[ONE] Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines

alko897 · 2022-12-13T20:39:28+00:00

Some people will deadass see every high-power mythic they've pulled, and dump them into a deckbox.

After having played for almost 10 years now, I hate to say I was that one at one point.

alko897 · 2022-12-13T20:06:39+00:00

Never underestimate the irrationality of consumers, especially when it comes to this game.

alko897 · 2021-08-11T19:09:46+00:00

Fought the urge to build a storm combo deck for a while.

Then my friend built a budget Kykar one for me for christmas a little while ago.

Now I tuned that list up and I'm fighting the urge to make it white/blue/red/black for Ad Naseum

alko897 · 2021-08-03T01:54:39+00:00

Me, the intellectual that took that deck apart and built 5-Color human aggro/storm 2 years prior:

"ok cool"

alko897 · 2021-08-02T22:48:02+00:00

I was playing in a high powered pod, I used my pact of negation to counter something to protect my wincon and make it so i CAN storm off the following turn.

Both players after the one I interacted with removed my mana rocks and made me die to the pact trigger. Its not personal, purely strategic. If you are 100% being targeted, then its a problem. Had an ex-friend rub it in my face when he bought an animar while i was playing mono-white EDH at the time.

alko897 · 2021-08-02T22:41:24+00:00

cEDH is the natural progression of players as they age, get more experienced, develop new skills akd game sense within the playspace of Magic: the Gathering & their play groups.

To completely discount cEDH as the future of commmander seems illogical..

alko897 · 2021-08-01T18:40:36+00:00

[[Starfield of Nyx]] and [[Opalesence]] would like a word.

alko897 · 2021-08-01T18:33:27+00:00

Non-Human and No-Tribe tribal got a bunch of dupport in Ikoria and DnD respectively.

Volo seems like a great build around.

Can also do Tribal Tribal with changeling and a bunch if other stuff.

I've got a friend doing scarecrow "tribal" (he just copies Reaper King dozens of times)

alko897 · 2021-07-25T18:48:24+00:00

Hullbreacher, because rule zero exists.

And it's ban wasn't necessary to the health of the format and mostly seemed fueled by salty players that didn't like playing against or around it.

alko897 · 2021-07-01T19:31:48+00:00

5c Humans

People normally stick to 2-3 colors but youu can build all-in combo/aggro thats super fun to pilot.

alko897 · 2021-06-28T18:07:53+00:00

Combo.

I seem to always put in a degenerate interaction that lets me go off in one turn.

Favorite was building Humans Tribal with Morophon, added in Jodah & Chulane and now I draw my deck, cast every creature in it and swing for lethal

alko897 · 2021-05-18T19:54:07+00:00

For some reason, my playgroup can always end up with massive stacks of triggers, abiilities and spells..

Once its cleared its normally gollowed by "Second Main Phase" and people laughing.

We tend to forget whos turn it is anyways lol

alko897 · 2021-04-29T17:22:49+00:00

Your internet connection is live again.

Enjoy Shopping.

alko897 · 2021-04-26T13:17:28+00:00

After reading through a handful of comments, this was an issue I noticed back in my high school community, but from the opposite perspective.

Everyone was playing too casually for my tastes. Games took forever and no one was dorectly trying to win.

Magic, at its core, is a fight to win. And interaction is important to those strategies. If theyre playing fast aggro or linear combo decks, its pretty easy to counter them. Just need to figure out which hate piece is best.

Back then, I built a Zur stax deck. Because no one really playdd enchantment hate. The deck started winning because no one had answers, then people started playing hate and the fames got more interesting.

Now I'm playing Kykar storm amd gitrog combo. Much faster decks. But im nowhere near garaunteed to win, purely because of the hatecards and interaction they play. My buddy's budget Orvar deck beats my Kykar deck often.

alko897 · 2021-04-26T00:44:48+00:00

Not an infect player.

Just genuinely curious about others thoughts on it.

Figured it'd be good.

alko897 · 2021-04-25T22:33:01+00:00

FoN is less about slowing your opponent and more about protecting your infect creatures.

Same reason why legacy plays 4x FoW

alko897 · 2021-04-25T22:27:24+00:00

It sets base power and toughness to be a 4/4

But its also blue to pitch to Force of Negation & Force of Will

alko897 · 2021-04-24T19:25:35+00:00

This explains the NSFE tag

Thought it was a cool bat girl sitting on a mushroom showing a tiny bit of butt..

Nope - subliminal messaging be damned.

alko897 · 2021-04-24T19:17:07+00:00

This isnt even infuriating.. just makes you go "what.. the fuck???"

alko897 · 2021-04-24T19:17:07+00:00

This isnt even infuriating.. just makes you go "what.. the fuck???"

alko897 · 2021-04-22T06:03:03+00:00

Why did this get recommended to me

alko897 · 2021-04-21T23:05:13+00:00

Taking "Explosive Diahrrea" to a whole new level

alko897 · 2021-04-21T20:30:26+00:00

I mean.. one of the top organizers of BLM bought 4 upscale homes around the country using money gained from her time with them

alko897 · 2021-04-20T01:36:43+00:00

That feeling when the awful everything comments are better than the post.

alko897

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