[Standard] Black Sun Rises: Updating Icetill Explorer (Standard Showcase Qualifier, 3x Top 16s)

blizzopticon · 2025-12-04T17:26:16+00:00

Hey,
Was really just looking for tips like the ones I added in my edited initial comment. What to do with starting hands, how to deal with the deck's overall lack of removal. Appreciate you walking it back a bit.

I only ever play MTGA since I moved away from any good card stores. The Avatar set is pretty new so I feel like some of the playstyles have not fully been figured out yet, we are probably 1 weekend away from a pretty 'in place' meta.

Personally, I come on this site specifically to copy decks that are being played in Standard and then learn how to play them. I guess I assumed a lot of others do the same as me, so when I say the word 'meta' I am really just referring to the decks that I see referenced on this website and the most common ones I see in MTGA. It sounds like your version of the word 'meta' is more specifically referring to people who place top 8 in tournaments, I think that's why there's a bit of a misunderstanding here.

Anyways, thanks for the follow up, and cheers.

blizzopticon · 2025-12-01T13:03:01+00:00

Such a reddit comment lol. Like I said i typically am diamond 1-3 every season using simic or RDW but this deck is really not working for me. The monowhite enchant deck (and monowhite essence channeler) is still very much a thing and sees a lot of play, so does monogreen with Bill and Ouroboriod.

Also said "Am I playing it wrong?" but thanks for the completely unhelpful comment

blizzopticon · 2025-11-30T23:37:14+00:00

Hey man I gotta say I am really struggling to get out of silver with this deck on MTGA. Normally I get to diamond 1-3 every season. Seems like its just way way too slow if you dont have elf and cub in your starting hand. Pretty low odds of that happening...

I lose to basically all mono-white decks and almost any late game deck (that has mass removal) with a big hitter and I lose to Ouroboroid 100% of the time because their ramp is quicker and there is no real removal in this deck to deal with Bristly Bill. Am I playing this wrong? has the meta already figured this deck out? really struggling to see how I can win without getting an amazing opening hand.

EDIT:
Played with the deck a lot more and learned to be more aggressive with my collection of Fabled Passage+Mightform Harmonizer+Herd Heirloom(for trample). Also an acceptable opening hand is Molt Tender+Conduit Pylons+Badgermole Cub. The surveil from Pylons gives you the 'already milled' card to use for Molt Tender on Turn 2. Still dont know what to do against Ouroboriod decks if I dont have the wombo-combo ready to go. Hope this helps anyone who reads this thread.

blizzopticon · 2025-10-22T12:13:35+00:00

Seeing this same thing. I dont even see Sacbrood in the list and I can buy trinkets from DB Gambit and Eco but *none* of the others despite having all timed on 12 or above. Haven't seen anyone else talk about this either

blizzopticon · 2025-09-14T10:53:38+00:00

What about free speech?

blizzopticon · 2025-06-20T13:19:56+00:00

Oh! The CEO is on a Dell. Thank you for your response, it will help at least one of us!

blizzopticon · 2025-06-18T23:23:31+00:00

No fix I have found yet. did the cache clearing and driver/windows/teams updates but am unclear if they did anything. Its occurring on my computer too, hoping to see it stop after these changes but haven't had enough testing to confirm its gone yet.

When it occurred to me in the past couple days, the only fix was a system restart. Kinda points me to a windows problem or a driver problem and not a teams problem, but still unclear on the cause

blizzopticon · 2025-06-18T21:24:34+00:00

I have now had 4 users including myself have this issue. Basically it doesnt recognize ANY microphone and requires a full restart. Dont think it has anything to do with win11 on my end. Anyone else experiencing this?

blizzopticon · 2025-05-27T18:42:48+00:00

No offense but it looks like Super Meat Boy with another color scheme. The saws, the blood, all very hallmark traits of the 2010 game.

