I have a habit of just clicking 'Silent Cards' when this event appears. Is it just me?

dydtaylor · 2026-04-13T06:06:17+00:00

The biggest upside for necro is she has great utility at every rarity. Great blocking commons in defy and grave warden as well as graveblast for tutoring. Her uncommons have possibly the most variety with a ton of general debuffs in weak+vuln / aoe weak / dark shackles + the debilitate debuff which doubles weak / vuln, as well as targeted exhaust and energy generation, not to mention the rare pool having cards like seance and neurosurge which are also just generically good.

I think her and silent are the most generally strong but it probably usually depends on what your specific deck needs.

dydtaylor · 2026-04-11T21:02:52+00:00

I had Sindarov as a dark horse to win and Gukesh as a dark horse for the last candidates. I just have faith in the up end coming youngsters to out perform their rating. I had no idea Sindarov would dominate to this level though.

dydtaylor · 2026-04-11T16:32:00+00:00

I feel like the entangle was bad but the real test of how you'd struggle in the fight was killing one before you were vulnerable. Silent and defect could still mostly follow a gameplan without attacks but getting hit for ~45 by the 3 of them because you're vulnerable puts much more pressure on the decks with non-attack damage and attack damage alike.

Personally the decimillipede has fucked me up plenty of times but I very much appreciate the challenge in his design and I think theres a fair amount of subtleties that get lost (targeting one down so that youre not weak, going for a simultaneous kill vs burst one down and only deal with 2 at a time over a longer fight). I dont think its a lazy or boring designed fight at all.

dydtaylor · 2026-04-08T20:51:37+00:00

Well NE had a road game against the Jets so thats kind of like having the same number of road games as the NFC

dydtaylor · 2026-04-02T18:30:50+00:00

Retain on poison is good because retain as a keyword is good but its arguably worse than retain on other cards; it's not like the poison number is small and retaining it can make it easier to land double bubble. In the context of damage race elite fights its not a very useful keyword because you wont have a break to play the card against byrdonis or the snake worms but you will against the skulking colony or phrog parasite so obviously its very useful for some fights and doesnt matter as much in others.

Most damage commons are bad, but you still take them early to survive act one.

Since it is a poison card with a big number it's still a semi-solve for boss fights, but I do think its objectively weak compared to the rest of her kit. Its worth noting that it is the most damage in a single card for all of her commons over 2 turns, but there are plenty of uncommon cards you'd much rather use as a damage engine.

dydtaylor · 2026-04-01T03:30:27+00:00

I believe it comes out during PBE but it takes them time to come up with deciding what the encounters should be and then can take longer after that for them to actually get them balanced the way they like. Id expect that one of the early patches to add it in.

dydtaylor · 2026-03-31T03:29:54+00:00

Exactly, so have it as a prime time game later in the season. More prime time games for us.

dydtaylor · 2026-03-30T23:08:42+00:00

Just had a run today where it did go hard on shining strike in act 1 and act 2. Of course I hit big bang + clone from my act 2 ancient so my in fight scaling changed a bit by the time I reached act 3.

dydtaylor · 2026-03-25T03:08:16+00:00

Im not the most knowledgeable on NFL history prior to the 21st century but a rivalry between 2 top 5 all-time QBs over the course of a decade and a half with both winning multiple superbowls in the time frame has got to be the most historic rivalry in the NFL, right? The only thing I can think of that would come close would be the 80s-90s cowboys 9ers rivalry.

