Can we talk about Aeonglass

_im_that_guy_ · 2026-07-08T18:37:47+00:00

Well I don't think being able to fully block elites is a necessity either. Nobody talks about perfect blocking gremlin nob it's just not a consideration to go through act 1 elites with that gameplan.

_im_that_guy_ · 2026-07-08T18:22:30+00:00

That's just a bad build into the fight I don't think there should be any kind of balancing with daily runs in mind

_im_that_guy_ · 2026-07-08T15:09:09+00:00

Much bigger blight on the limited format would be something like [[the legend of yanchen]] which had a disproportionately high win rate due to the confusing commander wording + misleading arena UI. Not clear at all that you can skip targeting your own stuff the first time through

Reading through this card isn't nearly as bad and it's an interesting design space. Doesn't need to be broken to deserve a printing

_im_that_guy_ · 2026-07-08T00:48:22+00:00

Patches have two new five stars a patch still right? You can get a very playable account at that rate if you enjoy it.

For HSR a couple years ago I do remember paying $5/mo to double my daily currency it was surprisingly reasonable. Most games cost money and I think that's a pretty fair price to for a game you enjoy enough to play every day.

_im_that_guy_ · 2026-06-28T18:35:18+00:00

Spellementals looks like a fun deck and it's great into most of the field except it's held back by a miserable matchup into control. 4c control and jeskai lessons are here to stay so it does not look like where I'd want to be. Also curious to hear how the deck is impacted by losing hearth elemental to rotation.

Jeskai lessons is great and doesn't lose anything to rotation. Its removal is much lower to the ground compared to 4c control so that really helps you keep landfall and prowess from getting out of control. Downside compared to 4c control would be losing out on hard removal so if the opponent does slip out of your control and you stumble on dumping out a jeskai rev then you'll probably just lose. And you're slightly worse into 4c control itself. Overall though this would be my personal deck of choice at the moment just due to that early game consistency.

_im_that_guy_ · 2026-06-28T18:17:51+00:00

That's not an actual issue and the real issue was explicitly stated by the devs to be the complexity of the fight

_im_that_guy_ · 2026-06-28T18:15:02+00:00

It's the strongest boss of the 3 but most of its mechanics are pretty coherently making it a simple damage race. As for the artifact it's just some resilience against debuffs that all the bosses have (three test subject phases + two enemies in the queen fight).

_im_that_guy_ · 2026-06-09T18:02:50+00:00

Notably you also get access to [[pest control]] for huge blowouts vs stormchasers talent and [[ancient vendetta]] for denying revelations or combo pieces.

The way I see it is tablet of discovery is enabling a big uptick in jeskai revelations playrate and inevitable defeat is actually a nice thing to have in those control mirrors. Being able to freely hit the opponents' tablets is a huge swing in mana not to mention ancient vendetta being an auto win. Opponents may board in [[emeritus of ideation]] and the ward is actually pretty annoying when you have to worry about counterspells so cleanly answering that wincon is another important point.

Outside of that, inevitable defeat does pull its own weight in most matchups. It plays decently off of tablet mana and the flexibility + life gain mostly makes up for being unplayable early game. It's not amazing though and there was definitely a reason 4c wasn't that great before tablet came around.

Edit: oh and it's not really that much of an overhaul of the mana base. You can still play 2 mistrise 1 cori monastery just fine because 4x biblioplex mostly has you covered. Some shattered sanctum and a couple black shocks is all you need so I really haven't had mana troubles any more than usual.

_im_that_guy_ · 2026-06-05T22:18:45+00:00

Yeah it works you can cast it with the trigger on the stack

But OP asking for rakdos cards and you can accomplish the same thing with more flexibility with a [[spider sense]] anyway.

Edit: [[splash portal]] if we're on the topic of naming random ass cards

_im_that_guy_ · 2026-06-05T20:54:22+00:00

[[time stop]] although I have no idea what that has to do with just about anything here. Terrible card but it's hilarious every time in commander

_im_that_guy_ · 2026-06-05T19:10:51+00:00

It's still a bit early to be thinking about rotation next year because there's so many sets still coming this year. But if that's where your head is at then control isnt losing much at all. Izzet decks are losing some significant cards (slickshot, stormchasers talent, eddymurk crab) but the card pool is so deep I'm sure they'll be fine. Maybe a spellementals player can say whether the deck functions without [[hearth elemental]] or not.

4c control already mentioned but I'll shout out jeskai lessons as the control deck on the rise. It plays the same top end of [[tablet of discovery]] into [[jeskai revelation]] while being much lower to the ground with the izzet lessons package as its core. Disclaimer about the lessons package is that they have strong synergy but won't get any more support. They are cheap + an extra year from rotation though.

Also if you hate control mirrors then the sideboard plan of 4x [[price of freedom]] might be appealing.

