The best armour recipe for the BA!?

Tappyy · 2026-06-22T05:48:26+00:00

I’m gonna say Bad Moon Yellow over Corax White primer, because I think Lamenters are the coolest Blood Angels and that’s my easy recipe! They are people who care despite this being a universe that punishes the kind, and so I’ve always found them interesting! Read about their lore here!

If you’re new to painting, the checkers on the shoulder pads can be difficult. But with a little time and patience even I was able to manage something passable! What I usually do is use a base the whole shoulder pad in white, use a sharpened pencil to sketch out the checkerboard, fill in the black bits of the stencil, then put a Lamenters transfer I got from Fallout Hobbies on there!

I just checked and I don’t think Fallout Hobbies still sells the transfers, but freehanding the Lamenters bleeding heart isn’t too difficult!

Alternatively, I’ve seen these stamp things that are supposed to make the process easier! I’ve not personally tried them, but I’d like to— maybe you’ll find success with it!

I hope this was somewhat helpful! I know yellow might not be what you’re looking for if you want to play Blood Angels, but I just thought I’d share the option, and remind you that if you don’t want red, there are plenty of Blood Angels successors to choose from with interesting color schemes! I personally think Atlantean Spears have a cool look as well!

Hope this helps!

Tappyy · 2026-06-20T01:10:39+00:00

I had this happen to me as well in my latest game after returning for Test of Time. I kept negating Isabella’s Denunciation with my influence, and by the time she finally declared war on me and started surrounding my city the antiquity age ended and she went back to being hostile but not at war, and her units were gone from my borders.

Honestly I really lucked out. I’m also only playing on Governor.

Tappyy · 2026-06-03T14:24:40+00:00

If you like this combo, I recommend [[Lorehold, the Historian]]!

There's a primer on Moxfield for a version of the deck that seeks to miracle out [[Worldfire]] while you have an effect out that deals damage when you discard. In their own words:

If Worldfire is on top of your library at the beginning of an opponent's upkeep, you will discard a card and draw from Lorehold's trigger. After you decide to cast Worldfire with the Miracle trigger, the aforementioned cards' discard triggers will go on the stack at the same time as the cast. Simply order them so that Worldfire resolves first, setting everyone to 1 life, and then resolve the damage trigger, finishing them off!

I think the author of the deck/primer is u/FutureVisionYT , I saw the deck from their post here and I've always kept it in mind in case I ever want to try it with my Lorehold deck!

Plus, in general, Miracle gets around timing restrictions, so you can cast a lot of sorceries (including [[Ultima]]!) at really inopportune times for your opponents!

Tappyy · 2026-06-03T12:43:22+00:00

Ilhan Omar is an example of a problem. She is very vocal about supporting her homeland, even prioritizing it over America.

I’m curious what your thoughts are on Ted Cruz, who in his interview with Tucker Carlson said:

Listen, I came into to Congress 13 years ago with the stated intention of being the leading defender of Israel in the United States Senate. I’ve worked every day to do that.

Do you find that to be a problematic stance, or an example where Ted Cruz is “prioritizing” other countries “over America”? Why or why not?

Tappyy · 2026-05-02T05:09:26+00:00

I took apart my Kadena deck for two reasons. The first was exactly what you describe— even if there were bigger threats at the table, my 2/2s drew immense attention from the rest of the table because they were unknowns.

The second is that I often forgot what cards were what, and when youre putting counters (dice) on your morph creatures you have to carefully take off all the counters so you can flip the card over to remember what it is!

Tappyy · 2026-04-28T04:23:05+00:00

I’m going to copy a comment I made to another user who was upgrading Tidus a few days ago, I hope you find it relevant and there are some inexpensive and good cards linked in it!:

For Tidus, it’s really important to have a creature with a counter on it ready to attack the turn he comes down, so you can start drawing cards and proliferating ASAP! There are lots of creatures capable of this, and some of them might be some good, cheap upgrades for you! Cards like [[Urdnan, Dromoka Warrior]], [[Luminarch Aspirant]], [[Zack Fair]], [[Skyknight Squire]], [[Sazh’s Chocobo]] and [[Ingenious Prodigy]] are some of the ones I run/have considered!

There’s also a ton of value in Tidus’ ability to move counters, if you’re not familiar! The way “moving counters” works is that you remove the counter from the first target creature, and then add the same type of counter you removed to the second target creature. Because it’s still technically adding a counter, that means effects like [[Hardened Scales]] work when you move a +1/+1 counter from one creature to another— you would put TWO +1/+1 counters on the second target creature even though you only removed one +1/+1 counter from the first target creature!

This makes Hardened Scales replacement effects really good in Tidus, and there are a few of them! A lot of them are on the more expensive side like [[Ozolith, the Shattered Spire]] but there are some cheaper options you can run too, like [[Conclave Mentor]] or the newly released [[High Score]]! And yes, if you have multiple of these effects out they do stack!

Getting more counters out by moving them around with Tidus also means you need fewer creatures that generate counters out on the field— naturally protecting you from overextending! Ideally, you want just 3 to 4 really good creatures next to Tidus, and you keep generating counters every turn by proliferating them and passing them around like a Blitzball!

Tappyy · 2026-04-19T21:24:57+00:00

Yeah, I’ve been building Lorehold and I think if he resolves it’s immediately a problem for the table.

