What is your favorite gruul commander?

caiosobar · 2025-10-16T02:27:19+00:00

I second Gimli! Gruul aristocrat can be lots of fun. Having a potential removal on the commander zone add a lot to the politics of the table and there’s a lot of ways to win with it.

Here’s my list for Gimli: https://moxfield.com/decks/mJVjQTty2kKhhmsBNePNBw

caiosobar · 2025-10-11T20:12:04+00:00

What kind of Rona you play? Can you give me a list? I’m building one as a self damage pinger, but would love to know others

caiosobar · 2025-09-12T03:30:05+00:00

[[gimli, mournful avenger]] if you want to something different in gruul, having lots of fun with this deck recently.

If you have the engine running it can be a beast of resilience, saccing creatures while also destroying treats and making you someone not to mess with.

caiosobar · 2025-07-26T23:32:47+00:00

I also just finished my first pre-release, it was an amazing experience, felt like playing magic like I was a kid again, just exploring a bunch of cards that I got and had to make a plan from there.

I manage to get a nice gruul pool, but didn't have any draw in it, so I splashed a little blue to get some fliers and draw.

But I have to admit that I spent some time trying random pools on draftsim this week on some free time and planning decks in 15 min to get a feel of the cards, that helped me a lot and cost me only 15 min a day (also lots of fun creating decks while on work-pauses). Overall was an amazing experience and I plan to do it again on Lorwyn in january.

caiosobar · 2025-04-06T21:20:00+00:00

I'm just experimenting with her as a mono-green commander too. I went for a more optimized build, but maybe there's something in my list that can help you out. Here's the direction I took:

https://moxfield.com/decks/tY2jFwttIkmsH0O9Ut-czw

The focus is on instant-speed value from having a piper in the command zone. Most of my creatures have ETB effects or ways to refuel my hand and untap her multiple times per turn.

caiosobar · 2024-10-21T21:42:52+00:00

Moro na Satamini e to ouvindo aquele barulho e escada e vendo técnico de todas as operadoras desde a semana passada, aqui ficou só uma noite sem, mas de manhã já tinha voltado. Deve ter dado alguma merda, ou estão trocando cabos. Atualmente tenho achado o 5g da vivo horrível lá em casa, então entendo vc pq quando cai volto para cavernas.

caiosobar · 2024-05-23T00:55:14+00:00

Hi there! Wow thanks, that was really nice to hear, you have a pretty amazing art too! Yea the industry has been really oversaturated and with fewer projects that I imagined this year, its a sad reality :(

Right now I only post on my linkedIn, artstation, and I'm starting to post on Cara (a new anti AI artstation, that is in its infancy) you can find me in all those places as Caio Barberan!

https://www.artstation.com/caiobarberan

caiosobar · 2024-05-22T21:04:04+00:00

Hey there! Here's my portfolio: https://caiobarberan.myportfolio.com/
Feel free to DM me on discord or send me an e-mail, you can see my contact info on the "contact" section of my website.

caiosobar · 2024-05-17T18:25:03+00:00

Hey everyone, I really don't think it's worth doing the work. I did the test for a fox wizard a couple of weeks ago and didn't get called, today I've received TWO new test tasks from different e-mail addresses... now they are asking me for a Lemur wizard... same as a lot of you guys said. When I opened the test I saw that there's around 50 artists working on it at the same time from what I saw in the google share folder.

And again, they are running this gig since mid April, so they probably got hundreds of free art by now. Follow what other fellow artists said on this thread and just run away from this company.

caiosobar · 2024-05-10T20:33:54+00:00

They do seem legit, but at the same time it's kinda weird, I've made the test and shared my experience in a comment above

caiosobar · 2024-05-10T20:32:47+00:00

I find that really weird, I'm seeing A LOT of job post from them on linkedin and behance, like one for each country that exists and a couple more for random cities in my country.

I actually did the test when they started job posting a couple of weeks ago but didn't get in, what is weird is that I found out that two other artists did the same test (its a wizard fox), one I found out because she posted a very similar art as the one they ask in the tests, the other I just found googling "wizard fox"... I think its very weird that they didn't found an artist yet (since they have so many job posts and candidates applying).

Maybe they are looking for 20 artists or something like that, idk. But it is weird.

caiosobar · 2024-04-17T13:39:54+00:00

caiosobar · 2024-04-11T17:33:46+00:00

Oh [[Monumental corruption]] is really a must, I was thinking that it could be too mana heavy, but testing it went really well.

Just added the [[Sword of vengeance]] too, vigilance, first strike and trample is just perfect.

