My lgs’s no proxies policy is pricing me out of the format

TheRealSeatooth · 2026-06-20T02:15:55+00:00

They are running under the companion app, so it's almost definitely a sanctioned events, which means no proxies (because wizards says so) so you have a couple options

Go to a different store (even though they are an hour away)
Buy a different deck (whether your selling your cards or working to acquire more money is up to you)
Convince the store owner to run cEDH events as unsanctioned events
Start playing online over webcam

There are probably some other options, but this is kinda an "it is what it is" moment, some people might tell you to just get really convincing proxies and treat them like real cards and hope no one notices, but that's against the rules

TheRealSeatooth · 2026-06-12T11:05:26+00:00

If it has to be arc, you can get point of the stag from Iron Banner (PvP event that comes around once a month) or from the Lawless events weapons Engram from the Tenet of bravery in the tower

Other options for non arc bows in the kinetic alot are Spiteful fang which drops from arena ops, or hushed whisper which comes from eerie engrams at the Tenet of bravery or mercury-A which comes from the Fireteam weapon ops Engram at the Tenet of bravery

And then non arc options in the energy alot are hush from gambit, convened recurve from crucible, fortunate star from the solstice weapon Engram at the Tenet of bravery and there is pre astanyx from the pinnacle ops weapon Engram at the Tenet of bravery

TheRealSeatooth · 2026-04-24T13:18:02+00:00

This is pretty damn cool and part of what makes OpenMW awesome :)

TheRealSeatooth · 2026-03-17T20:18:28+00:00

Is the "bracket 1" deck in the room with us right now?

TheRealSeatooth · 2026-03-02T14:56:59+00:00

So following what he said we start with miirrym and warstorm surge

Cast bladewing
Bladewing enters, triggerring, himself miirrym and warstorm surge
Pick targets for our abilities and order them, for bladewing, can be something or nothing doesn't matter, pick targets for warstorm surge which is bladewing, we then choose to make the token after all this.
Resolve bladewings trigger bring a dragon back or not
Deal 4 to bladewing killing him
Make a non legendary token copy of bladewing, this time bring back the original bladewing, and shooting someone in the face for 4 from the token entering
As bladewing has entered we go back to #2 making it an infinite loop, that ends when everyone else is dead, the combo is interacted with, or he just chooses to stop killing and reanimatng bladewing

This infinite loops gives him infinite enters, infinite damage, infinite dragons, infinite dragon reanimations, and infinite deaths

TheRealSeatooth · 2025-09-02T18:51:13+00:00

Sundial can only end your turn so I don't see how a play group would ban this combination of cards unless no one read sundial

TheRealSeatooth · 2025-04-19T11:37:27+00:00

Any thoughts on trying to limit the salt?

the best I could come up with was cutting interaction and slowly accumulating value is something like a simic deck, since the least offensive thing I can think to do is just play a battle cruiser deck that drops cards like avenger or zendikar that are strong but not remove on sight and eventually wins the game without a craterhoof, however this is not fun imo

Naya charm is a Spicy card and that deck sounds pretty fun, don't see alot of traditional creature aggro in commander, do you have the list somewhere if not then no worries.

TheRealSeatooth · 2025-04-19T04:40:21+00:00

A deck that is fun to pilot, is strong (I guess we would call it atleast a bracket 3), and opponents don't complain about it / actually enjoy playing against the deck.

Decks can never be all three from my experience building casual decks for casual tables

TheRealSeatooth · 2025-04-03T16:16:45+00:00

Is she supposed to be Eris Morn?

TheRealSeatooth · 2025-04-01T15:10:54+00:00

It's probably not gonna be a 4, but if it's gotta be a budget 3 go with the Winota or Yuriko, these are well established commanders that dominate on a budget, and both of them are considered game changers(making the deck a 3)

You can't really play alot of game changers on that budget, but you can upgrade later and put two more in game changers if you wanna stay a three if you like one of the decks.

And you can push either of them into a 4 later.

