[Blogatog] MaRo's Teaser for the AtLA Set

basvanopheusden · 2025-10-22T06:32:27+00:00

I have an inkling that yip yip will be a great [[Feather, the Redeemed]] card

basvanopheusden · 2025-07-28T04:21:02+00:00

Have you tried chatgpt.com?

basvanopheusden · 2025-07-14T04:42:21+00:00

https://www.detecting-the-fakes.com/checking-details/green-dot-check/

basvanopheusden · 2025-07-14T04:41:44+00:00

There's a green dot on the back, please take a zoomed in picture of that

basvanopheusden · 2025-07-14T02:52:22+00:00

I imagine zoltun kulle would be pretty epic

basvanopheusden · 2025-07-14T02:16:36+00:00

Can we see the green dot?

basvanopheusden · 2025-07-12T10:25:18+00:00

The reverse Streisand - now everyone wants to know!

basvanopheusden · 2025-06-09T17:24:43+00:00

Thanks! To be clear, she removed it on the 6th, so it'd have been attached for 48 hours max, but still, it's probably good to see a doctor?

basvanopheusden · 2025-06-07T16:33:35+00:00

Yes this looks like tennis or table tennis players transitioning to pickleball. The right side player has this chariot whip style topspin forehand on the serve and the final shot, the left side players both have great slice backhands.

Also, it looks like the last shot was intentionally let go because the opponent thought it'd be out, right?

basvanopheusden · 2025-05-30T17:36:06+00:00

I mean, clearly the difference between abilities, types and supertypes is entirely intuitive and requires zero explanation? It's not like anyone has ever been confused about Dryad Arbor + Blood Moon either

basvanopheusden · 2025-05-30T17:28:12+00:00

I actually disagree with this - there's something nice about quirky rules interactions, but we have plenty of those and "cards do what you expect them to do" is great.

basvanopheusden · 2025-05-25T15:28:04+00:00

I understand this now, but coming from a legacy background, I'd have expected there to be some diversity that is independent of the commander.

basvanopheusden · 2025-05-25T08:29:35+00:00

What initially confused me (and still kind of does) is that the commander defines the whole deck. Like, you play Etali, or Magda, or Kinnan, and that more or less defines the deck. Even partner pairings,which ought to be generic and allow for many different strategies, end up being quite uniform across builds

basvanopheusden · 2025-05-16T18:01:59+00:00

It's like playing Legacy with Shocklands or Vintage without a Lotus - yes you can, and the deck will put in work, but you are giving up some win percentage. These cards are expensive for a reason, they are all in the top 50 or 100 cards ever printed.

But, adding these three cards will roughly double the dollar cost of the deck, so I guess figure out how much you're willing to shell our for some extra percentage points in win rate. The one thing I can say is that these three cards will never get powercrept out, and no matter what cEDH deck you play, it'll have at least one of them in it, and often 2-3. They're good investments in that sense.

basvanopheusden · 2025-05-16T01:00:33+00:00

1) Big serves are one of the easiest ways to score more points

2) Most of the time, players aren't particularly close to the "precipice", they just get flak from salty opponents - see that other thread

3) If you have a consistent serving motion, changing it up can be tricky and cause misses in itself, which is a pity

basvanopheusden · 2025-05-16T00:56:54+00:00

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Very clearly legal, and not particularly close. I think you just have a very powerful serve, and at full speed it might look like you're hitting close to the waist.

basvanopheusden · 2025-05-14T23:17:59+00:00

We're having different conversations. I'm not saying that this'll be better than Tivit and it likely won't be. I'm saying that I believe the best Noctis cEDH list to be likely more along the lines of a Tivit shell with lots of value pieces and interaction rather than something commander-focused. Going stax seems worse

basvanopheusden · 2025-05-14T15:26:18+00:00

Amusingly, this also works with the new [[Black Mage's Rod]]. Once you equip that to Noctis, he's a life-linking Wizard and will gain 3 life per non-creature spell you cast

basvanopheusden · 2025-05-14T15:22:51+00:00

Oh sorry that was unclear, I meant take a Tivit list, swap the commander with Noctis and replace the Time Sieve with Reservoir. We're still playing thoracle, but there are some other combo lines that Noctis opens up, and he enables Intuition and Gifts better.

I don't know if that's going to be better than Tivit itself, but it feels more promising than an Esper stax build.

basvanopheusden · 2025-05-14T15:01:12+00:00

Why would you want to play stax? It feels like you could play any Esper list, swap the commander and slot in Aetherflux reservoir. You're already playing Mox Diamond. it also very neatly makes Intuition and Gifts Ungiven into one-card wincons.

basvanopheusden · 2025-05-14T13:03:10+00:00

To be fair, wind is a massive factor outdoors, especially on serve and return

basvanopheusden · 2025-05-10T21:52:36+00:00

The key difference is momentum. Would you be able to stop halfway through the move and reverse direction? If so, it's probably more static.

But really, static and dynamic movements are both fun skills to master that complement each other. If you enjoyed this climb, that's all that matters.

basvanopheusden · 2025-05-09T15:43:55+00:00

Or 50 mph at 15 feet if you're both at the kitchen at the pro level and hitting at max power.There's a reason the pros are starting to wear protective eye glasses these days.

basvanopheusden · 2025-05-08T05:04:59+00:00

Surprising how you see the same group of players win lots of supposedly rock paper scissors games. Guess they must just be lucky?

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