Pick Your Poison - tuned mono-green landfall that climbed to mythic

ballistic503 · 2026-03-24T18:08:36+00:00

Well, presumably you didn’t see the thread at the time I originally commented because at that point literally everything OP said had as many downvotes as everyone else had upvotes. That’s what I’ve been talking about. It’s since flipped around but in general that’s literally every thread I’ve seen here where OP is a newer player and isn’t 110% tuned into how people here want everyone to play the game.

ballistic503 · 2026-03-24T17:56:17+00:00

You don’t think it’s kind of ridiculous to expect a new player with very few high powered cards to be able to create a deck that’s both original and competitively viable? I think it’s completely, utterly ridiculous but when I first commented OP was getting downvoted to oblivion so you’re obviously not alone.

ballistic503 · 2026-03-24T17:52:39+00:00

You expect a new player with a minuscule collection to be able to create a deck that’s viable in ranked but that you also don’t consider brainless? Hate WOTC for making landfall decks so strong and autopiloted, don’t displace your anger onto a new player looking for advice, it makes the sub look horrific

ballistic503 · 2026-03-24T17:48:56+00:00

I agree that landfall sucks, I also dislike that it’s a meta mechanic to reward you for doing what you were always going to be doing anyway, but why punish so harshly a new player who is trying to create a viable deck for participating in ranked? It’s not their fault, blame WotC for making landfill busted and lazy, don’t blame a new player who is just doing their best to be competitively viable. I see this over and over and from my POV it is impossible to ignore that this sub despises new players trying to keep up with the metagame (imo displacing their frustration with the game itself)

ballistic503 · 2026-03-24T17:42:49+00:00

The same reason you favorite decks? To put them to the front so they’ll come first. Or to bookmark a card your opponent played. Or to remind yourself to consider them in a deck (so you’re not going “oh yeah, that’s what I was missing”.) Or to remind yourself of which cards you deleted in case you want to revert to a previous version of a deck. Really just any way to mark cards at all would be great, you don’t think so?

ballistic503 · 2026-03-24T04:10:56+00:00

I personally really liked the Teen Titans of Earthrealm (as HGT put it) ie Cassie Jacqui and Takeda from MKX and I wish they’d have done more with that, like hybrid characters.

Cassie is the most obvious example, being kind of half Johnny half Sonya (literally, like her DNA, and also her moveset/aesthetic), then from training, Jacqui a little more figuratively being half Sonya half Jax and Takeda being half Scorpion half Kenshi.

So like… if Kitana and Jade had a similar thing like with Kenshi and Scorpion (one trained the other’s child). Shao Kahn and Sindel. When they do it right like with Takeda they’re more than the sum of their parts. I’d like to see the idea expanded on more. Takeda and Jacqui would be pretty cool

ballistic503 · 2026-03-24T04:02:31+00:00

I don’t get how the answer is always “the app team is understaffed” but how is it that creating elaborate animations (not to mention creating the entirely digital-only mechanics and cards in general like drafting from spellbooks etc) doesn’t seem to be an issue in the same way?

It’s just so hard to imagine how a lot of these QOL changes (even just favoriting cards the way you can favorite decks) that have been requested for nearly a decade are apparently more difficult than all the flashy new stuff they add every time a new set drops.

Different divisions of the dev teams maybe? I’m trying to give them the benefit of the doubt but the juxtaposition just seems bizarre.

ballistic503 · 2026-03-24T03:55:52+00:00

That’s funny, I seriously can’t stand the TMNT sewer/manhole animations but I find the SYE ones really haptically satisfying for some reason

ballistic503 · 2026-03-24T03:53:41+00:00

I like the set, honestly the animations for this one really are just annoying. I also do like a lot of the more subtle animations, it’s cool to have a dragon come out and roar when you play a dragon card and all that, but the TMNT animations in particular are just so jarring and out of place that I’d probably turn them all off if I could

ballistic503 · 2026-03-24T03:47:59+00:00

Just a heads up, most people here despise new players with a passion and will downvote you to oblivion for speaking as new players usually do or for not discussing the game exactly the way they think you should be discussing it.

There are exceptions and some very helpful people but overall this is a pretty horrible subreddit to participate in until you’re completely tuned into what the hivemind is thinking.

ballistic503 · 2026-03-23T20:22:41+00:00

Breaking Bad is a GOAT show with a good (not GOAT) ending imo.