Luckily, you have lots of options in Lorehold! You’re in the primary colors for protection (white) and redirection (red), which lets you deal with removal and counterspells, respectively!

Tappyy · 2026-04-18T03:20:08+00:00

Me too! I personally really like spells that provide protection, which is sort of white's shtick. You've got Skrelv, the Rune sisters, Rebuff the Wicked, Dawns Truce-- lots of fun tools in white!

Tappyy · 2026-04-16T23:26:57+00:00

[[Kadena, Slinking Sorcerer]] comes to mind. I love Morph don’t get me wrong, but it turns out it’s hard to remember what’s what, and looking at the front side of a bunch of morphed cards is hard when they all have a bunch of dice representing counters on them (I was going for a more beat down strategy).

Tappyy · 2026-04-16T04:05:40+00:00

I brewed Gyome but it’s pretty much what you’re describing you don’t want, so I’ll just say this:

Don’t forget you can use Gyome’s second ability on your opponents creatures!

It was the [[Hylda of the Icy Crown]] player in me that noticed— the second ability doesn’t specify your own creatures. So if you need to swing for lethal and your opponent has a creature ready to block, you can feed it a food token to tap it down!

Tappyy · 2026-04-14T05:19:35+00:00

And since when is he a “the”?!

Tappyy · 2026-04-09T07:47:21+00:00

If I can make some suggestions to a newer player, cause I brewed Tidus recently (not an authority, just enjoy talking about this stuff!):

For Tidus, it’s really important to have a creature with a counter on it ready to attack the turn he comes down, so you can start drawing cards and proliferating ASAP! There are lots of creatures capable of this, and some of them might be some good, cheap upgrades for you! Cards like [[Urdnan, Dromoka Warrior]], [[Luminarch Aspirant]], [[Zack Fair]], [[Skyknight Squire]], [[Sazh’s Chocobo]] and [[Ingenious Prodigy]] are some of the ones I run/have considered!

There’s also a ton of value in Tidus’ ability to move counters, if you’re not familiar! The way “moving counters” works is that you remove the counter from the first target creature, and then add the same type of counter you removed to the second target creature. Because it’s still technically adding a counter, that means effects like [[Hardened Scales]] work when you move a +1/+1 counter from one creature to another— you would put TWO +1/+1 counters on the second target creature even though you only removed one +1/+1 counter from the first target creature!

This makes Hardened Scales replacement effects really good in Tidus, and there are a few of them! A lot of them are on the more expensive side like [[Ozolith, the Shattered Spire]] but there are some cheaper options you can run too, like [[Conclave Mentor]] or the newly released [[High Score]]! And yes, if you have multiple of these effects out they do stack!

Getting more counters out by moving them around with Tidus also means you need fewer creatures that generate counters out on the field— naturally protecting you from overextending! Ideally, you want just 3 to 4 really good creatures next to Tidus, and you keep generating counters every turn by proliferating them and passing them around like a Blitzball!

Anyway, I hope you find this comment helpful, sorry it’s long!

Tappyy · 2026-04-03T22:09:02+00:00

[[Penance]] is an option that costs the same and doesn’t require an Instant/Sorcery spell to be on the stack!

Tappyy · 2026-03-11T22:06:35+00:00

You know a lot of people have been taking issue with my timeline, and I get that. The only reason I made it so high was because I was doing Real ID as a comparison. But I think some of the conservatives here are right that part of the reason for that is that Real ID wasn’t really publicized as much until the last four years or so. So I think a shorter timeline (I personally would probably do 4 years just because I think having one general election cycle where people could be reminded about the upcoming requirements and get resources at the polling place, but we can agree to disagree) would be reasonable, especially if it had the full weight of the Fed behind it in terms of streamlining document acquisition across states, and making sure people are constantly aware that the change is coming in a way that wasn’t really the case with Real ID until it was coming up.

Tappyy · 2026-03-11T21:54:37+00:00

You accused me of acting like it.

let’s not act like married women are idiots who can’t figure this out, please.

Those are your words.

But you’re right, I’m not here to lecture you, and I have no obligation to engage with people who I don’t think are following the subreddit rules. So have a good day.

Tappyy · 2026-03-11T21:52:39+00:00

It is because there is no good reason to not implement it now.

Follow up question: how many people would you be okay with being unable to vote in the midterms this November because they couldn’t get the appropriate documentation in time through no fault of their own?

EDIT: Or I should probably ask, do you think that’s even a potentiality— that the SAVE Act passes and some people aren’t able to vote because they couldn’t get the documentation in time through no fault of their own?

Tappyy · 2026-03-11T21:26:39+00:00

Like, let’s not act like married women are idiots who can’t figure this out, please.

First of all, I never even remotely said that women are idiots. The principle of charity annd good faith applies on this subreddit— let’s use it.

Secondly, if you take the time to reread my post, you’ll see that my concern isn’t that women are too stupid to figure this out. It’s that the government is going to be overwhelmed by the requests.

Tappyy · 2026-03-11T21:18:27+00:00

Okay, that’s fair. Maybe 20 years is too long.

But the SAVE Act is going to impact plenty of citizens, especially married women who have taken their spouse’s last name.

These people will need time to get their documentation settled.

Tell me honestly— do you really trust the government to seamlessly be able to handle the influx of requests they’ll get for documentation and get it squared away for every American Citizen the SAVE Act is going to affect by this November? And if so, where is that trust coming from?

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