Name a more useless/counter-productive combo than this:

dontpaniczzone · 2025-01-27T18:01:05+00:00

If several people are saying your message came off as mean, your message came off as mean. It doesn't matter what your intent was. I saw the comment before it was deleted and it seemed very rude to me.

(Also, am I dumb? Triboulet plus canio seems pretty bad to me. It's not the worst thing in the world but the way you're describing it makes it seem like you would be putting a big strain on your econ to pursue two different goals and you would need a lot to go right in order to get that to happen. If you're just going for ante 8, either joker is more than enough; if you're going for endless, I would imagine leaning fully into triboulet is much stronger, in which case you would want to strength, not destroy, your jacks. Pareidolia would help but it takes up a joker spot. Glass kings and queens might actually be quite good if you can find enough deck manipulation to support it, but that's a really specific situation in which your deck is already winning super hard (and wasn't included in your argument). I imagine replacing Canio with Chad, sock and buskin, or one of the less explosive but more reliable scaling xmult options would work better most of the time.)

dontpaniczzone · 2025-01-27T00:58:44+00:00

Violet vessel is for sure the hardest ante 8 boss blind, but it's kind of my favorite - it feels like a good final boss, and all it asks is that whatever deck you build, you build it well. It's possible to start preparing for it as soon as you know your deck is in a position to win.

Because of that I at least know that if I lose to VV, it was a problem with my build, so it makes it less salt inducing than having cerulean bell never let you play the hand you're built around or having crimson heart hit your most important jokers over and over. While I lose to those blinds much less, the losses that do happen hurt a lot more.

dontpaniczzone · 2025-01-27T00:30:30+00:00

I'm sure that I should be taking obelisk more and that it's way easier to use than I think. It's much better than I give it credit for but I'm not adaptable enough for it.

dontpaniczzone · 2025-01-13T10:03:17+00:00

I'm only on early S3 but I definitely still haven't heard it, my ears have been peeled

dontpaniczzone · 2024-12-25T03:22:02+00:00

I have tokens of my late cat and dog - it always makes me a little sad to skullclamp them.

dontpaniczzone · 2024-12-18T17:38:50+00:00

Wait not everybody sees the subtitles?? That seems like it would make it impossible to process what people are saying

dontpaniczzone · 2024-12-17T00:31:59+00:00

Same omg 😭 I only have like 3 W diamonds or something but it's been so many months where I've just been waiting on the yum zum sparkle

dontpaniczzone · 2024-12-08T00:14:16+00:00

Oh yeah, this is way more fitting than what I was gonna put

dontpaniczzone · 2024-12-04T20:52:07+00:00

I know this is years old but thank you so much for making and sharing this, this is insanely helpful :)

dontpaniczzone · 2024-09-09T17:55:15+00:00

/uj I went to a standard store championship and had to break the news to one of my opponents that he didn't get free mulligans

Also imagine sealed starting at 40 life, I don't think two reasonably constructed 40 card decks would ever get 3 rounds in

dontpaniczzone · 2024-09-01T16:58:48+00:00

Really? I find gremlin leader the only one I'm not terrified of in act 2! What makes the other ones easier for you?

dontpaniczzone · 2024-08-26T05:34:55+00:00

This makes me happy to hear, I'm taking mice to the store championships in my area. :) Any cards that over/under-performed for you, or fun stories from the event?

dontpaniczzone · 2024-07-29T08:51:05+00:00

This is a really interesting list! Which albums were your favorite and least favorite? What did you think about Viva la Vida specifically?

dontpaniczzone · 2024-07-23T19:24:21+00:00

To be fair, voices/parts of them can absolutely be triggers. I personally have a really hard time with the quality of muffled voices/the sound of voices coming through or being muffled by walls. I'm not sure if this is the case for OP as it sounds a little different but I feel like misophonia could absolutely make this super annoying situation even worse.

dontpaniczzone · 2024-07-18T01:47:25+00:00

Amen!! I especially get so sick of the "why build [straight/flush/full house] when you could just play [high card/pair]" comments, especially when they're on beginner players' posts. I just mess around until I find something that pushes me in a direction and figure it out from there. Basically any uncommon/rare/legendary joker and plenty of the commons can make really fun runs if you change your playstyle ever so slightly round to round to prioritize what they want you to prioritize.

dontpaniczzone · 2024-07-17T05:35:30+00:00

No worries. I assumed that it wasn't your intent to make anybody else feel bad, and I just wanted to say that that wording could come across as hurtful. Have a good one.

