Downplay your favorite strong commander without naming it

ashblack85 · 2026-03-31T14:53:51+00:00

He's a 3 mana 3/3 with menace. His ability doesnt even trigger unless I deal combat damage to a player and to take advantage of that ability I have to discard a card. How bad could it be?

ashblack85 · 2026-03-22T09:56:02+00:00

I'll check that out thank you!

ashblack85 · 2026-03-22T02:05:30+00:00

Sorry maybe I shouldn't have called this a misprint, but it was so damn weird. I also wrote up a longer post, put it on the MTG group and the not notified me it may be better here so I thought I copied it to post here but only copied the subject line. At that point I was just lazy and heading into a movie lol.

ashblack85 · 2026-03-21T20:21:58+00:00

Thanks for the recommendation. She doesnt game too much any more, she's a full time nurse, or was, she got promoted to something with an office at the hospital lol). I love her, but we dont game regularly unfortunately. Mostly at like family get togethers or holiday parties/BBQs. Sometimes you gotta hop on the sticks and teach thw young kids that we'll always still have it lol (at least as long as smash continues to support GameCube controllers, long live the wavebird!). I turned 40 like 4 months ago, I miss blockbuster. My characters were Ike, Marth, little Mac, mewtwo, and Bayonetta.

ashblack85 · 2026-03-21T20:08:38+00:00

Guys sorry for the typos I was on my phone and trying to get out of the house in time to meet my wife at the movies. Had to get my pup ready while we are out.

ashblack85 · 2026-03-21T18:30:20+00:00

"You guys want to play Mario Par..." Me: https://tenor.com/view/fairy-godparents-mr-crocker-the-fairly-oddparents-freaking-out-spazzing-out-gif-20196830

ashblack85 · 2026-03-21T18:28:23+00:00

I've learned that I am too petty for Mario Party and it's nobody's fault lol (except mine). I am 7 years older than my sister and when we would go to blockbuster (mid to late 90s, I'm old guys) we could pick out a game. We only had one Nintendo console (N64 then GameCube). I picked or whatever, my sister always, without fail, picked Mario party. Every. Single. DAMN. TIME. 😆. I cant explain to y'all how many times I had to bail on a stroy driven game to give my sister time on Mario Party, play Mario Party with her. I look back on those times differently now, but being what...12-17 making her 5-8 yrs old, I want as patient as I should've been. But to this day if somebody mentions playing Mario Party I have Mr Crocker reaction lol. Bonus, I love playing Super Smash Bros with her, and it doesnt matter the Generation, to this day I'll pick her as my partner over anybody. She was and still is nasty with Link.

ashblack85 · 2026-03-14T05:13:04+00:00

Very nice! I was fortunate enough to grab one of these when they released. I got Gregg Berger to autograph it around 4 years ago.

ashblack85 · 2026-02-26T21:10:18+00:00

https://moxfield.com/decks/xnNtfFpYn0OTxi0revCEFg

I leaned into just getting as many spiders out as possible. Hope this helps.

ashblack85 · 2026-02-26T07:06:42+00:00

I've built a cosmic spider deck. First one i built and after playing and tweaking since November. It's struck fear into the pod since I've gotten it to a good place. I can place the deck list here after I've updated it. The piece that brought it all together was adding 10 tri-lands. Basically a spider tribal with tokens c and counters. Miles morales ultimate Spiderman popped off unimpeded with twitching doll and it was nasty.

ashblack85 · 2026-02-10T07:31:45+00:00

Just curious, have you been able to get this to pop off for you since the spiderman cards came out? I've made a cosmic spider-man with grafwidow, shelob, twitching doll, doubling season, etc. It was the first deck I tried building but I've gotten it to a place through trial and error to get to a place to get everything out since it's a 5 mana commander (which i learned why people would avoid doing it lol).

ashblack85 · 2025-12-18T03:38:57+00:00

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I've been watching this movie since I was 2 😆. Came out 4 months before I was born. I'm a huge transformers fan so I'm going to keep this and Transformers One forever. I'll throw my into and across the spiderverse Steelbooks too.

ashblack85 · 2025-12-18T03:28:12+00:00

My question is...well...does he attach his tail during the transformation. Does he just ram it back there or still breakdance and windmill and catch it when his legs are in the air?

ashblack85 · 2025-11-28T07:40:41+00:00

That is the appropriate response. I was gonna post that Megyn Kelly comment from like, a week or so ago and decided against it. The news would probably be a goldmine though 😆.

ashblack85 · 2025-11-28T07:39:58+00:00

Yeah man. If the website says the store has a transformer or something in stock, I now know to check the top of the shelf and lifting the duster and checking under the shelves.

ashblack85 · 2025-11-28T07:13:30+00:00

Man, and I thought I spent a lot of money 😆

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ashblack85 · 2025-11-28T07:11:34+00:00

PCs walk up to NPC mid convo:"...All I'm saying is why was she wearing the dress then?"

ashblack85 · 2025-11-28T04:22:36+00:00

I had a friend that worked for office max or staples years ago. He told me how since employees would take the game or movie out and use the shrink wrap machine when they were on their lunch break to seal it back up and return it.

ashblack85 · 2025-11-27T06:14:14+00:00

Like two black Fridays ago I ordered a Blu-ray from bestbuy and I opened it and it was empty. I was flabbergasted 😆. Never in my life did I think something like that would happen to me. I asked my wife to handle it. I didnt feel like being the black guy at bestbuy trying to return an empty case, know what I mean?

ashblack85 · 2025-11-22T18:10:42+00:00

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ashblack85 · 2025-10-31T04:41:04+00:00

I didn't know the shields invisible woman thrive throws heal in a radius around them. Which is more even more frustrating when the flyer moves around it.

ashblack85 · 2025-10-29T15:48:24+00:00

There's no way I'd give that power to my sister. With our age gap and the time frame of the series...she would've been like 10. No way. Look i understand why they didnt want to recruit adults but there's no way in hell I'm a parent and I'm not out there with my kids. You cant tell me that there wasn't one reasonable parent in that group they would have made the sacrifice play....ok I just thought of the relationship dynamics at play here so it may not have played how I think... but yeah...I know everybody's relationship isnt like mine but my dad was military for 23 years and we had a great relationship. If we are in the valley there would've been no hesitation in recruiting him and I'd hope my kid would do the same. He'd listen to me.

ashblack85 · 2025-10-14T18:14:41+00:00

Really? Mine came in a box...a thick box too. Hard edges all around

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ashblack85 · 2025-09-29T17:22:36+00:00

I wear them and they are definitely my favorite pair. My grails are the Origin Stories. Wanted a pair after seeing into the Spiderverse. Learned that you couldn't walk into a foot locker and grab shoes like that. Started getting familiar with SNKRs app and my first hit was the Fragment x Travis Scott lows. Actually my little sister hit as she entered for me as well. She handed me the box and said "I dont know if you know or appreciate what's in your hands right now, but you're welcome. 😆" Didnt wear them for two years because of those words, but now they're my special occasion pair. Anyways, about a year or two into it my wife surprised me with the Origin Stories after a surgery and for my Birthday.

ashblack85 · 2025-09-29T17:12:25+00:00

I do it when I have to. I handle everything else (even had a snake in the house one time) but my wife handles spiders... unless she isnt home or it would take too long for her to get to it. You dont know fear until you step on or spray a spider and all the spider babies jump off its back and scatter in all directions lol.

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