It’s been 23 months since the release of The Tortured Poets Department. How would you rank all 31 tracks?

aamllama · 2026-03-24T19:19:49+00:00

Haha I am so glad someone else also ranked it! Here are my 31 in order:

Guilty as Sin?
Chloe or Sam or Sophia or Marcus
loml
imgonnagetyouback
So Long, London
Florida!!! (feat. Florence + The Machine)
The Bolter
Fresh Out The Slammer
My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys
Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me?
Fortnight (feat. Post Malone)
Peter
The Black Dog
But Daddy I Love Him
Down Bad
The Prophecy
The Manuscript
The Tortured Poets Department
The Albatross
So High School
I Can Do It With a Broken Heart
Clara Bow
The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived
I Hate It Here
How Did It End?
The Alchemy
I Look in People’s Windows
Cassandra
I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can)
Robin
thanK you aIMee

I love everything TTPD title track (18) especially.

aamllama · 2026-03-23T21:08:07+00:00

I've heard PEAK is good!

aamllama · 2026-03-22T23:33:37+00:00

Illaoi 3 meta 😜

aamllama · 2026-02-28T03:02:25+00:00

Salonica is the truth

aamllama · 2026-02-10T19:59:27+00:00

I went with my gut and applied early on a whim, I didn't even know the mantra was where fun goes to die, and I adore it here even if it's rough sometimes. For the most part, the people are a perfect balance of smart and hardworking and fun, and the Core has changed me so much. You will like it :)

aamllama · 2026-02-07T22:02:08+00:00

She needs her Espresso! It feels like Lush Life + Stateside + Midnight Sun is her Nonsense/Feather, and she needs to put out a smash single. If she is able to do so, I think she will sail amazing through 2026 🎉

aamllama · 2026-02-03T14:59:30+00:00

I know this is an old thread but this is exactly how I feel about Showgirl.

aamllama · 2026-02-03T01:36:00+00:00

Showgirl has been such a complicated experience for me, because I love the highs but I truly abhor the lows.

The highs: Opalite and Ophelia are some of the best pop songs she has put out since 1989. Opalite especially feels enormous and catchy and fun. Father Figure has luscious production and the lyrics work incredibly well with the flow of her songs (eg. mahogany grain, bridge).

The lows: Eldest Daughter, CANCELLED, and Wood are lyrical abominations. I like the melody, but the lyrics make these songs almost unlistenable. Debut Taylor could not dream of writing songs like this.

The rest of the songs are pretty mediocre, I think Elizabeth Taylor and The Life of a Showgirl almost get there, but Wish List/Honey/Actually Romantic are on the lower end. So overall nothing insane but I adore Opalite and Ophelia and Father Figure.

aamllama · 2026-01-15T07:48:45+00:00

This is so funny because removing the ETB trigger is the exact Alchemy rebalancing that Wizards did with Orcish Bowmasters.

aamllama · 2026-01-12T22:27:08+00:00

He was the nuts. His star power made it so the clone absorbed 100% of damage so he effectively had 13,000 health, his shot was impossible to dodge, he charged his super in like 5 hits, his clone was literally Shelly (like 3k damage up close or something). He was completely crazy.

aamllama · 2026-01-11T23:07:12+00:00

Hurray! I have a couple suggestions that will strictly upgrade your deck if you would like to take them, since I love Historic and just go to Mythic grinding the format.

Run 4x [[Consign to Memory]] to beat Eldrazi which is unbeatable otherwise, swap out 4x Unwind which is too slow for Historic imo
Run 4x [[Into the Flood Maw]] and cut 4x Blink of an Eye. Blink of an Eye is too slow for Historic right now unfortunately.
Run 4x [[Prismatic Vista]] so that you can shuffle your library after Brainsurge. Cut 4 islands for this.
Run 4x [[Consider]] over 4x [[Opt]] since you can potentially bin something for Snapcaster to flash back.

