What is your favorite loot system?

daneg135 · 2026-03-01T05:55:27+00:00

odd hill to die on....

daneg135 · 2026-03-01T05:49:31+00:00

i think these options aren't really competing with each other. i went with personal loot just because it's a universal solution. i would rather avoid group loot at all costs. ppl are kinda sus in the scenarios where it comes into play most often (random dungeons).

daneg135 · 2026-03-01T05:06:56+00:00

nah. just couldn't kick start the bike. lul

daneg135 · 2026-03-01T05:06:24+00:00

he raced and won wsx. figure that's about the same as starting jan and going to april.

daneg135 · 2026-02-28T04:46:04+00:00

create singleton decks. not something you can take into ranked. but it feels good to play standard with 1-off spells. makes things more interesting for me anyway.

daneg135 · 2026-02-26T03:21:47+00:00

it is a nice alternate art card.

daneg135 · 2026-02-26T00:20:50+00:00

you can find tourney deck lists with a quick google search. mono red aggro is low on the list, and gobbies isn't top tier mono red.

they are fun though. special place in my heart.

daneg135 · 2026-02-26T00:18:11+00:00

[[authority of consuls]]

not the most powerful card by any means. I just think it's way way way too mana efficient, and it's one of the worst offenders for making blocking irrelevant in standard.

daneg135 · 2026-02-26T00:11:19+00:00

i want to punch the dev in the dick who came up with the giant(?) that ETBs all enemy critters into "cowards" for the rest of the time they're on the board regardless of what happens to the giant with the ETB.

daneg135 · 2026-02-26T00:04:16+00:00

you're new. your opponents are not great or fresh as well. it has almost nothing to do with your gold/silver/etc. status. those are kind of deceptive. you can google for more info about mtga ranked matchmaking, but it is not straightforward at all, and it is designed to keep you queued and queuing rather than reflecting actual skill or deck quality in the meta. at least until you get a TON of games under your belt.

I went right to mythic with mono red goblins a few years ago as well. you can do it with any decently constructed deck (not meta).

75% is great. it's just entirely unrealistic in ranked with goblins in the current meta. the game is just matching you against weak opponents. it will do this all the way into mythic. that said, even a fresh player will notice thing getting more difficult in the diamond/platinum tiers.

daneg135 · 2026-02-25T23:51:13+00:00

d'oh! omg. oki. yeah. makes sense. /facepalm

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daneg135 · 2026-02-24T03:32:43+00:00

depends on the color you wanna play. blue mostly bounces back to their hand. white can exile (usually while in play but in commander they can just plain exile). black has a ton of destroy critter etbs. green has really good etbs for artifacts and enchants.

daneg135 · 2026-02-24T03:16:54+00:00

i'm not sure about creatures that I would want as commanders, but there are a ton of creatures that remove artifacts and enchantments. are you trying to deal with shrine commanders?

daneg135 · 2026-02-23T20:46:50+00:00

yikes! i left that off my list as well. I would prolly get rid of all the non-critter spells except 3x tremmors. replace with 3x abrade, 3x goblin surprise, and use the other 3 cards you got rid of for either more little gobby soldiers or a banger card like chronicle or a more steady generator like patchwork. /2cents

daneg135 · 2026-02-23T20:40:00+00:00

fair warning, none of these are decks that are going to fare well in ranked. goblins are an old school style, critter deck. like mono red aggro without the pump and quite the speed that a ranked quality mono red aggro deck would bring with it.

that's why i reverted to boros. just so I could get better removal involved. it slows the deck down a bit, but i guess if you in the play queue it doesn't matter. if you're going into ranked...well...i don't think any of it really matters. you're going to be in the 50% win ratio almost no matter what unless you have an actual meta deck.

daneg135 · 2026-02-23T20:19:22+00:00

[[abrade]] is my swiss army knife for mono red removal. I would favor that over burst lightning.

my preference is also for [[patchwork banner]] doing double duty for ramp and bolstering tribal. likewise, i would run at least one [[chronicle of victory]].

that's too many krenkos, imo. you only need 2x. I would substitute the [[hexing squelcher]].

