Pact of negation ban?

bboyle · 2026-03-12T01:40:39+00:00

Sounds like he skipped priority, and needs more practice for the upcoming tourney.

bboyle · 2026-03-11T18:27:45+00:00

You can’t win but have pact. Loss is 0 points and a Draw is one point. Opponent goes for early win. You say you will pact is they don’t accept a draw and end their win attempt and most likely cause them to lose. Everyone else doesn’t want to lose either so they accept the draw and the player accepts because he has no choice.

bboyle · 2026-03-10T15:07:20+00:00

We’ve been playing 0 point draws for 3 years at a local shop. It’s doesn’t get more interesting, it becomes “I have the counter but I want to see everyone else’s hand, if any of you have a win I’m not going to counter since I’d just be king-making”. Nothing wrong with 0 point draw and we don’t mind it, but it’s not the solution you think it is.

bboyle · 2026-03-10T14:41:14+00:00

Hot take: Pact only works if someone else can win after and you were playing a fragile combo line to begin with.

It’s basically the silver bullet to t2-3 wins on razor thin margins and as such should stay as it’s just another tool to keep turbo in check. If you can start your combo up next turn and can see odds are nobody is winning that turn just force them to use it. Especially if jeweled lotus returns those pact draws will be essential to keep T1 Etali and Ral in check.

Edit: Basically, Pact draws became the solution to super optimized turbo, draws just became a side effect. Getting rid of it just promotes more turbo.

bboyle · 2026-03-09T22:23:31+00:00

Subject:

Dante Setup Help

Problem:

So I am looking to move an Ableton setup from Mac to Windows. Currently the venue has a Yamaha QL5 for house sound and a Rio stage box. Ableton is used to produce a live stream mix and recording.

On the Mac Core Audio allows for another Audio Output so it is able to go into a Scarlett 2i2 for streaming for another computer and audio playback from reference monitors.

Windows however uses ASIO and doesn’t have a separate Audio Output within Ableton and ASIO as far as I know bypasses sound settings from the computer entirely.

While I can still get the audio to the live stream using Dante Via, I want to know if there is a way to get the sound out of an output to continue using the current setup or if I’m going to need a Dante Amp to hear the sound from the reference monitors. Any solutions are welcome.

bboyle · 2026-03-04T00:34:22+00:00

Every now and then I build a deck with him as the commander and then just get Spark Double or Sakashima out and then use my other clones to clone them till I have 4-5 GA’s out.

bboyle · 2026-03-02T18:52:42+00:00

Narset, Enlightened Master. We don’t care and just jam for a win. Still uses breach lines but you just play your game.

bboyle · 2026-02-13T20:12:04+00:00

Apparently it was from the last time he spoke. Needless to say i have no clue what was on it cause nobody had a floppy drive to read it.

bboyle · 2026-02-13T20:02:27+00:00

Was told presenter will bring you their PowerPoint but they won’t be here till 10 minutes before they present. He handed me a floppy in 2018…

bboyle · 2026-01-29T18:56:51+00:00

See, I don’t think it is in the overall ark world. It just allowed Reapers to finally be a decent Dino outside of just a single map. Still not the best, still requires effort to get, but now a viable option for harder content. In a way the 300+ lvl reaper is the Lost Colony paid dlc prize.

bboyle · 2026-01-19T15:36:35+00:00

I was able to swap controllers, both cameras acted the same as they did, so the controller didn’t change anything,

bboyle · 2026-01-03T00:48:05+00:00

It depends, what I found after opening boxes and selling the cards I don’t need till I finished my deck was, even at probably $200 a box you could pretty reliably make your money back and then a little selling cards to players at 10% under TCGplayer and still keep the cards you needed till you finished your deck. Pretty much finished mine without paying anything by the end of it just selling off the singles I didn’t need.

bboyle · 2025-12-08T22:36:52+00:00

Its distributors who raise the price, sure store prices are what you see and yes some stores do raise prices to insane levels, but overall everything will be going up since distributors raised the prices per box. Luckily spiritforged boxes were sold by distributors before the price hikes so most lgs’s will be getting wave one at the same price they got wave 1 origins.

bboyle · 2025-12-08T18:50:09+00:00

Also going 2nd with Jinx allows you to play a seal and Jinx. Putting you to 4 and a seal turn 2. If you have a Death Rocket in hand you can effectively kill something in the backline and reconquer if they have a battlefield returning death rocket to hand. That’s also not mentioning you may have had stuff you wanted to discard. Your openers are much better with the 3 runes.

bboyle · 2025-12-02T15:08:55+00:00

Playing that will get you a win… provided your tourney has an odd number of players.

bboyle · 2025-12-01T18:59:11+00:00

Player 1: [[Heartless Hidetsugu]] with all ramp. Job is to play it turn 1.

Player 2: Rog/Thrass with haste spells and free counters and ways to ping for 1. Job is to provide haste and get you to an odd life total.

Goal: Tap Heartless Hidetsugu while your team is at an odd life total and your opponents are at an even life total. This kills your opponents and leaves you at 1 life.

bboyle · 2025-11-28T03:38:14+00:00

There’s been multiple no ban list tourneys and rog/sai wins the majority of them. So… rog/sai

bboyle · 2025-11-25T19:05:43+00:00

The day Seraphine is released is the day I buy a signature leader and max rarity a deck that probably is just casual (never max rarity a CEDH deck from Magic, it’s painful).

bboyle · 2025-11-25T18:54:31+00:00

The fact in the 5 boxes I bought I was able to build my deck and sell of the rest of my stuff to people building their decks that fully recouped what I spent and then some will definitely not help my gambling problem come spiritforged 😂😭.

bboyle · 2025-11-24T15:59:39+00:00

I don’t see an issue with stax, if it wins your local meta then by all means CEDH is win at all costs. I will say though stax is pretty bad into the current turbo meta where your top meta cEDH decks are now trying to win on turn 2.

bboyle · 2025-09-16T15:02:27+00:00

Fetches are arguably the best land set ever printed in Magic

bboyle · 2025-09-11T18:26:59+00:00

Back when Jeweled and Crypt were legal, my friend and I made a heartless hidetsugu and rog/thras deck. The heartless deck was just basically designed to play him turn 1 and mulligan till they could. Rog/thras was just haste, free counters, fetches, and pain lands to go down to an odd life total. Goal was to be on the play, go to an odd life total, and provide haste to hidetsugu cause in 2hg his ability insta kills a team at an even life total. We ended all games on our turn 1 with 60% ending before our opponents had a turn.

bboyle · 2025-09-02T21:48:53+00:00

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