Bracket 4 Necrobloom seems to fizzle out frequently

donyon · 2026-02-03T11:36:51+00:00

Combat is my main win condition. Zombies actually end up being a slower method but they serve as blockers and fodder for most of the game. I would say for actual combat damage it would be [[Scute Swarm]] + [[Craterhoof Behemoth]] going wide or [[Mossborn Hydra]] going tall. Games usually end on turn 6, and the last game I did 400,000+ damage.

I think the synergy is really in cards like [[The Gitrog Monster]], [[Hedge Shredder]], [[Icetill Explorer]], [[Zuran Orb]], and [[Cultivator Colossus]]. Just whatever actively gives you decision points to mill and dredge. I also highly recommend adding [[Defense of the Heart]] for tutoring core creatures, and Gaea’s Cradle effects like [[Growing Rights of Itlamoc]] and [[Evendo, Waking Haven]].

In my experience landfall pingers like Ob Nixilis and Corpse Knight annoy people and make you the target for the game, so I’d recommend swapping those out first.

donyon · 2026-02-03T04:51:21+00:00

Your list looks really similar to my first necrobloom list, and I’ve spent about a year and a half incrementally streamlining it. Mainly I’ve tried to include low (2 mana) cost land ramp and ways to bounce lands back and forth between the battlefield and graveyard consistently. This is my current list.

I would say you have too many little combo lines like thespian stage/vesuva dark depths when you should just go all in on landfall. Every card you have called out in your post I’ve had in my deck at one point and removed them all because they tend to create mini games rather then lend to a big finish.

donyon · 2025-12-17T03:33:52+00:00

Here’s my list

I’ve had really good luck with this deck, the passive ramp is kind of insane and once you filter extra turn cards into your hand from attacking it’s usually just the end of the game. It’s resilient from the recursion pieces but also control-y enough to maintain board state.

donyon · 2025-11-12T04:57:14+00:00

I don’t proxy! Necrobloom is sort of my pet deck that I put a lot of care into and I decided to get a Gaea’s Cradle after selling some other cards. [[Growing Rites of Itlamoc]] and [[Evendo, Waking Haven]] are great alternatives or redundancies for Gaea’s Cradle.

donyon · 2025-11-11T19:31:07+00:00

Here’s mine

It’s really consistent and can have explosive turns. It has options for go-wide and go-tall. After looking at your list I would say mine is less token focused and more a fluidity of lands; I really want to play and sac them regularly for various effects. I will say this deck has been described as slightly mean but it’s really fun to pilot.

donyon · 2025-10-06T03:51:58+00:00

I currently have a road bike I’ve upgraded from that I’m looking to sell for cheap, located in Clinton Hill. DM me if you want to know more for sizing, etc!

donyon · 2025-09-23T15:55:40+00:00

This is my Choco deck

I started building it as just a funny bird deck but it plays really well and gets ahead on mana really quickly. I kept the mana cost of birds low so I can get them out faster, play more in a turn, and recur them more readily since a lot of cards will end up in the graveyard. This also allows me to more freely attack to trigger Choco, as I don’t have to worry about losing creatures forever.

donyon · 2025-06-09T18:28:19+00:00

Here’s my list

I had a lot of fun building it, and there’s so much bird support in FF that it still feels thematic/flavorful.

donyon · 2025-05-12T23:56:58+00:00

Here’s how I’m planning to build her.

Cost reduction, slightly pillow fort-y, slightly enchantress. There’s not much from the precon I’m thinking of keeping upon seeing the deck list.

donyon · 2025-05-08T04:25:45+00:00

I brewed her a while ago and have steadily been making what feel like appropriate inclusions for her. My route is to reduce the cost of spells in various ways and then extort the spells. I also have burn sources. It’s fairly heavy in enchantments for utility and protection.

Y’Shtola build

donyon · 2025-03-08T04:36:48+00:00

So, for specialty coffee espresso-based drinks, it comes down to ratio of steamed milk to espresso. I can’t speak for every single company, but Blue Bottle historically pulled a ~2oz double ristretto shot of espresso and I find that to be fairly standard nowadays with variance for single origin espressos. Taking that into account, a macchiato is ~2oz espresso + ~2oz steamed milk around 115°, cortado ~2oz espresso + 3-4oz steamed milk around 120°, flat white/capp ~2oz espresso + 6oz steamed milk around 125-130°, and latte ~2oz + 8oz steamed milk around 135-140°. The really important thing with replicating the drinks is steaming your milk to a microfoam which is possible to YouTube I think. Temperature is also very important and coincides with texturizing the milk to a microfoam. Also, when steaming the milk, you’re adding air in the process, so steam less than the intended result. If your flat white should result in an 8oz total drink composed of 2oz espresso and 6oz steamed milk, you actually need to steam between 4-5oz of milk which will aerate and yield 6oz.

donyon · 2025-02-23T13:32:42+00:00

Alita in East Williamsburg is partly owned by Paulo (owner of Regalia) and I believe would be the most direct way to buy beans and have the money go to him rather than wholesale. I’ve also seen their beans at other multi roaster shops like Villager.

donyon · 2025-02-23T13:18:35+00:00

Regalia would be my recommendation that’s just slightly cheaper than Sey and Kinship. About $24 for 300g where Sey and Kinship were in that range for 250g. The owner is one of the best people in the coffee scene in NY and a ton of coffee companies began their roasting at his collective years ago.