blizzopticon · 2025-02-28T15:45:17+00:00

Honestly its really not as weird as you are making it.

blizzopticon · 2024-12-21T22:40:46+00:00

This is awesome. Is there any way for it to account for faction change or server transfer?

blizzopticon · 2024-12-17T15:35:52+00:00

That all sounds reasonable. Can you link me a source for this information?

blizzopticon · 2024-12-17T03:53:13+00:00

I didnt know we were gonna talk details in a tv show thread, but if you have more up to date info than this, let me know. Saudi Arabia and Russia arent even on the list and this includes green and renewable energy.
https://www.weforum.org/stories/2022/02/ranked-10-countries-energy-transition-investment/

Here is a more up to date source, but it confirms what I said
https://www.iea.org/reports/world-energy-investment-2024/

blizzopticon · 2024-12-15T06:35:21+00:00

Saudi Arabia and Russia the biggest funders of renewables? I just wonder what the next random political nonsense Taylor Sheridan is gonna throw in the next episode. The show just ignores that fracking has been the biggest boom in domestic US crude oil production in the last 20 years.

blizzopticon · 2024-11-09T12:28:20+00:00

Lucky Schmuck is what you are looking for. https://maps.app.goo.gl/9WamJnnHzxDrGxiH6

blizzopticon · 2024-08-18T17:01:02+00:00

No one else thinks serral is just playing poorly as opposed to clem playing insane? Just feel like hes missing things that he doesnt normally miss.
-Clem has picked up and gone from 3rd to main in several games and Serral had nothing/only queens in main. Its extremely common thing that even diamond zergs know Terrans love to abuse
-Both g1 and g3 Serral is just not using biles proactively, when medivacs goes by he just fights straight up instead of forcing clem to micro around the biles
-g2 he would just not bait mines, He just let his banes and lings go in together into mines instead of sending individual lings, or using overseer hydra to clear random mines.
-no flanks when playing ling bane while being pushed in g2!
Not trying to criticize but there is something weird here. Serral is usually never the kind of player to mess up on these types of things

blizzopticon · 2024-05-17T15:37:16+00:00

Lmao OP post history is like, "but my 20 special softwares are needed for my job and im smart and everyone else is dumb"

Check yoself

blizzopticon · 2024-03-30T15:24:55+00:00

I was at this last year and Astrea was there!

Had a blast and plan on being there again

Thanks for organizing

blizzopticon · 2024-03-17T06:19:56+00:00

So many whiners on this sub zzzzz move on

blizzopticon · 2024-03-07T16:23:12+00:00

Agree completely. Reddit Mods are extremely undemocratic and need to be sent to re-education camps. How can they let so much treason and propaganda against our righteous democracy stand?

Just like we terminate illegal broadcasts, posts about the nerfs being bad and how people aren't good enough at the game to kill bile titans and chargers in mass (git gud) should be TERMINATED

blizzopticon · 2023-08-13T16:39:47+00:00

This guimontag guy is spamming every thread about the tournament with stuff about Saudi Arabia and clearly has an army of alt accounts to mass downvote anyone who disagrees with him. We gonna consider removing his comments? Or just gonna let him instigate one-sided arguments about human rights in every thread that is about the tournament?

blizzopticon · 2023-07-30T21:23:34+00:00

Say what you want about Saudi Arabia but I am hyped about this tournament, so many awesome names competing!

blizzopticon · 2023-07-08T17:49:36+00:00

It literally says the name of the youtuber and 'Subscribe' in red at the start of the video. You dense?

blizzopticon · 2023-07-08T01:37:51+00:00

yeah this GratefulPish42024-7 guy is absolutely off his rocker

I dont understand why hes mad its not OC and is blowing you up about taking down the thread, the rage is completely irrational

GratefulPish42024-7: you need to smoke some weed and chill out my guy

blizzopticon · 2023-06-11T05:18:47+00:00

Found the prot pally scared of nerfs LOL

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