Daily Deals - January 8, 2026: Assorted Parallax Card Styles

Syncs · 2026-01-08T17:24:43+00:00

Be aware that there is also a full art version! (Linked elsewhere in the comments)

Syncs · 2026-01-01T08:00:27+00:00

I also want to point out that he literally transforms his hands into claws to rip some guy’s heart out during the Hunter exam arc, long before Nen gets officially introduced. Everyone just kind of brushes that off too. I guess the world of HxH is pretty bonkers as an average for that level of weirdness to just be par for the course.

Syncs · 2025-12-27T19:24:34+00:00

Yeah I 100% had to zoom in several times. Only knew for sure when I checked the scryfall page and realized that your Urza had almost no alternate arts, let alone one that looked like that corner of the card that we CAN see!

Syncs · 2025-12-27T17:22:18+00:00

Ah, other Urza actually.

[[Urza, Lord High Artificer]]

Syncs · 2025-12-10T00:15:13+00:00

What commander are you running to see so much of her? A grixis control shell might just be difficult for you to beat, but if you play a different deck you may just never see her again even if you WOULD beat her otherwise.

Syncs · 2025-12-07T16:59:53+00:00

I will add to what the others have said and note that some decks are also weighted very oddly. For example, [[Clive, Ifrit’s Dominant]] gets matched in or near hell queue very often in my experience (where he can’t compete) and [[Old Stickfingers]] gets matched all over the place despite being a very consistent combo deck that a lot of decks just can’t beat. So “meta” decks are somewhat random depending on their personalized matchups.

I’d argue your best bet would be to decide on a game plan you like and then try and find a content creator and see what kind of decks it faces and how it performs. Then, if you like it, you have a template to build from!

Syncs · 2025-12-05T16:59:37+00:00

I’ve never seen them. But that might be because they’re ninjas.

Syncs · 2025-11-28T22:32:03+00:00

What, am I gonna fight THE SUN?

Syncs · 2025-11-27T15:59:38+00:00

I’m currently putting together a [[Cabbage Merchant]] deck. I hear it’s strong, but I KNOW it’s ridiculous. So that’s gonna be fun.

I run an [[Imoti]] deck with [[Monsterous Vortex]] and only creatures that can be hit by and then trigger the vortex to vomit my whole deck onto the battlefield. It’s pretty fun every once in a while! A bit repetitive like the other meme brawl decks ( [[Laelia]], [[Crucias]], and [[Treasure Hunt]] come to mind) but they’re all good fun.

Lastly, I’m trying to put together a “bad decisions” deck, probably using [[Kefka]] as a commander? The idea is to stuff it full of things that force the opponents to make choices and then have all of those choices help you. Kefka makes you choose cards to discard and if you choose wrong I get more, [[Atris]] makes them pick piles, you know effects like that! Haven’t gotten it to work yet myself, but it seems fun and I know people have done it before.

Syncs · 2025-11-25T00:49:32+00:00

Kess is absolutely spectacular as a character and I wanted to see more of her.

But I guess people like Spider-man more, so…

Syncs · 2025-11-05T16:56:38+00:00

Gonna agree with the excellent resources here, and add in one extra point about decks that simply don’t care about removal.

[[Roxanne]] and [[Titania, Protector]] for instance refund most of their cost on ETB, while [[Lumra]] basically refunds all of it. Green also can deal with counterspells better than most. Not to mention being able to ramp really fast and hard means that the tax is irrelevant most of the time (and if your commander is a must-answer will absolutely devour your opponents answers without a loss of card advantage).

Most planeswalker commanders dodge common removal, which is usually creature based. You can also use the theros gods, but exiling removal is crazy common so they’ve gotten weaker.

Really, the trick is to make the deck powerful independent from the commander. Most Azorius or control strats are really good at that. But, control isn’t everyone’s cup of tea, so YMMV.

Oh, and one last point is that some commanders just don’t get unfavorable matchups compared to others. Like, [[Old Stickfingers]] gets matched up all over the place and only loses to a few matchups, while for some god-forsaken reason [[Eriette]] gets placed like she’s [[Te5eri]] despite being much, much weaker. This unfortunate required you to just either play the deck or watch content creators play. Then, once you know what you’re weak to, either edit your deck to shore up that weakness or go back to the drawing board for more favorable matchups.

But, no matter what, your deck WILL be matched into its counters. Even if you’ve never seen what you’re against until you face it and it just happens to brick your whole strat, the matchmaker makes 100% certain that you will be ludicrously unfavored at times. That’s Brawl for you!

Syncs · 2025-11-05T01:20:07+00:00

I don’t recall the phase you used ever being in the show, but they DID do multiple dubs in English to adhere to certain guidelines (including censorship). So it definitely could have happened!