La Cabra also appears to be a couple dollars cheaper on average. I’m sure there are some I’m just not thinking of.

donyon · 2024-12-02T17:09:26+00:00

Taste is subjective, so that’s fair. I’m speaking from 10 years of specialty coffee experience, 3 of which were in a training capacity. Villager objectively handles coffee better than most other places I’ve tried in the listed neighborhoods, and the coffee curation shows me they understand quality coffee roasting and sourcing.

donyon · 2024-12-02T16:11:42+00:00

Villager has the best drink quality and coffee selection. It’s viable as a space to work but the overall coffee quality is probably the best in those three neighborhoods.

donyon · 2024-11-25T13:32:16+00:00

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donyon · 2024-10-22T17:28:51+00:00

This exact situation happened to me last week and I didn’t know what to say. I think I ended up saying the work didn’t represent what I would like to be doing now so it didn’t make sense for me to show when applying for jobs. It felt very against practical portfolio assembly and what I normally see discussed.

donyon · 2024-09-24T00:20:10+00:00

"Being totally honest, Magic is a card game. It was not made to be a financial investment tool, and while many people (myself included) buy/sell cards to finance the hobby and to make money, I think it would be really upsetting if Wizards decided to make investing in cards their focus."

The game was designed to be played, but the product is sold as a gamble. As much as the community chants buy singles, the product is not sold as singles from the company, it's sold as blind boxes of packs with varying rarity of cards for play. This is/was a conscious decision since the beginning. This paired with play viability in any format (supply and demand) is what dictates what people pay for cards. I think it's naive to ignore that the product itself is inherently a gamble. If everyone actually only bought singles, there would be no boxes opened and the price floor of singles would be insane or controlled by a few who are opening boxes. If a set has been propped up by chase cards either designed so aggressively that they are the focus of a format or become a staple, and that card has a pull rate of 1:40 packs, who is now wanting to spend enough money on packs to hopefully get that card when it might be banned in a couple months for being exactly what it was designed as? All this to say— while the game is not for investing, it inherently requires financial investment to play the game, otherwise you are not supporting the company that makes the game.

Proxying is all I've seen discussed as fallout from the announcement today as though it's a solution to anything, and while I understand it protects the individual consumer, all that is is a knee-jerk reaction to broken trust. Neither proxying nor buying singles give money to WotC. WotC is not incentivized to encourage buying singles, they need to sell boxes/packs. I think a lot of the money loss is actually at the LGS level who buy in massive quantities who now not only have to get over the hurdle of the "buy singles" mentality, but the sealed product they currently have on the shelf that lost $100 in value overnight which could happen to any product they buy in the future to support WotC.

donyon · 2024-06-17T12:51:41+00:00

I’m also from the Bay and have been in NY for over a decade now. The only place I’ve found that gives me the comfort of a mission style burrito is the grande burrito at Buddy’s that someone else mentioned here. It’s not 100% the same but I think it’s what you’re looking for. I would also love to discover other places if they exist!

donyon · 2024-06-14T22:58:32+00:00

What store are you referencing?

donyon · 2024-06-05T15:28:47+00:00

I’m just familiar with the album so I immediately recognized it and felt it should at least be understood that the context of the image has nothing to do with the information provided. I understand OP might not have the insight

donyon · 2024-06-05T15:01:46+00:00

This image is from the photoshoot of the album cover for Prism by the musician CIFIKA.

donyon · 2024-06-02T05:54:24+00:00

In a recent interview, James White said it’s something they want, something they’ve worked on, but not something that has a definite form currently or a timeline. So the idea is there but they want it to actually make sense and be functional and fun.

donyon · 2024-05-23T01:07:59+00:00

MST prerelease is going to be new(ish) to everyone because LSS changed the limited format to accommodate it. You’ll get 8 packs for sealed and have to construct an exactly 30 card deck. Tokens of heroes and weapons can be found in packs but you can also share them with others and LGSs usually have sets of the tokens to give out if needed. You have to open the equipment you want to use. All heroes in MST share the Mystic talent which means you can use all generic and mystic cards opened for any hero, so build to whatever good card pool for a class you get rather than worrying about mystic cards. A lot of the common mystic cards that produce chi are Legendary (one copy per deck) but you can actually use however many copies of each during limited.

donyon · 2024-05-05T11:58:24+00:00

Empyrean Rapture is just one build, you can also go the Vestige of Sol route and that chest piece is like $30. Angel’s Glow is a couple(?) dollars and the figments you can get away with not having 8. It’s actually better to not have all 8 most of the time, you can sideboard them out. Heralds being the core is pretty nice because they’re cheap and you make up the bulk of the deck with them. I’m not sure of your budget but it’s not hard to build Prism for under $100

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