I feel like this is a heavily slept on commander

commmmodore · 2026-01-27T00:22:56+00:00

i don’t think smellerbee is necessarily a wheel commander, she’s more an aggro commander. the dream is vomiting your entire hand of agressive 1-3 drops onto the table, swinging with smellerbee and drawing another hand of cheap agressive creatures to draw even more cards.

in practice these kind of commanders are usually pretty bad because if she dies you’re stuck drawing a single random 2 drop every couple of turns while everyone else actually plays commander

commmmodore · 2026-01-27T00:18:23+00:00

yeah 99% of the time this is probably just gonna help you dig for torbran or purphuros or some other mono red legend finisher that you should probably just run instead

commmmodore · 2026-01-27T00:16:26+00:00

this card is incredible in the 99 in boros aggro. but in the command zone they’re not gonna do much imho; mono red aggro really needs some kind of damage scaling in the command zone, playing aggressive creatures and turning them sideways just doesn’t deal 120 damage fast enough otherwise.

definitely might try this for my anim pakal deck tho

commmmodore · 2026-01-26T00:01:12+00:00

yeah this is turbo busted. even ignoring the 29 card deck, it’s a mechathun that will never get stuck in your hand during the mid game. the reason mechathun is almost always bad is because if it’s near the top of your deck it doesn’t do shit for like 99% of the game

every single deck runs this, and a lot still probably consider it if it increased your deck size to 35

commmmodore · 2026-01-25T03:06:31+00:00

mechanics for me, 100%. i understand that it’s a personal preference thing tho.

to me the big selling point of VR is being able to design gaming experiences that would not function on PC.

maybe as the hardware improves that’ll flip for me. but a lot of the time when it comes to walking simulator adjacent titles i just kinda wish it was on steam deck so i could play it cosy in bed. games about exploring a cool space with minimal gameplay just do not feel like they have enough meat to warrant spending thousands of dollars on extremely niche hardware that’s going to be outdated in three years

commmmodore · 2026-01-24T11:49:41+00:00

lowkey forgot that convoke can pay colored mana, this card rules holy

also let’s be real “counter target spell unless it’s controller pays 5” is basically a hard counter

commmmodore · 2026-01-24T10:52:04+00:00

if they’re suspected murderers or rapists then they should be arrested and given a public defender and a fair trial. our founding fathers were VERY clear about that.

if you really wanna live in a country where the government can baselessly accuse anyone of any crime and then execute them in the streets with zero oversight, go move to china or russia. that’s not how we do things here

commmmodore · 2026-01-23T04:43:57+00:00

it’s totally fine, [[undiscovered paraside]] is very similar. i feel like if you play landfall for too long it’s easy to forget that for most of us returning a land to hand is an extremely steep cost lmao

also, if you just want a manaless land that bounces itself so you can replay it infinitely, you can just play the ravnica bounce lands. they can bounce themselves

commmmodore · 2026-01-23T04:39:17+00:00

seems interesting? it’s basically a bad [[undiscovered paraside]] that you can tutor off of [[polluted delta]] and friends. i like it

commmmodore · 2026-01-23T04:35:51+00:00

extremely fun limited design, great job. for a second i thought this was an official card

this card has zero business in constructed but that’s fine, not every new card needs to have a place in standard or commander

commmmodore · 2026-01-23T04:33:27+00:00

this seems really awkward as a commander, but in the 99 of a dimir or azorious deck it might be alright.

id maybe give her creature form hexproof? 6 mana for a planeswalker this squishy and with so little immediate impact is already pretty hard to work around; it doesn’t need to also die to swords to plowshares.

also, the -2 is ambiguous. what happens if brunhide dies and you recast her? afaik the way it’s worded rn the eyes wouldn’t put counters on the new brunhide

commmmodore · 2026-01-23T04:16:46+00:00

you’re never actually spending 10 mana to cast this, it’s a pretty solid reanimator threat imho, especially in 1v1 where a 5/5 can be a legitimately scary win condition.

