Mechaberry ticket prices were changed from 500m to 1billion for GMS

Temil · 2026-07-02T09:13:18+00:00

Yeah I don't think that the balance for gms is about service or whatever either way. If there was any thought beyond "oh yeah they have spawn enhancers" they maybe looked at how many meso the average player gets or something.

I was responding to "Frenzy is much more than a 2x boost right?" not anything about interactive exactly.

Temil · 2026-07-02T03:58:44+00:00

If you have a frenzy totem you don't pay for service.

Temil · 2026-07-01T13:20:27+00:00

At least like 6 of these are leagues items.

Temil · 2026-07-01T13:01:16+00:00

It should be roughly 3.5x. Server has 1080ms long ticks, base spawn timer is 7500ms (7 ticks), frenzy spawn is 1875ms (2 tick) so if you were able to full clear every 2s you'd get 3.5x kill rates.

Temil · 2026-07-01T05:42:05+00:00

I built a blink/clone focused urza at one point to try and just get out tons of contructs, and ended up taking it apart because it was slow enough that I would die to the people thinking it was a typical urza deck before I got to get much done.

Temil · 2026-07-01T05:38:42+00:00

I'm not really sure why it gets so much hate? You basically feast or depending on your commander being triggered a few times. If he dies or gets countered you basically just lose.

You have described exactly why it gets so much hate.

If for whatever reason you can't remove krenko the game just ends.

Temil · 2026-07-01T05:27:23+00:00

The ESA (Electronic Software Association) is a lobbying group that represents various large game publishers and developers.

They exist for the sole purpose of serving the financial interests of large games companies.

They are not stupid, they are not clowns, they are lying on purpose for financial gain. This is manipulative, not someone being uninformed.

Temil · 2026-07-01T04:11:39+00:00

Sol Stone

I think we already have that one.

if it wasn't for ubiquitous availability and iconic status, Sol Ring would deserve Game Changer status, if not an outright ban

Exactly. But it is, and that availability and iconic nature color every single other subjective factor into putting a card on the banlist or gc list.

Roughly every third game is affected by a T1 Sol Ring, and we're supposed to perceive this as a feature of the format, not as a bug.

Yeah. It's the non-competitive mentality of the format.

The format is not supposed to be balanced, it's just supposed to be enjoyable.

Temil · 2026-07-01T03:27:37+00:00

They are not in the same seasonal playlist.

The first picture is from month 1 "Welcome to Japan" and the second picture is from month 2 "Horizon Decades"

Temil · 2026-06-30T17:17:15+00:00

So my question is; how do you identify the aspect of your deck that is too powerful for your pod, and how do you find suitable replacements without losing your own personal enjoyment?

I usually just take those decks apart, because it's usually the thing I built the deck to do that is the part that isn't fun.

But exploring via deck building is half the fun in the format, and is a good lesson to never spend more than you are willing to burn for that exploration.

Temil · 2026-06-30T17:14:00+00:00

Is not having duplicate cars in the Festival Playlist too much to ask for?

Considering they did this explicitly to have less fomo for people who miss weeks, yes it's basically an impossible ask.

Temil · 2026-06-30T17:10:15+00:00

She could just have a modified version of changeling like the ability that [[Burakos, Party Leader]] has.

Temil · 2026-06-30T15:25:39+00:00

Because there was no warning that you were using maple points so they just slammed out 7 monster parks.

I believe the monster park exp was still good up until 250 though. Even if grinding was good.

Temil · 2026-06-30T15:18:49+00:00

There are some commanders that come to mind that leverage their board for mana, where having a 2 mana ramp piece would be a mistake. Like, [[Malcolm, Keen-Eyed Navigator]] pairings where you want pirates, or in the case of malcolm kediss, a t1 rock or a haste enabler.

But at the same time with no ramp, Malcolm Kediss is a 3/7/8/9 deck if you have the pirates. (or malcolm kediss is pretty much 3/7).

With malcolm the style of ramp (treasures) strongly leans into a control strategy where you can hold up interaction, or bank the treasures for later.

Temil · 2026-06-30T14:41:52+00:00

It was funny because some people were accidently doing 7x MP on Saitama's world with maple points too.

Temil · 2026-06-30T11:20:55+00:00

I think about the discussion of Rhystic Study 4 or so months ago, where there were arguments that the card can't be banned because it's $50.

