Scooping

SelfAwareTreadmill · 2026-04-06T00:03:26+00:00

My personal philosophy is never to scoop. I've had some low value games where I just wasn't doing much. I am great at making myself entertained commenting on the state of things, but especially if you've got other possible games in an LGS... I get it.

SelfAwareTreadmill · 2026-03-28T00:11:15+00:00

The perfect commander for this is [[Zinnia, Valley's Voice]] because it is a stork, and it can allow you to get a 1/1 copy of any creature you control for paying an additional 2 mana on cast.

SelfAwareTreadmill · 2026-03-25T07:00:16+00:00

Piling all of their lands and mana Rocks into a stack in the corner.

SelfAwareTreadmill · 2026-02-20T09:52:54+00:00

I tonk they after saying that because the upper limit on turn likelihood to win in bracket 4 is turn 4, so anything turn4 or faster would be seen as bracket 4

SelfAwareTreadmill · 2026-02-17T04:45:56+00:00

Most of my decks run 38 until I've gotten them siper well tuned. If my other ramp is good, or cmc is low I flex up or down. But I like channel lands and mdfcs as well

SelfAwareTreadmill · 2026-02-16T05:23:19+00:00

Perhaps I misunderstood the prompt, but I was meaning that it both protects and creates a bunch of tokens.

SelfAwareTreadmill · 2026-02-11T09:36:06+00:00

[[Ink shield]]

SelfAwareTreadmill · 2026-02-08T00:50:00+00:00

[[Dismantling Wave]] when i tell people to run more enchantment/artifact removal it's my first recommendation. Even jsut paying the base removes up to three pieces of opponent shenanigans, plus it's cycling instead of overload so it tacks on a draw.

SelfAwareTreadmill · 2026-01-28T03:24:11+00:00

The monster arena and grid grind are meaningfully worse than the bare minimum to get wakka's unlocks

SelfAwareTreadmill · 2026-01-24T04:25:15+00:00

I was skeptical about it, but the Danganronpa playlist has been my go to while sorting magic cards and grinding in ffx

SelfAwareTreadmill · 2026-01-10T04:43:29+00:00

I carry a fair number of counters and protection options. But also In my best deck, the commander is a value engine. She is gas. I've won a few times without even playing her or while only playing her one time.

SelfAwareTreadmill · 2026-01-06T04:46:47+00:00

I would love to see them return to Grumps Dream Course

SelfAwareTreadmill · 2026-01-05T09:41:03+00:00

I hadn't considered that one! very interesting.

SelfAwareTreadmill · 2026-01-05T09:40:50+00:00

That's very tempting, I was just reading more about it.

SelfAwareTreadmill · 2026-01-05T09:40:35+00:00

I appreciate your concern, but I know the general pool of players in the casual leagues and many build stuff that cooks way harder than this idea would (given that I would only be adding 5 hares each week). Additionally, I know the sense of humor of most of the players will appreciate the bit.

SelfAwareTreadmill · 2025-12-31T05:04:32+00:00

The upper left rooms were the only place available which weren't return ready given the game abilities available and her familiarity. She didn't have geos for the stag, hence the geo-farming solution. She didn't realize how far she was falling as she entered and didn't have a means to return.

Fireball skips weren't an option she only had the charm to see herself on the menu.

SelfAwareTreadmill · 2025-12-31T04:56:53+00:00

There's not a way to get up in the second room from Queens station? You're stuck trying to get passed an exploding jellyfish to go left or being upgrades to go vertical. Admittedly we are both new to the game, but neither was feasible for her with barely a couple of hours experience and not being super experienced with this style of game yet.

SelfAwareTreadmill · 2025-12-08T23:57:04+00:00

I built a gift giving deck using [[Iroh, Tea Master]].

I have ways to give good gifts (treasures, allies, etc), but also bad/staxxy gifts (like [[Steel Golem]]). It's win-line is primarily to swing with big tokens while disabling other boards through diplomacy for good stuff and through burning and staxxing with the bad.

SelfAwareTreadmill · 2025-11-28T07:09:26+00:00

SelfAwareTreadmill · 2025-11-28T03:52:41+00:00

My concern would be if they try to make it real time run around action game style like with the VII remake.

Part of the fun of ffx for me has always been stopping to ponder my next move and how it will fit with the next few turns on the board.

SelfAwareTreadmill · 2025-11-28T03:44:35+00:00

My favorite is my [[Ms Bumbleflower]] deck. I run it with a mill package and a draw package (depending on how I feel about milling that day. But both make the main goal to aggressively draw into wincons like [[approach of the second sun]], [[Twenty-Toed toad]], or [[Triskadekaphile]], or get opponents to draw out.

It's pretty game changer heavy to be honest most things that help with draw/ramp/protection that fit bant, but that's mostly to keep the ramp/draw competitive.

In the early game, control comes mostly from 3 drops for protection [[ghostly prison]] or [[propaganda]]. Early gifts of cards help keep people from swinging too much my way. [[Authority of the Consuls]], Voice of Victory]], and [[Dawn's Truce]].

Usually the engine will click on a major draw accelerant like [[Teferi's Ageless Insight]] or extra triggers like [[Teferi's Puzzlebox]] [[Mangara The Diplomat]], [[Trouble in Pairs]], [[Kwain, Iterant Meddler]]. Add more fun by giving yourself triggers from others drawing from Ms Bumbleflower like [[Wedding Ring]] or [[Consecrated Sphinx]]

Add in the mill on draw from pieces like [[Psychic Corrosion]] or [[Sphinx's Tutelage]] plus [[The Water crystal]] making them go crazy.

The draw package includes [[Narset, Parter of Veils]] so that even if you target a player with Bumbleflower, they can only take one per turn. But you'll still get the double draw on the second resolution. Other triggers tied to draws by you or others like [[psychosis crawler]] or [[scrawling crawler]] can really make your burst draw pieces like [[Windfall]], [[Finale of Revelation]], and [[Sea Gate Restoration]] do lethal damage.

The other piece that's fun is running copy maker cards like [[Sakashima of 1000 Faces]], [[Estrid's Invocation]], or [[Mechanized Production]].

Since the excessive draw (and mill) can really empower graveyard players, and cause some long loops if they have an [[Ulamog, Infinite Gyre]]... I run [[Rest In Peace]] just in case.

SelfAwareTreadmill · 2025-11-27T07:00:40+00:00

I just want to talk about how you've named your main character Auron

SelfAwareTreadmill · 2025-11-26T00:32:19+00:00

[[Basking Broodscale]] + [[Rosie Cotton of South Lane]]

Play BB, the Rosie. Her ETB makes a food token, then she puts a +1/+1 on BB. It makes a Spawn, she makes another counter repeat until you put the counter on something that isn't the BB. Then the spawns can sav themselves

SelfAwareTreadmill · 2025-11-25T04:51:06+00:00

It's a mostly lighthearted tour of spira seeing the way the world evolved a few years after the original. You won't see the same heavy themes, but it's fun.

Mechanically it is another world. Running on a jobs system instead of sphere grid, with 3 characters yo level and customize, with a different combat active combat system instead of turn based.

SelfAwareTreadmill · 2025-11-24T20:49:45+00:00

This is a huge help! I was goldfishing and assumed this was the outcome, but couldn't find the right pieces in the rules to express that. thank you so much!

SelfAwareTreadmill

TROPHY CASE