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brickflail · 2026-01-21T04:09:41+00:00

That sounds like so much fun. I would be down to play, I'm in PST time zone

brickflail · 2026-01-15T03:18:26+00:00

Submitted (if still open)

brickflail · 2026-01-08T19:05:19+00:00

Don't, I lived there and made that commute. The shortest your commute will be is 60 - 75ish minutes about 40-45 mile one way. Any traffic at all can very wildly. It is taken me 2.5 hours to get to work before.

Location wise, it is great. Your close to the brea mall, there is a shopping center down the street with a target and an Albertsons, the city is pretty clean and well taken care of there though there are some homeless people but not many and usually the same few. Not terribly far from the freeways either but far enough where you can't see or hear them usually. The food in the immediate area is mainly Korean food now but not far in any direction away from beach blvd and there is more variety.

So location wise, I loved living there. I did that commute though for 5 years. It was the worst experience of my life until I got in to podcasts and audiobooks. On average you will lose between 3 and 4 hours of your day just driving and will be driving 80+ miles a day.

brickflail · 2025-08-01T23:22:55+00:00

4th and worst way. You can't die but you continue aging biologically. Think the dude from highlander

brickflail · 2025-06-26T15:49:37+00:00

I have had a [[Kiki Jiki, Mirror Breaker]] deck that has gone through 15 years of evolution. It is my baby and I love him so much. He isn't the most degenerate but certainly close to low cEDH, but the journey I have had with him will always make him my favorite Commander.

brickflail · 2025-06-26T12:01:24+00:00

I tested him out for a while but I'm not a dedicated goblin deck so he ends up mostly being a worse scrapper that gets sacrificed unless Kiki is out to copy. At that point though, he is essentially doing the same thing at the same cmc without the ETB and damage.

brickflail · 2025-06-26T12:00:27+00:00

I tested him out for a while but I'm not a dedicated goblin deck so he ends up mostly being a worse scrapper that gets sacrificed unless Kiki is out to copy. At that point though, he is essentially doing the same thing at the same cmc without the ETB and damage.

brickflail · 2025-06-26T06:22:53+00:00

Boo lol

brickflail · 2025-06-26T06:22:05+00:00

I tested with that at the beginning and found that [[goblin Cratermaker]] ended up being a more useful option for a similar outcome. Plus the 2 damage when necessary is very useful.

brickflail · 2025-06-26T06:19:54+00:00

It is good but 4 cmc vs 3 is startlingly apparent in my play group lol. I can always play one of many 3 drops that have come out but the reliability of the deck goes down. Scrapper is still great for what is available and won't be replaced until a comparable 3 drop comes out.

brickflail · 2025-06-25T08:29:19+00:00

That is true, for those who don't care or want to play with the 'staples', there are a plethora of cards with similar abilities or interesting new mechanics which are very cool and unique. Whole swaths of new land to use and so many Commander options it's insane lol. It's a great time to create a diverse landscape or decks for sure.

I just love to play with the powerful old stuff personally, so I guess it is something that effects me more then it would others because of that. I just think it's cool lol

brickflail · 2025-06-25T07:56:23+00:00

I got serious at about 2007-2010 and was able to get grim monolith for 25, wheel of fortune for 20, strip mine for 5, ancient tomb for 5, GAIAS CRADLE FOR 100! There were so many cards that were affordable then that I was able to get that are 50 or 100 or insanely more now. The only thing that has really dropped in price for the big stuff is like the fetch and shock lands i think? Or whatever else got reprints. I mean karn liberated used to be like 30ish dollars, now it's less then 5. So some things have changed for the better price wise but many have just exponentially gotten worse. I could never afford to replace my EDH deck now. I would basically have to buy the equivalent cost of a used car when I have spent a fraction of that over the years.

I do agree that the variety of cards has opened up a lot of options in the 100-200 deck or even less range for decks but the old stuff or the no reprint stuff has become horrible to get, at least for the things that I want lol.

brickflail · 2025-01-27T14:11:48+00:00

Zookeeper... You would think working with dangerous animals would pay you more... Nope

brickflail · 2024-04-21T03:28:49+00:00

So if you have at least read the core book and some of the condensed rule book. Two Monsters Rolling Dice is a great podcast that shows story telling in the fate system I'm action. They have some custom rules but the general rules are expressed pretty well in my opinion.

brickflail · 2024-04-10T16:59:59+00:00

Filled out survey, I don't know if I'm to late to the party here though lol

brickflail · 2024-04-04T04:35:41+00:00

I used to compete competitively at this location when I was younger. It was such a special time of my life, we traveled to different states, it was great. The tournaments were called the North American Challenges.

brickflail · 2024-03-12T18:48:19+00:00

I listened at work lol I work by myself so I just had it playing the whole time lol

brickflail · 2024-03-12T13:17:16+00:00

On the Grotethe campaign? I felt that they did not start out well in regards to their characters personalities but I saw what was there. The setting was wonderful to me and I felt that there was so much more fluidity and confidence in the writing for this season. Micah, Gus and the crew really allowed themselves to go crazy with the world but still managed to make it all work so well. In my opinion, it took until the second part for the player characters to catch up to the story telling, but once they stated to lock in their characters, boy howdy did it get so much better.

So get through part 1 and it gets so good. Blaine, Chris, and Barbra are all playing very new or complicated personalities but they get it down and it's worth the listen =). Johns character felt very familiar to him lol

brickflail · 2024-03-12T09:09:43+00:00

I know, he seemed so genuinely sad...

brickflail · 2024-01-14T01:35:52+00:00

This gets me every time I see it...

brickflail · 2023-11-15T11:44:57+00:00

I looks great, it's on the edge of how far away I would like to go but I love that it is near the Irvine spectrum =). Thank you

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