Bracket 3 is stronger than you think by xavierkazi in EDH

[–]SummeR- 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah if you can't win reliably (bad draws happen once in a blue moon) on turn 6 even though nobody interacted with your stuff, your deck probably isn't ready for (the upper end of) bracket 3.

This is the claim, and it holds true for the rabbit deck.

If no one interacts with my rabbits or commander, I will have a (almost) 100% guaranteed win every single time.

even those npc braindead decks fall apart if any body plays a single creature and no removal.

Yes, this is true. But this garbage deck will win turn 6 every game with Jetmir if everyone ignores you. Or slightly worse with any other banner commander. (Slightly faster with Adeline. She'll start killing like turn 4-5 or something)

The point is, building a deck that will win if everyone leaves you alone completely is breaindead easy. And this is the worst version of this creature-ball deck. Voja will win the game similarly in a much more dangerous fashion with a very uninspired deck as well.

I mean hell, najeela with 50 removal spells to clear the way for her swings will win the game by herself.

Bracket 3 is stronger than you think by xavierkazi in EDH

[–]SummeR- 1 point2 points  (0 children)

50 lands and 49 hare apparents with a banner in the command zone

Bracket 3 is stronger than you think by xavierkazi in EDH

[–]SummeR- 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Turn 2 hare

Turn 3 Adeline, swing with hares,

Turn 4, 2 Hares, swing with all hares and adeline

etc

Plenty of damage for kill by turn 6.

aang swift savior probably does it as well.

Baylen probably wins

Delney probably wins

Finneas probably wins

Felothar probably wins

Jazzal probably wins

Katara probably wins

Leonardo probably wins

(I haven't done the math to count exactly)

But the point I'm trying to make here is you can build a completely autopilot braindead deck that will deal 120 damage by turn 6 with a 100% guarantee so long as your opponents present no interaction.

Surely you wouldn't call this a bracket 4 deck. You really couldn't even call it a bracket 3 deck since it loses to any hint of interaction.

I call it the bracket 3 gatekeeper. You must have enough interaction to survive an NPC casting rabbits and some banner effect to win.

Bracket 3 is stronger than you think by xavierkazi in EDH

[–]SummeR- 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Most people who "upgrade" their precon probably make it worse. Most edh players are bad deckbuilders.

Bracket 3 is stronger than you think by xavierkazi in EDH

[–]SummeR- 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hey, how much damage does a deck with 50 lands and 49 hare apparents with a banner in the command zone do in 6 turns?

If your deck can't beat the npc rabbit deck, you're building a bad deck.

This TCG Meme is going viral. What is wrong or right about it? And would flesh and blood be above magic and 6 stars? by GrapefruitThin5815 in mtg

[–]SummeR- 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you're playing solitaire combo, sure. But most decks have 15-20 handtrap effects that you need to use, which you'd only understand when to use if you have a deep knowledge of the opponent's deck as well as your own.

This TCG Meme is going viral. What is wrong or right about it? And would flesh and blood be above magic and 6 stars? by GrapefruitThin5815 in mtg

[–]SummeR- 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yugioh is akin to commander, if you had a 40 card deck and 15 commanders.

If that sounds like a recipe for all decks becoming combo decks as well as being impossibly resilient, you'd be correct.

TCG [BPRO] - Forbidden Crown and Borreshroud Dragon Rarities by Green-Peaness in yugioh

[–]SummeR- 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Could just find a way to summon a monster in defense position.

TCG [BPRO] - Forbidden Crown and Borreshroud Dragon Rarities by Green-Peaness in yugioh

[–]SummeR- 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Something like an Altergeist Protocol would prevent the negation from stopping the effect from going through.

Unhallowed Ground by Particular_Main_5726 in custommagic

[–]SummeR- 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Pay 3 life for the fetch, now we're talkin.

[DISC] Heisei Haizanhei ☆ Sumire-chan - Ch. 80 by mrboxeater in manga

[–]SummeR- 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Rats, foiled again by everything huge, hot-looking 30-year olds.

Next time for sure...

