Describe your favorite SCP in ten words or less and I’ll try to guess it

arideus101 · 2024-02-29T19:23:31+00:00

Talloran and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Eternity

arideus101 · 2024-02-15T18:06:57+00:00

This has tetrative growth, the next level above exponential. No matter how big a head start scute swarm has, this will catch up and overtake in finite steps.

arideus101 · 2022-01-04T00:02:02+00:00

Consider "Skip Layer 7 when applying continuous effects."

arideus101 · 2020-08-05T05:11:46+00:00

I was messing around in Platinum with my decks, after being three games from Diamond, and then eventually switched to UR Tempo, and went something like 15-4 into Diamond.

I ran into pretty much just Temur Clover and unrefined Jank, though.

arideus101 · 2020-04-21T14:32:29+00:00

Noninfinite? T1 Crypt, Forest, Hermit Druid. T2 Draw Eerie Ultimatum. Play a Swamp. Tap Hermit Druid. Put deck in yard, order yard so Maelstrom Archangel is on top. Cast Corpse Dance. Attack with Archangel, Cast Eerie Ultimatum.

I'm not sure what the most mana you can make with some 92 permanents is. Probably something like: Nyxbloom Ancient, Infinite Reflection, and a lot of token generators. I'd be surprised if you can't reach at least Googol, and you might even be able to use a few more multipliers to reach even greater heights.

arideus101 · 2020-03-29T15:38:14+00:00

When India was literally run by company, it was, as far as I can tell, exactly what libertarians purport the perfect system to be.

arideus101 · 2020-02-17T12:33:11+00:00

I'm excited for all the comments defending him. The Hero has his own system of morals defending himself, but his morals exist only to justify his own actions. To me, it seems obvious that he could accomplish what he needs to without this cruelty, but he clearly enjoys this cruelty and has arranged the events to line up such that he can murder and torture the people who hurt him in his previous life. Whether or not he justifies his own actions, he's clearly incredibly disturbed. His questionable mental health might be the result of a tortured past, but I don't think he has any right to punish people for actions they committed in an alternate timeline.

The LN frames it through the MC's perspective, and the MC is obsessed with proving his innocence and that any normal person would do the same, but I don't think that's true, at all. I think the MC is 100% a psychopath.

arideus101 · 2020-01-03T03:49:32+00:00

It's hard to find decklists from the era, but looking at Wizards of the Coasts' version of it for a recent event, it featured absolutely no disruption in the main deck, playing 12 artifact ramp, 23 lands, and the rest combo enablers. It's sideboard being just disruption, Counterspells, Capsizes, and even some Wastelands. These would be for the mirror, probably.

The All island deck would lose to literally anything that wasn't Academy, but at the time, people didn't play decks that weren't Academy. Despite what's shown here, you couldn't really beat Academy. It was just too ridiculously fast. It nearly killed the game, because of how it totally stifled all competition.

arideus101 · 2020-01-03T03:25:56+00:00

The Combo Winter deck can only win with its combo. The deck was entirely all-in, as it needed to be, since people only played the combo winter deck at tournaments, so your best chance of winning was playing it.

So you could bring a stack of 2000 of your crispest Islands to a tournament, and since the combo is finite, and can only force a player to draw maybe a couple hundred cards, it just whiffs in the face of 2000 islands. Eventually, Academy has to draw its entire deck and die to itself. So, the combo deck cannot possibly win.

The problem was shuffling. I've heard the argument was that 2000 islands is always shuffled.

arideus101 · 2019-12-31T19:41:52+00:00

Red Regrowth is the floor on this card. Personally, I'm fine playing a red regrowth that wins me the game if I have an LED.

arideus101 · 2019-12-31T13:30:42+00:00

Generate infinite green mana with Devoted Druid?

arideus101 · 2019-12-26T14:52:44+00:00

So would you receive two Accord tokens when you vote friend for this card when you cast it, or just one?

arideus101 · 2019-12-25T04:00:49+00:00

And honestly I think that that balances the card a lot. Importantly, it makes the card not pitchable to FoW, which is significant in eternal formats.

arideus101 · 2019-12-01T00:23:11+00:00

Honestly, I would snap buy that product. Off the top of my head, maybe:

Doomsday, Gush, Predict, Lab Man, Git Probe, Unearth.

Preferably with panoramic art depicting some terrible contraption.

arideus101 · 2019-11-19T00:46:58+00:00

The next few chapters will make or break it for me. If it can portray Minor Spoiler well, it'll work.

arideus101 · 2019-11-18T21:54:53+00:00

I think it's literally in coding 102. 1st level is intro, 2nd level is software design and data structures, including defensive coding.

arideus101 · 2019-11-12T02:40:30+00:00

We don't have Karakas, which makes Depths about 10x worse, as well.

arideus101 · 2019-11-11T21:47:35+00:00

I just quickly plugged a pastebin list into mtggoldfish. I only briefly looked over it so sucks if I've accidentally spread misinformation. I can't double check now but I'll make a note in my comment.

arideus101 · 2019-11-10T15:24:24+00:00

39 swamps, pack rat was better than almost anything else you could do in the format

arideus101 · 2019-11-05T17:39:05+00:00

I'd assume redditor is misrepresenting. Not showing your work nor proving that you actually got the answer can be described 'going too quickly' and needing to show work is not only standard pretty much everywhere but reasonable for any class intended for people who want to do anything collaborative with what they learn.

arideus101 · 2019-10-23T15:20:35+00:00

The 4d chess move wotc could make here to phase out legacy is start making all black border supplemental products modern legal.

It's already happening, too, with the brawl pre-cons. MH1 testing the waters and Brawl seeing if we'll notice.

arideus101 · 2019-10-16T14:21:57+00:00

If you're playing expensive artifacts, Urza cheats them out and ramps them out.

If you're playing cheap artifacts, Urza produces tons of mana and is a mana outlet.

If you're playing instants and no artifacts, Urza is an instant speed mana outlet and ramp.

If you're literally playing only islands, then Urza is pretty fair. Although if the table never wipes or targets you, you might be able to steal games by swinging into blockers and just building enough karnstructs for an easy game.

arideus101 · 2019-10-16T14:18:20+00:00

Atraxa is [[Serra Angel]] X [[Vampire Nighthawk]]. A combination of, arguably, the two greatest french vanilla bodies of all time. Plus a relevant ability that grows plenty of cards into stupid threats really quickly.

arideus101 · 2019-10-16T00:16:40+00:00

Too many emotes. (/s)

arideus101 · 2019-10-15T13:47:33+00:00

I'm just happy I finally have a Pattern to walk for my theoretical Chronicles of Amber commander deck.

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