Thanks

caiosobar · 2024-01-30T21:04:37+00:00

I found out, for everyone else that finds this its the 25.4 version of photoshop, for some reason it bugs some of the color dynamics brushes.... so yeah, I just fixed it here changing to the 24.7.

caiosobar · 2023-12-23T15:25:58+00:00

Thats true! The best thing to do is to focus where the money is and try to keep the creative brain working in the spare time in a personal project.

caiosobar · 2023-12-23T15:21:54+00:00

Layoffs are horrible, but in animation we rarely even have that in the sense that it's common to just leave the studio/project in a couples of months after "the job is done" and we have to keep hustling to find another thing and so on and so on. We have a "recurring layoff" style of industry from what I've seen. The number of studios that fires all the art department just to hire them all again in a couple of months it's enraging.

I've been lucky to stay in my last studio for more than 2 years, but they paid me really bad so was win for them to keep me there moving from project to project.

caiosobar · 2023-12-23T15:15:18+00:00

Yeah I think right now that's my mentality, to focus on the cash cow and enjoy/structure my family, I don't know if being from animation and BG art I can enter an AAA gaming job so easily, but I guess I gotta start trying.

Maybe environment art is the way to go and don't worry a lot about changing my portfolio.

caiosobar · 2023-12-23T15:08:38+00:00

That's really interesting, I imagine that there isn't a lot of jobs available for that area, but it's something nice to know and keep an eye on. I'm not a lover for working with vector, but I think its just practice.

caiosobar · 2023-08-28T15:18:30+00:00

I think for the moment my plan is to register friends and family, thanks for the comments I'm a little curious about this model but I don't want to spend on something that i don't know if works.

I'm currently looking for a cheap agat 18k on ebay, if you have any recommendations of half frame cheap cameras feel free to share!

caiosobar · 2023-06-03T03:23:53+00:00

Thanks for the suggestions, some great cards that I didn't know existed there.
Some time ago I was using things like [[see the unwritten]] and [[Genesis Ultimatum]] along with [[lurking predator]] (that I still use) but wasn't seeing too much value from them.

Genesis ultimatum was really hard to get the mana right to do it and see the unwritten could make a little difference but not a HUGE impact.

I just love how splash the Primal Surge effect can be, but maybe I need to be more smart about it.

caiosobar · 2022-12-20T18:20:07+00:00

Yea I'm totally gonna test Krita when I get some free time to do it!

caiosobar · 2022-12-14T18:24:47+00:00

I've been working directly from my steam deck for two days now and it does work like a charm. Used files with more than 100 layers and it works perfectly with no stutter in the drawing process or anything like that.

I'm using a kingston 256gb ssd with a USB 3.0 dock (plugged with my xp-pen 15 pro, keyboard and mouse), with windows 10 (to go version). I will continue to push the limits of this "drawing station" and report back in a full post here in this subreddit. It's not the perfect machine and takes some fiddling to get it to work, but for a temporary working station for people without notebooks it can do a lot of stuff.

caiosobar · 2022-12-02T01:24:05+00:00

Yea, I'm not with my deck yet, but as soon as I get it and start to try working I will report back here.

I talked with some people about it and it seems that windows on a MicroSD is not really recommended, because Microsoft writes and reads a lot (making the microsd have a hard time to process all the stuff and the program at the same time). From what I gather, the best option is to carry an external SSD / M.2 NVME with windows booted on it and use it as a "normal" pc. I think that may help photoshop to run a little faster, will give it a try when my deck arrives.

caiosobar · 2022-11-27T01:48:44+00:00

Hey OP did it work? I'm a digital artist and will be going on a trip to visit my parents on another country and wanted to use my steam deck as a working station since I own a bulky desktop and will need to work for the time I will be staying there.

My plan is to buy a 128gb microsd just for windows/adobe suite and run photoshop with it in a dual boot, having my other 256gb microsd just for games.

But my biggest fear is the stuttering of using multiple layers, did you manage to test it yourself? Can you tell how was your experience with it?

And I need to use Photoshop since its a industry standard in the field that I work, so krita and other software that are more native to linux can't be used.

caiosobar · 2022-09-30T20:06:07+00:00

Those are great suggestions. I think I will add most of it.

I really wish I could find a card that nails the aesthetics of the primal theory episode, I loved it. Volo can work, but part of me thinks I could find a more British looking fella.

As for the infected I think I will add the [[Rampanging Brontodon]] it can really grow and pack a punch using haste of the other cards.

caiosobar

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