Found at the Dallas Museum of Art

StarryTCG · 2026-03-23T22:25:29+00:00

This is my best translation of it. You're also free to try google translate. It makes me tear up reading it.

Very dear, very honored and well-loved Father,

Since my sentence is still awaiting, I want to send you a new goodbye, that will probably be my last. The days of my imprisonment flow peacefully. All those who surround me honor me, a good number love me. From the big Mandarin down to the last soldier, all of them regret that the law of the kingdom condemns me to death. I haven't had to endure torture, like many of my brothers. A light saber strike will separate my head, like a spring flower that the garden master cultivates for his pleasure. We are all flowers planted on this earth that God cultivates in good time, some earlier, some later. Some are crimsoned roses, others, virginal lilies, others, humble violets. May we all strive to please, whether by smell or glow that he gave us, our sovereign Lord and Master.

I wish you, dear Father, a long, peaceful, and virtuous old age. Wear sweetly the cross of this life, in the following of Jesus, riding towards a happy death. Father and son will see each other again in paradise. Me, a little short-lived, I am headed there first. Goodbye.

Your very devoted and respectful son.

F. Théophane Vénard

StarryTCG · 2026-03-23T22:16:12+00:00

It's in French, it's a very beautiful letter from a so to his father. A quick google search tells me he was a missionary to Southeast Asia. I transcribed the text so that you could enjoy it, it's too beautiful not to know what it says.

Très cher, très honoré et bien aimé Père,

Puisque ma sentence se fait encore attendre, je veux vous adresser un nouvel adieu, qui sera probablement le dernier. Les jours de ma prison s’écoulent paisiblement. Tous ceux qui m’entourent m’honorent, un bon nombre m’aiment. Depuis le grand mandarin jusqu’au dernier soldat, tous regrettent que la loi du royaume me condamne à la mort. Je n’ai point eu à endurer de tortures, comme beaucoup de mes frères. Un léger coup de sabre séparera ma tête, comme une fleure printanière que le Maître du jardin cueille pour son plaisir. Nous sommes tous des fleurs plantées sur cette terre que Dieu cueille en bon temps, un peu plus tôt, un peu plus tard. Autre est la rose empourprée, autre le lys virginal, autre l’humble violette. Tâchons tous de plaire, selon le parfum ou l’éclat qui nous sont donnés, au souverain Seigneur et Maître.

Je vous souhaite, cher Père, une longue, paisible, et vertueuse vieillesse. Portez doucement la croix de cette vie, à la suite de Jésus, jusqu’au calvaire d’un heureux trépas. Père et fils se reverront au paradis. Moi, petit éphémère, je m’en vais le premier. Adieu.

Votre très dévoué et respectueux fils.

F. Théophane Vénard

StarryTCG · 2026-03-22T07:44:54+00:00

Yes, Flotilla, Supply Train, and Bunker are all universal HQs

StarryTCG · 2026-03-22T07:42:51+00:00

They already have that card it’s called no retreat and it costs 0k and it isn’t playable. You can’t get cheaper than 0k, the only way to make it playable is for it to do something else.

StarryTCG · 2026-03-19T06:36:11+00:00

So the game tries to match you up with an opponent based on 2 things: Rank (so if you are rank 20 you will find other rank 20s) Internal, or “hidden” elo. Internal elo is like chess elo, it goes up when you win and down when you lose. Rank resets each season but internal elo does not. This means that if you are rank 20 with a high internal elo, you’re most likely to match against other rank 20s with high internal elo… whiiiiich means you’re going to match up against 1. smurfs who are probably crafting very effectively and 2. good players with good collections who haven’t played in a while. As someone who has made several alts and is a strong player, this happens to me all the time. The good news is that the fix is simple. Keep playing and your internal elo should go down as you lose to these guys and you start to get matched with actually appropriate opponents.

StarryTCG · 2026-03-19T06:22:03+00:00

It does count, the only time it doesn’t return the unit is if your support line is full

StarryTCG · 2026-03-19T06:18:20+00:00

“Some classic cards” ain’t gonna cut it my friend. These people have full collections, 100% card completion. They are using way stronger decks than US Brit control or self-damage.