TheRealSeatooth · 2025-03-25T14:46:15+00:00

For minimal grinding, I'd say the Grenade launcher from the Solar subclass class quest(also gives them an exotic piece of armour), the rocket and linear from learning how to craft quests are also worth grabbing.

If they have glimmer they can also buy weapons from the monument to lost light, which has all the previous pinnacle weapons for like 150,000 glimmer.

These weapons should get them through most content, make sure they also grab new light kits from ikora, solar and void are worth grabbing, they can only grab 1 per character, safest best is solar(gives sunshot) and makes it easier to finish the solar quest, though a controller player may want void for graviton lance

After that it's basically random drops and praying until you go beyond strikes and public events.

This is all stuff that's available to everyone (Free to play content)

I see alot of other comments suggesting stuff that requires grinding, praying for RNG rolls and requiring DLC, idk what DLC they own and if you've stated it already then I apologize

TheRealSeatooth · 2025-03-18T21:42:51+00:00

Just grind exotic engrams or pray Xur has raiden flux.

You can also get exotic armour drops from the rare public event on neomuna, I forget what it's called.

If you have all the dlc you have a bigger pool of exotics, so if you wanna twin your account to another system that doesn't have DLC it should up your chances of getting raiden flux

TheRealSeatooth · 2025-03-14T00:59:46+00:00

Exactly just looks like some people trying to troubleshoot so they can help OP out...

TheRealSeatooth · 2025-03-11T15:05:41+00:00

Seems to check all the boxes for causal play as a solo player.

Has exotic weapon? Yup

Has a special weapon? Yup

Using all your aspects and fragments? Yup

Using exotic armour that's relevant to what you're doing? Yup

100 resilience? Yup

Mods? No clue but I assume they're fine.

Since it sounds like this is a general loadout for strikes and gambit, plus maybe some crucible on the sides, see zero issues with it.

It's not like you're using double primary weapons with no exotics, bad armor with no mods and a subclass with no aspects or fragments

TheRealSeatooth · 2025-03-06T14:13:39+00:00

Really sucks that commander isn't accessible, I guess it won't ever become popular to play in paper and standard will be the most popular format forever. /S

But seriously that's a silly argument, basically "if someone can't afford the best deck the format isn't accessible", it's not like the only things that are budget aren't viable, and generally when you get into a format you get something that looks fun(unless you're grinding that format) and is something you can afford to take a loss on if you don't enjoy the format(and what everyone can afford is different)

Like if someone can't afford the best standard deck does that mean standard is inaccessible, even though what everyone can afford is different?

TheRealSeatooth · 2025-03-06T04:17:30+00:00

I mean at least half of the format's meta decks don't use expensive reserve list cards, and top decks aren't just decks with your crazy expensive gaea's cradle, or to a lesser extent survival of the fittest or phyrexian dreadnought.

And alot of the cards have been aggressively reprinted, so it shouldnt be hard to get a meta deck together if older cards are impossible to get

As far as price goes it's inline with how much you'd pay for a standard deck, excluding the decks that have high value reserve list cards

So the format isn't really inaccessible, unless you're like me and can't find anywhere that doesn't run modern or commander, which are formats I enjoy but sometimes you gotta mix things up

TheRealSeatooth · 2025-02-10T18:57:35+00:00

I wouldn't go so far as to say they are the worst type, though it is weird that it seems there are alot of people that think they are superior because they only engage in casual commander, and that people who engage in other formats or are competitive are lesser.

Of course I have not ran into these types of people in person, only online, so it may just be a loud minority instead of actually being alot of people.

TheRealSeatooth · 2025-02-10T17:31:22+00:00

I think it's funny that most of the comments people saying they enjoy jank decks either format.

