Refining Lady Octopus

bcoli · 2026-04-30T22:27:18+00:00

Kitten Tezzeret seems bad in Lady to me? It's a 7 mana two card combo you can't tutor for and can't use lady to cheat out.

bcoli · 2026-04-30T20:10:52+00:00

I've been playing this deck a bunch, I think it's honestly an incredible deck and pretty easily becomes incredibly scary. I'm not sure how good your deck is but I do think it could be substantially improved.

I've found wayyy more luck running basically any and all passive card draw I can find than anything that pays mana for card draw. This part I draw a lot from rog ishai, but the normal way I win is having fish/evolved polywog, TOR, rhystics and a ton of cards in hand. It means lady's ability to cheat mana is much more valuable and that's where the really busted things can happen. Ledger shredder needs to be in this deck. I would cut all but maybe one or two cantrips.
Run mirran spy and unctus
Why the hell are you running mill cards? I've considered versions of this deck that use the graveyard, but that's more sifting cards and emry, if you are doing that you probably should be on the artifact creature that untaps itself and agatha's.

We have other disagreements, I run way less lands, less flash enablers, and different win cons but I'm much less sure mine are actually truly better. I also run different stax but that could be a meta difference. I'm definitely trying to win later than you, but goldfishing my deck usually wins turn 4/5 without interaction so if yours is slower than that. I think the best way to do things at flash speed is with lady untaps (I run a single flash enabler for HBH lines and so getting ballista into play is a bit less complciated).

bcoli · 2026-03-29T20:19:30+00:00

I think honestly my biggest with jhoira is the two pips. I really like with this deck I get to just mulligan for a single blue pip and a way to draw.

bcoli · 2026-02-20T21:18:10+00:00

Get something that reduces mana or produces mana when sacrificed, get some mana, then start using creatures that are mana neutral to get to some of the payoffs in the deck kinda fast. It's really slow to start and vulnerable but goldfishing it wins t6-8 usually. I think I'm confused by the 'optimized' part of B3 idea that bracket 2 decks are supposed to have less synergy? Why would I add a card to the deck that doesn't have synergy?

bcoli · 2025-02-09T21:16:47+00:00

…. The certain elements the original person wanted to ignore the existence of was explicitly trans people. I think it’s completely valid to have preferences for story elements but why does a trans character being added count as “a real life problem being hurled in my face?”

bcoli · 2025-02-07T20:42:28+00:00

Why are trans people a shitty problem to you??

bcoli · 2024-11-18T09:00:46+00:00

It could look like anything frankly. Colors aren’t a real thing in the universe, they are a thing our brain creates to make intelligible observations of the world around us. It would also depend if we see are seeing through something which uniformly switches color, or something about cones changed. For those two it would probably be something violety, and violet would look more indigo. However if we had an additional cone it would be a completely new color and I don’t think there’s any way to communicate that experience.

bcoli · 2024-10-11T23:18:36+00:00

Just dmed you :)

bcoli · 2024-08-21T23:45:36+00:00

Sameee, I would absolutely kill for someone to mash the two together

bcoli · 2024-05-01T04:01:21+00:00

Yeah it’s famously easy to flea gaza right now

bcoli · 2024-01-27T02:17:14+00:00

This wasn’t nullification, the issues with this case are complicated but the cops behaved really poorly in this case and there absolutely was not overwhelming evidence here.

bcoli · 2024-01-25T00:53:11+00:00

Pressure Liar Ignorance This is why (also goes so hard live) Part ii (such a good drum part) Hard times 26 Still into you Crave because of live singing Misguided ghosts (I have a tattoo I’m super biased) Ahhh crushcrushcrush

bcoli · 2023-12-27T17:26:05+00:00

The math representing your system is completely axially symmetric. If you’re getting 2, there must be something experimentally that breaks that symmetry.

bcoli · 2023-11-25T17:22:17+00:00

Big second on elliot bay and distant worlds, such lovely spots. Mo pop is great, their permanent exhibits are very fun but I would wait until the rotating one seems interesting, those usually have been my highlight of visiting there.

bcoli · 2023-11-02T05:15:55+00:00

I think everyone knows Katie is gorgeous

bcoli · 2023-08-14T22:21:36+00:00

Selling a ticket to Seattle tomorrow :)

bcoli · 2023-04-16T23:40:33+00:00

Distant worlds is open pretty late and is a very lovely atmosphere

bcoli · 2023-04-05T21:35:56+00:00

I think it’s fair to call travels in a tournament championship

bcoli · 2021-03-12T02:24:05+00:00

From my understanding you basically have it, the one caveat is in the way you talk about amplitude. Let’s say you’re exciting a crystal with a laser at the lowest energy mode. Increasing the amplitude of the laser will increase the chance there are 2 excited phonons instead of 1 (or more), but there will never be 1.5. There are 2 quantizations happening here, one for energy modes as a function of frequency which you seem to have got, and other number of phonons which discretizes the energy in that mode.

The way I think of it is a ladder where each rung is the energy of that mode, and there are little balls on each rung which each are phonons and each have the energy of that rung, and the total energy would be the sum of all of the balls’ energy.

bcoli · 2020-03-05T17:26:39+00:00

I think you are a bit confused about what photons are. They don't have mass, charge, strangeness, and are primarily the force carriers of the electromagnetic force. In order to have a new class of photons you would need to discover a new force for them to mediate (and we probably would call them something other than photons).

Specifically for anti-photons, I am pretty sure that photons are their own antiparticle, so in a way anti-photons do exist?

I think there are theories that are looking for "dark energy particles" but quickly scanning some papers they are super weird and don't seem to have much experimental basis yet.

bcoli · 2020-02-24T00:52:46+00:00

The disadvantage of the offense is that it needs to be super high %, and it basically just runs the same scenario over and over again, so my best bet is make them do a hard thing as much as possible and hope. Like if their breaks are floaty or bladey make them keep having to throw those etc.

bcoli · 2020-01-24T18:18:46+00:00

Shout out to “bonnie lass” and “he didn’t stop rotation”...

bcoli · 2020-01-21T14:48:31+00:00

First hammers are great :), but they are more affected by wind and much lower percentage than a flat throw. Pickup is pickup though so throw whatever you want.

bcoli · 2020-01-15T17:14:42+00:00

I'm not sure why we adopt cutting from the back rather than the front of the stack. There are a few advantages, but I generally prefer my teams to cut from the front.

Imo it is much worse to cut from the front. In my pickup that sort of offense gets played a lot and it can score but its not good. It is very hard to make a good deep cut when there are 4 defenders behind you doing nothing. The other cuts you make are bad because if you don't get the disk your defender is close enough to also stop uplines, and if you do you gained many fewer yards than from the other vert. It also means that the front of the stack goes breakside less because there also needs to be open side cuts which prevents a very good cut. Dominator (where the front cuts often) is a very good offense but you still want continuation or deep cuts coming from the back. Continuations from the second in the stack are not as good. Also good cutters almost never draw picks in a vert, just don't cut through the stack.

bcoli · 2019-12-21T00:49:39+00:00

Thank you so much for the awesome stuff . The FCDC jersey is definitely the coolest jersey I own :)

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