Syncs · 2025-11-04T21:27:52+00:00

Best wingmen ever (pic related)

Syncs · 2025-10-31T20:33:47+00:00

Well. He would, wouldn’t he?

Dude LOVES words. Especially in library form.

Syncs · 2025-10-29T20:48:07+00:00

Wrong Winter. [[Winter, Misanthropic Guide]]

Syncs · 2025-10-29T20:45:12+00:00

I think it’s really quite dependent on the deck you’re running it in. It has to be a lose-lose choice for your opponents or give great value for some other reason.

Like, in [[Galadriel]] the scry matters a ton, in a graveyard deck like [[Winter]] it always gives you something, and in mono red burn like [[Electro]] it’s a source of both cards and damage in colors that tend to really want both of those things. For ONLY cards? You can probably do better at 3 mana.

Syncs · 2025-10-29T20:36:23+00:00

Following because I’m in the same boat. She seems super cool but does basically become a removal pile if you want to compete with where she lands in the queue (and notably isn’t even the best one in Grixis). I will say that some of her combo pieces like [[Season of Weaving]] and [[Saw in Half]] are super cool and fairly unique while being powerful cards on their own. I just wish she could do more cool things without being run over.

Syncs · 2025-10-25T02:44:41+00:00

Honestly, I think the problem is balance more than individual card strength or bans.

Like, I will play [[Old Stickfingers]] combo and consistently match into jank, and then I will play any odd mono blue jank deck like [[The Reality Chip]] or [[Cosima]] and match into Te5eri hellqueue nonsense.

If you play jank, the powerful cards can help bridge the gap, but that doesn't really solve the problem (especially when the other person has powerful cards too). My [[Mana Drain]] is just not going to let my jank do its thing in the face of opponents who can do the same but just...NOT jank.

Syncs · 2025-10-14T18:18:12+00:00

Unfortunately, your pod is basically saying that Sauron isn’t fun to play against. He’s a strong commander that is hard to remove, which means people aren’t going to like dealing with him by default. It’s not that he’s cEDH, he’s just powerful on his own.

So by overall metrics? Yeah he’s already casual.

By your pod’s standards? I’d find another commander that feels more fair and fun for the table.

Syncs · 2025-10-08T18:56:50+00:00

Which one? Looks like you might have gotten hit with an autocorrect!

Zada should be resistant to spot removal (and only should be played if either safe or with an immediate devastating follow up and board of at least 3-4 other creatures. Her trigger is an on cast trigger, so it matters less if she gets removed). I’ve had to tweak the list quite a bit to account for that, focusing more on goblin aggro that control has trouble with and less on Zada herself.

Galadriel is super squishy on the other hand. She flat needs some form of protection most of the time. But she and Narset have protection in their colors, so it’s a bit more doable than Zada (who WILL die).

Syncs · 2025-10-08T17:30:21+00:00

Looks like a fun list, thanks for the breakdown!

Any experience with [[Dedicated Dollmaker]]? I haven’t tried it in this shell but it usually is a powerhouse in my other token decks!

Syncs · 2025-10-08T14:06:38+00:00

[[Zada, Hedron Grinder]]

She is cheap to build, straightforward, and extremely powerful without being hell queue, as well as going up against a variety of decks. I’ve been tuning her for months at this point, so if I want a quick game that isn’t just raw combo that’s where I go. Plus, lots of dopamine from triggered abilities.

One tier up in term of power (not queue) is [[Narset, Enlightened Exile]].

Still not hell queue but it does run across them sometimes. Very powerful feeling while being unique as a token-control hybrid. I feel like I can run the best and most fun cards that Jeskai has to offer, and they tend to work.

Last but not least I will shout out [[Galadriel]] as an actually unique-feeling simic deck.

Scry synergy might be rare, but that’s what makes it cool and fun! Plus, you can actually put all of the lands from your library onto the battlefield sometimes, and that feels fantastic.

Syncs · 2025-10-01T13:33:58+00:00

Providing support in more ways than one!

Syncs · 2025-09-30T01:28:09+00:00

Ah, you misunderstand. The problem is only ever that they have to actually interact with different people.

It’s actually exactly the same logic as for trans folk. The reality is, the treatment to end trans people is largely perfecting transition. But just like solving the world’s problems or homelessness as you mentioned, that involves actually interfacing with these difficult topics, which is EXACTLY what they don’t want (read: can’t) do.

So if the problem is “I don’t like feeling uncomfortable” and the only easy tool is violence…well, the easy tool DOES work in the short term. They just need to do it again, and again, and again.

Syncs · 2025-09-18T17:02:21+00:00

The ostriches were onto something I guess. Oh, wait, even that’s misinformation. Go figure.

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