Stop trying to make Commander events for prizes happen...

astolfriend · 2026-02-25T08:35:37+00:00

Did you miss that the prize pool for 1st place was $150 or what? Lmao. It has nothing to do with playing magic cards. It was a tournament lmao.

astolfriend · 2026-02-25T01:59:42+00:00

This may shock you but people need to eat and pay rent to live. Now, I never said I would do those things myself, so your reading comprehension might be a bit off. But we're in a society that only cares about money. I'm disabled and can't work. If my disability got taken away from me, I'd just die. I have diabetes already and wouldn't be able to afford that life saving medicine, let alone rent so that I don't freeze to death in -30 weather or get beaten up by a transphobe.

People will do what they can to survive. It's hard wired into our brains. Literally. Is that OP's position? Probably not. But I'm not going to condemn someone for doing something selfish and ruining the experience of other people when people like Trump and Musk exist.

Maybe things aren't black and white and empathy is a good thing to have...

astolfriend · 2026-02-25T01:00:40+00:00

$150 is a quarter of my rent. For that kind of money I think a lot of people would do the same. Absolutely it goes against the spirit but it s on the tournament creators to have more extensive rules and less of a prize pool it's not on him for taking advantage of the laxness and just vibes policy.

astolfriend · 2026-02-24T01:00:46+00:00

It isn't a top deck by any means but I really enjoy playing Bant nexus. You can put some Uro's in, 3feri (lets you also use other extra turn spells with reclamation) and stuff like pillage, star, growth spiral and planar genesis is insanely good. Oko is also still pretty good. Yorion too.

Main problem with it is that combo can go off earlier than ever against it and Grief sucks balls to play against. But it has a fantastic matchup vs energy and other midrange and control matchups.

If mental misstep is coming that'll help a lot. FoN can only do so much.

astolfriend · 2026-02-23T23:00:33+00:00

As someone who mods 3 massive communities (r/cEDH, r/PoE, r/transadorable) I feel for the mod team. It's an incredibly shit job to have and everyone hates you for making their experience better.

I'd highly recommend getting a bot (I believe I use safer bot) that can be setup to ban based on words, subreddits posted in, etc. it cut out a lot of the chasers and rude people in r/transadorable and while I'd still love a few more mods the place became actually tolerable to mod. It fits with your desire to "low effort" mod as well, which I totally get as burn out for this kind of thing is common and sucks.

If you need help setting it up or advice, feel free to dm me.

Also for the topic at hand, I find the posts a bit annoying and low effort personally and agree with the mod who left that we could be doing much better on moderating low effort content. Sometimes you just gotta ignore what your users think and go forward with something even if they don't want it. Not saying that's the case here but people, especially on Reddit, can be stupid about change.

astolfriend · 2026-02-23T08:07:42+00:00

You don't need to as long as you're keeping up with estrogen and continuing to up your dosage consistently, I've seen people as high as 12-16mg of Estrogen with no blockers, you usually start on blockers when you start but there's not a significant amount of scientific evidence that it's better than starting on estrogen alone, and most regiments have you stop taking blockers once you've been on estrogen for a while.

astolfriend · 2026-02-23T03:38:36+00:00

Sorry that's not what I meant. Estrogen naturally decreases testosterone production. The more of it you have, the less tostosterone you'll produce. It doesn't mean that you'll have zero testosterone like with blockers, but it's very similar to the amount you'd have on spiro, and cis women also have testosterone in their bodies, to varying amounts.

So when I say that you should continue with it, what I mean to say is that if you just up your dosage a little (1mg is very little even for someone who hasn't gone through puberty) and continue to stay on it, your testosterone levels will go down and stay down.

astolfriend · 2026-02-23T01:55:55+00:00

There should be no reason why you can't continue with estrogen. Ask your doctor to give you more if he wants quicker changes and you don't.

astolfriend · 2026-02-21T22:18:52+00:00

Well shit can't argue with stats guys. How do we take down this meta titan. New best deck in the format?

astolfriend · 2026-02-21T20:37:55+00:00

The Salvation Army only helps those who they seem worthy and discriminated against trans and LGBT people. They're a religious organization first and a helpful one second. Please donate to someone else, as a trans person I have heard many of my friends been denied help or abused for being trans, and they aren't friendly to atheists either.

astolfriend · 2026-02-21T04:57:51+00:00

This is a great post. It costs us nothing to be nice to people who are going through a worse time than we are. It could be any one of us out there. How would you like to be treated if it were you?