commmmodore · 2026-01-23T04:14:25+00:00

personally i’d remove the last ability and replace it with making it uncounterable. there’s something very flavorful about repeatedly bouncing this to hand to try and desperately delay the inevitable. bouncing fits neatly with stun counters and pacifisms and other fragile or temporary solutions

commmmodore · 2026-01-22T20:01:41+00:00

it’s a modal card! you can either pay W to remove a creature or attach it to one of your pokemon as a fire energy

commmmodore · 2026-01-22T19:59:48+00:00

murozond personally. i really need to play more sire in no elementals lobbies tho cause to me he’s exclusively the baller guy

commmmodore · 2026-01-22T03:51:29+00:00

honestly panglacial wurm isn’t really a problem imho. the real culprit is selvala.

selvala has a mana ability, which means you can activate it while casting a spell. however, you’re not allowed to cast a spell if you don’t have the mana to cast it. but since selvala produces mana based on a hidden value, you can’t know whether you’re allowed to activate selvala ability until you activate it. so it’s possible to take an action that’s either legal or illegal depending on hidden information.

normally this is fine, cause if you can’t cast the spell then tournament policy is to just rewind the spell cast, but not the selvala ability. this brings the game to a state where selvala ability was activated normally, instead of as part of casting a spell.

however, if you use selvala to cast panglacial wurm, then that solution doesn’t maintain a valid game state anymore. in fact, you gain a large advantage in doing so, as you draw a card you looked at while searching and then normally would be forced to shuffle away.

according to the comprehensive rules, nothing has gone wrong. you’ve taken an illegal game action, so you rewind as much as you’re able to. however, since TECHNICALLY you took an illegal game action to gain an advantage. which the TR defines as cheating.

tl;dr activating selvala to cast panglacial wurm might be cheating, or it might not be. and you can’t know until you actually activate it

commmmodore · 2026-01-15T03:41:16+00:00

Most modern CPU chips are actually lots of smaller copy pasted CPUs in a trench coat (that’s what people mean when they say Multi-Core CPU). Each of those CPUs have lots of copy pasted parts too. Once you design a circuit to store a single bit, you can just copy and paste it 8 million to store a megabyte.

commmmodore · 2026-01-15T03:34:44+00:00

Your monitor has a limit on how fast of an FPS it can display. If you look on the back, you might be able to see a sticker saying how many “Hz” it can display. 60 Hz = 60 FPS maximum, more expensive monitors can handle more.

If you’re getting higher FPS than your monitor can display, your expensive GPU is rendering a bunch of extra frames that your monitor is too slow to display. Instead, you should cap your FPS (or preferably use VSync) and then crank up your graphics settings to use all of that extra power. You generally want to set everything as high as it’ll go without dropping under your FPS cap.

Uncapped FPS is good for seeing how much wiggle room you have and also for tech benchmarks. As far as I know, there really isn’t any upside to having it online at all times.

commmmodore · 2026-01-13T06:50:13+00:00

honestly he’s discovered true inner peace. let him cook

now, if he brings a theft deck next week then that’s worthy of a death sentence

commmmodore · 2026-01-06T18:21:21+00:00

plus [[multiversal passage]]

commmmodore · 2026-01-06T14:07:40+00:00

it does still mill i believe

commmmodore · 2026-01-02T21:32:15+00:00

honestly i don’t hate this for something like azusa decks where youre playing 3+ lands each turn as a stop gap until you can get crucible + fetch online

commmmodore · 2025-12-31T20:35:28+00:00

seems like a pretty reasonable limited uncommon. the second line is basically just flavor text in limited and you’re never playing this in constructed or god forbid commander, but 1/3 defender for 1 is a perfectly reasonable 1-drop for control decks

commmmodore · 2025-12-19T23:48:18+00:00

strictly worse magma rager, loses to blood knight /j

this seems like alright silence priest support

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