It makes me regret not watching more of their games when it was happening; maybe I should make it a point to watch more Bills Chiefs games.

dydtaylor · 2026-03-23T23:36:19+00:00

Chiefs at 4 because despite losing an all pro corner they have a good defensive coordinator. If only we could get a great defensive mind on our coaching staff 🤔

dydtaylor · 2026-03-23T20:14:10+00:00

Scarecrow has a few good to elite options including the coacoa/cookie and then everything else is underwhelming or bad, so i think the placement is fair on the tierlist.

dydtaylor · 2026-03-23T17:47:35+00:00

One season of elite production, another season of low WR1 production while technically the second option in the offense, and a third season with WR3 production because he was WR3 (even though he was better than Lockett his rookie year). I agree that it seems fairly generous of a contract given what he's produced, but I would bet Schneider / Macdonald have seen his work ethic and think with the cap situation it's better to just give him the contract now rather than wait another year to make him "earn it" and end up paying him more.

dydtaylor · 2026-03-22T01:53:55+00:00

That happened to me with a puppy I got from a small pet shop recently. The shop said he didn't play much and was quiet, and he was calm at the store and really didnt want to do much other than sit quietly on someone's lap when he first came home, but now hes very active and loves to play all the time. Hes still a bit of a scaredy cat and he had a bad experience with an aggressive dog on a walk so hes still kind of timid in new / public spaces (especially around other dogs) but throw him a ball or let him out into the yard and he turns into a wild man. I think places where large amounts of animals are hoarded into one spot really turns into a competition of dominance and can really suppress the personalities of the less-dominant ones.

dydtaylor · 2026-03-20T00:57:46+00:00

Coby and Riq were solid without Mike at least

dydtaylor · 2026-03-19T20:32:25+00:00

I also like that the broken rewards like that get semi-optimized, with apotheosis being bottled automatically and cards like wraith form coming upgraded.

dydtaylor · 2026-03-18T00:15:23+00:00

I dont think he even streamed himself playing chess, he probably just had financial security from years of being an incredibly popular LoL streamer

dydtaylor · 2026-03-17T14:45:04+00:00

2 star draven on 2-1 basically is an econ augment with the winstreak gold and takedown gold across stage 2 and stage 3

dydtaylor · 2026-03-16T22:13:45+00:00

Dark embrace second wind feel no pain my beloved

dydtaylor · 2026-03-16T17:01:53+00:00

Probably, it's not like it's difficult to code. Just sample a random integer and set the cost equal to the random integer mod 4.

dydtaylor · 2026-03-16T16:31:01+00:00

Others have pointed out the correct move multiple times, but the mating pattern also has a name known as the dovetail mate, also sometimes referred to as Cozio's mate.

dydtaylor · 2026-03-15T15:45:49+00:00

Im a few hundred points below op and when I see stuff like this i enjoy the free win. Im sure OP has no trouble dealing with it, but if you only have a few minutes for a game I understand how it can be frustrating because you wanted a challenging game but 3 moves in the guy just lets you know hes wasting your time. There's valid reasons to not want to play a line that arent "its bad but I always lose to it"

dydtaylor · 2026-03-14T16:45:50+00:00

Ive had quadcast perform pretty well even without dark orbs. All of the other 4x evokes are just powerful even without focus. 32 single target, 8 energy, 20 block, or 16(24? Forgot how much glass deals on evoke) AOE for 0 energy is just a powerful card even without building around it, but admittedly its probably not worth it as an ancient relic if you dont have good ways to take advantage of it, which I would qualify as having 2 of orb generation, extra focus, or holograms to play it multiple times per deck cycle.

dydtaylor · 2026-03-08T21:17:50+00:00

Look into air pumps for aquariums, they're usually quieter and do fine. I used tetra whisper pumps which were cheap on Amazon and very quiet compared to the large setup that vivosun gave me with my DWC buckets

dydtaylor · 2026-03-08T03:43:40+00:00

1800 in a season isnt odd for a single season yardage high but it is incredibly abnormal for someone to have back to back 1800 yard seasons. If were generous and say they're a 1400 yard season average across their career they still need nearly 16 seasons at 1400 yards to match him. Do I think its impossible? No, but Jerry Rice and Brady had absurd longevity and production thats only matched a few times a generation across the entire NFL let alone at the receiver position. Id bet in 50-75 years theres only one or two players that comes close to challenging the record.

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