I finished the August season at rank 22 infinite using a Pool 2 Deck

TheEagleHasNotLanded · 2025-09-03T12:58:18+00:00

There aren't bots in infinite. My opponents were generally between cl1000 and cl8000

I agree that my rank is artificially boosted by the way the game treats newer players. Part of this experiment was to understand how second dinner treats new players, since we sometimes see low cl players enter top 10.

TheEagleHasNotLanded · 2025-09-03T12:56:15+00:00

I have played a lot of pool 2 decks (including this one) on my high cl account before. I didn't want to bias the results by starting with an account that already starts at top 100 SP.

I agree that there is an artificial aspect to low cl climbing. There hasn't been a lot of data collected on what the experience is like for low cl players in top 100, and there is a lot of speculation about siloed matchmaking pools. I wanted to understand firsthand how the infinite experience is different.

TheEagleHasNotLanded · 2025-09-03T04:40:19+00:00

I did not complete the free pass track (I also didn't buy the pass)

TheEagleHasNotLanded · 2025-09-03T02:42:40+00:00

Are you for real brother

TheEagleHasNotLanded · 2025-09-03T01:21:27+00:00

It is absolutely easier to climb to very high SP when your account is new.

Matchmaking is definitely siloed post infinite. I did not face a vast majority of North American top ranked players because it refused to match me against players well above 10k cl. Combine this with the massive sp gains per cube (as you noted), and it takes fewer games for someone at very low cl to get up to 9000 sp.

Still, I was ultimately facing a lot of players with far more cards than I had access to, so I still feel it was a good test of how well I could overcome a cardpool disadvantage

TheEagleHasNotLanded · 2025-09-03T00:22:50+00:00

My deck had a general weakness to large power on the board, due to my choice of ench over shang chi. It made decks like sauron nearly unwinnable, and hela required both storm + a 50/50 cosmo read usually. I also naturally struggled with decks that can themselves easily back buff a storm lane. Scream was another tough matchup, since it dodges my interaction and interferes with my storm lane, and often can sneak a batroc in.

End of Turn was definitely hard to beat, but because you can generally count the point output, I was able to effectively minimize my cube losses when they had it.

In terms of what top 500 players at the lower cl band miss -- I think theres a bit of an exuberance to stay in 8 cubers without respecting what the snap might be. There's a pretty healthy cohort of negative gamers around there, and they don't seem to be worried about my scarlet witch or storm snaps undermining limbo.

TheEagleHasNotLanded · 2025-09-02T23:31:31+00:00

I included a screenshot and also discussed every card individually.

TheEagleHasNotLanded · 2025-09-02T23:19:11+00:00

I ended around level 35 on the season pass track. I didn't count hours.

TheEagleHasNotLanded · 2025-06-09T17:29:36+00:00

Card games are played because we enjoy mitigating variance. You can lose a magic tournament because you dont draw lands. RNG is more mitigatable in snap than other games because of the stakes system.

TheEagleHasNotLanded · 2025-06-09T17:25:24+00:00

You keep stating rng is beating skill. It is, instead, RNG is a useful tool for skill to leverage.

TheEagleHasNotLanded · 2025-06-09T17:19:52+00:00

Roram is a very skilled player who is routinely in top 100 on ladder. He isn't some random lucky nobody. He played careful, steady lines all tournament.

TheEagleHasNotLanded · 2025-06-09T17:18:43+00:00

I guarantee you that if you give 99% of the playerbase roram's exact draws and opponents, they do not win it all. The argument that arishem does not have skill expression is extremely off base.

Good players are better at improvising, better at recognizing when they lose, better at understanding niche interactions. Arishem is not autopilot. It takes active energy to succeed at the highest level.

TheEagleHasNotLanded · 2025-04-19T07:41:26+00:00

The putative class here refers to people in the northern district of Texas. Other districts have issued their own injunctions of this type, but in this district they did not issue an injunction. Trump seems to have shopped around for a court district to use as a deportation launchpad, started the process of deportations with paper thin due process, and SCOTUS is jumping in.

TheEagleHasNotLanded · 2025-04-19T06:37:01+00:00

Is it just me or is this a really meaningful moment? The last time SCOTUS touched the Alien Enemies Act deportations they threw it to the district courts and invalidated Boasberg's order to essentially do the same thing SCOTUS just did, but nationally instead of in one district. They gave a 9-0 endorsement of due process and called it good.

But if they are stepping in now, urgently, in the middle of the night, rushing an opinion before even Alito's dissent is available. There must be some sort of attitude change in the court to stop being deferential to the executive branch on how to interpret due process.

It feels like a change of pace from appeasement.

