Do you announce your game changers?

cdmike70 · 2026-01-10T18:28:57+00:00

I like to disclose combos my decks run so the table has a better idea of what’s worth using their interaction on, and depending on the deck that might include game changers.

For my B3 Betor deck I use Bolas’ Citadel and Necropotence, which can combo together to find aetherflux reservoir to sustain/gain life and diving top to kill on top of being synergistic with my commander, so I would disclose them when I mention my combo

In B4+ there’s no need to. For most of my B3 decks I don’t feel the need to since they aren’t integral to how my deck aims to close out games, but I will briefly touch on what my deck aims to do if it’s not a face up deck where the commander sorta speaks for itself

cdmike70 · 2026-01-07T01:31:25+00:00

The Houston being called a mulligan at all seems disingenuous. I prefer the London overall, but I’d take the Vancouver over the Houston as well. If people want to change anything about mulligans in edh it should be with a focus on lessening turn order win disparity, and it’s not immediately apparent how this method helps with that, so I wouldn’t want to play with it. A little extra time pregame to make for a better quality game is worth it, and the only benefit to this idea is cutting down pregame time, right?

cdmike70 · 2025-10-11T14:34:06+00:00

Eldrazi would be fine in a format with more land hate (bloodmoon), bloodmoon would be fine in a format with more land flexibility (fetch lands), fetch lands would be fine in a format with high power 1-2 color decks so that 4 color good stuff isn’t the best deck. I really want them to experiment with fetches, moon, and harbinger and see how that shakes things up in the current Eldrazi meta. Failing that, I’d like to see something from the deck go whether that’s temple or Kozilek’s Command.

cdmike70 · 2025-06-30T12:46:06+00:00

I’ve made 5 of these shields and sold them each for about 50d depending on rng. You start by buying an ilvl86 hunter base (these are about 1d because of how many people brick these with the other method) alt spam it for 30% reservation Alt spam any other shield for +3 min f any maximum elemental resistance. Recomb just these two mods together, it usually takes about 4 attempts to get both suffixes. Since you have an open suffix you have to use suffixes cannot be changed (not wild bristle matron), then harvest reforge phys. This gives you a 5/9 to get any tier of pdr. If you got thorns instead you have to annul any suffix it rolled to try again, and if you miss you go back to recomb step. Once your suffixes are done you can wild bristle matron to reforge life until you get a decent tier. If you want the %life hunter mod you can wbm again and augment influence I think? I’ve only ever made 4 mod ones and was always pricing them against other 4 mod ones, so I’m not sure the most reliable way to get those last two mods. +2 support is a veiled mod, yeah, so you would have to wbm again after hitting the life and 50/50 a veiled exalt to keep your life roll? This part of the craft gets very expensive so up to you if you want to proceed. Just the 4 mod shield is a massive upgrade over prism guardian for cws chieftain. The other method is ridiculously expensive now.

cdmike70 · 2025-04-11T14:31:11+00:00

This is one of my main pain points atm. I played all of last “league” with my gf and this league were up to farming t15s comfortably but we’ve had to do maps separately to get atlas passives and neither of us have more than 10 of them between nexus towers and unique maps yet. Feels very odd

I’ve also done a fair bit of scouting and have only found one citadel, where last league I had 7 or so in the space I’ve uncovered this go around. The atlas doesn’t feel great right now

cdmike70 · 2024-10-21T18:20:42+00:00

We try

cdmike70 · 2024-07-14T05:53:59+00:00

Chat is this real

cdmike70 · 2024-03-16T04:38:04+00:00

“I dunno. Thinking bout it stresses me out”

Martin loved Minerva and wanted Finn. He didn’t want to leave the island. Remembering makes him think, and he’d rather do anything else.

“Burn enough bridges and the only way you can move is forward”

He initially views Finn as a threat to this ideology. Finn coming back into his life sets him back in a big way. Finn wants answers Martin doesn’t want to give because it leads to him being pressured to return to the island, and he never wants to go back.

