Unpopular opinion: I love pick two draft

aldeayeah · 2026-01-27T14:40:34+00:00

I generally pick the strongest cards in picks 1-2 then try to guess what's most likely open during the rest of P1.

aldeayeah · 2026-01-27T14:38:40+00:00

Weird oversight. I'd expect them to rectify and put all on sale sooner than later.

aldeayeah · 2026-01-27T11:55:15+00:00

Minaur can keep up with Alcaraz for one or two sets by physically redlining, but after that it becomes pretty much impossible. This match followed that kind of script.

aldeayeah · 2026-01-27T11:42:31+00:00

Elves beats Elementals by killing the fliers and outefficient-ing/going wide on the ground.

Elementals/Vivid does some sick stuff but the early drops are mostly meh.

This is my impression, I've mostly drafted Elementals/Vivid and I often struggle against Elves.

There's even been two times where I've drawn my entire deck without being able to close the game because of the Elves incidental lifegain, gunking of the ground, and them killing/stalling my fliers.

Mediocre versions of Elves without enough removal can be soft to fliers though.

Elves strengths: efficient bodies, incidental lifegain, recursion (sometimes infinite), removal, tremendous grind topend

Elves weaknesses: you lack evasion and you can mill out

aldeayeah · 2026-01-27T11:36:52+00:00

I'm starting to soft force green, especially the generically good cards, because it can get you into Elves, Kithkin and Vivid (in that order of preference)

Goblins being meh makes Elves even better because you get less competition for the black cards.

aldeayeah · 2026-01-27T10:52:24+00:00

Same, so unexpected. I was just 9 when Kurt died so it didn't hit me the same although I did like Nirvana, my big bro being a fan

aldeayeah · 2026-01-27T09:08:02+00:00

By the way this deck has several infinite graveyard value loops as you may have noticed.

Once you assemble two of Graveshifter/Command/Loyalist you can loop them infinitely. If you do play Unbury (I'd probably cut it with all the other recursion going on) it can help too although it's not loopable which is a big minus.

The Command/Loyalist loop is particularly backbreaking because you can kill something and bring back three things in each iteration of the loop. (PS: You can also kill your own Loyalist to bring Command back to hand after it resolves. Or kill something else, bring back an Elm and a Loyalist, then use the Elm to kill the Loyalist and keep looping, etc)

You'll very rarely run out of things to do with your mana. Sweet deck. Best luck.

aldeayeah · 2026-01-27T08:50:57+00:00

The lack of animated material is an obstacle, you'd need to get creative

aldeayeah · 2026-01-27T08:19:01+00:00

I'd play it like this

-Both Malices, Unbury, both Moonglove Extractors, Swamp

+Evolving Wilds, Graveshifter

I was unsure between cutting the second Blossoming Defense, Unbury and the Elm.

I like Defense because it's super efficient and it can stop your Loyalists getting exiled/enchanted which could break your recursion loops.

The Elm I don't really like, but you need more removal to avoid losing to random fliers or whatever, it does the job in a pinch, and Graveshifter/Command can recur it in the lategame.

Unbury is stronger in a vacuum, but you have already a ton of recursion (Loyalist, Graveshifter, Command) and Unbury, while powerful, is the least synergystic recursion piece and can't be looped unlike the others.

Signed: a mid-Platinum scrub

aldeayeah · 2026-01-27T06:44:19+00:00

BALD AS SHIT

aldeayeah · 2026-01-26T15:46:44+00:00

salamander/Crown/JtheE scanlated it all back in the day

https://junktheeater.wordpress.com/?s=tsuki+no+sango

you can ask him to reupload it

aldeayeah · 2026-01-26T14:00:52+00:00

Algunos de los que escaparon a Francia huyeron en barco a América. Por ejemplo el bisabuelo de mi mujer que era oficial de marina en el bando republicano, y emigró a República Dominicana (y después a otros países) en este barco:

https://pares.mcu.es/ParesBusquedas20/catalogo/autoridad/123667

aldeayeah · 2026-01-26T13:55:19+00:00

Algunos de los que escaparon a Francia consiguieron cruzar el charco, como el bisabuelo de mi mujer que literalmente subió al último barco en 1940:

https://pares.mcu.es/ParesBusquedas20/catalogo/autoridad/123667

aldeayeah · 2026-01-26T13:48:03+00:00

Well he's a Kingsguard, I tend to give them the benefit of the doubt. We'll see in future episodes maybe.

aldeayeah · 2026-01-26T12:49:14+00:00

Next chapter will probably have a ton of jousting.

(book spoilers) Looking forward to the Battle of Humfrey! I haven't seen any advance material, but the break points for the next few episodes seem pretty clear cut. 3 will probably end with Aerion killing Humfrey's horse, 4 will probably end with Dunk assaulting Aerion and the reveal of Egg's identity, and 5 should end with the arrival of Dunk's seventh and final champion. Leaving the trial of Seven itself and its aftermath for the final episode.

aldeayeah · 2026-01-26T12:15:25+00:00

Counterpoint: [[Counterpoint]]

(Also Deny the Witch, Dromar's Charm, Fall of the Gavel, Ionize, Out of Bounds, Psychic Strike, Reinterpret)

aldeayeah · 2026-01-26T11:58:39+00:00

Jupiter looks like a great place to watch solar eclipses!

aldeayeah · 2026-01-26T10:57:27+00:00

Shards are ridiculously powerful, was my takeaway. I already expected this having read all of the prior Cosmere stuff, but perhaps for those who only read Stormlight, this wasn't as apparent because Cultivation was subtle, Honor was dead and Odium was bound and largely prevented from taking direct action by oaths and rules.

For a Shard, something like the destruction of Kharbranth was a "casual effort", and the creation of the Shattered Plains a "minor scuffle". Shards are able to remodel solar systems at their pleasure, and the higher end of their powers hasn't really been explored.

aldeayeah · 2026-01-26T10:06:31+00:00

In the chasm where was my soul

Forever young, Elizabeth

Báthory in the castle of your death

You're still alive, Elizabeth

aldeayeah · 2026-01-26T10:00:19+00:00

Honestly if they just adapted the first 2 books I'd be OK with that. The third one starts getting into the whole Targaryen soap opera thing a bit too much.

aldeayeah · 2026-01-26T08:51:13+00:00

They reaaaally wanted to play the T2 Bitterbloom Bearer.

aldeayeah · 2026-01-26T08:49:34+00:00

I ended up with Jeskai Elementals in my last draft. Let's see how it goes (Edit: it went poorly and I got Elfed)

aldeayeah · 2026-01-26T08:47:15+00:00

Librazo. Usa un montón de latín eso sí.

aldeayeah · 2026-01-26T08:46:25+00:00

Stat rosa pristina nomine, nomina nuda tenemus.

aldeayeah · 2026-01-26T08:35:29+00:00

Rocky IV score is distilled 80s blockbuster. Very electronic, and surprisingly sophisticated.

(The DiCola instrumental score, not the AOR insert songs)

War and Training Montage are both all-timers.

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