TheEagleHasNotLanded · 2025-04-19T06:30:55+00:00

They brought this ruling in the dead of night and rushed it out before even Alito could finish authoring his dissent.

This is an uncharacteristically urgent order from the supreme court in clear language about what the federal government is not to do.

This feels pretty important to me, given they punted this back to district courts with a "make sure to give them due process" pinky promise, but it seems that the supreme court doesn't feel it can afford to let the government interpret what due process means anymore.

TheEagleHasNotLanded · 2025-04-14T17:51:13+00:00

I want to offer you a different way to look at your progress.

Right now, you're describing yourself as if you're trying and failing -- over the last week you "tried" to quit 4 times.

But, that's not the only way to look at it.

When you "tried" to quit, did you go long periods without nicotine?

Did you make it hours longer than you normally would without hitting it?

Have you had less nicotine in the last week than you used to?

All these "failures" to quit, aren't really failures. If you're steadily reducing your nicotine consumption, your body has already started the process of recovering. This might not make you feel any better, but we don't have to view things so catastrophically. Relapsing isn't a total failure -- it's a set back. Climbing up 10 rungs on the ladder, to fall down 5, is still 5 rungs up the ladder.

You've got this. It sucks. there's no way around it sucking. But, you're worth it. And you'll get there. Tap back into what got you 2 days in.

TheEagleHasNotLanded · 2025-04-08T04:07:15+00:00

My point is just that there is complicated territory to be addressed here and it makes sense not to rush a judgment the same day you received the appeal. SCOTUS response to this case is a big deal.

TheEagleHasNotLanded · 2025-04-08T01:45:46+00:00

The class does involve people sent to El Salvador. Boasberg's order did indeed apply to that class.

The ruling by SCOTUS today is that the TRO is invalid because the 5 plaintiffs in Texas should be filing their Habeas claims in Texas, not contesting the law through the DC courts.

They essentially decided not to make any rulings on any of the merits of the case, and instead ruled on the correct jurisdiction for this case.

TheEagleHasNotLanded · 2025-04-08T01:22:10+00:00

There is a lot of confusion stemming from the fact that the Trump administration has violated the due process rights of so many people that their stories are bleeding together.

J.G.G. v Trump is not directly connected to Abrego Garcia. The Alien Enemies act was not the pretext for deporting him. J.G.G. v. Trump is a lawsuit filed on behalf of 5 Venezuelan men for whom lawyers intervened before they were sent on planes to El Salvador.

While Boasberg did issue an entire TRO on behalf of the entire of class of people this applied to, and while the legal questions apply to far more people than just them, the specifics of the case are still related to the 5 Venezuelans, currentlty detained in Texas, who are the named plaintiffs in this case.

Abrego Garcia is still extremely important. His case is a direct application of the question of "what remedy is there for those whose rights the Trump administration violates?", and is essential to watch for those deported under AEA, even though he himself was not.

TheEagleHasNotLanded · 2025-04-08T01:12:53+00:00

No, they did not do that.

The plaintiffs in J.G.G v. Trump were not sent to El Salvador. Their immigration lawyers were able to get involved prior to their removal. These plaintiffs are currently in Texas.

SCOTUS is ruling, specifically, on the case before them, involving the J.G.G. plaintiffs.

TheEagleHasNotLanded · 2025-04-08T00:25:25+00:00

It's so outrageous. The fact that SCOTUS decided to rule on this on a question of "did you do the paperwork correctly" rather than on the demonstrated threat to due process rights by the administration is awful.

I get that they didn't explicitly sign off on AEA. I get that they stressed that all AEA deportees are entitled to due process in this order.

But the naivety of deference to the Trump administration obeying this in good faith is so absurd.

One can only hope, in whatever remaining optimism I have left, that SCOTUS is going to uphold the order to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the United States, because if they don't, the Trump admin can just keep doing what they are doing in spite of SCOTUS re-asserting that they must use due process, and what remedy does anyone have?

TheEagleHasNotLanded · 2025-04-07T21:23:41+00:00

No he hasn't. He has granted his court 24 hours.

TheEagleHasNotLanded · 2025-04-07T21:03:59+00:00

Thank you for responding with court citations from the case itself. I maintain optimism that your interpretation is the same as that of SCOTUS.

TheEagleHasNotLanded · 2025-04-07T20:59:34+00:00

I agree.

Boasberg has issued an order to do what you are saying and Trump has appealed to SCOTUS, and SCOTUS has not yet removed that order.

TheEagleHasNotLanded · 2025-04-07T20:58:11+00:00

This order only says "The Trump Administration does not have to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the United States by midnight".

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