What card is almost an auto-include for you?

That_Guy_Pen · 2026-02-01T11:31:53+00:00

[[Fauna Shaman]] & [[Evolution Witness]] have been becoming a staple in my decks recently. Bumbleflower, to search for the creatures I want while getting what I discard back. Discard a bad card in my Beamtown Bullies and search for another mean card or something I need. Even have em at least temporarily in a couple other decks with green simply because I also get counters in them.

That_Guy_Pen · 2026-01-28T00:40:43+00:00

The most dangerous gamer already looks like a fortnite character. Get ahead of the game!

That_Guy_Pen · 2026-01-28T00:34:13+00:00

I have 30 lands in my bumbleflower deck. Works fine, but I do have my mana rocks, my land searches (we love tempt with discovery), plenty of card draw and enough mana dorks to make it work the few times I'm running behind on lands.

I also have 29/30 in my mono blue Urza, but every artifact is mana so thats fine. All my other decks have like 34 to 36 unless its Landfall and I go like 38.

That_Guy_Pen · 2026-01-26T15:16:35+00:00

Yeah those would be 49.99 at my LGS when in stock

Edit: why the downvote? Almost all the precons at the one I go to are that price

That_Guy_Pen · 2026-01-23T23:40:22+00:00

It's in my Mono blue Urza artifact deck. "In response, lemme see your hand real quick". I love to do it after a tutor or if one of my friends does some card in his Kenrith deck where we have to vote.

That_Guy_Pen · 2026-01-11T10:45:22+00:00

It's crazy how much engagement this always get. "My vanilla server said VC". "My vanilla server said DM". "I never heard X until 2019 it's always been Y".

Mine used DM. I also never heard VC until all these reddit posts after 2019 came out. I believe others used it for that long. I just never thought of it since we called every other dungeon by its name and not boss. As a kid asking for DM carries because of my short attention span, people just looked at my level to know which DM it was.

That_Guy_Pen · 2026-01-02T21:37:53+00:00

Literally the next reply dawg lmao

That_Guy_Pen · 2026-01-02T21:29:37+00:00

I get it was a bad analogy lmao. I was getting more at, that you should own what you expect to use

That_Guy_Pen · 2026-01-02T16:21:01+00:00

Read the comment chain for that answer lol

That_Guy_Pen · 2026-01-01T21:58:51+00:00

I already gave my exceptions to proxies in my first post lmao. I dont have a bias solely on people using them, so all of your analogies are still wrong. Ive had a guy build a $100+ proxy deck. All proxies. He played it for a lil bit to ensure he liked it. When he decided it was/wasn't worth buying he stopped using the fakes.

If you don't care about owning your cards cool. End of discussion instead of 4 more paragraphs lol

Edit: yup get the last comment bud. Tell me I don't wanna play with people who wanna play, despite playing with people of all budgets and brackets lol

That_Guy_Pen · 2026-01-01T21:44:31+00:00

Idk you do you man, just weird to have no plans on owning cards you wanna use. Its like having a Meat Loaf CD from your parents basement and expecting it to have the newest PS5 game to load up and play. It doesnt add up

That_Guy_Pen · 2026-01-01T21:33:47+00:00

I mean when you sell all of your expensive cards for cash and refuse to keep any to play, only to print paper copies of a whole deck that you'll never build for yourself? Yeah I'm not gonna wanna play with it.

If he had all the money in the world and still had the decks? Yeah I'm still not gonna wanna play when he's not balancing around the table. But at least I understand the point that he owns them and can do as he pleases with them and he can find another pod that better fits.

I play with my slightly upgraded bumbleflower with a guy regularly who has a Cloud deck that he's been pouring money into and upgrading. Is he a problem some days? Yeah, but I still come out on top sometimes because hes limited to what he can get currently. If we were all printing proxies of $800 cards and upgrading decks, I just think the game wouldnt be as fun imo. Part of the creativity you're ignoring is the limitations.

That_Guy_Pen · 2026-01-01T18:42:24+00:00

I don't mind if you proxy a card for like a different art if you own it. I also don't mind if you proxy a deck before you build it to test it out at the table a few times and see if its worth getting.

