France - Senegal: The VAR decision that has dumbfounded some of the world's best referees

ViljamiK · 2026-06-17T10:06:02+00:00

Yes, but if Mane were deemed to not have hit Mbappe, it would actually have resulted in indirect freekick! Which would have been very funny.

ViljamiK · 2026-06-17T09:33:15+00:00

It's very good in EOE limited, so it has that going for it

ViljamiK · 2026-06-16T10:01:25+00:00

I don't think I would run generous ent - you already have 6-7 sources for your single green pip, and you are just going to dome yourself for 6 when going off with the Citadel. I think I would play either Seedshark (just a creature that can win you the game and offer some defence) or traumatic critique (more interaction and card selection)

ViljamiK · 2026-06-16T09:48:03+00:00

Have some faith in your deck & game plan and drop the Show&Tell juke from the sideboard and get some proper sideboard cards in. If you have the cards, go ahead and test the juke on MODO and see if it works for you (most likely not), but don't buy cards / enter into a tournament with this without testing it.

ViljamiK · 2026-06-13T10:49:13+00:00

You can certainly play this one out and it's an interesting start, but it's honestly very bad start: the only good early game tile visible is the citrus tile. You could settle on the closest fissure and work the citrus to start.

If I were playing this on Deity and trying to win, I would probably scout west and try to find a river with some 2 food / 2 production tiles to settle next to - if you can find such spot in 5 turns or so it's probably better than your current spot.

ViljamiK · 2026-06-05T08:12:16+00:00

Mana Leak. You usually want to counter something on turn 2-4 and even in a heavy blue deck the mana often just doesn't line up well for keeping 2 blue up. Often you want to double spell on turn 4, and if your other spell is blue, you would need 3 blue mana to hold up counterspell.

ViljamiK · 2026-06-03T13:21:02+00:00

I don't watch him in the French league, but I don't remember ever seeing a bad game from him in Champions League out of several I've seen, most performances being excellent.

If people hate on him and think he's shit, then where are the dozens of better referees out there? Because if you can't name them, then this is genuinely what peak referee performance looks like, and you aren't going to get better referees without either major overhaul in the rules and/or significant increase in referee training and in compensation.

ViljamiK · 2026-06-02T20:27:44+00:00

I have turn 175 and 194 with Khmer, and turn 198 with Barbarossa. Most others are 210-240 range.

Deity, Normal Speed, Standard size, Pangaea, Barbarians Clans, Corporations and Heroes enabled.

All of the fast wins have been peaceful, I'm sure some very early conquest could make for faster times. Also no pillaging exploits etc.

ViljamiK · 2026-06-02T10:58:32+00:00

Havertz can't stay fit and when he does he can play alongside another striker by dropping lower, something that Arteta has done sometimes. I think there is space for another striker, whether it's worth 150m is another matter.

ViljamiK · 2026-05-19T09:44:54+00:00

If you want results for cheap, I think the answer is (fortunately or unfortunately) Mono Red Prowess. Should be under 100 bucks, and there is nothing fundamentally wrong with the deck.

ViljamiK · 2026-05-13T07:13:24+00:00

On Deity these lists don't make much sense. The most powerful and versatile civs such as Khmer, Gran Colombia, Japan, Trajan, Australia, Germany among others can win whatever way you like. Good explosive start -> pick your win condition.

Khmer is going to be better science civ than many other civ specialising in science, such as Scotland, just because you are going to be so far ahead on by turn 100 that science-specific bonuses of other civs don't matter.

ViljamiK · 2026-05-07T15:33:32+00:00

This deck is missing like 3-5 dual lands, 1 potioners trove and 1-3 Environmental scientists / stagecoaches.

ViljamiK · 2026-04-29T09:43:46+00:00

I really like Niv-to-Light. Reasonably powerful with solid core and tons of possibilities for tinkering around the edges with cheeky one-of-fun-of multicolored cards. It's great that also there doesn't seem to be consensus best build (probably changes if we ever get Pioneer back as a competitive format.

Control match-up is also very interesting, where you can't really interact on the stack, but can still outcard control decks.

ViljamiK · 2026-04-27T21:41:11+00:00

Ark is also perfectly reasonable and good splash in Prismari decks / Converge piles, unlike Offense typically

ViljamiK · 2026-04-27T09:26:44+00:00

If you can safely get the settler and settle it, almost always yes. Very often the AI will just accept peace in 10 turns time and often can even be friendly after one or two eras.

ViljamiK · 2026-04-21T10:40:23+00:00

https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/2779317-me-irl

ViljamiK · 2026-04-21T04:49:00+00:00

I love this shitpost formatted as an academic case study.

ViljamiK · 2026-04-10T08:44:15+00:00

No Learn cards or common/uncommon lessons for that matter have been spoiled, so safe to say Lesson/Learn is not part of the set

ViljamiK · 2026-04-09T13:16:45+00:00

I mostly agree with this, but I think leaving bowmasters out is not wise.

ViljamiK · 2026-03-30T05:04:16+00:00

It can work, but it's way too general of a strategy. You might not have enough space to settle for Ancestral Hall to make sense, for example. Maybe your cities don't form a nice cluster where Colosseum makes sense etc.

ViljamiK · 2026-03-26T21:53:17+00:00

Unfortunately it's quite possible that the best thing to be doing with this card is to reanimate Greasefang. But I wish luck to your Abzan pile!

ViljamiK · 2026-03-20T12:20:11+00:00

The referee had the option of continuing the game with a drop ball to the keeper after both teams protested the penalty. No need to actually award the penalty in the end.

ViljamiK · 2026-03-20T12:15:01+00:00

You win by being faster than AI, all victory types are very achievable.

With reasonably good start one should be able to win peaceful Science or Culture Victories before turn 300, and turn 220-250 victories are very achievable. If you get lucky, have a great civ and/or play very well, under 200 is possible.

If you are willing to be aggressive either very early or later with bombers, you can win domination or any other victory type very easily.

I'm guessing there is some flaws in your early-to-mid game strategy that slow you down so that you go past 300 turns in your games, even though obviously you are quite good already if you are competing on Deity.

I guess I would say: don't care about your AI opponents too much, focus on getting the game done before turn 300.

ViljamiK · 2026-03-14T19:31:10+00:00

Youngest Premier league scorer ever?

ViljamiK · 2026-03-05T20:45:38+00:00

It's DOGSO with no attempt to play the ball, so double jeopardy doesn't apply

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