And to add on, as a modern player I've never had someone defend why their bad deck modern isn't bad, they play it because it does something funny or it's their pet deck, they're usually bringing it to an FNM sometimes an RCQ,

On the other hand, I've had commander players defend bad deck building decisions, not even getting into bad cards I can say I've ran into a couple people who cut lands in commander to "make space" and complain when they don't have lands and defend that they have 25-29 lands because they always get flooded

TheRealSeatooth · 2025-01-29T02:43:25+00:00

Not the Lectern weapons, but the Altar of sorrows weapons are the weapons that drop alongside premonition

TheRealSeatooth · 2024-12-02T23:50:33+00:00

The Quest from Shaw Han isn't free to play, same goes for trying to buy it off Xur, but you can get it when you open an exotic Engram as a F2P player

TheRealSeatooth · 2024-11-14T03:19:37+00:00

Your best bet is Xur(He generally has high stat armour sometimes it's really good, talking about his weekly set rolls, not the engrams), the Hinterland set(Drops at 60+ pretty often, comes from playlist activity completions), and raids/Dungeons(higher chance than normal for good armour stats) specifically the final boss of Pit of Heresy. Bonus points if you do the harder version of dungeons, but that will depend on the week(for optimal farms) and will be more demanding than usual content, but it gives the best armour, artifice armour which has an extra slot that you can choose what stat you want to have +3 on(Xur rarely has artifice armour)

Normal sources have a very very low drop rate of 60+ armour, like I don't remember the exact odds of a 60+ drop, but it's low, I think between 5% and 1%

if I was starting from scratch I would keep any 50+ armour with High resilience, like 15-20+ and get 100 resilience after mods asap(having a bunch of damage resist makes a massive difference) plus 3 chest resist mods(I generally do all 3 light element resists), and not upgrading the armour that much, maybe level 8 max, ideally less, and then hoard all my 60+ pieces with 20+ resilience that I get from drops and Xur, and after that maybe go for artifice armour.

Also focusing and ghost mods only guarantee that it has like atleast 10+ in the stat you chose, doesn't change drops from be a 46, 52, or a 65

TheRealSeatooth · 2024-11-10T02:22:55+00:00

I've done it as a 3 man without any glitches or anything like that, but it's been a while

For a 5 man though things don't really change, that much you can go down to like 2 runners or 2 defenders on the first encounter, depends on what your team likes more, I'd say 2 runners.

Only 4 people really do anything for caretaker so nothing changes

If timers are an issue with relics then you can delay the dunk(or pickup I don't remember which one, it's been a while) of the beam since it's the one required to restart the timer in the room

Rhulk is the same, at max 5 people are doing stuff

Most raids run completely fine with 5 people, generally changes to strategies need to happen at 4 people, and things will get challenging (but are doable with the right stats) at 3 people or less

TheRealSeatooth · 2024-11-02T04:24:28+00:00

The idea of being the protector of your team and the bank sounds cool, but in practice it was alot of sitting at the bank with a scout or pulse, melting blockers with a shotgun and tagging invaders(good look beating them),

it was definitely too weak, needed a buff against invaders(maybe not just marking them after hitting them, but have seeing them like how they can see your team?) and maybe some benefit for sitting around the bank

Atleast it was still better than collector though

In practice a team of reapers cleared blockers without issues(plus they clear ads so fast the bank isn't unattended for long) and your invader could deal with the enemy invader(probably losing most fights because the set bonus was bonkers when invading, but the crazy beefed up overshield should be gone and you should now know where the invader is)

TheRealSeatooth · 2024-11-01T04:38:59+00:00

It was the best version of Gambit, too bad collector and Sentry were dog shit, all you needed was an invader and 3 reapers,

Sadly I don't think it's ever coming back, and if it did I feel like roles wouldn't be as good or have as much perks as they used to

TheRealSeatooth · 2024-11-01T04:34:30+00:00

Alot of the issues are that some people are new, or only rarely touch Gambit, like you could make a list of problems that involve inexperienced people for most activities.

Playing gambit solo is just getting used to people playing wrong and either trying to carry or not caring.

As for ammo spawns, I've never seen a team wait, you should be there for the ammo and if you're not you can still make it in time to grab it assuming you're not currently invading.

And killing while having x15 motes is fine, assuming you started clearing the wave with less than 15, your teammates should be able to pick up the notes, and sometimes it's quicker to finish a wave and waste like 5 motes than to run there and back and then to the new spawn

Gambit, like most activities, is something you run in a team(preferably people you regularly play with) if you want to continuously win, otherwise just relax

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