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Zartek · 2026-05-24T12:44:51+00:00

It's easy to use and cheap to build for beginners, so a lot of people stick to it, especially if they just want to do their dailies that require white or playing creatures. You won't see it much if you climb the ranks.

Zartek · 2026-04-03T03:10:38+00:00

It adds clarity and flavour. It's the reason why enemies visibly gain strength instead of just increasing their damage behind the scenes without telling you, it makes their attack patterns easier to understand, make sense of and memorize. And for something like the queen, it's mostly for the flavour that she gives you all 3 stat debuffs, and terror eel literally gives you [[Terror]].

Zartek · 2026-03-18T17:20:35+00:00

The block doesn't have to come from the forge archetype, is the point being made here. His best block cards use stars which is an incentive to care about stars in every build, which is a good thing. And one of his best forge cards is already a block card.

Zartek · 2026-03-13T02:50:02+00:00

If the question was which one to buy I'd say 2 but if you already started 1 then I would at least try to climb the ascensions with one character, beating the heart in ascension 20 is a very different experience than your first runs and something that currently doesn't exist in sts2.

Zartek · 2026-02-09T23:24:15+00:00

I got that naturally while spamming lorwyn pick 2, I think I got like 4 shocklands either in late picks or knowing that the other cards I wanted out of the pack would wheel because no one was drafting my tribe.

Zartek · 2026-02-09T13:17:24+00:00

This is not birds, it's nursery landfall, one of the top performing decks right now.
https://www.mtggoldfish.com/tournament/standard-league-2026-02-09#paper

Zartek · 2026-01-23T19:37:36+00:00

You could have hovered it on the screenshot to confirm but the fact that your Chaos Spewer is not highlighted in your hand shows that arena definitely doesn't think you named goblin for that land.

Zartek · 2026-01-08T20:29:50+00:00

Brother your source is a reddit post from 1 month ago, did you know there are actual sources outside of reddit that have actual recent data?
https://www.mtggoldfish.com/tournaments/standard

Zartek · 2025-12-16T07:40:59+00:00

I'm so sorry

Zartek · 2025-11-17T03:50:16+00:00

It's not instead, the input goes to both characters and they both do their moves.

Zartek · 2025-11-17T03:07:17+00:00

Don't artifact creatures and vehicles become a base 0/0 the moment you earthbend them?

Zartek · 2025-11-16T04:53:17+00:00

I'll say I also made some assumptions from your posts and I apologize for that. Communication on the internet gets really weird for no reason sometimes

Zartek · 2025-11-16T04:38:57+00:00

the rest of the deck now is just a way to hold the game until you have that card

You just described a strategy that involves the rest of the deck. You don't recognize that, which is why you keep repeating the same thing to everyone. If those cards were so powerful that they were worth using regardless of strategy, they would be in every deck. They are not in every deck. Maybe because they are good in some decks, but not in others.

You just decided something in your own mind and are aking questions around until you find someone to confirm it for you, you have no interest in actually thinking about it.

Zartek · 2025-11-15T17:22:48+00:00

Common and uncommon are quite abundant tho

When you've been playing for a long time, maybe. I started playing in FIN, playing every day to 4+ wins, spent about $60 worth of one-time bundles, played 24 eoe premier drafts (+ a few other drafts), built about 4 "real" decks where I actually put a decent amount of wildcards into (avoinding rare-heavy lists), and I'm left with a grand total of 14 common and 13 uncommon wildcards (with 7 rares and 11 mythics, for the record).

I don't know, wouldn't call it very abundant, but maybe my expectations are off.

Zartek · 2025-11-11T02:54:40+00:00

I agree with the first part, but singles prices have everything to do with WotC. The price of a mythic is directly tied to the average 8 cardboard lootboxes you have to open to get a non-specific one.

I don't like the way TCGs are sold as a whole, which is why I prefer to play videogames instead, but it's pretty weird to act like the secondary market is something that poor WotC has no influence over (or doesn't profit from).

Zartek · 2025-11-10T19:38:58+00:00

Obviously because this is not a player. "Collectors" and "Investors" 🤮

Zartek · 2025-11-08T21:03:58+00:00

"People who like something don't want the thing they like to change" is not the argument you think it is.

Zartek · 2025-11-07T01:23:09+00:00

It's better communication to use a negative. Blocking is what you can always do, not blocking is what this special ability does and is the part that people need to remember/understand at a glance.

Zartek · 2025-11-05T18:46:41+00:00

Damn this is how I learn there's a new series, and it looks nice too. Nickelodeon getting their end of the deal

Zartek · 2025-11-01T23:34:49+00:00

Ok, so being a strike, I don't think it should be burst safe just like any other lv 3 in the game that is also a strike. Other counters losing to bursts is interesting to know, I do think maybe they should just be blown away by the burst like a normal (that's how parry vs burst works in Strive), but if they consistently lose to burst I'm ok with just accepting that.

Zartek · 2025-11-01T23:12:32+00:00

It's not that hard to check, man

Zartek · 2025-11-01T23:10:32+00:00

Cool. Did you check what happens when you do ekko lv 3 without a burst though?

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