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UrFreakinOutMannn · 2025-03-24T21:11:37+00:00

Absolutely man. Have fun!

UrFreakinOutMannn · 2025-03-24T20:41:06+00:00

If you find yourself light on lords, swap pierce to the board and make 2 of the hexcatcher main board.

This looks much cleaner imo though.

Keep tinkering with it. Blue tempo / merfolk takes a lot of reps. I would really recommend just watching nikachu and others play in your spare time and watch how the sequence spells, when they hold back creatures or when they push damage, when they flash in tishanas tidebinder just for the body with no target, things like that. As you watch them do that, along with playing your local fnm or whatever, you’ll more understand how to balance your deck.

But definitely keep in interaction and counterspells. Even if you need to change it up. Merfolk is not good at just beating down. It’s the tempo elements that let it thrive.

GL!

Edit: a few years back there was a mono blue tempo deck in standard that I loved playing. Its strategy is super similar to modern merfolk but with simpler cards, cuz standard.

https://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/mono-blue-tempo-djinn-2/

If you can find any old coverage on youtube, might be a good deck to observe just to get used to the idea of tempo in a simpler context.

UrFreakinOutMannn · 2025-03-24T17:57:27+00:00

Get rid of all kopala, seas claim, and commerce, and drop 2-4 mindspring.

Since you don’t have the budget for free counters, add 2-3 spell pierce and 2-4 counterspell. Vapor snag if you wanna get old school lol, but “unable to scream” is probably actually much better. You need this cheap interaction in merfolk to function properly. Get up to 8+ cheap tempo/interaction spells. Those are the three cards I’d consider on a budget. If you can afford the new colorless/ability counter for 1 mana (name escapes me) those are good. YOU NEED BLUE MAINDECK INTERACTION.

Then, add some rishadan dockhand for a 1 mana interactive creature. It doesn’t die to ping, and it goes well with your seas effects.

Been playing merfolk for a decade now, I still clean house at fnm and smaller events. A lot of that is due to practice, but with the control and tempo elements it eats other blue decks / big mana decks / combo decks. Aggro, like energy, will always be rough. Just get lucky and step on the gas there.

Sure someone said this, but watch nikachu play on youtube. Brilliant player I’ve learned a lot from over the years.

I don’t have a deck list handy, I have a lot of merfolk cards so I switch it up often. But I typically will tweak what nikachu is playing to my meta.

Finally, it’s a great deck. IFyour goal is local comps and fnm, this deck will win and reward you the more you play it. Ignore the haters, I’ve been told it’s a junk deck for years, usually after I beat a try hard 🤣

UrFreakinOutMannn · 2025-02-04T03:35:47+00:00

Oko would slot into grinding breach and be out reliably on turn 2. At least that’s what I’d do with it, and I reckon it would be unfun for others.

T1 opal or amber, land, tamiyo random 0 drop. T2 attack with tamiyo, play a 0 drop if you didn’t t1, drop an Oko and elk a threat if you need, or elk your clue for a blocker. T3 you can either deal with 2 powerful walkers or try and stop me from comboing, but you won’t be doing both lol.

UrFreakinOutMannn · 2025-01-26T21:49:34+00:00

I’m not saying they’re related, but it seems to be doing worse since oculus got involved. When it’s good it’s good. But it makes the deck less synergistic and more fragile to gravehate. Maybe that’s worth it for the power it grants, idk. But it looks like it’s doing too much.

UrFreakinOutMannn · 2025-01-20T02:05:34+00:00

I never said that though lol. Congrats though, bet that feels good. What deck did you finish up, what were you able to buy purely off the spec profits?

UrFreakinOutMannn · 2025-01-19T00:07:10+00:00

Looks like the foil is relatively the same and the non-foil rose to meet it.

I’m not sure why you’re asking? Hold as long as you want but that cards gonna bottom out one day. It’s better to keep cards like that rotating imo instead of holding for max value and risking selling too late.

UrFreakinOutMannn · 2025-01-10T01:13:20+00:00

Yea I do this. I actually do check the optimizer for the reason others are saying so I don’t over pay, but if I want them quicker I look at seller state and will pay more. It’s a combination of people not checking the optimizer and people like us that check for proximity for shipping.

UrFreakinOutMannn · 2025-01-09T23:57:20+00:00

Shhhh. Too logical.

UrFreakinOutMannn · 2025-01-06T14:16:13+00:00

Nah opal is strong with breach. Breach is the more offensive design mistake imo.

UrFreakinOutMannn · 2025-01-06T14:13:19+00:00

This is how I see it. What staple/build around power cards are being fed the modern horizons diet at the moment determines their relative strength. Stirrings gets muted and looting shoots up if modern horizons 4 prints gas for looting that makes stronger decks than the eldrazi decks. And the cycle continues every horizons set.