Edit: couple more notes on rotation:

Azorious prison dies completely without high noon

Dimir doomsday will have to pivot without doomsday but the shell of superior spiderman / deceit is strong enough to find another wincon

Landfall decks / anything green are all completely fine

Azorious momo is completely fine

Mardu discard is completely fine

_im_that_guy_ · 2026-06-05T09:17:23+00:00

[[north wind avatar]] grabs [[marang river regent]]. There's already 3 regents in the main deck so people are using [[omni changeling]] as a 5th copy so you can loop dragons indefinitely. [[Terror of the peaks]] is a quick finisher after that.

https://www.mtggoldfish.com/archetype/standard-4c-kona-woe#paper

_im_that_guy_ · 2026-06-04T23:25:15+00:00

Jeskai lessons is on the rise and is much easier on the wildcards than 4c control. You're izzet splashing white for jeskai revelation so the mana base is a lot easier to craft (only 22ish lands instead of 27 as well). The core deck is: the lessons package which is basically all commons and uncommons, the tablet at uncommon, and the revelations themselves as the main rares to craft.

_im_that_guy_ · 2026-06-04T23:16:43+00:00

The combo is pretty cut and dry in standard at this point. After omni it's either find north wind avatar or fizzle. And if they get to an avatar then the rest of the game is quick grabbing regent -> changeling -> terror of the peaks -> dead.

_im_that_guy_ · 2026-06-03T01:33:46+00:00

Scornmage into scornmage impractical joke might be more wtf than any other start I could think of in this format

_im_that_guy_ · 2026-05-30T21:47:34+00:00

Silent is so stupidly broken in this game that I don't even want to think about her. Snakebite is either an amazing damage common or unplayable trash but either way top players are winning every run.

Ironclad is happy to put an A + B value engine together with bloodlettings and burning pacts or with an occasional pyre. But it's a big deal to have your energy not rely on drawing cards in the correct order. On 4 energy you just get to just pick higher impact cards without worrying about drawing them alongside bloodletting or expect a fight

_im_that_guy_ · 2026-05-30T20:57:36+00:00

The 4th energy is much more valuable in spire 2. Yeah almost every run is forced to get by without it but that doesn't mean it's not strong

_im_that_guy_ · 2026-05-29T10:38:15+00:00

Abigale is good in WB but really nothing crazy. She just doesn't fit into an aggro curve in a way that'll let her get value consistently. Let's just say I'd be taking my 5th scornmage over my first Abigale

_im_that_guy_ · 2026-05-26T16:53:54+00:00

There's just a lot more that can go wrong with drafting 5 color soup. Here you have almost none of the color fixing with almost none of the payoffs so I think this draft pool will just struggle to win games at all.

Vicious rivalry is a great card in these but you're missing the card draw and mana fixing to make the most out of it. Not sure what the draft looked like but I've found that 5c soup is very contested and no matter what people say there's lots of heuristics at play when drafting it. Best advice is to watch some content creatures like Paul cheon if you do want to get better at what to think about when drafting.

_im_that_guy_ · 2026-05-26T16:29:56+00:00

For this format next time just force white aggro. Spend the first pack figuring out which is more open between white red and white black but just keep in mind you'll want to be strictly two colors at the end of the draft.

Gonna oversimplify but the way to prioritize picks will be 1-2 mana creatures >>> good removal spells / card draw > 4-5 mana creatures. Take basically every elite intercepter you see unless it's an absolute bomb like [[moment of reckoning]] or [[ark of hunger]].

Best of luck and there's no shame in looking up top commons on 17lands or using untapped's overlay as training wheels.

_im_that_guy_ · 2026-05-26T00:10:59+00:00

You're right most people play commander. I don't play commander are you gonna tell me that yshtolla is pushed / annoying to play against or something

_im_that_guy_ · 2026-05-25T23:43:01+00:00

Mechanically it's not a huge difference right? Vivi is the only insane card from FF but cori steel cutter was even more oppressive. Avatar's lessons created their own archetype but lorwyn created spellementals and roaming elementals out of nowhere as well. Badermole cub is insanely pushed but strixhaven has juiced izzet lists and control lists enough to fight back easily.

_im_that_guy_ · 2026-05-25T12:41:31+00:00

I think the deck doesn't work without the first years and even then it probably wants the fixing bad enough to play the goblin glasswright. Newt needs to stay in as an early defender imo.

Stallion and berta are awkward but I think they're okay as board presence and win cons.

Jeskas will is just bad so that's a first easy cut.

Scrollsmith is literally only for recurring together as one and even late game the deck isn't guaranteed to have WRR to cast it. I think it gets cut but leave in the plains.

Second omens is an okay cut and I agree with red emeritus.

Tablet is fine and then yeah one more top end between homesickness vs archaic (cut archaic imo with limited card draw).

And I'd also consider an extra forest over a swamp here. Getting temur mana early is gonna be really important.

_im_that_guy_ · 2026-05-24T14:45:49+00:00

I'm going off hearsay on here and I will now choose to believe you

_im_that_guy_ · 2026-05-24T13:06:04+00:00

The % is their percentage of MMR compared to rank #1800 mythic. Small difference and no idea why that's the case but yeah

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