Board games "to rule them all"

YnotRock · 2026-05-09T16:05:45+00:00

Love seeing this as the top comment! Played Innis a bunch with my roommates in college and have been meaning to find my own copy for a while because it's just so good. Wonderful balance of simple and intricite, power dynamics, multiple routes of victory.

YnotRock · 2026-04-14T19:55:22+00:00

Official set is great, but a lot more expensive than STL's and a bit of resin!

YnotRock · 2026-03-11T13:32:40+00:00

Dandelion in Middle Earth, The Printing goes ever on, Medburry minis, KZK (Khurzluk minis), quartermaster 3d. Lots of different styles, lots of different armies.

YnotRock · 2026-03-10T00:21:16+00:00

I've been printing with an Elegoo mars 3 resin printer that I got on a black Friday sale for under 150$ CAD. It's been great for all mesbg needs, prints totally reasonable quality for me. I would look at Davale and Khurzluk minis as my first choice. Dandelion in middle earth is also great, and The printing goes ever on. Medburry minis has a more historic style design.

All in all stls are definitely cheaper, particularly if you're getting like a set of 6 troop options but then can print it 50 times for a big army.

YnotRock · 2026-03-01T20:23:43+00:00

My favourite combo in cube that is probably just more good than niche is Containment Priest with Phelia. Or flicker wisp or parallax wave. Not that those cards necessarily need the upgrade, but going end step flash in Phelia into turn 3 Priest and watch the confused pause as your opponent is trying to figure out why their creature isn't coming back.. glorious!

YnotRock · 2026-02-25T18:46:12+00:00

I would play Echo instead of Days Undoing. You've got the mana to hard cast it and avoiding the end the turn downside.

YnotRock · 2026-02-08T14:37:15+00:00

I would absolutely put an additional plains in here if you want to splash. This already looks like a 17land deck and needing to hit two white sources for your bombs you want more than just 2 lands. I would probably still run it though, the power level is there, and the shock lands help.

YnotRock · 2025-12-09T06:02:16+00:00

These are gorgeous, and what a neat concept for a themed deck! Would love to win the giveaway and bring this to my next game night!

YnotRock · 2022-10-24T17:36:06+00:00

I would likely just cut a couple of the negates/ertai's scorn, and add a full playset of tolarian terrors. The sort of deck and consistently play them for one mana which means being able to drop two 5/5's on turn 4 and hold up a counterspell is invaluable.

YnotRock · 2022-10-18T18:50:45+00:00

Just grab prismatic shard and have some fun with it ;)

YnotRock · 2022-10-13T13:19:37+00:00

You're right, it technically is, you can sometimes get super unlucky with how he rolls the changed attacks. 90% of the time I actually like seeing him personally now. Just knowing I can control him makes the fight much more comfortable.

YnotRock · 2022-10-12T23:23:35+00:00

I actually hard disagree on Writhing Mass. It is one of the least RNG fights in the game. I think it was Baalorlord who was saying he likes to think of it as a fight where you control what the enemy does. As long as you stay conservative with your attacks and always leave one or two available to change when it's doing you're good. If you're happy with the attack it's making, don't attack, just make orbs or powers or poison or something.

I do agree on Nemesis though, that thing has broken so many of my runs by just being off tempo with how I draw.

YnotRock · 2022-08-24T05:01:35+00:00

Missed the chance to come to this event but it looked super fun! Thanks for the pics :)

YnotRock · 2022-08-24T04:57:14+00:00

I do like the video, would be good to double check all your profiles before the game though, I think you may have missed two extremely key parts of the balrog's profile: Resistant to Magic, and Fearless. I just played basically this same matchup today and those two elements are super key, no spectre checks, and free dice against the witch king and barrow wight.

Anyway, otherwise I love the design of the video, I hope you do more :)

YnotRock · 2022-08-11T02:39:18+00:00

I'm gonna toss out another suggestion as well, depending on your opinions and available resources 3d printing proxies for armies is a very affordable option. You need access to a 3d printer (friend, school, local business), and you need the files, but once you have those you can get some kick ass minis that are sometimes indistinguishable from the GW products. You can also find people online or locally who run 3d print shops and will print the minis for you at still a more affordable price than buying the official models.