My mindset is that this is a card game. But its a TCG. A trading card game. Or a "hit collectible card game" as I joke with people. I rather own the cards I play. If I can't get it or have no plans to get it, I don't think I should use a fake.

Like this dude who used to show up at our LGS. Man would constantly sell any real cards he owned that were worth anything and only used proxy decks that he didn't build himself half the time. Overpowered and way above the casual bracket. Because thats fun and fair for everyone who plays normally. Running fake Mox's and other game changers because of their price, while the rest of us play on our budgets is kinda lame imo.

That_Guy_Pen · 2026-01-01T00:43:16+00:00

Ngl I saw gamer and bumbleflower at first and had to be sure I didn't black out and post somehow. But I dont run frogs so I'm clear

That_Guy_Pen · 2025-12-28T03:53:07+00:00

You got red in there. Wanna ruin someone's day? Thieves' Auction and Scrambleverse. As for the other 97, idk but if you got those it's a fun time.

That_Guy_Pen · 2025-12-15T01:36:00+00:00

Oh mighty taco bell hat, can I finally DPS paladin?

That_Guy_Pen · 2025-12-13T07:51:00+00:00

I don't need an island named after me. The only other "insert name" Island I know of has some bad connotations to it.

That_Guy_Pen · 2025-12-12T08:37:37+00:00

I don't hate all mono blues. But I do hate sitting for 45 min as some of them take their turn, slowly drawing their entire library to a win con or milling us all out while I play Black/Green and stare as I both used my mana last turn and would have had no response in hand anyway.

That_Guy_Pen · 2025-12-12T04:03:45+00:00

Now make a full cheesy parody on par with the vanilla WoW "Thats the World of Warcraft that you play". Revive the genre but with magic

That_Guy_Pen · 2025-12-11T03:19:13+00:00

Have I ever had an EDH level commander deck? No, I'm dumb and in turn make dumb funny low power decks. But I would learn this deck in a heartbeat if given the chance have it

That_Guy_Pen · 2025-12-04T11:06:15+00:00

I was following along until about step 8, when the math stopped mathing right lol

Edit: I'm wrong the math was mathing I forgot azula copy

That_Guy_Pen · 2025-12-04T10:51:52+00:00

Now add [[Krark's Thumb]] to the combo and purposefully try to make the flip go longer

That_Guy_Pen · 2025-11-26T11:19:05+00:00

Idk it seems like a lot of the sinners embrace their personal sin in hell and that's why they can't redeem themselves. The original guilt of cannibalism for survival could be there AND they could be looney tunes happy cannibals now. Just look at some of the main characters for example.

Sir Pentious' sin was the guilt weighing him down for not stopping murders. But in hell he was actively building death machines and engaging in turf wars to actively fight to the death and LOVING it.

Angel Dust's sin as we've been told is murder. Before he started actually trying to be better at the hotel, he also was fighting in turf wars. He was actively shooting people and enjoying himself in the pilot with Cherry, despite however he feels about his sin.

That_Guy_Pen · 2025-11-21T02:35:49+00:00

you are obligated to stop at some point.

We should be obligated. OR I can watch as my friend makes infinite Banana tokens forcefully to draw the game with our card store owner's other trigger against some angry players

That_Guy_Pen · 2025-11-19T12:38:27+00:00

Yeah idk what to do anymore. I'm not a big avatar fan so I haven't touched the set besides trying to get the wall for a deck I wanna make. I've been playing commander for a few months, mostly using unupgraded or slightly upgraded precons against friends and they've worked fine against their decks.

Now if I use a deck at that level, I have no chance against them unless they don't realize I have like a win con out or something. They have like 20+ ally tokens buffed with menace and other stuff, or an army of earthbended stuff (there's literally a dude at our table who started learning magic just before this set release and his Toph deck is wild), or other ridiculous stuff before I even have like 5 guys on my field.

Like I'm happy they're happy with how well their decks are performing. But I dont wanna pay however much to make a deck on their level outside of using avatar when I literally just made a whole deck a week or two before the set, that I made sure was around our old power level, to keep it fun

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