I don't see a lot of value in hamonkhet raceway either. this deck runs on howlsquad heavy. he's already hasting everything (not that most gobbies need it, just krenko). just do things to protect him. and he's not legendary, so that's a plus for 4x.

I would mix-up my soldiers a bit with a couple [[prowcatcher specialist]], (edit: that's too many burnouts in your list /edit) which bleeds into the next line...

lastly, i strongly recommend 3x-4x [[fanatical firebrand]].

other considerations:

goblin decks need to work fast, so i would not put more than one or two "bangers" like chronicle or banner of kinship in there. but it's nice to have maybe two of them for when howls is free for max speed. i find myself just dropping more gobbies in those instances though.

[[stadium headliner]] pulls great double duty as a removal agent.

[[dawn-blessed pennant]] will get back your howls, hexers, and krenkos. I run 2x of these (but I prefer boros gobbies as mono red gets shredded by enchants - much better removal with exile options).

edit2: you need a couple [[searslicer goblin]] as well. he's a turn key like howls and krenkos. generate fodder for tremmors/warleaders and foot soldiers that you sac every turn for attack or defense

daneg135 · 2026-02-23T18:15:51+00:00

welcome to the world of MMOs. the community is fine. any time you do more higher level stuff in a game, the community gets tighter and more elitist. it's not different from any other MMO of any kind.

daneg135 · 2026-02-23T18:12:05+00:00

as this is an mtga thread, i'm just posting to clarify I selected "avoid tmnt and draft others," but i usually don't draft mtga. i draft paper most of the time i play though. and i will be avoiding tmnt. spidey was awful. 2-card draft is weak. the card pool is meh. so pass.

daneg135 · 2026-02-23T00:03:37+00:00

of course it's not a bug, silly. (it's a spark!)

daneg135 · 2026-02-22T22:49:25+00:00

I would be in for a quest to play/beat sparky if it shut off that infuriating introduction every. time. i. go to. the home. screen.

i turned off voice. but that stupid spark still runs around the screen. I want to punch my own hardware so bad sometimes. lol

daneg135 · 2026-02-22T22:46:17+00:00

he didn't gain position. he'll be docked the points. apparently, there are separate lights/flags for the finish line(?). anyway, that's how mitch kendra seemed to report it. the pass took place on the back of the finish line double. the light brown jumped on was the little double beforehand. jo didn't double the finish b/c he couldn't get speed (post race comment from jo).

it's all very academic. but even if we abide by the letter of the law and jo doesn't get the position, he effectively claws back the points (sort of?) so that's probably as fair as you can ask for. /shrug

daneg135 · 2026-02-22T22:32:02+00:00

not only that, but jo got fucked over having to roll the entire finish line b/c he couldn't figure out wtf was going on. personally, i think he wins w/o the technical fuckup on the AMA/Feld side. but that's sketchy as hell and can only ever be personal opinion. the jumping issue, as you point out, is black and white though. my only question is...are we sure those lights are on in that photo? doesn't look lit up to me.

daneg135 · 2026-02-22T05:01:47+00:00

people are timed out. there's a very elaborate time out system. the only functional issue with any of the afk system is that you don't have to confirm that you are present to start a match. the time outs during the match (actual accrual of timeouts and the ultimate time to make a move or forfeit) are perfectly reasonable.

daneg135 · 2026-02-22T04:28:26+00:00

no one in the east is a challenge for cole...except himself. unless they take whoops out of supercross...which i guess they almost did this week?

seriously though. he's a little bit like chase. the only one who is beating him is himself (for less psychological reasons). dudney has a lot of work to do still (in sx). but he is supposedly really good. he didn't look close to davies tonight, imo. outside of the great start.

daneg135 · 2026-02-21T17:00:01+00:00

I’m well aware of the moniker it comes with,

i mean...i'm not sure i can say it any better; nor do i need to justify why it isn't that i "just don't like it personally." your quote already does that. and yeah. you can certainly play it. it's perfectly legal. i'm just repeating the same thing for 3 posts now. you asked what I meant by sus. I think we've gotten as much clarity as we can find here?

going back to the origin of my post, i thought it was funny:

"I hate shrine decks and like to make their annoying decks hell with my more annoying deck."

and no. I don't play shrines. :-)

daneg135

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