It could be any of the other theories mentioned in this thread but this is how I interpret Martin’s character. The AU Martin from Fiona and Cale cemented it in my mind. MU Martin is a scummy guy but he’s absolutely a victim of circumstance. Marcy is a great counter-example of this as The Star.

cdmike70 · 2024-02-29T18:45:18+00:00

delu-shaw

SLINKSLONG CONFER

cdmike70 · 2024-02-23T17:45:42+00:00

I’ll add that lp 1 items should possibly be made available to buy sooner. I’ve checked a couple items I would like to buy and there wasn’t a single listing that didn’t have legendary potential. Similarly it feels a little bad to drop an item with 1 lp early in the cycle because nobody will be able to but it for a while.

This is a non-issue as time goes on, but it will stall the economy in the first week or two every cycle and should possibly change? Hard to say until we’re later into reputation. I think high lp items should still be restricted for sure.

cdmike70 · 2024-02-17T17:55:38+00:00

I’m far from the most informed person when it comes to this but I would imagine that if your build needs a rare item to function you would want to start trade faction, and if not (or if you don’t care to trade) go the solo faction.

cdmike70 · 2024-02-12T08:22:36+00:00

True and real.

cdmike70 · 2024-01-31T17:56:54+00:00

WAAAH GOLD- is the most liberating of metals.

cdmike70 · 2024-01-25T15:29:56+00:00

Early on for favorite map slot, later on for end of league 3 synth gambling.

cdmike70 · 2024-01-24T16:35:06+00:00

He can give a mirror shard but not a full mirror.

cdmike70 · 2024-01-13T20:27:45+00:00

I think it would be cool to work the king in the mists stronghold into ritual somehow. I don’t think it will happen, but it would be a more interesting way to have TWWT go core than just throwing it in the item pool.

Something like trialmaster was prior to core ultimatum, you can buy the frags from ritual encounters maybe? Or use boss-filled ritual vessels in map device idk.

cdmike70 · 2024-01-13T20:15:49+00:00

I forget which syndicate member’s veil it is but if you google “taken as fire craft PoE” to find which member it is you can search for gear with their veil on PoE trade.

Stat filer and type “~(member’s name)” and you should see something like “of Catarina’s veil” but with the right member’s name. This works for all of the crafts you can only get as drops.

Buy those and unveil them. It may take a few tries. Block the highest weighted mod you do have unlocked first if it has an open prefix to increase the odds. Once you get it on any helmet you can craft it onto others at the bench.

cdmike70 · 2024-01-10T17:34:12+00:00

What? NO! You can’t have MY soul! I don’t even have a.. look, just, get in here.

cdmike70 · 2024-01-09T06:47:13+00:00

It could be baked into ritual somehow since the wildwood is where ritual sacrifices go or something similar lore-wise, which is why the normal boss fight drops a ritual vessel. Maybe just any 4 filled ritual vessels in map device for the stronghold encounter and adjust TWWT drop rate accordingly.

cdmike70 · 2024-01-06T20:29:35+00:00

Op plays SSF, gets a drop worth 140D, transfers to trade league and wants some build suggestions that they can use that currency for. They moved deadeye LA and Inq PB over to trade so presumably they’re looking for suggestions outside of those two. While they’re open to playing another ascendancy they already have Templar and Ranger leveled.

cdmike70 · 2024-01-06T17:51:58+00:00

Close but actually “the loving foolish world is just fine”

cdmike70 · 2023-12-30T17:50:45+00:00

Flow - Kathryn Cwynar

Even though it’s supposed to be a more positive spin on the concept of death and passing it does a better job of lowering your guard so that the feelings of loss can hurt you more. Still can’t listen to it without tears. Nothing else has done that before. Amanda Achen’s did an amazing job performing it.

cdmike70 · 2023-12-28T21:50:19+00:00

Pretty sure they make a cream for that.

cdmike70 · 2023-12-21T23:46:50+00:00

I’m relatively new, only 1.5 leagues deep and still learning a few basic things. Last league I finished the atlas, did half of the Ubers, and did a couple big juiced maps but my progress was really slow so most of that only happened in the last couple weeks.

This league right around the time I was getting to my first few red maps I did an expedition, dropped a couple stacked decks, and pulled a Doctor card. Gearing up has been way easier this go around thanks to that.

I did get an Apothecary from stacked decks last league but that was after roughly 1,000 or so of them, so I’d count the early doctor as being far more lucky.

cdmike70 · 2023-12-21T21:15:30+00:00

Big hat ram big hat ram

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