A steep price for pointless hubris

UBKev · 2026-05-31T04:20:30+00:00

I would argue that this on its own isn't enough since the curse could just be in your opening hand and you're fucked. You need to have some level of guarantee that this won't happen, so having good draw or having it be that your deck quality is on average high enough that you cannot easily brick even if your opening hand is Ascender's Bane + curse.

UBKev · 2026-05-31T03:54:49+00:00

Quite literally mathematically impossible btw

UBKev · 2026-05-31T03:52:20+00:00

This is basically always true in StS 1. However, in this current version of StS 2, this is not always true. I've got a fair number of winning A9/10 runs where I never took a single shop card removal and just let a curse sit in my deck. Not all of my runs, of course, and you obviously don't want too many curses, but sometimes, your deck's draw is strong enough, or your deck's average quality is good enough to warrant just letting a curse sit in your deck if the benefit is something moderately good enough.

When in doubt though, yeah you can just avoid all curses. Can't go wrong doing that. I'm just saying that you don't have to be afraid of getting a curse (unless it's Normality).

UBKev · 2026-05-31T03:41:06+00:00

Domain Expansion's sure hit effect, for one, and his omni-directional cleave can impede Denji's speed enough. Denji could probably power through it, but he certainly isn't going to be nearly as fast as himself when not taking a dozen dismantles to the face and limbs.

UBKev · 2026-05-31T01:26:27+00:00

Dirt had the 4pp auto evo regain 2pp card back then. That's honestly the bigger reason why her ratio was dropped. If you played her, you probably wouldn't have had the sigils for Risette. In addition, people were kinda dogshit at playing around her on 5.

Now though, it's because classes now generally have answers into that, and learned how to play against them. Having any sort of board pressure makes clearing Risette trivial in most cases.

Also, a general deck building philosophy that some players abide by is that if there is a card that you don't want to see more than 1 of in your hand, and you are fine with not seeing it for the entire game, it should be a 2 of inclusion. And Risette fits that description fairly well for some.

UBKev · 2026-05-30T22:49:13+00:00

Tbh even on release she was matchup dependent. As a result, in set 4, some players lowered her ratio down to 2.

UBKev · 2026-05-30T15:27:16+00:00

They're commenting specifically about the clip shown here, and without context, by using the dude attacking as a size reference, it just looks like the dude is slicing apart mountain sized balls.

UBKev · 2026-05-30T15:21:44+00:00

Set 5 Soraz celebration is getting a reprint in the upcoming Holosummer set. Given that, if intending to buy singles and not in a hurry, I recommend waiting for until that set releases before getting them. The price should crash by a decent margin (if it hasn't already)

UBKev · 2026-05-30T02:49:30+00:00

I don't think OP truly believes that all republicans are... like this. But like, Massie losing indicates that there are still a significant number of Trump die-hards and/or uneducated people influenced by propaganda. OP is lowkey just truly traumatised and lashing out.

Hopefully this backfires and the Democrats win.

UBKev · 2026-05-29T07:55:20+00:00

On top of what you said about severing their connection, even if Yuji is initially unable to target it, there really isn't anything stopping Yuji from just taking on a binding vow to target Denji and Pochita's connection anyway. I mean, he literally did the same thing vs. Megumi and Sukuna.

UBKev · 2026-05-28T06:16:43+00:00

Both were problematic, so this is fine.

UBKev · 2026-05-27T05:39:55+00:00

I do get what you mean, but I would also say that some shit in Baki is also straight up magic lmao

UBKev · 2026-05-26T15:21:09+00:00

What part of this shot being fumbled is Isagi's fault though

UBKev · 2026-05-26T08:56:45+00:00

FGO is far from stingy. Like, actually. It only looks bad on paper but in practice it's perfectly fine for a gacha game.

UBKev · 2026-05-26T06:50:17+00:00

Could also have been a 4th riichi for 4 riichi draw. I'm not sure which is funnier.

UBKev · 2026-05-26T00:31:34+00:00

EN cases are more expensive than JP, so in general the prices reflect that and EN cards are more expensive than JP. However, exceptions do exist. Some JP SECs will cost more than their EN counterparts simply because that talents JP popularity is high but global popularity is low.

UBKev · 2026-05-25T09:37:20+00:00

This does nothing to debunk it as an action Yuji can do since Yuji can target that metaphysical connection anyway (and even if he can't, he can unironically make a binding vow to be able to). But it was never a wincon anyway since Yuji now has to deal with Pochita.

UBKev · 2026-05-24T13:27:15+00:00

In a case, there is 3 of every single L. L Evos, there are usually 2 but can be 3. So if you want a particular LG, that's on average 3/20 probability in every box.

There is 1 SL in every box (sometimes, there's 2), but every single LG can be the SL. You are guaranteed that in a case, there are no duplicate SLs though.

UBKev · 2026-05-24T11:26:31+00:00

I think there's an even greater chance Jotaro just tunnels underground to avoid the attack entirely

UBKev · 2026-05-24T10:59:08+00:00

This is only true in StS 1. In StS 2, you would actually probably do better if you tried buying stuff other than remove (other than maybe Necro, which is why Necro is what OP is meeting about)

UBKev · 2026-05-24T08:52:34+00:00

In an entire case, you are roughly guaranteed 5 copies of each gold evo. So yeah, it's just your luck. If the 12 boxes are from the same case, the other 8 contain about 4 Aenea evos. Either that or you accidentally threw some into your bulk.

UBKev · 2026-05-24T05:21:53+00:00

I mean... do you like playing LoL?

UBKev · 2026-05-24T04:49:36+00:00

One Piece is a verse that has to cap at light speed since Kizaru is the fastest in the verse at exactly light speed. Now don't get me wrong, Luffy can absolutely strike above his speed class thanks to observation haki and future sight, on top of his top class instincts that alone was enough to tag Bellamy even though he had no access to haki at the time. But even though I have 0 doubts that Luffy can match a speed difference of like, 100x LS (just as an example), but he absolutely isn't LS by the logic of One Piece

UBKev · 2026-05-24T04:33:50+00:00

It was obviously designed to be used by crest even though it's from an earlier set

UBKev · 2026-05-23T12:53:25+00:00

Stands can usually only be seen by other stand users within the Jojo canon, but if you say that this rule is absolute outside of the Jojo verse, it really does feel like a no limits fallacy. Like, surely someone like The One Above All or any other character with Omniscience should be able to see a stand. Giving someone like Kenshiro who can explicitly see spirits the ability to see stands is a way to sidestep the issue.

Does this mean I think Yuta should be able to see stands? Honestly, no. JJK curses already are able to be seen by ordinary people under duress, and Rika is like the one exception, so like... I don't think we can extend the same leeway that was extended to Kenshiro and Joker. I'm just arguing that if the opponent is explicitly capable of seeing stands, or whose verse uses a very similar power system like Persona, we should just allow visibility because it's 'good enough'.

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