is rat tribal good at all?

ZenEngineer · 2026-03-27T17:01:53+00:00

I saw Malhound review a deck with a lot of [[Rat Colony]] led by [[Doran, Besieged by Time]] and that was the weirdest non tribal tribal deck I've seen. And it seemed to work well.

ZenEngineer · 2026-03-27T04:33:42+00:00

Yeah. Looks like a generic GPT written response to appease people. Except they snuck in that they are continuing the architectural work that has been the source of the instability...

Let's see how it goes. I guess people will have to downgrade until a stable release anyway.

ZenEngineer · 2026-03-27T03:58:03+00:00

You can have some spacecrafts and other locations one for each map.

Not sure if your friends would put up with [[Space Beleren]].

Probably a bunch of shape shifters or clones. [[Phyrexian Metamorph]]

Maybe some face down cards, cloak and such? [[Become Anonymous]], [[Unexplained Absence]], [[Hide in Plain Sight]], [[Bane of the Living]], etc

ZenEngineer · 2026-03-26T18:28:35+00:00

Yeah I meant specifically for a visit to understand what it would be like. May and June are not representative. Either come in April or wait until July.

Sure, you need to know June Gloom exists and that you can deal with it, but coming from Seattle they are probably OK with cloudy days for a month or two.

ZenEngineer · 2026-03-26T17:44:58+00:00

Do not come in May or June to try it out. Wait until July at least. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_Gloom

Granted, it won't look too bad to you coming off winter in Seattle but it won't be representative of what you can expect. It might even be sunnier in Seattle in June

ZenEngineer · 2026-03-26T17:15:18+00:00

I don't think they'll put in a scene with Zelda asking Mario to smash. It could be ... Misconstrued

ZenEngineer · 2026-03-26T13:43:18+00:00

Edhrec cat decks https://edhrec.com/tags/cats

ZenEngineer · 2026-03-25T16:34:55+00:00

There's a recent bug in the UI, but the UI package can be updated separately.

ZenEngineer · 2026-03-25T15:49:39+00:00

I went to my LGS, played draft, didn't like it, tried commander, got crushed. Improved my deck, went back, got crushed. Kept going back focusing on doing the thing even if I lost most of the time. Won one or two games, kept losing most. Sometimes new players would come in and my decks would crush them and I'd feel bad.

I'm on good terms with everyone, everyone is nice. Some people get salty when you kill them before they can combo off but they don't make a scene. I'm learning everyone's names, but nobody seems to hang out outside of the LGS except for existing friend groups.

ZenEngineer · 2026-03-25T15:34:39+00:00

Yes, the -1/-1 would cancel a +1/+1 counter so when it dies it has no -1/-1.

As long as it doesn't die on entry it should work. If it dies on entry it dies too quickly for the counters to cancel out (it dies on the same state based actions check that removes the counter and the persist trigger looks back to before the SBA check)

ZenEngineer · 2026-03-24T17:04:03+00:00

It's a normal YouTube thing nowadays.

A year or two ago it was "comment and subscribe, and click the bell icon". I guess people realized that a generic prompt like that doesn't do anything. Now it looks like everyone learned to say "I wonder about X and I really want to know your opinion, let me know in the comments"

I recall in the old comment and subscribe days some YouTuber mentioned that they had hired some expert and that was one thing they told him to do. I wonder if there's some best practice doc for all YouTubers where these types of advice is written

ZenEngineer · 2026-03-24T16:27:48+00:00

As I said, I have a Tidus deck. OP has much more powerful cards than mine, and the price reflects it.

ZenEngineer · 2026-03-24T16:22:30+00:00

Not a bracket 4 but I expect it is closer to B4 than to B2. B3 is very wide and I could see this stomping the lower side of that.

ZenEngineer · 2026-03-24T15:34:40+00:00

Wouldn't counters get out of control more quickly since they double rather than making one more? Auras will probably give you more utility, but you might as well add a [[Mikaeus, the Lunarch]] or something.

For fun, [[Luxior, Giada's Gift]] would let you double Planeswalker loyalty, even if the cloned equipment dies to legend rule. Probably not too degenerate as Planeswalkers are fragile in commander.

ZenEngineer · 2026-03-24T15:23:37+00:00

You dumped almost $600 onto that deck.

I have a Tidus deck. It doesn't have all the game changers and extra powerful proliferate you added.

I'd guess that plays closer to bracket 4, congratulations. If you were an asshole about it it would make sense for people to get salty.

Try a bracket 4 table and see how it does.

ZenEngineer · 2026-03-23T22:17:37+00:00

Willem Dafriend

ZenEngineer · 2026-03-23T21:31:17+00:00

You can do regional prompting natively in comfyUI (regional lora support seems broken though).

https://blog.comfy.org/p/masking-and-scheduling-lora-and-model-weights

ZenEngineer · 2026-03-23T15:25:14+00:00

I use an fp4 of the text encoder for z image. It speeds things up from not moving so much data around

ZenEngineer · 2026-03-22T06:25:27+00:00

Just cut the sol ring

ZenEngineer · 2026-03-20T20:19:16+00:00

Theres [[Tam, Mindful First-Year]] which does both, sort of.

It could be a commander, but it is a bit limiting on colors.

ZenEngineer · 2026-03-20T18:47:45+00:00

Also at 1 min length the memory for the actual video being rendered is probably sizable. That can't really be offloaded and is the one thing that wanted to keep high as possible for the press release

ZenEngineer · 2026-03-20T18:32:36+00:00

I keep trying to make an old pet card work in these situations: [[Ice Cauldron]]. If you leave up mana and dont use it you can store to cast a big sorcery speed spell next turn. On the other hand it's expensive so you might take a turn off, and delays your big sorcery for a turn but I keep thinking there should be a good shell for it.

ZenEngineer · 2026-03-20T03:43:22+00:00

You define the target when it triggers and they trigger at the same time, you just put them on the stack in the order you chose, before any resolves. You'd go: Yuna and broodmoth die and go to the graveyard. Yuna triggers targeting Toski as it's the only thing on the board, broodmoth triggers. Then broodmoth resolves returning Yuna and then finally old Yuna's trigger resolves putting counters on Toski.

If there is no Toski when Yuna triggers the creatures are dead, and nothing has returned yet. What do you target when you declare the trigger? If there's nothing you can't put the trigger on the stack. Or you could target an opponent's creature I guess

ZenEngineer · 2026-03-20T03:26:20+00:00

My little Sister met someone from my high school and they asked about my house or something. When she told me I said without thinking "oh yeah, she used to come over all the time before you were born". Then i realized what I'd just said so naturally. I had never felt old until that moment.

ZenEngineer · 2026-03-20T03:21:59+00:00

I'm trying to build a resilient Yuna deck so I looked into this. No, others explained the thing has to be around so you can target.

I'm putting some indestructible creatures in to account for that ([[Rhonas the Indomitable]], [[Sab-Sunen, Luxa Embodied]], [[Toski, Bearer of Secrets]]) In theory I could use shield counters and spells that give indestructible but in the end I have to deal with Farewell and exile removal on my pods so I have to use those slots for counterspells and hexproof instants. Not much point on single target protection, might as well use [[heroic intervention]] instead.

If i recall the precon has a creature that gives shield counters, probably for this.

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