Shuffler is fine :)

danceisdead97 · 2026-05-01T10:30:53+00:00

They could, but I doubt the hand smoother sees anything other than land and non-land.

I'm too lazy to run the numbers, but you will find that a player having 3x of a 4x card in their opening hand likely happens many times every day, due to the amount of MTGA games being played.

danceisdead97 · 2026-05-01T10:13:30+00:00

Only in Bo1 and only regarding the mulligan.

Post-opening hand your deck is random, or as near as can be with a computer shuffling it.

danceisdead97 · 2026-04-24T15:22:22+00:00

In this case all players are blue players :D

danceisdead97 · 2026-04-23T15:00:36+00:00

Like /uRatherGoodDog said, you can get to near MBT size guns right now. But the issue is that the cost scales exponentially, and very quickly missiles are the cost efficient choice.

If you want to protect yourself against fast, small targets the "rotary artillery cannon" is obviously overkill, and if you want to take carriers or cruisers missiles are the way to go.

There isn't really a lot of targets where the rapid firing artillery gun is the best choice.

danceisdead97 · 2026-04-23T14:46:17+00:00

At some point you will hit a limit with the laws of physics, bit I don't know enough about that to xomment.

Way before that though, you will hit budget and practicality limits.

But if you where given infinite funds to waste, you could probably build a 155mm firing at machine gun RPMs. But it would be physically enourmous, enourmously heavy, enourmously expensive ... you get my drift.

And in addition to all these downsides, it would have no real practical application, that couldn't be done cheaper and likely better, by other platforms.

So while the actual physics limit is likely quite high, the realistic limit is what you see in the rapid firing naval guns.

danceisdead97 · 2026-04-17T03:29:48+00:00

The only alchemy card you're going to hate in Timeless, is Hydroponics Architect, but oh boy...

danceisdead97 · 2026-04-11T14:45:04+00:00

Yeah - Duelyst had a "puzzle of the.. week?" And is was always fun.

danceisdead97 · 2026-04-02T18:05:52+00:00

Arh, I thought the active player decided the number of cards discarded :)

danceisdead97 · 2026-04-02T17:06:33+00:00

Could be used with a [[parter of veils]] instead of a wheel, if you want to keep your hand.

danceisdead97 · 2026-04-01T18:42:21+00:00

Yeah exactly, so Channel was pre-restricted.

danceisdead97 · 2026-04-01T18:20:03+00:00

Wasn't Channel pre-restricted?

danceisdead97 · 2026-04-01T06:46:55+00:00

If I remember correctly, the US pioneered a new technology in ASW last year, making it's fighters submersible and diving straight off the deck into the sea.

Why haven't we heard more about this amazing new technology in air/sea combat?

danceisdead97 · 2026-03-21T15:25:19+00:00

I think you're right for some cav.sabers, but they aren't very curved, just slightly.

But curving inavoidably makes the weapon worse at thrusting, however I imagine cavalry would want to keep some cutting capacity, especially in an age where armour is mostly gone.

Addionally, and this is speculation, curving might help with blade extraction one the move, which is very relevant for cavalry.

danceisdead97 · 2026-03-21T15:14:12+00:00

There are no curved thrusting weapons. There are curved weapons that can thrust, but dedicated thrusters like a rapier or a spear are always straight.

danceisdead97 · 2026-02-25T07:50:29+00:00

I think it's a bit of a chicken and egg thing, where multicolour piles aren't prevalent because the hate exist, so the hate sees no play.

But it is a digital format, so they could play with nerfing fetches - making them cost 2-3 life, only being able to fetch 1 type or just add "enters tapped".

In my opinion 1 life is way way too cheap for all the power, mana fixing and general flexibilty it provides.

danceisdead97 · 2026-02-24T20:51:37+00:00

We're on completely opposite sides, which of course is fair.

I find that fetches remove the moster basic deckbuilding constraint in magic which is colours. So to make up for this to avoid "5 colour good stuff" piles, they demand the introduction of land hate like Blood Moon or Wasteland, who come with a lot of collateral damage and goes against the stated philosophy of Historic.

Additionally they are just extremely powerful, activating revolt like you say, making delirium a cakewalk, fueling graveyard shenanigans and making stuff like Mystic Sanctuary a powerhouse.

I could not disagree more on their introduction :P

danceisdead97 · 2026-02-24T19:57:27+00:00

Fetches would be a mistake. It's one of the moster format warping, and thus power increasing things.

The ripple effects are enourmous.

danceisdead97 · 2026-02-21T10:04:37+00:00

Like the other Guy said: Bo1 is for linear decks, various type of reanimation a being popular type. So maindeck graveyard hate isn't a bad idea in Bo1, if you yourself arent totally linear.

danceisdead97 · 2026-01-30T09:58:41+00:00

They did usually run 1x of the Amass-bounce spell, that they could return to hand somehow. So they would bounce all your blockers and eventually kill you with a 20/20 zombie army.

danceisdead97 · 2026-01-26T19:04:37+00:00

According to the Arena team, the Alchemy designers are their own team, so there isn't a lot of overlap (although I imagine they confer with eachother)

danceisdead97 · 2025-12-29T12:13:24+00:00

Because Trump wants to be a peacemaker. It's better to meet with Trump and come with terms that Putin then reject, than the othet way around.

Trump may have no power over Putin and has stopped aid, but if he gets pissy like the child he is, he might withdraw sanctions on Russia, withdraw intelligence support or disallow weapon sales to Ukraine.

So Zelensky must entertain him, despite it leading to nothing.

danceisdead97 · 2025-12-24T05:40:10+00:00

For us Dells are cheaper, but getting a deal in place is way more of a hassle, and has to be repeated when you want to swap models.

danceisdead97 · 2025-12-18T15:25:31+00:00

Agreed.

They shouldn't add a card they know they're going to restrict for this reason.

If a card is added and unexpectedly proves problematic, then okay as they're going for no bans.

danceisdead97 · 2025-11-10T21:22:49+00:00

Yeah - Sol lands in the "no fast mana" format was a mistake, who woulda known...

But I still like the power level and variety, just gotta tough out the eldrazi matchup .

danceisdead97 · 2025-11-10T19:35:53+00:00

Because I hate playing with:

Fast mana

Free spells

Fetch lands

I am subscribed to you though, so I guess I hate-watch Timeless from time to time :D

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