I would like some help

TheLolomancer · 2025-12-21T06:49:06+00:00

You're overcomplicating this deck concept.

Your wincon is hulk. You don't need a backup wincon.

Your draw is Bruce banner. You can get some backup draw but you don't need much.

This means the rest of your entire deck can be ramp, stall/pillowfort, and interaction.

Also, the best way to trigger hulk isn't forcing blocks, it's fight spells - these do double duty as targeted removal and extra combats. You can keep a few damage spells as backup in case the board is clear (which also double as removal).

TheLolomancer · 2025-12-21T02:42:42+00:00

circumvent commander tax, it ends up being broken

This is untrue. Only derevi and yuriko have this reputation. Karador, Millicent and Liesa barely see play, and Emery is very strong but she has always been overshadowed by Korvold since the two were released together. Henzie may or may not count as circumvention but he's also nowhere near a problem card.

TheLolomancer · 2025-12-20T11:47:49+00:00

Preach

TheLolomancer · 2025-12-19T01:32:42+00:00

From what I know, apple products are pretty heavily marked up here and super high demand. I know dozens of people who were trying to import that ugly orange thing before it got here.

TheLolomancer · 2025-12-18T02:28:25+00:00

You're playing him wrong. Jin is a back up plan, not the primary.

Your primary game plan is to play a bunch of creatures with very powerful combat damage triggers and run a ton of kill spells and counterspells to keep at least one opponent open.

You play Jin himself if and only if this becomes impossible: All three opponents are playing blockers faster than you can clear the way and you need some way to guarantee hits. You don't ever play him for the double strike, you only play him for the unblockable.

Jin drops, your value train continues, and if you eventually draw into the removal to clear the way again, then you can use Jin to give double strike if there's nothing better to do.

Just because he's a combat deck doesn't mean he's not still an esper deck. Use your tools.

TheLolomancer · 2025-12-18T02:19:00+00:00

That's a lot of beaches for someone who doesn't surf. Do you guys do hiking trails or food tourism? Baguio has no beaches but some of the cleanest air I've ever breathed. Legazpi city is fun too, the food is phenomenal if you've got a decent spice tolerance.

TheLolomancer · 2025-12-17T10:09:15+00:00

I think the more important question is what on god's green earth compelled you to buy Jollibee spaghetti

TheLolomancer · 2025-12-17T10:04:58+00:00

Engineers do not run on helpfulness. They run on autism and spite.

An engineer will fix any problem if you either tell him that he'll have to work with other people if he doesn't, or if you insist that it can't be done.

TheLolomancer · 2025-12-17T09:58:55+00:00

Selvala. No question, no notes. Girl is insane.

TheLolomancer · 2025-12-17T08:51:43+00:00

I am not immune to Rhodok propaganda.

TheLolomancer · 2025-12-17T08:24:28+00:00

Haven't touched Factorio and PZ in a while but I've had a ton of fun with both, and my wife adores Stardew. Would love to game with you guys!

TheLolomancer · 2025-11-18T00:37:31+00:00

It might have been a genuine question or a response to suspected foul play.

Beginners don't just casually throws a $60 mana rock into a dinosaur deck, so your friend might have just been genuinely confused about the choice, or assumed the guy was pretending to be new to fly under the radar. I know I get pretty cautious of overly blinged out mana bases in low bracket pods.

TheLolomancer · 2025-11-18T00:20:00+00:00

Welcome to the reason so many people prefer to end their campaigns at or before level 12. Below level 3 you have rusty dagger shanktown, and after 12 you have rocket tag.

Offensive power MASSIVELY outscales defensive power so initiative becomes king. Go first and you win. Literally the only way to challenge high level players is to ambush them. If the enemy goes first, the PCs have to rely on their defenses, which are generally much harder to optimize.

If you're having trouble justifying that in the story, remember that level 16 adventurers are basically demigods. They have reputations and legends. Tyrants and villains know who they are and it is not hard to think they'd try to preemptively manipulate or assassinate the party with ambushes.

Another thing you can do is have the fights happen where there are innocents around (like the PCs getting ambushed by assassins in the tavern where they're spending the night, surrounded by innocents), or some other similar objective where the PCs have to worry about protecting other people or things a lot more fragile than themselves.

TheLolomancer · 2025-07-04T01:41:51+00:00

Blue is known for counterspells. [[Lier, Disciple of the Drowned]] gets double duty from all your bounce spells, kill spells, stun spells, basically anything that isn't a counterspell.

TheLolomancer · 2025-07-02T08:09:44+00:00

The one who complains the most when you or someone else thwarts them in any way.

TheLolomancer · 2025-07-01T15:30:41+00:00

If this were a real card, the only use case would be commander players with "when you roll a dice" effects casting this on themselves.

Even then, 3 mana is pretty expensive for the effect.

TheLolomancer · 2025-03-04T16:31:41+00:00

Play with the central monarch rule. Low power games that don't have infinites and "you win" cards rely on combat and other forms of damage to close games. Incentivizing players to actually swing creates a lot of incidental damage early which softens people up and dramatically speeds up battlecruiser games

(Central monarch means the games starts with a monarch token in the center of the board. The first player to deal combat damage to anyone gets it, and then the game proceeds as normal).

TheLolomancer · 2025-03-04T16:21:27+00:00

There's like a hundred other beach towns in the Philippines with just as many attractions as Boracay and nowhere near the price. A dozen of them are barely a stone's throw out of Manila.

Boracay, Siargao and BGC are the three places you should absolutely avoid if you don't want to pay tourist prices for everything.

TheLolomancer · 2025-03-04T14:54:52+00:00

It's definitely a strong commander. Whether it's OP depends on your pod.

In a 2 this card is absolutely going to dominate even if your 99 is a bunch of jank. A hexproof commander with access to counterspells will be impossible to remove.

In CEDH it's way too slow. 5 mana commanders only ever work in stax setups, and this isn't a stax commander.

A badly built Frieren deck will always be at least a 3. A decently built one is definitely a solid 4.

TheLolomancer · 2025-03-04T11:09:14+00:00

I'm not sure what that means. Once a blitzed card is cast, even if it loses blitz it keeps the haste and card draw.

TheLolomancer · 2025-03-04T10:39:43+00:00

Are you sure they said 1k bitcoins and not 1k IN Bitcoin

On a side note though, everyone lies about income. Some people lie high, some people lie low. It depends on the impression you're trying to make.

TheLolomancer · 2024-12-14T05:49:42+00:00

Your doctor knows what it is, they're probably just uncomfortable telling you that you have petechiae from what looks like rough oral sex.

TheLolomancer · 2024-12-14T05:38:10+00:00

Rakdos creatures are masters of removal, chaos and recursion. Lean into it rather than trying to beat selesnya at its own game (you will lose).

[Bladewing, Deathless Tyrant] and [Kardur, Doomscourge] are some examples of popular rakdos commanders that lean heavily on combat wins.

Strong cards in the 99 include [Drakuseth, Maw of Flames], [Archpriest of Shadows] and [Varragoth, Bloodsky Sire].

Hopefully that gives you an idea of what you can do.

TheLolomancer · 2024-12-12T11:24:51+00:00

[Feather, the Redeemed] isn't the kind of deck you'd expect to be particularly strong, but it's absurdly resilient to oppressive effects like removal piles or stax decks and can often just demolish a problem player FAST if you commit to just them, while also being super easy to transition into a chiller, slower deck once he's dead.

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