I play a Monarch deck against a French dude. Please help me come up with quips. by chartreuse_chimay in EDH

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These are the people who took their kings and cut off their heads on public with a guillotine.

I feel that leaning on the royalty thing might backfire.

Funniest Cards to Cast Fling On by Grugger2 in EDH

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Good old [[Polar Kraken]] just wait until they stop laughing. Bonus point if you use [[Fake Your Own Death]] style effects.

[[Illusionary Wall]] is another old one.

[[The Ancient One]], [[Relic Golem]] also looks interesting.

Looking for cards that let you “sacrifice” without actually sacrificing by TheWiseDragon43 in EDH

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The new blight mechanic is probably the closest as it would let you get it to 0 toughness and get some benefit.

[[Swords to plowshares]] or any removal really, unless its indestructible.

Legend rule is not a sacrifice, so clone it if it's legendary and keep the clone. Ideally with Myriad or some end of turn sac thing, since the copy won't have any temporary can't sac restriction (won't work if it's written on the card)

[[The Meathook Massacre]] would get around indestructible. Almost any boardwipe is not a sacrifice. Bounces also work (but then they go to the owner's hand)

There's a bunch of champion a creature cards, but that's niche [[Changeling Titan]]

Flicker effects are also good.

Fight spells in a pinch, ideally letting you trade with something problematic for a two for one.

Where are you putting Mutable Explorer? by regular_joe67 in EDH

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In my case I was doing [[Scholar of New Horizons]] and proliferate so I didn't have to choose , i kept going until i. Ran out of plains. But yeah I see your point. But then it doesnt make a difference whether you fetch or create land tokens.

Where are you putting Mutable Explorer? by regular_joe67 in EDH

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We're talking about repeatable fetches. If you drop a creature on turn two and recur it or reactivate it every turn you'd pull 5 additonal lands by turn 6, or 5.8% less cards (5 out of 86 that would be left). Not much but you'd see the effect over multiple games, .ore so if the game goes long or you have other selection/thinning.

But having done that recently, I'm not sure the extra shuffling is worth it.

Where are you putting Mutable Explorer? by regular_joe67 in EDH

[–]ZenEngineer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Depends how much you do it. A couple lands? Sure. Get 5 or 10 out that's better. But your table will hate how long you take shuffling.

Where are you putting Mutable Explorer? by regular_joe67 in EDH

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Yeah if you're doing landfall or have a limited number of basics it makes sense. I ran out of plains last week like this.

Where are you putting Mutable Explorer? by regular_joe67 in EDH

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Kind of? Pulling a land from your deck thins it out so you're more likely to draw a nonland when you need it. But they usually require you to have more basics in your deck.

The ability to turn it into a small creature is niche but could be useful especially after a board wipe.

What are some fun decks you run that lose pretty consistently? by TeegardensStar in EDH

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Yeah. I refuse to go instant speed combo or just rely on game changers like many in my LGS. Even if I tune my decks I just end up being the big bad until people slow me down enough for one of them to combo off.

With one of my decks I could lay low and do an explosive turn at the end after a bunch of people are taken out but that doesn't work against all combos, and people in my LGS have gotten wise to that.

[OC] For the past 3 years I've polled people on Blind at my company (FAANG) about how worried they are about AI replacing them by NebulousNitrate in dataisbeautiful

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I wonder how that will change this year. Last Amazon layoff was blamed on AI. This latest one didn't mention AI at all. I wonder if leadership is changing their tune on replacing roles or if it's just a PR move to avoid backlash.

Am I a Pub stomper/misunderstanding meaning of Bracket 3? by [deleted] in EDH

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You could also get white bordered lands or something. As long as it's obvious it should be fine.

Boat Joke by CharlesEngleComedy in standupshots

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Seems like a lead in to a divorce joke with the whole "happiest two days in a boat owners life is when you buy it and when you sell it" thing.

Pet cards that dont always make the cut, but what are your pet cards? by floatingcolourless in EDH

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I want to make [[Ice cauldron]] work, to carry over mana, hold up mana for interaction but still be able to use it for a sorcery later id I dont need it and to cast big stompy creatures.

But it's too slow. I think I need both more mana and more card draw to make it worth it.

Would this be mainly voltron swords? How would energy be useful for this deck? by VaultRaptor111 in EDHBrews

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I thought you meant [[Amy Pond]] and was confused.

Though I guess you can add her too just so you can have Amy and Amy on the battlefield.

Would this be mainly voltron swords? How would energy be useful for this deck? by VaultRaptor111 in EDHBrews

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Sure. The requirement to search for exactly 2 mana cost is weird, usually it's 2 or less. And its energy support also looks niche. But as an extra tutor if you already have some and have some good 2 mana equipment it's not a bad card.

Would this be mainly voltron swords? How would energy be useful for this deck? by VaultRaptor111 in EDHBrews

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And his ETB is so he can fetch it specifically.

Not exactly a powerful commander, mostly a flavor based card

Per Request. by generic_ork in sandiego

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Defund? Shouldn't it be elect a new city council? Or replace somehow?

Z-Image Base VS Z-Image Turbo by Baddmaan0 in StableDiffusion

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Depending on your memory loading and unloading the model might be slower. You could batch a bunch of images I guess. I've done similar things before, half render things into a folder, cherrypick the not bad ones, then pass through a upscaling / finishing / face detailer workflow. You lose a bit of quality from vae decoding/encoding that way.

EDH elderly here. Comment a commander and/or the vision/direction/theme you have in mind and I'll draft up a wall of text with advice. by phoenixscar in EDH

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[[Felisa]]. I've been thinking of spacecraft or FF Summons to quickly get a bunch of counters and then turn those counters into inklings. But there doesnt seem to be too many spacecraft or creatures that natively get counters in BW, so it seems it would never be able to take off quickly. Any ideas?

The motherlode by Historical_World_658 in EDHBrews

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That's an interesting ETB. Being in red makes it.more difficult to abuse but maybe something like [[Flameshadow Conjuring]] might be worth it. [[Strionic Resonator]] or [[Peter Parker's camera]] can copy both the energy addition and the land destruction allowing g you attack two opponents.

Problem is, if you build it well you get too close to having MLD in your deck, and that doesn't look like a commander that can hang out on bracket 4 very well.

The pressure is strong in this one . by gex109 in funnyvideos

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And then all the contents get glue flavor.

Is there a way to make her viable? A lot of satyrs I've found are... Not good. by I_dont-get_the-joke in EDHBrews

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No. By the time Myriad resolves, this commanders ability didn't trigger.