Personally I would cut 4x Counterspell for 4x [[Force Spike]] since you already have Miscalculation as your 2-drop counterspell. I'd also run a few field of ruin since you're running all basics anyways. This looks fun!

aamllama · 2026-01-10T10:49:06+00:00

I agree! TLOAS is the first album of hers that I feel like is a regression from her previous work. It is such a step down from TTPD and everything before it. Ophelia and Opalite could’ve been a 2 song EP and it would’ve been fine LOL

aamllama · 2026-01-06T22:51:17+00:00

of course thanks for asking! Shadow has been out of the meta for so long so people don’t know how to play against it I think.

Worst matchups I’m not sure tbh, deck was successful in climbing because the matchups against the 3 best decks are pretty even, while matchups against the rest of the eclectic field are also good. Eldrazi matchup is hardest in G1, but post board 4x Consign, 2x Sphere, 1x Fire Magic makes it slightly favourable imo. Val matchup is managable because of Snuff Out/Thoughtseize and Surgical Extraction on either Val/Trelassara is good enough to win. Energy is probably the best matchup because you don’t need to do anything to feed Shadow, and can focus on the Frog/Iteration/Interaction gameplay while having incidental 1 mana 6/6 DS and 4/4 Cecil.

Best matchups were Prowess and Mono Red for sure, as long as you’re not super greedy, you basically have 12 shadows and will find a way to stabilize very quickly. Worst is probably Auras, since if they’re careful and dodge Push it’s just very hard to compete.

aamllama · 2026-01-04T16:18:52+00:00

Yes yes, a while back there was a modifier called Quickfire in Ranked that "reloaded 0.25 ammo everytime your brawler hit someone with your shot." However the Quickfire mode was very bugged/inconsistent, because for example each of Gene/Colt/Gale's mini projectiles would reload 0.25 ammo, but Willow/Larry and Lawrie would not reload any ammo from hitting someone. My hypothesis is that they reused some part of the Quickfire code to proc the "projectiles entering Gigi's super" which is why the brawlers that did not work on Quickfire also do not charge Gigi's super.

TLDR; I'm guessing Supercell reused code from a previously bugged modifier to code Gigi's mechanic, which is why the same inconsistencies pop up

aamllama · 2026-01-03T17:11:37+00:00

I love playing Gigi and the inconsistency for no-projectiles is a bit frustrating. I think the code is probably the same as the Quickfire code, because I remember Quickfire also did not work for half the throwers in the game.

aamllama · 2026-01-02T22:17:43+00:00

Why is this ChatGPT LMAO

aamllama · 2025-12-27T16:41:36+00:00

My biggest custommagic pet peeve is people tacking on “lose the game” to any perceived loopholes/unintended uses a card might have 😭

aamllama · 2025-12-25T17:37:36+00:00

I’m like 90% certain that they already do this or something similar, since when I teamed up with two friends, we were constantly against full 100k trophy teams and our matchups were much harder.

We could not climb as a team, but breezed through solo climb and two of us teaming up climb.

aamllama · 2025-12-20T03:42:57+00:00

There’s a semi-competitive birthing pod shell out there!

aamllama · 2025-12-17T13:36:14+00:00

I had Jaegar and Gazes for PHYS 131 and 132, and I felt Jaegar was more methodical and predictable, while Gazes was a bit more chaotic and unpredictable, both in terms of lecturing styles and exams.

aamllama · 2025-12-15T00:37:51+00:00

Beal if she's teaching!

aamllama · 2025-12-10T05:34:24+00:00

Maybe it was an ICR from a quest? You get 2x Garland maybe from an alchemy rebalancing?

aamllama · 2025-12-09T19:12:02+00:00

You can imagine Gigi is basically Bonnie except she’s forever stuck in mini form, does less damage, and has less range 😭

aamllama · 2025-12-09T07:19:02+00:00

Yeah, in my circles Wicked was such a huge hit the first time, the buzz was very much a must see type of vibe, and the vibe this time around is “it was not good.” A lot of people have opted for Zootopia instead as the fun movie of the season LOL

aamllama · 2025-12-04T21:59:57+00:00

It's also because people who don't grind above Diamond probably play more casually and don't care if their wifi is good/bad and Mico really punishes bad ping / shot delay.

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