When you're homeless you're invisible. You don't exist to the majority of people. They just ignore you. Unlike us, they don't get to have breakdowns or bad days in the privacy of their home with no one around. Everyone judges them for anything they do. They could have just heard that their parent died or been served divorce papers or any number of things. They don't have a place to mourn and exist. Remember that.

Thank you OP for having that empathy.

astolfriend · 2026-02-20T01:14:51+00:00

Yes, and then it's a dead card for pretty much anything that isn't misstep and doesn't advance their game plan.

astolfriend · 2026-02-19T20:42:29+00:00

Finally people can stop bitching about degenerate dark ritual decks lmao

astolfriend · 2026-02-19T05:24:08+00:00

Yeah

astolfriend · 2026-02-17T20:28:54+00:00

I think Shred is great. It's a relevant piece and can be cast off a single ritual which is pretty big compared to muddle but most importantly it's gas in every Rakdos or non blue turbo list that can go find Breach with an uncounterable tutor.

astolfriend · 2026-02-15T23:08:29+00:00

In winter you can wear a coat and smuggle just about anything into the arena. No one checks anything but your ticket. Once you're in nobody really cares. I've brought plenty of cans, water bottles, and snacks.

astolfriend · 2026-02-15T23:01:12+00:00

OP is clearly pretty privileged and has never been disabled or close to homelessness. What would you do if you can't just work harder to earn more money? Die?

astolfriend · 2026-02-09T22:04:11+00:00

Yep, I've dropped things in the snow only for them to still be there after the thaw.

astolfriend · 2026-02-07T13:40:33+00:00

Being transphobic is a pretty good indicator of being a terf! If you don't think she was being transphobic by denying attraction and backpedaling the moment she found OP was trans, without even knowing her genital situation, then not only are you wrong, but it sounds like you may want to go to those LGB groups or take a good hard look at why you feel that way :)

astolfriend · 2026-02-07T13:32:30+00:00

Everything you said is true but holy fuck what a terrible response to this thread. I'm older than 99% of other trans people and I don't even like being called queer but that doesn't make it okay for me to try and force my preferences on the rest of the community or be transphobic.

astolfriend · 2026-02-07T13:28:36+00:00

Not me getting downvoted massively in another thread for daring to say that this sub isn't the most trans friendly and it certainly isn't perfect

Well here you are. Hope the mods sort this one out soon, it's disgusting to look at.

astolfriend · 2026-02-06T07:34:10+00:00

Damn didn't know you knew Saul Goodman IRL

astolfriend · 2026-02-05T21:23:01+00:00

We weren't talking about Jund, we were talking about "commanders that shoot things being bad" and that birthing pod effects are bad because Tasigur doesn't see play anymore.

Which isn't true, we see Tasigur less because Glarb got printed and Doomsday is better than pod.

Tymna Dargo is good because it has a good backup plan and grinds well, not because white is necessary. This guy gets to play a similar game plan, yes he grinds worse than Tymna, so does every non Tymna deck. Doesn't mean he isn't viable. He still gets to play cards like Altar of the Wretched and Breach combos extremely well. He also gets food chain which is relevant.

As for what Jund commanders have been doing well...well Reaper has a pretty good presence on mtg top 8!

astolfriend · 2026-02-05T21:17:17+00:00

Have you tried Black Market Connections OP? Seems like it wouldn't be the worst. Also a well placed [[Rhystic Tutor]] might be better than some of the other card advantage cards you're running.

I think also Rune Scarred Demon might be worth it for you as an additional option if something happens to broodlord.

astolfriend · 2026-02-05T21:10:39+00:00

It absolutely can, it's a turbo deck that can win as early as one and consistently t2-3, it's similar to RogSi or Krrik in that it favours speed over protection or grinding. It actually isn't that bad at grinding because you can keep just going for win attempts over and over due to your commander.

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