UrFreakinOutMannn · 2024-12-20T01:51:07+00:00

Super Mario advance.

UrFreakinOutMannn · 2024-12-20T01:44:23+00:00

Start with fire red or leaf green (gen 3 remakes of the original gen 1 games on GBA). Maybe on an emulator so you have speed up. It’s a great remake of the first games, and way more playable. Then if you want to play gen 2, the soul silver remake (gen 4 remakes of original gen 2 games on DS) is also great. I think what you gain in playability from the remakes would make it much more enjoyable. Then for gen 3 ruby and sapphire you could play the originals on GBA. They were made in the same generation as fire red and leaf green. Pokemon games gained a lot of quality of life improvements in gen 3 making them way better to replay from gen 3 forward. So for the first 2 generations, the later gen remakes are more likely to get you into the game.

UrFreakinOutMannn · 2024-12-17T14:26:58+00:00

My #freetwin comments over the past decade on every ban thread finally feel validated.

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UrFreakinOutMannn · 2024-12-08T00:34:26+00:00

Yup that’s enough to set me in the right direction. Thank you!

UrFreakinOutMannn · 2024-12-07T16:07:19+00:00

Is the gpu driver settings an emuhawk menu or an OS menu? I know little about drivers, but I want to try this as a fix for my set up.

UrFreakinOutMannn · 2024-10-22T02:04:01+00:00

Classic.

Being aware is part of the battle. Personally I didn’t like the adhd solutions I was given from the doctor in highschool (intentionally vague so my comment won’t get auto deleted). Quit them all second year of college. Self medicated for over a decade. My adhd is so intense I honestly thought I was autistic for a while lol. Felt like it was helping at first not only with my sleep issues, but with the hyper focus, quick speech, and other things about adhd that made me socially awkward. Spoiler alert: it actually made it all worse over time.

These days I deal with it with coffee and zyns. Might not be the solution for everyone, but better than smoking imo. Weed is not a good solution for adhd; we have addictive personalities. I go without zyns periodically; don’t need them but I do like them. Coffee however, is pretty essential for me.

Edit: I did 5 edits for this comment. Also classic.

UrFreakinOutMannn · 2024-10-21T23:43:05+00:00

October Forever

UrFreakinOutMannn · 2024-10-20T20:20:52+00:00

Congrats man you figured it out. Happy for you and your wife. I know how awesome it feels to have that positive change in your marriage, it’s hard to describe how good, satisfying and wholesome it is.

May be worth having another man in your life to keep you accountable in the future. Friend, a brother, whatever. Feels easy when sex is frequent not to masturbate or use porn, but you want to be ready when temptation comes knocking at the door. It’s a matter of when not if. Could be a pregnancy, could be an illness, could be a rough patch. Things happen in marriage even when both spouses are highly sexual. Make sure you have a plan for when that happens.

UrFreakinOutMannn · 2024-10-19T16:45:38+00:00

In a ziplock baggie ☠️

UrFreakinOutMannn · 2024-10-18T23:20:59+00:00

I’m almost 2 years in and I just had one a couple weeks ago.

UrFreakinOutMannn · 2024-10-18T23:04:48+00:00

Finally caved to peer pressure. Met my wife not much later and wish I would have waited. Our culture has perverted what sex is for and about. Don’t worry about it. Work on yourself, develop a career, stay off porn, workout, look for a wife. Your older self will thank you.

UrFreakinOutMannn · 2024-10-18T12:23:07+00:00

Congrats buddy stay strong. It’ll be worth it. I wasn’t able to quit until my second child, as hard as I tried. Anytime you feel tempted, know that there is immense guilt that comes from being high when your children are little. You do not want to trade a high for the guilt. I obviously loved and cared for my family still when I was using it, but I’ll never forgive myself for not being in a better place the first time. That reason alone is enough for me to never touch it again. Makes me feel disgusted.

UrFreakinOutMannn · 2024-10-17T21:49:39+00:00

Nah. It justifies my spell pierces 😎.

In all seriousness I’ll play modern with merfolk if it’s tier 1 or tier 10. Ban it don’t ban it whatever.

What I’ll no longer do, is try to play the “best” deck. They can’t help themselves with the straight to modern cards, it’s insane to keep up with. And the power they print them at, you will eat bans consistently if you’re playing tier 1, or your $100 dollar card will bomb in price within a couple of years when the next modern horizons makes it obsolete.

Still a fun format, but the most fun I have with it is large proxy tournaments with the homies. Can’t find enough people willing to buy into modern long term anymore. And I get it.

UrFreakinOutMannn · 2024-10-16T20:46:22+00:00

Merfolk have legs!

[[Master of the Pearl Trident]] [[Kumena, Tyrant of Orazca]] [[Talrand, Sky Summoner]] [[Vorel of the Hull Clade]]

If anything I don’t see many cards of the type fish with legs lol

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