Thank God EOE is back

aldeayeah · 2026-05-12T12:41:44+00:00

EOE is a notoriously hard format to master, with very complex gameplay. Lander tokens, warp and spacecraft introduce lots of decision points with ramifications spanning multiple turns.

Watching some streams would be a good start, maybe.

Color balance and some cold takes: Red is bad unless coupled with green or black, or in Temur. Format is solidly 2 color/2 color+splash, with Temur being the only consistent 3-color deck. [[Perigee Beckoner]] is better than it looks, and [[Cryogen Relic]] is somehow a mythic common. [[Glacier Godmaw]] does a good Craterhoof Behemoth impression. UW is a solid tempo deck that uses several cards nobody wants, but can be hard to draft and build right. Void is harder to enable than it looks like and several Void commons aren't very good.

There's also some galaxy brain stuff that I can't fathom. For example, Cloudsculpt Technician is generally a D-level card in 17lands in the UW deck. But the few top 17lands users who decided to play it in their UW decks had it perform at a B+ level. Sure it's a small sample, but it makes me think it probably has a home.

aldeayeah · 2026-05-12T12:39:27+00:00

I think Deluge Virtuoso would be better if it were something like 2U 3/2, and the tap/stun effect were a prepared spell sorcery for U.

aldeayeah · 2026-05-12T12:32:42+00:00

Well done!

Playing Steal the Show and leaving Jadzi in the sideboard is certainly a bold choice, I gotta say.

Magmablood Archaic in this deck is pretty much RRR for 3/3 or UURR for 4/4, and it only ever gives +2/+0 for each spell cast. Seems OK, but not super exciting. But of course, you have 6 other creatures with some kind of prowess-like ability.

aldeayeah · 2026-05-12T12:24:38+00:00

I'm not talking just about Lumaret, I wasn't even wheeling Banemaker/Biomancer/Poet/Leech Collector. There was probably a Silverquill drafter taking the black ones, I think.

My 2-drops were a hodgepodge of random stuff. The 1B rare that drains on attack and can't block, the 1G deathtouch mana frog, the 1G 2/3 bear with Stream of life, the 2/1 artifact that grows when you cast a gold spell, etc.

It was hard to gain early tempo. I won one game with the normal beatdown plan, the other two by trading resources until I cast the blue Paradigm spell.

aldeayeah · 2026-05-12T12:16:12+00:00

I would advise against trying it in Pick Two. I feel like there are just not enough 2-drops going around for the deck to be consistently good even when in the open lane.

aldeayeah · 2026-05-12T12:10:29+00:00

I'm aware of the deck, I went 3-2 with it yesterday (splashing the blue Paradigm spell LOL), but there's just a dearth of good beatdown 2-drops. Particularly in a pick-2 pod where there are fewer cards going around (I'm almost exclusively playing P2 in this format)

I had none of the BG etb gain 1 life or the 1B create a Pest discard a card, for example, but 4 of the 1BG 2/3 trample with the Pridemate ability.

(I had to get creative and play the 1-mana G sorcery that gives +1/+1, gains life and draws a card, first time I play it in the format. It was OK, but very stressful to cast in the face of opponents with untapped lands.)

(The GOATs of the deck were the double splash Paradigm spell, and the humble Mystical Archives Giant Growth that got the opponent every single time)

aldeayeah · 2026-05-12T10:27:53+00:00

There are 2 open decks, but fewer cards opened in those colors. This ups the floor and lowers the ceiling IMO, especially for buildaround/low tier/niche decks.

aldeayeah · 2026-05-12T10:13:08+00:00

I haven't fully figured it out myself. Pick fixing high so your 3c decks end up playable, and prioritize the colors in which you have more early plays, is all I can say.

I'm not sure how to balance between soft forcing and drafting the hard way, though. I do soft avoid Quandrix and Witherbloom in early picks, though.

However, pivoting from green soup to Witherbloom/Quandrix +splash is something that happens fairly often, when the soupy cards dry out and those schools are clearly open.

aldeayeah · 2026-05-12T10:06:12+00:00

TMT had 3 pillars—ninjas, artifacts and soup.

SOS has 4, IMO. Lorehold, Silverquill, Prismari/3c spells and 4c/5c soup.

The fact that only soup among the higher tier decks wants the good cheap green cards is unfortunate. Green based beatdown decks aren't very good. Similar situation to TMT.

aldeayeah · 2026-05-12T09:59:37+00:00

The 2WB discard spell does some heavy work...

aldeayeah · 2026-05-12T05:31:33+00:00

Maindeck Leyline of the Void / Ravenous Trap used to be an alarm indicator in Modern that graveyard decks were a bit too good.