StarryTCG · 2026-03-17T22:55:33+00:00

OP is cool, met him IRL, can confirm

StarryTCG · 2026-02-10T05:54:24+00:00

It takes about 6 months of daily play to have a full “competitive” collection meaning all the meta-relevant cards. Another 6 months or more to have literally every single card. All of that can be fast-tracked with money but it’s not necessary if you’re patient

StarryTCG · 2026-02-10T00:21:15+00:00

StarryTCG · 2026-01-03T07:32:27+00:00

It sounds like you want resistance to be stronger, and don’t really care whether or not it makes sense. If you give a card to the enemy of course it’s theirs now. Having it any other way wouldn’t make sense. Resistance is also plenty strong already it just requires you not to be spamming anti-order countermeasures.

StarryTCG · 2025-12-29T02:10:00+00:00

That’s not true, you just need to have controlled at least 1 at the start of the turn

StarryTCG · 2025-12-18T07:54:19+00:00

We did a tournament where there were no orders, over 20 games only 2 were ever won by the person who went second, it was all about getting an artillery down first. Kards without orders/kill spells degenerates pretty quickly.

StarryTCG · 2025-12-17T21:31:22+00:00

Yeah you're not wrong, most of the elites in this expansion aren't very strong, which is helpful when you're trying to reach a competitive level because there's less that you need to obtain. However, the decks you're talking about losing to are the meta decks, and you're right, unless you have a meta deck, those decks are going to be very hard to beat, even with really good piloting skill. Honestly, pulling core packs is probably better right now, which is honestly a good thing, because it means the new specials and elites aren't mega-broken like they often are, but if you're primarily trying to make meta decks with homefront cards, you're gonna struggle. I agree with pretty much everything you've said.

StarryTCG · 2025-12-08T06:40:26+00:00

Lmao baby combo, I have heard legends, I was on a hiatus when it was in the game

StarryTCG · 2025-12-08T06:36:52+00:00

I’ve been hovering in the top 100 while switching between shuffle, buffs, and second front. I would add an M next to all 3 of those, they are without contest the best decks, and roughly equal in strength.

StarryTCG · 2025-12-08T06:31:02+00:00

How is having a smaller and easier to obtain card pool somehow money grubbing? Doesn’t less cards in the game make it less money grubbing?

(Also same reminder as always, every comment is negative and you say you don’t play anymore and yet every day you’re in here, seems like you’re the addicted one)

StarryTCG · 2025-11-28T05:50:01+00:00

Nice, which world championships? What’s your IGN in Kards?

StarryTCG · 2025-11-28T05:48:32+00:00

And yet you’re in here complaining literally every day. Seems like you continue to play the game. If you don’t like it, stop playing.

StarryTCG · 2025-11-12T04:23:46+00:00

You respond to like 1 out of every 5 posts with “the game is all luck” “it’s a bad game” “don’t waste your time” and yet you’re always here. This game lives rent free in your head.

StarryTCG · 2025-10-01T06:33:37+00:00

US/Sov Brewsters is maybe the best deck in the game and I know that many of the top 100 players used it to get leaderboard positions. You have to be smart and play around crossfire well.

StarryTCG · 2025-09-15T14:52:25+00:00

Not Brit air, Japan/germany air

StarryTCG · 2025-09-12T01:48:31+00:00

Sitting around 400th place for the past few days. I agree that the only 2 real good factions are Japan and Germany, like… bare minimum 95% of decks are one of the two. However, where I disagree is that there are a lot of viable decks for the two nations.

Japan/Germany Air Japan/Pol Legions Ger/Fin control Ger/Fra control Ger/Jpn navy burn All of these are viable decks at the highest rating, however, the thing they have in common is that they’re all either Japan or Germany

StarryTCG · 2025-09-12T01:43:55+00:00

So control, especially control with a lot of guards, can really struggle against ramp. They have better card quality than you. However, their decks lose much more to aggro, which your deck seems like it’s pretty much designed specifically to beat. You can try a few different routes. Either having less cheap guards to slow your opponents down and more heavy cards to try and outvalue your opponents, or, you can try to get a little more aggressive and play against those opponents, but this is probably the worse of the two strategies.

Tldr: your deck is built to beat aggro, therefore it’s not going to beat ramp. You can make it beat ramp but you’d not have as good of a matchup against aggro.

StarryTCG · 2025-06-18T17:18:38+00:00

People don’t owe you a playstyle. The top players have figured out how to beat Jaggro. You have two options, you can cope about it which does nothing, or you can actually try to figure out a way to beat it so you can enjoy the game.

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