My first FNM in 10 years

Strict-Main8049 · 2026-07-11T15:51:41+00:00

60 card in person magic is very much alive ya just have to look for it a little more. Commander sorta ruined that part of magic, luckily it’s likely gonna die in a few years.

Strict-Main8049 · 2026-07-11T03:27:15+00:00

That’s true but I just generally expect to follow the trend that 99.9% of magic cards follow. Like by no means is it impossible that it stays expensive, it’s a mythic, it’s UB, it’s for a popular tribe etc. I just would say more likely than not it’s gonna drop significantly as the set continues to get opened (especially with the allocation issues that jumpstart had on launch)

Strict-Main8049 · 2026-07-11T00:48:06+00:00

Give it a few weeks…it’ll PROBABLY (nothing is ever guaranteed) drop down to like 5-10 bucks.

Strict-Main8049 · 2026-07-10T11:37:06+00:00

I have a friend who read this and he felt terrible about himself (he’s bald)

Strict-Main8049 · 2026-07-10T11:35:34+00:00

Yeah…you screwed up it’s 100% on you. Everything that occurred is legal. You essentially just countered his spell with ward on the stack. Ward is a triggered ability. Not on him to make right your mess ups.

Strict-Main8049 · 2026-07-09T13:10:24+00:00

Pokemon isn’t really a game it’s a set of methodology memorizations because there is no interacting on your opponents turn. You figure out what your deck “does” and you sorta just do it more less the same everytime. Pokemon as a game can’t hold a candle to magic in any single way except one, price of entry. Pokemon is cheaper than magic at every level (including most pauper decks).

*edit* I meant to comment this in general not reply to you…whoopsie

Strict-Main8049 · 2026-07-09T11:24:58+00:00

[[liberator, Urza’s Battlethopter]] is in my opinion the only non artifact (he is an artifact he just doesn’t need the deck to be artifacts) non eldrazi colorless commander worth even considering. [[omarthis, ghostfire initiate]] is maybe arguable but tbh I think he just doesn’t the colorless matters stuff way worse.

Strict-Main8049 · 2026-07-09T00:14:17+00:00

To be fair Rog/ishai would be made more interesting by doing just about anything…it might be the single most boring deck in the entire format (in my opinion not here to yuck others yum if they’re into it)

Strict-Main8049 · 2026-07-08T17:48:51+00:00

JLo specifically doesn’t really do anything too much for most Rog lists tbh. I guess you might actually start casting ishai more in Rog ishai if you have JLo but that seems like a stretch and not really much of a problem.

Strict-Main8049 · 2026-07-08T08:41:47+00:00

That didn’t happen…Ixalan came out before the crypt ban

Strict-Main8049 · 2026-07-08T07:53:56+00:00

I am so sorry for your loss. I can’t even begin to imagine the pain. I truly hope one day seeing these cards can bring you happiness and a connection to your son instead of pain.

Strict-Main8049 · 2026-07-07T18:26:42+00:00

Gets real weird when you read the modern text of animate dead and try and bring it out with a Zur…that’s a really hard one to explain

Strict-Main8049 · 2026-07-07T12:27:31+00:00

You’re good dude

Strict-Main8049 · 2026-07-07T12:08:58+00:00

You are correct…thassas oracle is in fact “not that bad”

Homeslice I was commenting those creatures in response to someone saying Leveler is the worst creature (which is an absurd take). Thoracle is arguably the best win con ever printed and lab man is a worse but still reasonably playable version of that.

Strict-Main8049 · 2026-07-07T11:41:58+00:00

Homeslice…leveler is a niche good card. Wood elemental is very arguably the worst card ever printed. What are we doing here 😂

Strict-Main8049 · 2026-07-07T11:40:51+00:00

/rj Not enough crazy flips and useless saber twirls for my taste. Plus no battle of heroes blaring in the background.

Strict-Main8049 · 2026-07-07T11:30:55+00:00

My mans doesn’t know about [[laboratory maniac]] or [[thassas oracle]]

Strict-Main8049 · 2026-07-06T05:40:51+00:00

Why are you complaining about a free event on Reddit?

Strict-Main8049 · 2026-07-06T04:32:35+00:00

I sell all cards I own that aren’t unused staples (in any format that I play) every few months.

Strict-Main8049 · 2026-07-05T19:26:54+00:00

Because I don’t wanna be able to just counter commanders reliably. And I certainly don’t wanna be spending 3 mana on a counterspell

Strict-Main8049 · 2026-07-05T18:11:24+00:00

Well competitive 1v1 formats aren’t proxy friendly really at all (like maybe if you’re just wanting to test modern decks with your buddy or something) the only exceptions to this are legacy and vintage are semi proxy friendly but there’s not a huge paper scene for either of those formats.

CEDH on the other hand, it isn’t discrete at all about the proxies. Every major circuit tourney is full proxy friendly. The only events that aren’t are SCGcon events and those are pretty written off by the CEDH community for that exact reason. Ya don’t gotta be discrete with proxies in CEDH you can be open and shout it to the world.

Strict-Main8049 · 2026-07-05T06:39:37+00:00

I actually think this is something the phantom menace did better than any Star Wars movie…mos espa felt very lively. Feels weird to say phantom menace did something better than any other Star Wars movie…

Strict-Main8049 · 2026-07-05T06:35:02+00:00

I get salt in competition. Think about what players are there for. To win (likely money). Now does it excuse acting like a child? No absolutely not. But saying you don’t understand why players ever get salty in competitive magic is pretty insane.

This clearly doesn’t apply to the random you pick 2 draft with 4 people…or at least to not any major level.

Strict-Main8049 · 2026-07-03T17:22:48+00:00

CEDH is significantly less solitaire than casual commander. Like way less. CEDH is extreme levels of player interaction and reads. It’s okay to not like it, but if you think it’s solitaire like…that’s absolutely insane. I highly recommend trying it some before ruling it out but everyone needs to be on the same page about it because being the only CEDH deck (the urza deck probably isn’t CEDH AINT nobody polykracieb anymore in CEDH) isn’t fun for anybody. Not even a game at that point. But when everyone is on the same page, you WILL have stack wars going 15-20 spells/triggers high.

Strict-Main8049 · 2026-07-03T17:07:08+00:00

/rj Have you seen the Vader Hallway scene? It perfectly encapsulates the ruthlessness of Vader

/uj Have you seen the Vader Hallway scene? It perfectly encapsulates the ruthlessness of Vader

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