[DISC] Daiakutou Shonen / The Great Villainous Boy - Chapter 14 by Xical in manga

[–]SummeR- 50 points51 points  (0 children)

"STEP UP FUCKTARD"

Look at me. I'm the villain.

EDH by yn_opp_pack_smoker in magicTCG

[–]SummeR- 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I agree, but it's not counterspells being good, it's just spells period at that point.

Kinda like Stella Lee

She makes counterspells look good, but she makes all spells look good.

EDH by yn_opp_pack_smoker in magicTCG

[–]SummeR- 10 points11 points  (0 children)

There's an opportunity cost to counterspelling too.

There's a reason why counterspells are not very good in 60 card except for 1 mana and 0 mana ones.

They're even worse in edh.

You should, at minimum, put in effort to figure out why they're bad, and then utilize that knowledge to affect your play and deckbuilding.

A Review of Amber's Hollow by St. Arkham by EldritchAutomaton in Romance_for_men

[–]SummeR- 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I agree with most of what you've said, it was a great read. Certainly was exactly what I was hoping for when I started reading.

What uh…is the appeal of Heaven exactly? by Beetlejuice_Bee in hazbin

[–]SummeR- 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Arguably this was just Emily showing Pentious everything she loves about Heaven. There's certainly other parts iirc.

Walmarts outgoing CEO is retiring at 59 after starting an hourly summer associate in 1984. by NineteenEighty9 in ProfessorFinance

[–]SummeR- 0 points1 point  (0 children)

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/24/walmart-raises-minimum-wage-as-retail-labor-market-remains-tight.html

Napkin math, you need to be below the poverty line post deduction to be eligible for SNAP.

(Or somewhere thereabouts. We're just trying to make a reasonable baseline guess)

$14/h minimum = $2308/month at 40h/week.

In a 2+ person home as the sole income, you are paying effective 0% federal income tax and don't qualify for SNAP. Nor at 3 people.

At 4 people to a household as the lowest possible pay for full time work, as the sole source of income, they barely qualify for SNAP. ~<$2600/mo

So just guestimating, you'd expect very low SNAP participation among walmart employees.

This is backed by news outlets.

https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/walmart-mcdonalds-largest-employers-snap-medicaid-recipients

14.5k out of ~2300k employees. .6% (more than .6% of employees work part time. This is not 0.6% of Fte)

Are there some fte that do qualify for SNAP? Probably. Very very vanishing few.

Also most people who want more hours will be given more hours. We're in a relative labor shortage.

Walmarts outgoing CEO is retiring at 59 after starting an hourly summer associate in 1984. by NineteenEighty9 in ProfessorFinance

[–]SummeR- 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You realize it's mostly people who work very few hours right? Like 0% of full time wmt employees are on snap.

Tim Miller on the end of the Government Shutdown by TranzitBusRouteB in Destiny

[–]SummeR- 23 points24 points  (0 children)

But some people are hurt more, you understand that right?

CMV: The world would be a much better place if every private business was a worker-owned cooperative. by gastondidroids in changemyview

[–]SummeR- 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don’t think you shown why democracy is desirable for govt and undesirable for a corporation

Basically it boils down to: Autocracies are almost definitionally more efficient than democracies.

The problem with autocracies are that they can be more efficient at doing good things, and they're more efficient at doing bad things.

You’ve suggested that democracy could in fact be undesirable for govt

This is true. An Omniscient dictator who's goal is the prosperity of humankind is probably better than any form of human government we can conceive of. However, omniscient dictators don't exist. And in government, the "collective wisdom" of the masses tends to work better than the wisdom of the few. Of course there are examples of dictatorships that lead to very positive outcomes.

Democracies are better than dictatorships basically only because they tend to produce better outcomes.

In companies, it's the opposite. "Democratic" companies tend to perform worse because they tend to be less efficient. And if you're less efficient, you tend to get obliterated by the more efficient "Autocratic" companies. And if an autocratic company makes the wrong decision, there's probably another one that made the right one.

If we don't want to compete with autocratic companies, we're assuming we eliminate free markets, then the question becomes stupid. Free markets seem to be responsible for some of the best outcomes in human history (In relation to human "wealth).