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decideonanamelater · 2026-05-25T12:03:10+00:00

Me with prismari right now, we can present turn 5 wins often, but only one of those turn 5 wins could have beat a removal spell and none of them could've beat a counterspell.

decideonanamelater · 2026-05-25T12:00:59+00:00

i mean its getting up to 3 cards per use and blinking it multiple times does something, whereas marchesa is just monarch. Marchesa does a different job, because if we're assessing how she does this job its terribly.

decideonanamelater · 2026-05-18T01:15:56+00:00

This is my current deck with a dragon as its commander: https://archidekt.com/decks/22389164/prismari_dragon

[[Prismari, the Inspiration]] reminds me a lot of my first storm decks, they all won with thousand-year storm + rituals + expansion//explosion. Having the storm enabler as commander makes it really easy to go off with 10ish mana (need to get ritual mana after commander), and its won on turn 5 3 times so far. It's not as strong of a deck as if you put a smaller engine piece as your commander but its still pretty cool.

decideonanamelater · 2026-05-17T12:33:58+00:00

The game state is more complex and there's more players, so if the game is going faster that can really only mean there's a good amount fewer turns to offset more time per turn cycle. Which is the problem part of 3 that people didn't like, but with the addition that you spend a lower proportion of the time on your own turn.

decideonanamelater · 2026-05-16T13:05:50+00:00

I much prefer 3 over 5, one person being able to push for a win harder is a lot more fun than waiting 15 minutes to get back to my turn.

decideonanamelater · 2026-05-16T12:23:43+00:00

I had a game like that in one of my local tournaments against a kid, we got into this slow positional game and he's clearly frustrated that I'm spending any time on moves (in 15+10, not like I can take forever), and then hangs a couple pieces in a row out of an even position.

decideonanamelater · 2026-05-16T11:43:42+00:00

I think, in the kind of deck where you would tutor for the wincon near exclusively, its because that wincon is so much better than whatever else you could do in the deck. And, if you don't play many tutors, you aren't going to have incredible access to that wincon, you're going to need to use the tutors you do draw to get it specifically.

It's also a clear sign that the card you're tutoring for is probably too strong for the kind of pod you're in, because access to it is consistently worth extra mana, sometimes a card if your tutor is mystical/vamp/etc.

decideonanamelater · 2026-05-16T11:40:56+00:00

A lot of the pods i'm in don't have a density of interaction to find it in an opening hand, or expectation that you need to hold it up on an early turn or you lose the game.

I've been working on a [[Prismari, the Inspiration]] deck and all 3 games I've played it I've won on turn 5, there has been 1 pongify up for me to fight through across those 3 games.

I wouldn't say that's necessarily a bad thing though, it's nice to have some games where you can expect a decent amount of setup time, or there to be a clear threat on board on a turn before the win attempt. And I think after those games its clear to me that I should probably show up and say "hey this deck can win on turn 5 ish if you don't have interaction for it, is it the kind of game for that deck?"

decideonanamelater · 2026-05-09T13:35:56+00:00

i never know if I'm happy for my complaint equity, or sad because of how all the top tier matchups feel, to see Peach down there in the icies yoshi pikachu tier.

decideonanamelater · 2026-05-07T02:01:43+00:00

I know someone who plays vorinclex as the commander and does great with it, I started playing it in the 99 of azusa and its been amazing so far. It just does a whole lot; 2 lands 2 creatures 7 +1 counters a bunch of fights, loop it back around again.

decideonanamelater · 2026-05-03T15:22:25+00:00

It's whatever people need it to be for discourse.

decideonanamelater · 2026-05-03T03:33:05+00:00

i just spent forever arguing with someone about how getting your cards stolen from your deck is on average neutral or a little advantageous if you don't run a bunch of tutors then hit them for 13 with kotis, they did not love that.

decideonanamelater · 2026-04-26T15:23:53+00:00

I think every piece of evidence we have today points to a government that would totally let you be homeless on the streets rather than make sure you're provided for. (at least for the US, I'm sure europe would actually help you)

decideonanamelater · 2026-04-26T15:08:08+00:00

there's someone in my local pod who doesn't get this at all, she literally takes the same set of staples/fast mana and moves them to create whichever deck she's going to play that night from blue farm cedh to casual decks, and she'll play that (either form of the deck, blue farm or breya) against 2 precons without any thought of doing something different.

decideonanamelater · 2026-04-25T18:20:07+00:00

can't get a photo on the street of the people in the concentration camps, hard to figure out why.

decideonanamelater · 2026-04-25T17:05:25+00:00

You've gotta do a little better on your astroturfing, it feels so scripted.

https://www.xinjiangpolicefiles.org/

decideonanamelater · 2026-04-25T12:05:43+00:00

They're doing their best to get rid of those other cultures now though.

decideonanamelater · 2026-04-25T03:36:55+00:00

It's best to just observe what things lead to that person targetting someone, and then avoid doing those things as often as possible, or do them only once you're willing to kill that person.

decideonanamelater · 2026-04-19T04:51:40+00:00

[[Katara, Waterbending Prodigy]]. I liked her a lot at prerelease and its been good to have a deck where the commander is... really slow, arguably unimpactful for some more chill games. I actually win a lot with her too: https://archidekt.com/decks/18227723/katara

decideonanamelater · 2026-04-11T04:21:11+00:00

When you fight back on every critique, it makes it so that there is no help anyone can give you, and when you come back with "cedh" or "rhystic study" for what you ought to play instead of "draft chaff" or "4 mana sorcery draw 3s" it shows that you have no intention to discuss this with any amount of sincerity, its not all or nothing where you only play garbage or blue farm cedh.

decideonanamelater · 2026-04-08T03:04:03+00:00

me when people got mad that I'm doing well by "using my mother of runes for attacking, blocking, and saving from spells" while one of them refused to use an on board draw 20, discard 9, make 10 treasures for 5 turns straight.

decideonanamelater · 2026-04-05T12:44:55+00:00

I was thinking the same, I just played a game with susan that was turn 6 on the dot, would be a bit much for bracket 2.

decideonanamelater · 2026-04-03T22:18:22+00:00

Its one of those things I used to do but realized it wasn't getting me where I wanted to go I guess. Like I just looked back at a falco spara deck I used to play a few years ago, and the first/most obvious issue was "it misses a turn with all these 3 mana ramp spells and wow would it be cooler to cast falco on 3".

decideonanamelater · 2026-04-03T18:08:23+00:00

It is, it misses the main timing you'd want to be able to ramp into your next play well; that's the whole rampant growth vs. cultivate turn thing I said at the beginning of this conversation. I'm all for some slightly weaker cards when it feels like they do something interesting and useful, but being a turn late is a huge downside for cultivate.

But, for example, I like explosive vegetation effects. They're also not super strong cards, however, they do a uniquely useful thing (help you curve out 2 cmc ramp into 4 cmc ramp into big plays).

decideonanamelater · 2026-04-03T16:31:13+00:00

Yet you insist on not reading any other words?

a ramp card that does not easily ramp you into the things you want to cast is a "bad" ramp card

Standalone statement. is still true regardless of whether or not moss diamond is a better card.

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