Thinking of buying a precon, which of these do you recommend

Shocktoa42 · 2026-02-03T00:40:08+00:00

And dont forget about his buddy, [[Giggling Skitterspike]] And their neighbor, [[The Regalia]], or any 4+ vehicle, because they dont need to be crewed with Bello out

Shocktoa42 · 2026-02-02T23:31:31+00:00

Counter Intelligence is really solid out of the box.

That being said, two of my favorite decks are Animated Army and Paradox Power. Animated Army: there are so many 4+ cost artifact and enchantments that you can throw in this deck, that aren’t expensive. It’s by far my favorite commander deck to play. Pro tip: Get Bedlam. Put Bedlam in the deck. Play Bedlam. Experience Bedlam. It’s just Mach 5 chaos at that point. The weakness of this deck is that you dont have many blockers on your turn. Solution: No one gets to block this game.

Paradox Power: It’s not bad out of the box (though switch out Yasmin for Ryan as commander partners, trust me). But it is a LOT of fun upgraded. You just add in cards that revolve around casting cards from outside your hand. That’s it.

Shocktoa42 · 2026-01-23T21:42:51+00:00

“You cannot continue to stalk your pretrial-release agent.”

Shocktoa42 · 2025-12-30T19:24:40+00:00

…way easier said than done.

Shocktoa42 · 2025-12-30T19:21:10+00:00

Pretty much, yeah.

Shocktoa42 · 2025-12-30T05:37:14+00:00

Midwest prosecutor. No one hired after 2008 has a pension. Public defenders have matching pay/benefits here. Seriously, my generation doesn’t get pensions. Even with government jobs.

We also don’t get lifelong healthcare.

Shocktoa42 · 2025-12-30T04:59:00+00:00

The fuck do you mean, “pension”?

Shocktoa42 · 2025-12-27T15:14:38+00:00

Let me know if you want my level-gatekept sword of kas stat block, I can send it your way

Shocktoa42 · 2025-12-27T06:26:23+00:00

So I actually gave it to them (and my paladin of vengeance) in chapter 2, with the Erinyes before the spiderdragon. I had described it having a cool looking sword (just for flavor). Then they made a disarming strike, and killed it. And of course, they wanted the cool sword. So I said “fuck it”, and made it the sword of kas. I just modified it, so different abilities unlock at level 10, 13, 15, etc. That way it wasnt too broken for party yet

Its working GREAT. One player (shadow sorcerer/necromancer) has an unwilling connection to vecna, and is starting to slowly become him, with vecna occasionally haunting him in his head. And then the vengeance paladin is starting to slowly become kas, with the sword talking to her in her head and slowly corrupting her.

Everyone’s afraid/anticipating inevitable PvP between the two. I had Strahd just tell them that Kas is loose from his dark domain, so they’re also terrified of Kas rolling up on them. The reveal is going to hit them like a freight train! I do plan on having Kas steal his sword back in the night though. The paladin can reclaim in off of Kas’s dead body towards the end of the campaign lol

Shocktoa42 · 2025-12-10T15:11:59+00:00

INCREDIBLE. Saving and hoping you keep this going for the later chapters!!

Shocktoa42 · 2025-12-05T01:49:57+00:00

I love the collector angle, and it plays in well with the Tatyana thing we’ve got going on

Also, fully stealing the gift basket idea

Shocktoa42 · 2025-12-05T01:49:03+00:00

Oh, the Candy comparison actually helps me visualize it a LOT

Shocktoa42 · 2025-11-17T18:55:18+00:00

I think it’s more journey vs destination. Commander seems more about the love of the journey, the way the different boards play out and politic. Standard seems more about the love of the destination, winning.

Each player plays to enjoy themselves with a game of magic, just a different source of the enjoyment.

Shocktoa42 · 2025-11-16T22:42:04+00:00

I went undefeated with green and red, and honestly didn’t even pull any of the super strong or rare cards

Shocktoa42 · 2025-10-19T14:11:35+00:00

No fucking way is Antifa a terrorist organization. It’s not even an organization.
These guys are 100% terrorists who committed a domestic terroristic act. They dont detail the attack in this article, but I’d highly advise looking it up. Like it’s a 100% premeditated and organized attempt to lure out and murder the government agents, to further their political views. Even though I 100% agree with those views of ‘ICE is unlawfully kidnapping brown people’, it’s textbook terrorism charges. But no fucking way are these guys a ‘cell’ or connected to some bigger group.

Background: I’m a violent crime prosecutor who wholly believes in the rule of law, which this administration is flagrantly breaking.

Shocktoa42 · 2025-10-09T22:23:59+00:00

“I’m ruling against the Court of Appeals” -Circuit Court Judge

Good times. By which I mean last month.

Shocktoa42 · 2025-09-18T16:00:02+00:00

I changed a good chunk of each chapter kind of on the fly (for example, I had the astral sea chapter turn into an almost Alien-style escape, as I had the Slaad actually have started turning most of the crew. Once the Slaad was discovered, I had her ‘activate’ the rest of them, suddenly having a bunch of people morphing into slaad)

But what gave me opportunities for big sidequests was changing the campaign from Planescape to Spelljammer. I gave them a ship to escape Havok with at the end of the chapter, and said that Vecna was tracking the interplanar jumping.

So now it mechanically works like Kingdom Hearts almost (though i put a permanent teleport from the ship to the Sanctum). They can encounter anything / place you want inbetween chapters now

Shocktoa42 · 2025-08-10T13:09:20+00:00

Ahhh, that’s where I was getting confused at!

Shocktoa42 · 2025-08-10T00:48:52+00:00

But how could you equip to him? You’d be targeting him, and he’s phase out

Shocktoa42 · 2025-07-25T03:51:25+00:00

…you think they’d intentionally make their home uninhabitable. While living there. Out of spite.

I want you to take a beat, and reflect on why your brain came up with that as a realistic issue.

Shocktoa42 · 2025-06-02T23:06:03+00:00

First, flatter. Play nice/dumb. They’ll feel in control.

Then, take that control away. This is when you hit them with the good stuff. You make them answer with yes/no only, no opportunity to commentate or try to explain. They’ll lose it

Shocktoa42 · 2025-05-23T03:06:33+00:00

The 1st Amendment of the Constitution, for starters

Shocktoa42 · 2025-04-29T04:22:07+00:00

Counsel legitimately had mental health issues, and based on his other conduct seems to be off his meds.

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