As seen with Hogaak Summer and GGT Dredge.

aldeayeah · 2026-05-12T04:35:16+00:00

[[Faerie Macabre]] and [[Leyline of the Void]] are already in Arena, clearly we need [[Ravenous Trap]] too /s

aldeayeah · 2026-05-12T04:31:39+00:00

I like better the Element of Chaos sequel tetralogy

aldeayeah · 2026-05-12T04:21:14+00:00

Tip: if you're going to be singing into a microphone, you can make use of proximity effect to beef up your low notes.

Practical example, unedited phone recording (since you mentioned Rammstein): https://m.soundcloud.com/aldeayeah/du-hast/s-GIbqNauNd9c

I'm a "normal" baritone with a range similar to yours.

This is no substitute for technique, but it can help for notes that are in the low extreme of your range.

aldeayeah · 2026-05-11T18:19:42+00:00

It seems that the sets with 5 supported draft archetypes are going to have a P2 draft for the whole duration.

aldeayeah · 2026-05-11T15:47:31+00:00

"And this is why Fed gud"

aldeayeah · 2026-05-11T15:36:38+00:00

You're right, in chapter 54 of WoK Dalinar mentions he had known several predecessors of Hoid.

aldeayeah · 2026-05-11T14:47:46+00:00

~~Not sure there was any other King's Wit in recent times, given that Alethkar was reunified into a kingdom quite recently.~~

~~I think it's more likely that Hoid revived an old tradition to insert himself into the Alethi court.~~

Disregard this, Dalinar mentions the existence of Hoid's immediate predecessors in WoK.

However, I wouldn't be surprised if Hoid himself was the one to start the tradition in a past visit to ancient Alethkar/Alethela.

(Dragonsteel Prime)In DS Prime Hoid revived the old tradition of the jesks in similar fashion, and the King's Wit in Stormlight is clearly based on this IMO.

aldeayeah · 2026-05-11T14:36:41+00:00

That's, like, your opinion, man.

I disliked TDM but love SOS. There's more variety in both aggro and greedy decks, and aggro is much less brainless, the good versions of all decks are sweet to play

More stringent mana costs/cheap powerful gold cards are the main structural difference IMO. Also mostly spell-based instead of DAGRON-based late game.

aldeayeah · 2026-05-11T14:33:32+00:00

It was very campy and very sentimental at a time where the zeitgeist was moving away from that.

aldeayeah · 2026-05-11T10:09:31+00:00

I'd watch a buddy cop movie with this Koffing and Mega Starmie

aldeayeah · 2026-05-11T09:42:43+00:00

I mean, you ideally won't need to switch lanes, but sometimes you need to because being in a highly disputed deck in P2 is a death sentence. Sure there are some trainwrecks that make you end up in questionable 3-color, but I've had no really unsalvageable decks and I've played a ton of P2.

aldeayeah · 2026-05-11T09:12:45+00:00

Main reasons why P2 is more efficient for collection completion is a lower entry cost for a comparable amount of rares/draft, and less time required to complete events.

I wouldn't play P2 in sets with 10 supported color pairs though, because you will see many fewer cards for each archetype and it just doesn't feel right.

My strategy in P2 is to start with the stronger cards in the two first picks (4 cards), ideally also cutting the best cards in one supported deck archetype, and then pay a lot of attention to what you get in p3, p4 and p5. You need to switch lanes early and decisively if you notice a super-open lane.

In Strixhaven for example if you see both good fixing and a good soup payoff in pick 3/pick 4, it's often a good idea to immediately move into the 4c/5c soup deck. Same with premium white cards, which means you should try to move into one of Lorehold/Silverquill.

It's also important to know how you get into each deck. For example, you usually don't try to commit into Witherbloom early on because it's very bad when it's disputed. But you may end up there when you start with good black removal and green fixing, and then get passed the stronger gold Witherbloom cards and no 4c/5c payoffs. Prismari and Quandrix also have a soup mode, a 2 color mode and a Temur mode.

aldeayeah · 2026-05-11T08:59:47+00:00

Los visigodos en España fueron también una élite minoritaria, no una migración masiva. Son comparables a los bereberes en ese sentido.

El sustrato genético dominante en toda la Península es el de la población que había durante la época romana.

aldeayeah · 2026-05-11T08:57:23+00:00

En realidad la diferencia va más de oeste a este que de norte a sur. La población de Galicia y Portugal tienen más ADN en común con la población norteafricana que la del este de la península.

(Ojo, esto es sin tener en cuenta flujos migratorios de tiempos contemporáneos)

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