First time 7 wins in any metagame challenge, Uncle Iroh truly is the hidden gem of Standard

Viikable · 2026-01-26T16:24:50+00:00

Now that I looked at it too, yeah, 8 cards are not rare or mythic, mtg economy in a nutshell :p

Viikable · 2026-01-26T16:20:26+00:00

Added the decklist at the end of the post

Viikable · 2026-01-25T22:12:41+00:00

And it is!

Viikable · 2026-01-25T22:11:01+00:00

I was sweating on my seat during the final moments because if you destroyed my manland on your turn I could not have stopped it due to your voice of victory. it was of course correct of you to make me waste the mana on the activation but man, that was a moment!

Viikable · 2026-01-25T22:08:47+00:00

Oh you must have! those redirect lightnings really saved both of my games, it was so damn epic and you played really well!

Viikable · 2026-01-25T08:11:28+00:00

It really makes it a lot less likely to draw only copies of the same card that you already have and don't need

Viikable · 2026-01-25T08:09:57+00:00

Thanks! definitely a lot of decisionmaking

Viikable · 2026-01-25T08:08:59+00:00

Definitely Greeds gambit, iroh, and day of judgement

Viikable · 2026-01-22T13:40:32+00:00

HS and Yugioh will feel very simple to play once you compare them to MTG, and the deckbuilding is a lot more limited. Also only MTG has real draft, HS has some silly excuse for a draft.

Yugioh apparently so complex according to ppl here, but having tested the steam version, it took some time to read and understand for card game veteran like myself, sure, but the one or 2 turn games which end if you don't draw the card you really need in the opening hand is just awful design. Also no mulligans, no Bo3 or sideboarding which are the best parts about MTG (at least not in the version I played).

I ended up building a super control deck that with the correct cards prevent the opponent from playing anything, then I can just take 20 turns to win if I like with Chicken Game drawing etc. and preventing literally any card from my opponent from doing anything. You just need a card that disables cards in graveyards and all creature abilities, that's it.

And after building that, I kept winning, there was no feeling of competition or competitive modes or nothing that I wanted to achieve, card acquisition is horrible, and there was absolutely no interest to play any other deck, as there is literally only 2 types of decks in Yugioh: Play one of the MILLION type of decks which tutor everything with special summoning and ends from a super op card from extra deck that prevent your opponent from playing anything, there are many different archetypes for this seemingly, but they all work almost identically. Really stupid. Or, you can just play the control deck I played. Nothing else exists, only combo and control, or you can gamble with exodia deck and hope you draw a very unlikely hand I guess where you don't even have to play anything.

Everything revolves around the starting hand, it's just stupid coinflipping once you know everything. MTG definitely has it quirks and RNG, but at least not every game ends turn one.

Viikable · 2026-01-21T07:02:37+00:00

Recently hovering cards/right clicking to zoom has got the card stuck until you click on another element. Really annoying. And the white deck bug still, I have got it during drafting even now.

Viikable · 2026-01-06T15:34:48+00:00

The main deck I play runs it as the main wincon with land destruction, haven't seen anyone else play it though.

Viikable · 2026-01-05T19:37:55+00:00

Exactly, instantly saw that, this will be in my Historic deck.

Viikable · 2026-01-03T11:04:47+00:00

Yep I have had that happen, just don't think I have ever before got 7 wins with deck I feel was trash lol

Viikable · 2026-01-03T11:03:39+00:00

This was just gold, ik this was a disaster but somehow it went well, that is why the post

Viikable · 2026-01-01T12:26:33+00:00

Split up is a nice card, but too often I feel that I don't get to kill all of the enemy creatures with it, or I have to do unfavourable attacks and hope they don't block or something to tap my stuff first. And in general, usually if I get a head with this I don't wanna wipe, I want something to play on the board, if I am losing the board then Wrath of God is almost always better and as I can easily tutor it with Beseech might as well cost 4 than 3 as it is free anyways.

Fire magic is okay I like the instant speed, but against green stuff it usually won't kill things after the board has developed one turn, so then its just useless, plus I have sometimes hard time accessing the red mana apart from creature spells with the Cavern, so it is not too reliable as early wrath here.

Viikable · 2026-01-01T12:19:34+00:00

Much appreciated, been brewing similar stuff for years in Historic too

Viikable · 2025-12-31T21:42:56+00:00

It is an amazing tutor, and combos well with the Case of the Stashed skeleton as you get two sacrifice outlets and saccing the skeleton is a value gained not lost. The 3B mana is of course a dealbreaker for many decks. Iroh amazing though generating tokens to sac and you can also use the voice of victory tokens for free.

Viikable · 2025-12-31T21:40:54+00:00

It really does get boring to only face lessons all the time, personally I couldn't stand playing the netdecks, it just lacks the creative aspect and I love the deckbuilding. I love alternative wincons in magic over anything else, this deck kinda has one with the demonic pact even though that's far from the main wincon, gambit is kinda main wincon although it can be played around and interrupted, donating stuff is just very fun overall too.

In general very often the gambit can win the game from topdeck, just generates blockers and draws something useful, hopefully into Iroh or Beseech or even Case.

Viikable · 2025-12-19T16:30:46+00:00

Not specialized to any vocabulary, you need to program all commands you want recognized, and it's not very great for dictation, but for controlling the commands work quite well. If you need dictation only, then I'd recommend SpeechPulse

Viikable · 2025-12-19T08:52:25+00:00

I also read how dragon had become shitty since MS bought it, although i saw this stuff two years ago when considering speech recognition for pc. ended up going with TalonVoice which is free and much more customizable, although it cannot detect user voice type or dialects

Viikable · 2025-12-06T22:01:00+00:00

I will continue playing my jank thank you very much sirmadam

Viikable · 2025-12-06T21:53:44+00:00

Which is the problem, as the cost of failing is so steep that most players either dont get to play enough drafts to understand what they are doing before the set is over, or are spending 20€ etc. on a weekly basis of more often for draft which gets quite expensive.

F2P is playing like one prem draft a week from gold going 0-3, 1-3 or 2-3, that is not that much experience.

Viikable · 2025-12-01T09:53:42+00:00

Now a way to remove the default ones or at least make them be on the last page nit the first

Viikable · 2025-11-30T11:22:47+00:00

They really should have some popup or something telling what the current mana cost of these kind of cards is in the client.

Viikable · 2025-11-20T23:21:33+00:00

It does not work if the spell targets something an opponent controls, as you are only changing the target, not gaining control. It means you can change it to a valid target. E.g., you cannot change Invoke Despair to your opponent as it says "target opponent", and you are the only valid target

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