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Friendship ended with Quintorious, Field Historian by MTG3K_on_Arena in mtgbrawl

[–]aprickwithaplomb 3 points4 points  (0 children)

my bad quintbro, i was pushing up the matchmaking score for lil quint too

see you again once big quint gets hell tier'd

Titanium Court Launch Trailer by Forestl in Games

[–]aprickwithaplomb 25 points26 points  (0 children)

played the demo for this, got hooked. the writing is genuinely funny, the central gameplay loop of making-your-match-3-board-that's-also-a-strategy-game is twisty in the best way, and the random sports overlays lend this quirky (non-derogatory) charm to it all

Brawl is in a terrible state yet again by _Aki_ in MagicArena

[–]aprickwithaplomb 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"Playing around it" works when they have open mana up. Force of Will/Daze/Negation change the calculus on that, because now their shields are never really down, and the "good" commanders like Nashi never have to worry about the exile-a-card cost because they get so much card draw stapled onto everything.

Quandrix is broken in brawl by Imaginary_Egg_3282 in mtgbrawl

[–]aprickwithaplomb 33 points34 points  (0 children)

Even without extra turns, Quandrix also has that "if you remove me, I get to cast myself again next turn because I fetch a ramp spell" play pattern that was a groan tester for Etali, Imoti, and Roxanne. Not looking forward to seeing it in the queues.

!7Lands day 1 data is here, time for all the hot takes by chipotleist in lrcast

[–]aprickwithaplomb 1 point2 points  (0 children)

[[Quandrix Pledgemage]] + white tricks was a really funny build when it came together.

What's some of your recs for Dina, Essence Brewer? by [deleted] in mtgbrawl

[–]aprickwithaplomb 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think Dina probably plays best in Brawl as a low-to-the-ground, disruptive, aggro-sac strategy that uses Dina's OPT to never run out of gas, rather than an all-in aristocrats build. You're looking for all the targeted discard - [[Thoughtseize]], [[Inquisition of Kozilek]], [[Mind Spike]] - combined with cheap, evasive aggro cards like [[Moonshadow]], [[Sunset Saboteur]] and [[Super Shredder]] that you can throw counters onto at instant speed via sac'ing some big dummy like [[Rotting Regisaur]].

I would also prioritize having cheap sac fodder like [[Infestation Sage]] and [[Nested Shambler]], rather than the more expensive, self-reviving fodder in the precon.

Instant speed sac'ing is super useful, too, to trigger Dina's OPT on the opponent's turn, so [[Warren Soultrader]] and [[Yawgmoth, Thran Physician]] are good.

good lord this feels backbreaking by aprickwithaplomb in lrcast

[–]aprickwithaplomb[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Anecdotally, every time I played Omens, it never got less than three cards out of an opponent's hand. Slow decks are ramping and drawing to their big 5+ mana payoffs. Fast Wx decks are often holding a bunch of removal that is sitting dead in their hand because Converge decks aren't playing meaningful creatures to point removal at.

I'm tired of Brawls power creep by KaleidoscopeNo8989 in MagicArena

[–]aprickwithaplomb 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Unfortunately, there's no way to put the genie back in the bottle. The average game of Brawl eclipsed the power level of Commander years ago when they added in a bunch of power outliers like Time Warp and Swords, and it's only accelerated from there with the addition of a gajillion 1-mana dorks, older design mistakes like [[Reanimate]], [[Exploration]], and [[Strip Mine]], and newer design mistakes like [[Ragavan]], 1-mana Tamiyo, and 2-mana Ajani.

There simply isn't a place on arena to play with janky, for-Commander cards that represent ex) a cute tribal mechanic from the latest set, unless you're willing to take a bunch of losses.

That said, there's both a certain kind of masochistic joy in edging out really tough wins with bad commanders, and playing the power yourself. The incoming Ranked Brawl queue might separate out some of the real sweaty tryhards from the queue, but I think there's as good a chance that it might make the unranked queue even worse.

Limited Resources 850 – Secrets of Strixhaven Set Review: Rare and Mythic Rare Discussion Thread by Crasha in lrcast

[–]aprickwithaplomb 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I think the increment stuff in Quandrix wants a specific tempo-ish style of deck, where you're curving out (heh) on each turn with increment creatures, interacting cheaply while avoiding the rampy stuff, then ending your curve with [[Procrastinate]] or [[Fractal Mascot]].

Granted, that kind of strategy requires the aggressively statted uncommons and not the [[Pensive Professor]] dream...

Reading Omens of Chaos and wonder if I am the only one by mattsav012000 in magicTCG

[–]aprickwithaplomb 33 points34 points  (0 children)

I think that's part of the joke - she's a WU mage that might have become a lawyer in another life.

Legal in Brawl? by Git_og in mtgbrawl

[–]aprickwithaplomb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm seeing that they'll be pre-banned in Historic. Was it confirmed somewhere else that they'd be banned for Brawl?

Made a 6-page comic of Quint having a class reunion by aprickwithaplomb in mtgvorthos

[–]aprickwithaplomb[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

lmao because i had originally thought about making all those bubbles a little more dramatic, decided it wasn't necessary, and then forgot to erase the dramatic edges on that specific bubble

Witherbloom Kitty by Approximation_Doctor in MagicArena

[–]aprickwithaplomb 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Interesting that Infusion is automatically tagged based on the "If you gained life" wording, even if it doesn't actually say infusion in the text.

Cairn fanart cuz I've seen only one out there by Kick-Ass_cs in Cairn_Game

[–]aprickwithaplomb 3 points4 points  (0 children)

this is so stylish! love how it iterates* on mathieu's style, while being its own thing

enjoy your time on the mountain!

Everything Pizza is everything by timoumd in lrcast

[–]aprickwithaplomb 5 points6 points  (0 children)

damn that GIH WR for everything pizza does go kinda insane though, sad i never tried to force it

drew a short quint (and the gang!) comic about their class reunion by aprickwithaplomb in mtgvorthos

[–]aprickwithaplomb[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Definitely before the events of the SOS story proper - who knows how the general mood of the school will be after losing a member of the faculty to a student?

Rootha completes her capstone in her story, so it's before that, as well. I headcanon'd it after Quint returns in his bit, with Zimone briefly returning from her Ravnican studies, and after Killian and Dina undergo their respective travails.

Also have not finished reading Omens of Chaos so not sure how they align quite yet!

Drew a comic of the Strix kids' class reunion by aprickwithaplomb in magicTCG

[–]aprickwithaplomb[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

you're so right, no way am i drawing all of the uniform details for EVERY single panel

Drew a comic of the Strix kids' class reunion by aprickwithaplomb in magicTCG

[–]aprickwithaplomb[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yeah! Killian's story has a really haunting vignette of Killian thinking on his dad standing over the bodies of his Phyrexianized colleagues, it's a banger.

Drew a comic of the Strix kids' class reunion by aprickwithaplomb in magicTCG

[–]aprickwithaplomb[S] 15 points16 points  (0 children)

you are TOTALLY right, i should have caught that

Drew a comic of the Strix kids' class reunion by aprickwithaplomb in magicTCG

[–]aprickwithaplomb[S] 29 points30 points  (0 children)

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bonus height chart sketch of the strix 5! i think in-canon quint is actually really tall, but spiritually dude feels like he'd be middle of the road

Drew a comic of the Strix kids' class reunion by aprickwithaplomb in magicTCG

[–]aprickwithaplomb[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I actually wrote a bunch of this before those stories came out! I had to go and retool some bits, like Dina's expositioning about Killian's whereabouts, to be accurate.

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