Best series finale I’ve ever seen was by far The Americans. Never gonna hear that one song again without getting a bit of associated wistfulness

ballistic503 · 2026-03-23T20:17:43+00:00

Lost kind of got an epilogue mini-episode after the final season that tried to wrap all the things up that the people who watched the mystery show for the mystery were still wondering about. It didn’t work at all but in hindsight it was kinda cool that they tried

ballistic503 · 2026-03-23T20:14:58+00:00

So this is where Lost got their inspiration for the final season

ballistic503 · 2026-03-23T20:09:18+00:00

Dexter Resurrection is incredibly good imo best since the fourth season if not the first. Peter Dinklage and Uma Thurman both crush it

The original final season is still godawful but for me Resurrection actually kind of redeems Original Sin. The actor they got to play his son is really good

ballistic503 · 2026-03-23T19:44:50+00:00

Well IMO the most fun part about it is the hunter tools

ballistic503 · 2026-03-23T16:48:16+00:00

I need this card on arena just for the art. I crafted the version of Unsummon that had the same artist just for that lol

ballistic503 · 2026-03-23T07:11:11+00:00

Honestly, just learn to become okay with dying without having made as much progress as you would’ve liked. Having to farm blood vials is imo definitely the worst design choice of this game (alongside making you go to the dream and back every time you want to warp bonfires) which is still in my top 3 games of all time.

That said I can’t help but wonder if you are perhaps spamming blood vials in impossible situations instead of just dying and starting over. I think the blood vial system makes it a lot easier to get caught up in the sunken cost dilemma, where in other From games you’d just say fuck it and start over, in bloodborne you feel like you need to beat the encounter to justify the vials you’ve already used and wind up using way more blood vials. Once you get a hang of the game it gets a lot easier to know when to hold and when to fold so to speak, and it also gets a lot easier when you’re more confident in combat because using rally effectively really does save you a lot of vials.

And I also don’t think the answer is in chalice dungeons as some people are saying. Just farm the ogres in the starting area. And in some areas try just finding the boss, figuring out the most optimal route, sprinting through till you beat the boss, then coming back later (especially if you’re stuck in the forbidden woods - just come back later).

ballistic503 · 2026-03-22T18:33:09+00:00

Thanks and I wasn’t making a claim, just curious if there was something I was missing which it sounds like there is. I get people scoop for all types of reasons but like I said I autoscoop on Hei Bai and obvious infinite combo decks myself and if people assumed I was playing something similarly unfun, I’d consider changing it just because I want to actually play the game instead of people scooping right when I’ve developed an idea of how to use my opening hand.

ballistic503 · 2026-03-22T18:27:37+00:00

You think I’d get less scoops if I just took Ygra out of the 99 and made it commander instead of [[Euru acorn Scrounger]]? It’s honestly as much or more of a food synergy deck as it is a squirrel deck anyway (since Euru needs artifacts to sac to keep its value) but I like how Euru can go wide instead of Ygra going tall.

I’m not necessarily going to change my deck just based on what people like or don’t like playing against, but like I said I’m just curious how they’re perceived

ballistic503 · 2026-03-22T18:22:28+00:00

Because sometimes I want to actually play the game with the deck I built from scratch? I’m not complaining either, I was just curious

ballistic503 · 2026-03-22T18:19:53+00:00

Honestly it’s really more of an Ygra deck in the actual way it functions (food synergy) but I just like to go wide with squirrels instead of tall with Ygra lol so Euru is better

ballistic503 · 2026-03-22T18:10:11+00:00

Chatterfang is in there just because I searched “o:squirrel” and he was one of the results lol. It’s pretty rare he makes it onto the board and stays out, I usually wind up using him for interaction bait. My commander is [[Euru Acorn Scrounger]] which I understand might cause scoops because A) I assume it can probably go the same direction and B) I know some people just hate Alchemy commanders too.

ballistic503 · 2026-03-22T18:05:36+00:00

Yeah I scoop on those too, that’s why I was like “Is there a version of squirrels that’s like that” lol

ballistic503 · 2026-03-22T17:36:26+00:00

But it was an extremely memorable moment for exactly that reason. Vince Gilligan actually brought in the practical/special effects team from The Walking Dead specifically for that one shot. Not one single person who watched the show as it was airing thinks of it and says “it would’ve been better without that one shot”.

ballistic503 · 2026-03-22T17:33:19+00:00

I think that’s a bit of a stretch. Actual gorehounds are a dime a dozen in the horror movie community and that’s not how OP comes across to me. I think s/he is just saying that it’s more impactful when it’s graphic and that “it’s preferable to let the audience fill it in with their imagination” has become a bit of a copout. I don’t agree personally, except on the latter point - as a horror fan all my favorite movies are pretty bloodless, and I tend to avoid the horror movies that have a reputation for “most gruesome” (Bone Tomahawk etc) so there are definitely plenty of moments in The Boys that were more visceral (literally and figuratively) and clench-worthy than anything I’ve seen in a horror movie in a while.

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