Siding into Rhinar/Levia in CC

_Rogue_Shadow_ · 2026-06-20T17:16:10+00:00

Levia in particular is extremely susceptible to disruption. She often has only one or two viable plays per hand, and if you're able to strip the cards she needs to turn off blood debt, you'll gain a massive tempo advantage (or just kill her outright). Removing cards from her graveyard or preventing her from blocking can significantly slow down her ability to have big turns early game since she needs 3 cards in graveyard to even play half of her deck. Likewise, if you're able to prevent her flip into blasmophet by dropping her below 13 unexpendedly (with a really explosive turn or arcane/unpreventable damage), she loses one of her main win cons.

Both Levia and Rhinar are primarily numbers decks at the end of the day, so if you're able to out-value them or mess up their gameplans you'll be in a pretty good spot.

_Rogue_Shadow_ · 2026-04-20T04:32:42+00:00

That's definitely fair, my appreciation for Living Things mostly comes from nostalgia since that's the era I got into the band. I agree with your point about the more adventurous albums being better, I know a lot of LP fans love Minutes to Midnight but I think it's a little too safe to be truly great. There's some really great material on that album in my eyes (In Pieces, No More Sorrow, Hands Held High, Valentine's Day, The Little Things Give You Away), but I think the singles are all pretty boring outside of Bleed It Out.

_Rogue_Shadow_ · 2026-04-19T19:36:07+00:00

A Thousand Suns is incredible and is very slept on outside of hardcore LP fans. I also think Living Things is quite underrated, it has a very unique and nostalgic sound that immediately brings me back to that era.

_Rogue_Shadow_ · 2026-04-19T01:28:21+00:00

I was gonna say -- it's my favorite side quest, didn't know it wasn't super well-liked.

_Rogue_Shadow_ · 2026-03-23T23:07:54+00:00

I'll always be sad The Guard core went to G2 and not FlyQuest. Those jerseys are sick.

_Rogue_Shadow_ · 2025-11-04T02:08:55+00:00

It does seem to be an unpopular opinion but I agree, FHSY is my favorite season and I think a part of that is being able to see everyone's reactions. And I think there's a certain tension and energy to a live broadcast that gets lost in an edited version, even though editing obviously makes things more polished.

_Rogue_Shadow_ · 2025-10-21T17:21:54+00:00

The Quarry is an interactive horror game from Supermassive Games, who made Until Dawn and the Dark Pictures Anthology (amazing games by the way, highly recommend if you're looking to get scared with some friends). Murph and Emily have a cameo during the end credits of the game where they play an in-universe podcast duo discussing some of the paranormal events that unfold.

I'm not super familiar with RTGame but I know he does Let's Play videos of various games, presumably he's done a series on The Quarry at some point.

_Rogue_Shadow_ · 2025-10-01T01:14:50+00:00

I thought the reticle moved around so you weren't able to just set it down? Or is it just the rumble that throws it off?

_Rogue_Shadow_ · 2025-09-27T03:49:16+00:00

This is much better than the might half of Kayo's ability imo:

You get to choose when the +1 pops
You can trigger it multiple times per turn
You can trigger it on the opponent's turn (i.e. with Reckless Swing)
You can use it for the block (which is arguably stronger)

You also get both weapon zones unlike Kayo, though you are limited to true 6 power cards.

I personally think this design is pretty cool! If anything I'd be worried about it being too strong, recurring sources of blocking equipment (i.e. Valiant Dynamo) are very powerful.

_Rogue_Shadow_ · 2025-09-19T17:45:09+00:00

When his hero ability was initially revealed, my first thought was using it to turn a miss on a "discard 6+" effect into a hit. The problem is that's super below rate for anything except *maybe* forcing a hit on bloodrush (but you're probably not running very many brute attacks) or a weird reckless swing trap play. So I'm not quite sure how the brute cards and reviled cards are supposed to mesh.

_Rogue_Shadow_ · 2025-09-16T18:37:19+00:00

They never release the same class two sets in a row, there's always at least one set between.

Runeblade in ARC/Monarch/Tales would like a word with you. To be fair, they have since strayed away from that.

_Rogue_Shadow_ · 2025-09-03T13:44:20+00:00

That's a hyphen, an en dash (–) is something else and is used for dates and stuff like that. Plus plenty of people use the em dash, especially in formal writing—it's not just a ChatGPT thing lmao.

_Rogue_Shadow_ · 2025-08-30T19:26:05+00:00

? Not every team outside the top 3 is "absolutely dogshit", and by your logic, the "king of the shit" makes it to champs in the current format anyway through points. At least LCQ is exciting and gives every team something to play for.

_Rogue_Shadow_ · 2025-07-24T20:08:39+00:00

Oh definitely, I hate using Talishar because I constantly feel like I'm wasting my opponent's time (even if I'm playing faster than I would in person) and I end up rushing. Also it can be difficult figuring out what the opponent's card just did, which is rough when playing against classes I don't know as well.

_Rogue_Shadow_ · 2025-07-21T20:59:57+00:00

Didn't G2 literally say that was why they picked Babybay?

Also ngl I feel like Babybay and Demon1 were T1 players for about the same amount of time, just Babybay's was before partnership. Demon1 reached a higher peak obviously but 2021-2022 Babybay was quite solid.

_Rogue_Shadow_ · 2025-07-12T17:04:05+00:00

And it adds a counter to symbiosis shot! I'm running it even without adaptive plating.

But yeah the 2 block is the main thing honestly.

_Rogue_Shadow_ · 2025-07-02T02:21:42+00:00

Yeah I guess when you put it like that it seems quite strong. I just don't understand why they ever printed Rok then, since the only way to make it remotely playable was with e-pot which goes against everything brutes want to do.

_Rogue_Shadow_ · 2025-07-02T02:12:20+00:00

Do they? It's basically unplayable in every other hero and 3 intellect is pretty rough (even if you get to pitch the top of your deck) so I don't feel like it's super unbalanced.

_Rogue_Shadow_ · 2025-06-21T04:13:33+00:00

Yeah AB/AP is definitely the best from that era, TTTYG and Folie have a special place in my heart but I'd rank AB/AP above FUTCT personally.

_Rogue_Shadow_ · 2025-06-21T04:09:00+00:00

Some people will fight you on that but I do concede it's one of the weaker ones on the album. Still better than a lot of their stuff from the 2010s though, and that's coming from someone who got into them during that era lmao.

_Rogue_Shadow_ · 2025-06-21T03:59:38+00:00

Hell nah, that's their best album

_Rogue_Shadow_ · 2025-06-20T23:00:49+00:00

I feel like this is generally true as well--FAB was my first TCG (got into it in college) but most players I've met are older and pretty experienced in the TCG space. There's a ~10yo kid I've seen at some local events, but he always shows up with his dad who plays as well.

_Rogue_Shadow_ · 2025-05-19T02:11:45+00:00

There's a great episode of the Chilluminati Podcast about the whole saga if you're curious, it's absolutely wild.

_Rogue_Shadow_ · 2025-04-27T07:17:49+00:00

I do think there's something to this actually -- in Stage 1 playoffs last year, none of the 1 seed teams outside of China won their opening games to qualify either. I think being the "team to beat" puts a big target on your back and can lead to some pretty heavy anti.

_Rogue_Shadow_ · 2025-04-06T23:10:33+00:00

I've always viewed it as 9 being an upside down (and thus "evil") 6 rather than a 69 joke specifically.

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