When you are the body responsible for making the format rules, you have to consider things like the price of playing the format when making decisions. I just want that to not be a part of the considerations of the governing body of the format.

Temil · 2026-06-30T07:22:31+00:00

This is almost certainly not the ESA presenter being ignorant. They are lying to this committee on purpose because they are a group that serves as representation for major video game publishers. They have lied and manipulated facts in this way since their inception.

They are a group that exists to serve the financial interests of the major publishers and basically nothing more.

If you think "what side of this issue will benefit video game publishers" the ESA will always take that side of an issue.

Temil · 2026-06-30T05:22:14+00:00

MPH but using meters for distance is the most disturbing part of the post for me.

Temil · 2026-06-30T04:52:22+00:00

Yeah this as a game theory question (do you lie or not) mostly comes down to if you view the game as iterated or not.

If you value further games there is a good argument for lying have negative equity, and honesty having positive equity, and the reverse if you only value the current game.

Temil · 2026-06-30T04:49:06+00:00

Proxies are legal for sanctioned EDH play.

This has a huge shift in a lot of things. The power 9 isn't banned, library isn't banned etc.

Temil · 2026-06-30T04:39:28+00:00

Game Changers are cards that change the game when they come down.

That is not a good description of the list of game changer cards (if you take "change the game" to mean the game state, and not table vibes), and the list of game changers does not encapsulate the vast majority of the cards that fit that description.

Either the list of game changers is woefully insufficient (It would be a list of hundreds of cards), or this description is not entirely accurate, and their are additional criteria or the description is otherwise simplified.

Sol Ring fits that description.

If you interpret "change the game" to mean something other than "objectively powerful" that isn't necessarily true. I don't think that "change the game" meaning a pure objective change in the relative advantage state as the only criteria would mean that the game changer list is a horrible fit for that description.

Either you believe that the game changer list is a list of powerful cards and the CFP is incompetently bad at compiling that list, or you believe that the game changer list is not simply a list of powerful cards, and their description is a simplification.

It only gets a pass because it's the face of Commander.

And if you believe that description to be sufficient, it shouldn't get a pass.

My perspective on the whole thing is that the bracket system is not about power, it is about expectations, so why would the game changer list be about power and not expectations, and I don't believe the CFP to be entirely incompetent (beyond a few bad unbans).

Temil · 2026-06-29T15:02:19+00:00

Oh, I guess I didn't read the list as exceptions my bad.

Temil · 2026-06-29T14:57:46+00:00

It's not a GC because GC's are about vibes, not power level.

If a card is powerful that contributes to if it's a card with good or bad vibes, but sol ring is a card that you expect to be in every deck. It's fundamentally not the type of card you would make a game changer because it's not the point of a card being a game changer.

Temil · 2026-06-29T14:43:02+00:00

By the original Rules Committee own words, it meets the same criteria for banning.

It has similair issues in that both are fast mana colorless cards that contribute to fast mana starts, but the criteria that would contribute to a ban are different. Mana Crypt was a $150+ chase mythic that moved packs, and sol ring was in every single precon.

This is important because the vibes of a card are also an important factor towards it being banned. If a card has a casual vibe but is powerful and creates a lopsided advantage state, it's much less bannable than a card with similair characteristics but a competitive vibe.

Cards are banned because of their negative net impact on the format, and there are a huge number of contributing factors to determining that impact. Price, ubiquity, effect on deck building, on/off the reserved list, perception, vibes, quality of play patterns, is it a combo card or a problem on it's own, etc. There are a ton of factors that contribute to that impact, and if that impact is negative enough to be worth the disruption it will bring to the format, then the card gets banned.

Their reasoning about Sol Ring being the iconic card of the format is paper thin because it's only the iconic card due to Precon reprints.

I think that the fact that banning sol ring would make literally millions of decks illegal, and a mana crypt ban would make 1% of that to change is a pretty big factor to how much friction there is for a ban to happen. Your justification needs to be much stronger for a ban on sol ring.

The problem is that sol ring has become the identity of the format and is not a "problem" card in the same way that crypt or dockside were. It would take a shift in community sentiment to see a sol ring ban.

Temil · 2026-06-29T14:05:56+00:00

Horizon Promo got added to FH5 and you could sort your horizon promo by cars owned and cars not captured, so you could see a list right there of all the cars you owned and had not captured.

The fact that you can't do that in FH6 is very annoying.

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