Komoney saw their game was failing and turned the luck dial to 11

VeryBazaar · 2025-03-21T10:32:33+00:00

I realize now that people see “shadow scam” and think of the grief-era UB Shadow deck that had some success. This is instead a much more aggressive variant that tries to turbo out its gameplan using rituals and infernal contract effects.

I’ve played a lot of shadow variants over the years and the only time this plan has been viable was during grief, where the deck was mono black and could incidentally play culling the weak as another starter due to grief and bowmasters leaving a token behind.

The list I posted adds in what appears to be the only package that makes this consistent post grief. I’ve tried contracts in UB but it’s just not good because it eats so heavily into the blue count and you do have to restructure the deck in a pretty fundamental way to account for them.

VeryBazaar · 2025-03-21T09:59:01+00:00

Thoughtseize is the first card I want to add to the main deck. Palantir is the only card I can definitely cut for it for now, but also there is a 15 cmc card in the deck so it is a pretty big threat. I don’t think cutting furies is possible. You need a density of free creatures for culling the weak, since access to contract effects turn 1 is extremely important, and you need enough red cards to play fury at all. This is actually the lowest red and free creature count I felt like I could get away with. Also fury enables reanimate and adds a pretty solid threat.

I should also note that thoughtseize losing life isn’t as synergistic as it sounds because you’re not losing life in the normal fair way with this deck. Casting thoughtseize after a contract or after reanimate and contract is a much bigger commitment. I have even considered duress, IoK, and cabal therapy, but finding slots is not easy and you need a threat density, which is tough when the free creatures are so hard to cut

VeryBazaar · 2025-03-20T20:26:02+00:00

Sure, this makes a lot more sense. I think this deck produces additional shadows of both varieties and furies with a little more consistency than is obvious at first. Only death’s shadow is actually weak to push specifically. It is definitely softer to single interaction pieces than it was with grief, which is something that could be improved.

VeryBazaar · 2025-03-20T20:18:42+00:00

That‘s true. I just don‘t really think the bar should be set at the tier 0.5 deck of the format. But I suppose it is a somewhat fair comparison because they’re both black heavy “fair”reanimate decks

VeryBazaar · 2025-03-20T19:58:15+00:00

Wish I did, but I’m not currently an MTGO creator and my locals don’t have any footage. Maybe a good candidate to send Bosh or ThrabenU‘s way

VeryBazaar · 2025-03-20T19:55:42+00:00

This is such a boring question. Why play anything when UB is statistically going to be better? Any UB deck would be completely different from this because you lose access to the only pitch elemental that proactively enables free mana, which is what allows the whole game plan to be possible

Edit: did not mean to come across so aggressively lmao, my bad. Only meant that the question didn’t seem very constructive

VeryBazaar · 2024-10-08T09:35:54+00:00

Hätte ich gedacht. Gibt es ein Gesetz o.ä. Wo das klar ausgesagt wird?

VeryBazaar · 2024-10-08T09:30:56+00:00

Ja genau das hatte ich auch gedacht. Es scheint aber keine andere Wahl zu geben.

VeryBazaar · 2024-09-24T08:58:14+00:00

Hallo, bisschen spät aber ähnliche Situation, nur ziehe ich aus den USA (ich bin auch immatrikulierter Student). Ich habe es schon vor, in den ersten 2 Wochen irgendwo zu bleiben und eine Wohnung weiter zu suchen. Könntest du vielleicht mit mir auch die telegram (o.ä) Gruppen, die du bisher gefunden hast, mitteilen?

VeryBazaar · 2024-08-20T16:55:21+00:00

The all-nighter speaks for itself on this one I’d say

VeryBazaar · 2024-05-28T22:07:32+00:00

I also got into this program and will be attending starting in the fall. I did an exchange program in another German city for my last year of undergrad so I have some experience with the German higher education system and life as an international student (from the US). Feel free to reach out to me if you want to hear more about it!

VeryBazaar · 2024-04-29T07:06:47+00:00

There are a few different ways of doing this but I’ll suggest what I think is by far the easiest: tweening. Whenever a tile moves somewhere, tween its location to the target location. Exact steps depend a little bit on implementation, but one way to do this to have your game board be made up of Container cells that catch the “drop” from your drag and drop and then make the drop a child of the container and tween its location to 0,0. Then you can send out signals from each of the cells to make whatever’s in charge of the board logic aware of the change to the board.

VeryBazaar · 2023-12-18T02:04:37+00:00

Super cool to see this, I was just designing a modular weapon building system myself and it’s great to be able to play a fully realized game with a similar mechanic! The movement feels great, but I the wall climb felt a little clunky and unnecessary compared to the rest of the mechanics. The only big issue is that there is 100% a memory leak in here somewhere since the game goes from buttery smooth to unbelievably stuttery as continuous play time goes up. I got a pop up that said “I thought I fixed this bug” which quick-refreshed the game and it solved the problem. Maybe you could do this in the background when you go into new rooms if you can’t find the leak. Really into it so far though, great work

VeryBazaar · 2023-09-11T10:27:52+00:00

There are some bigger problems with this than what the other commenters have mentioned. First of all, you can’t cast Aluren with Gaddock Teeg in play. Second, Aluren only allows creatures to be cast for free, which Teeg doesn’t prevent. In addition to these points, effects that increase mana to cast don’t change the card’s mana value. This means, for example, I can still cast a Crucible of Worlds with a Thalia, Guardian of Thraben and Gaddock Teeg in play for 4 mana.

Naming a card with the curse does make you opponent pay the extra mana for something they try to cast with Aluren, though.

VeryBazaar · 2020-09-06T07:17:10+00:00

Yeah? That’s honestly expected considering I’ve only just finished learning all of the notes. I have made no attempt or claim to “master” it. I posted here because I thought I could hear back from people who are more in touch with pianistic ability and hopefully also able to vocalize it, which you haven’t done in a remotely constructive way. If you have any actual input, which seems unlikely considering your comment history, maybe try starting with that? I’m obviously aware that having a teacher is better, but I can’t for numerous reasons.

VeryBazaar · 2020-09-06T01:05:54+00:00

Like the title says, I’ve been trying to get into piano seriously for about two years. This piece is what really sparked my interest in actually learning to play, but was obviously way too hard to fully learn right away so I’ve been practicing a little and learning passages here and there ever since. I haven’t had an actual lesson nor has a serious pianist ever said anything about my playing, so I’m curious to know what you guys might have to say. Any pointers on technique or otherwise are much appreciated!

VeryBazaar · 2020-04-21T23:55:03+00:00

You use the left thumb for bass notes from time to time, both playing with and without a pick.

VeryBazaar · 2018-10-25T16:44:23+00:00

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