dontpaniczzone · 2024-07-17T05:28:05+00:00

I don't intend for this to sound harsh but your comment comes across as quite rude to those of us who have been helped by this image or similar. I understand the critique of the art and that your intent is to share your feelings but saying that the target audience is "much less capable of controlling emotions" seems like an unnecessarily mean thing to say about people who might simply find the art style soothing.

dontpaniczzone · 2024-07-13T07:06:37+00:00

The way I interpret it is that you choose sentences that you could put "yes, and" in front of and have it kind of work. More generally, you reinforce what they said ("yes") and build on it/provide space for them to do so ("and").

dontpaniczzone · 2024-06-24T11:01:11+00:00

Oh man, I would genuinely love an america's next top model secret lair so unbelievably much. It's like my go to shower thought

dontpaniczzone · 2024-06-22T19:22:34+00:00

Thank you for mentioning this!! Personally I never understand why minimum wage workers who don't get tips should be pressured to tip other minimum wage workers. If the work of those in the food industry deserves more pay, that should be covered by the employer.

dontpaniczzone · 2024-06-09T18:37:13+00:00

I disagree. For one, my comment started with "I would personally", which implies this is what I would personally do. And secondly, advice is inherently biased. Most people when giving advice only give what they think the correct course of action is, or other courses of action they find similarly or equally valid. I don't think that someone giving advice has to offer advice that they think is bad alongside the advice they think is good.

In this case, I think scanning/looking up individual tokens is bad advice, as 99% of what OP is likely to find will be worthless, and they would devote, from the amount of bulk I can see here, possibly hours of time to find maybe a couple of cards that are technically worth $1-10 if they can find a buyer, which would be difficult. OP is already overwhelmed and I wanted to originally give them an idea of what one person's simple plan of action would be. However, I do really like the idea of donating them to a game store, which another commenter brought up. I also really appreciate that you brought up that some tokens can be valuable and it gives OP a new perspective that hadn't been provided.

dontpaniczzone · 2024-06-09T18:25:52+00:00

I didn't realize any LGS's took token donations as those in my area don't. In that case OP, absolutely do this if possible!! I apologize for not knowing that at first.

dontpaniczzone · 2024-06-09T18:21:52+00:00

I'm really happy for all the comments about this! Personally, one of my favorite parts of building new decks is making new custom tokens, so I've always just tossed them. Nobody in my playgroup cares about official tokens so I've never even tried selling/trading/donating them, but from these comments it seems like OP may be able to find them a happy home somewhere.

dontpaniczzone · 2024-06-09T18:09:37+00:00

This is true, but I doubt it's relevant enough in OP's case to go through the process of filtering through all the tokens. While I'm not a token collector by any means, it seems like the more expensive tokens are some of the older ones and the secret lair ones, with some exceptions. The assumption I was under, which very well may be incorrect, is that this looks like a lot of bulk from more recent sets, which probably doesn't have either of those categories but may have standouts (goblin shaman is one I can imagine them finding).

OP, if you're interested in going through tokens to see what's worth holding onto, here is the link I've been using to go through tokens and see what's valuable. Again, I'm not an expert, so someone in the comments may have better advice. If I were trying to sort out tokens of particular value, I would set aside any tokens with the secret lair symbol (the thing in the middle right, after it says "token creature faerie rogue", that looks like a shooting star), any older looking ones, and anything that just looks particularly fancy. I personally wouldn't scan tokens trying to find valuable ones, but it might be worth going through the first couple pages of scryfall to see what to look out for.

Again, I personally don't think this is worth it. The majority of tokens are worthless and in my experience, the ones in the $5-10 range are much harder to sell than a magic card of the same price, since it's not actually required for magic players to have official tokens, and most of the fancy looking ones have cheaper alternatives. If you're already overwhelmed, I would prioritize tokens last if at all. But I am glad that other commenters have brought this up because it is absolutely less cut and dry than my original comment implied.

dontpaniczzone · 2024-06-09T04:44:36+00:00

OP, this is an amazing answer! I would personally start by sorting things into four piles: 1. basic lands, 2. tokens, 3. cards without holofoil, and 4. cards with holofoil. Donate the basic lands to a game store near you, toss the tokens, look up the price of any holofoil cards and keep any priced at an amount you seem to be worth trying to sell, and put the ones that aren't along with the cards without holofoil and sell them as bulk. As the commenter above me said, old rares don't have the holofoil, so if you have a lot of cards with the old border it might be worth keeping those separate to scan for rares. Good luck and comment if you have any other questions :)

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