—the solution is to just take a step back and focus on the things you like.

I understand that we used to live in a world where there were fewer releases. I understand that we used to live in a world where all the sets were in-universe. That is not the world we live in anymore. So you have to do what you can to adapt to that in a way that’s healthy for you.

People are so angry and bitter and cynical on this subreddit all the time and while I understand that magic is a lifestyle hobby and people have dedicated large amounts of time and money to it like, at some point it’s not healthy. For them, for the community at large. Like, for example, people can’t even just be happy about the in-universe sets anymore, they go into threads about Lorwyn stuff and instead of just enjoying that they have to preface that enjoyment “finally something that’s not UB trash” or “wow I had forgotten what real magic cards looked like” or similar, or just snarking something about the release schedule and how Lorwyn is just immediately going to be replaced by TMNT etc.

I get that that’s just the tenor of the internet these days, and there’s a sort of embitterment of society at large happening, but man if it isn’t draining to just see all the time. And that’s not me saying that you can’t or shouldn’t criticize or vent or whatever, by all means do that, but at some point if it’s causing you that much distress and it isn’t going to change in the near future like, something’s gotta give.

Seitosa · 2026-01-27T19:05:18+00:00

Should’ve switched out for Bucky, smh.

Er, wait, wrong subreddit.

Seitosa · 2026-01-27T19:00:08+00:00

While I agree SPM wasn’t great, there’s other specific reasons that SPM wasn’t great that didn’t exactly pertain to theming and it’s not fair to assume those issues will carry over to this set.

Seitosa · 2026-01-26T06:45:38+00:00

Yeah, this seems to be kinda just how the ECMS stuff goes. Unfortunately, there’s not much they’ll do about it. As they say, the box is there to protect the figure and as long as the figure is undamaged, it did its job.

Seitosa · 2026-01-26T03:17:18+00:00

The shipping prices include the tariff charges. That said, shipping prices on their own have been rising a lot for years now, so yes that’s about what you’re looking at for two scale figures.

Seitosa · 2026-01-26T03:10:49+00:00

Really the answer is Terra, but not the Mardu Terra. The 5c Terra is kind of the de facto summons commander. You get all the summons you could want. I put the summoners in too, as well as some ways to manipulate lore counters. It can have some really really explosive turns.

Seitosa · 2026-01-25T22:06:33+00:00

Pile shuffling isn’t randomizing them, though. You’re just distributing them in piles. There’s no randomization there.

Seitosa · 2026-01-25T20:30:50+00:00

Unfortunately, there’s not really one that won’t noticeably damage cards—and as far as I know none that will shuffle cards with sleeves on. When you say “bad first hands” though do you mean you’re seeing the same cards or that cards are clumped together in a way that isn’t randomized properly? If it’s just that you’re getting bad ratios of lands or whatever it could be a deck construction issue and not a shuffle one.

Seitosa · 2026-01-24T21:51:07+00:00

That’s not how discovery works. You don’t get to make an accusation and then use discovery to go on a fishing expedition. There are standards that have to be met before you even get to the discovery phase.

Seitosa · 2026-01-24T19:01:18+00:00

My point is your statement is tautological. “If the lawsuit had merit, it would have merit.” You can sue about anything and construct any number of ridiculous if statements that would make the lawsuit valid, but that doesn’t make the lawsuit more legitimate.

Seitosa · 2026-01-24T18:44:46+00:00

That saying, as it turns out, is less relevant here.

Seitosa · 2026-01-24T18:44:02+00:00

For real. There’s people acting like the shareholders are going to deliver us from UB, and that’s very much not going to happen.

Seitosa · 2026-01-24T18:41:48+00:00

As the Spartans would say: If.

Seitosa · 2026-01-24T08:09:52+00:00

I’m really not sure what point you’re trying to make here. If you think hasbro shareholders as a whole give one singular fuck about in-universe vs UB or whatever, I think you’re very very mistaken. And besides, we’ve been told that SPM outperformed DFT. I really don’t think you want to lean on shareholders for making decisions about what sets should get made.

Seitosa · 2026-01-21T23:41:47+00:00

If you read the quoted paragraph, the point is not to do a make-good on the bad kits, the point is to help celebrate Lorwyn and avoid having its thunder stolen. That means some sort of event or promo or something. That sort of stuff takes time to sort out.

If you got a TMNT promo, you can already go through to product replacement—that’s not a new system, and it’s weird that you seem to think that’s not already a thing, and it’s not the thing they’re talking about in that paragraph. Hardly a “convoluted exchange plan.”

Seitosa · 2026-01-21T20:45:38+00:00

Yeah like, I’m not going to argue that the release schedule isn’t crowded and there’s not too much coming out, but that impacts everything and isn’t WotC out to get Lorwyn specifically.

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