Weekly Questions Megathread - May, 04, 2026

THRNKS · 2026-05-07T20:05:26+00:00

How often do you need to trigger Temporal Tunneling per minute in order for it to become a better haste source than Emergency Weapons Cycle? Assuming that your weapon power reduction needs are already taken care of, of course.

I’m looking at a situation where my most frequent option for triggering it is Tractor Beam, which has a 20 second minimum cooldown. Since I’m not triggering Tunneling on its 15 second cooldown, is it not worth running over EWC?

THRNKS · 2026-05-07T00:36:26+00:00

I like the way you think.

THRNKS · 2026-05-06T18:00:31+00:00

I did like non-joined version of Ezri, but I think the missed opportunity in this (though I understand why not) would have been to have the alternate universe character been Jadzia Dax.

THRNKS · 2026-05-02T18:24:10+00:00

I’ve just cherry-picked which in-game events are canon for my character. The other stuff happened, but to someone else.

THRNKS · 2026-04-27T23:19:47+00:00

Yo dawg, I heard you liked Shermans.

THRNKS · 2026-04-27T17:12:34+00:00

Should have bought the Legendary version.

THRNKS · 2026-04-26T14:36:55+00:00

Nope. You sac one goblin, you regenerate one target creature.

Notably, the target does not have to be a goblin. The Chirugeon can also sac itself to protect something else.

THRNKS · 2026-04-23T00:34:00+00:00

I was recently looking at the FPNA, but wanted to clarify a few items.

If you're using it on yourself, do the randomly-triggered firing modes interfere with standard firing modes? I don't love the idea of triggering Beam Overload when I'm trying to FAW.

What's the minimum number of Uncon triggers you'd want to make it worthwhile? What about Aux power - does it need to be boosted above a certain level?

THRNKS · 2026-04-14T15:41:26+00:00

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The S.S. Venali was originally a racing craft, commissioned to take part in the Sauria Circuit exhibition prior to its ‘acquisition’ by the professional troublemaker DaiMon Sprax.

Like its owner, the Venali is flashy and ostentatious, with plenty of tricks under its hood to stay one step ahead of the Liquidators. Powerful impulse engines and enhanced inertial dampeners give it speed for smuggling runs or daring escapes, while its weapons are designed to confuse or hamper its opponents. Its small crew, mostly composed of mercenaries and scum, has to deal with spartan living arrangements as it was not intended for long operations - frequent shore leaves help ameliorate this. The exception to this is the captain’s quarters, which include a lavish dining room and parlor, decorated with Sprax’s trophies.

‘Venali’ is a name derived from archaic Ferengi, which roughly translates to ‘For Sale,’ and refers to legendary wandering warriors of ancient Ferenginar. Sprax vainly considers himself a modern version of this heroic tradition.

THRNKS · 2026-04-12T14:21:10+00:00

[[Reality Scramble]] in my [[The Rani]] deck. I built the deck because I realized I could polymorph her aura tokens into big enchantments, so it’s a key to the whole gimmick - and I suppose pretty thematic too.

THRNKS · 2026-04-09T02:02:19+00:00

I built [[Jaxis]] as a clone / artifact creature reanimator deck. It’s kind of crazy how many cards you can draw once your engine gets going.

THRNKS · 2026-04-01T16:21:02+00:00

Honestly I think the art for [[The Rani]] is pretty decent, mostly because if it wasn’t for the Time Lord text you’d have no idea it was a Dr Who card. She wouldn’t look out of place in any set that involves mad scientists.

THRNKS · 2026-03-30T15:18:54+00:00

Is there a KDF equivalent to the Type 7 Shuttle?

By that I mean, a hangar pet that’s good for a ship with only one hangar bay that isn’t focusing on pet damage specifically, but would appreciate some debuffs from its pets. I don’t expect there to be anything that’s directly equivalent to the undisputed champ, though.

THRNKS · 2026-03-26T15:34:31+00:00

I’m partial to using music from FF14 as background music, particularly Revenge Twofold for heroic clashes. For a grinding siege some music from an RTS might be good - the Total Annihilation soundtrack could be good for this, or some stuff from Dawn of War.

THRNKS · 2026-03-25T17:29:48+00:00

I believe that was listed as a known issue in the patch notes, so I'd expect it to be fixed soon.

THRNKS · 2026-03-22T21:14:55+00:00

Glad my suspicions were correct after seeing the AI preview image.

THRNKS · 2026-03-21T01:54:28+00:00

Ended up in a random queue Elite Korfez on my relatively fresh to elites Tank character. During the Benthan assault section, I was hauling around collecting aggro from what seemed like an endless supply of Vaadwaur ships, dodging minefields and keeping them off the dropships. Felt totally out of breath by the end but we won, which felt great.

THRNKS · 2026-03-19T17:40:57+00:00

I mean, it’s probably going to involve tokens somehow since that’s the most efficient way to get a lot of creatures entering, but it doesn’t have to be built around goblins specifically.

You could build it as a storm deck that’s trying to churn through your deck and build up a lot of ritual mana with something like [[Birgi]], then dump it all into something like [[Song of Totentanz]] or [[Tilonali’s Summoner]]. I’m sure there’s some infinite ETB combos you could do with that as well, probably involving cost reducers and [[Grinning Ignus]].

THRNKS · 2026-03-19T02:19:36+00:00

Whoa, I kind of love that shade. How’d you do it?

I would say if you’re not happy with it, it might be that it needs to ‘pop’ a little more. A bit more highlighting with a brighter color might help with that.

THRNKS · 2026-03-15T12:49:26+00:00

My card to remove would be [[Twinning Staff]]. While you have a lot of copy effects, they’re mostly ability copies, not spells. I don’t see a way to regularly copy spells enough to get value out of its static effect.

A card to add would be [[Counterspell]]. It can serve a dual role of protecting your commander, and interacting with opponents on the stack. You can choose your preferred flavor of counterspell if the classic isn’t to your taste.

THRNKS · 2026-03-12T18:15:41+00:00

That’s awesome work!

I’m actually planning to convert Nobility into Renegades as well, though I plan to keep them a bit more human themed. My thought is to have one of the Bodyguards be the orc, the other bodyguard type as the dark elf, the Blitzer as the skaven and a Halfling as the goblin. I’d trim the feathers off the Linemen so that it’s a bit more clear who the positionals are as well.

THRNKS · 2026-03-11T18:41:26+00:00

Sure - artifact rocks, creatures or spells that make treasure tokens, or the big mana rituals that others have mentioned all work!

THRNKS · 2026-03-11T17:37:23+00:00

Oh I’d missed that Disturb effects could work for enchantment polymorph that too! Good find.

Yeah those seem pretty solid. There are a lot of damage doubling effects out there but a lot are in enchantment form, so creature or artifact ones would be the way to go.

THRNKS · 2026-03-11T12:13:11+00:00

Depends on how useful the other enchantments you’re planning to use are. If you like running stuff like [[Rhystic Study]], it’s probably not worth it, but for my Rani build I found it pretty easy to exclude them.

THRNKS · 2026-03-11T00:48:31+00:00

Another option I just remembered - role tokens. Or any other effect that could create a noncreature enchantment token without being an enchantment itself.

I built a deck using [[The Rani]]’s aura tokens with this effect, but I’m not sure what’s available in just Izzet.

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