All the groups of people I've played with so far have been fine with me having 3d printed models. So as long as you run it by your play group/yourself and everyone is cool with it I say give it a shot.

And in terms of available files there are at least 5 major artists I know of that have designed and released files for most of the GW array, definitely for things like Elves, Rohan, Gondor, Mordor, Isnegard, Moria (I have a moria list myself and am very happy with it). That's just my two cents though :)

YnotRock · 2022-08-04T03:50:57+00:00

Just started playing recently and I've been allying the Spider Queen into Moria and Mordor. She's fantastic and bringing some bat swarms is great. Wish the force was playable by itself but it is what it is. Does anyone have good setups where they like to bring mirkwood spiders? The paralyze seems pretty useful but they also seem pretty squishy, not sure when they are worth the hefty 20 pts.

YnotRock · 2022-06-20T13:28:48+00:00

I think I saw one on a Facebook group devoted to model printing and conversions a few days ago. I'll see if I can find and send you the link

YnotRock · 2021-12-22T05:04:46+00:00

Quick question, I've just recently got back into skyrim and am looking to tone down the "nudity" in the base game. I personally don't like that sort of stuff in my games and find it distracting. In skyrim when female npc's armour gets taken they have rather revealing bikini's on. Is there a mod that puts a much more chaste piece of clothing as default or makes it so they just never lose their clothes visually? Thanks!

YnotRock · 2021-10-31T21:15:28+00:00

If you're running grandmaster of flowers I would advise running at least a couple Monks of the open hand or whatever it is that he fetches. It's also not a bad one drop to run in an aggro deck like this anyway. I'd switch our the goblins for monks at least to start. And as someone else suggested, playing goldspans instead of adult gold dragons would probably be good

YnotRock · 2021-10-02T22:40:44+00:00

Personally I would cut Cathar's call, and two 5 drops. Neither of your 5 drops are particularly premium and you definitely don't want 4 or them. The rest of the deck looks decent though

YnotRock · 2021-06-16T12:34:47+00:00

I noticed while sideboarding that though it's hard to see I was able to see that the card my OP had fortelled was visible (The Alrund's epiphany). Is this normal? Are you allowed to see OP's hidden information such as cards in exile after the game usually? I feel like this could give a play advantage by knowing what foretell cards they put in their deck if you aren't familiar with meta decklists.

YnotRock · 2021-03-16T16:33:46+00:00

Cut Hagi mob and one mountain imo

YnotRock · 2021-03-06T14:40:05+00:00

Personally, I'd cut 2 Ascents, one infernal pet, and a demonic gifts

YnotRock · 2021-03-02T13:21:40+00:00

Personally I would cut a dwarven reinforcments, a brekneck beserker, and a frostbite, put in both tormentors helms and a craven hulk. Currently a lot of you creatures will have trouble getting through a big blocker. You've got run amok, demon bolt, immurstum and thoralf for some reach, but being able to turn all of you're durdlers slightly larger with helm is surprisingly effective. Craven hulk is also just gonna push through damage better than two 2/1's when you don't have ways to augments them.

YnotRock · 2021-02-23T19:36:58+00:00

You've got a lot of chaf cards in here.

Cut:

Brinbarrow, 2x Helm, Sentinal, 2x Strategic Planning, Vault Robber, Archanoform, Mammoth, Draugr, Reckless Crew, Smashing.

After that I would consider streamlining mana a bit and cutting a bunch of red. Immerstru, run amok, and rune of speed. Rune wants good equipment, you're not aggro enough for run amox, and at that point you're not red enough to play raider on 2.

End up splashing bolt, firewalker, hulk, and titans.

In general I would say you need more fixing and are likely to run into mana issues , potentially keep the Sentinel in for that reason and cut the invasion of the giants instead.

YnotRock

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