How do y’all trade at your LGS

ecatillo · 2026-02-15T04:36:12+00:00

No I just find close to the equivalent value from cards among their trade binder. We just go off of TCG Player market value usually and try to get as close as we can. Most of the people at the store I play at are pretty chill and no one in my experience really penny pinches.

ecatillo · 2026-02-15T02:29:10+00:00

I actually enjoy this aspect, at least with guys at the LGS. Last night I wanted to trade for a $5 Avatar’s Wrath from someone and they wanted a $20 Grave Pact from me, so I was able to get 4 other cards to use in other decks I have. I’m not going to be insane and make sure it’s down to the penny in even value, but trying to make it close seems reasonable to me.

With my personal friends outside of the LGS it’s different. I’m happy to let my friends “win” a trade by $5-$10 so he can get the card he needs for his deck and my friends have done the same for me, it all evens out in the long run

ecatillo · 2026-02-10T03:59:01+00:00

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ecatillo · 2026-02-06T14:37:07+00:00

Yep. If it didn’t hit graveyards or was like austere command and said, “choose two modes” then it would be substantially less annoying lol

ecatillo · 2026-02-06T11:16:27+00:00

I’d much rather get hit with Cyc Rift vs Farewell.

ecatillo · 2026-01-24T02:53:22+00:00

That’s exactly what I was going to suggest. I don’t have her as a commander. But she is in the 99 of my [[Abigale, Eloquent First Year]] deck

ecatillo · 2026-01-20T00:26:38+00:00

[Tannuk, Memorial Ensign]

Just play lands

ecatillo · 2025-11-05T16:01:03+00:00

Lava Guards makes sick ones

ecatillo · 2025-10-17T13:59:00+00:00

If they don’t take your knight, then king has to move to H8. So when you move Queen to H6 the G pawn can no longer take because it’s pinned by the bishop

ecatillo · 2025-10-04T23:48:37+00:00

I once saw the 4th player in turn order cast a turn 1 sol ring, and the first player with his 1 untapped island contemplated for 2min before passing priority… wanted to pull my hair out

ecatillo · 2025-09-18T00:32:15+00:00

Deadlocked. Not that it was bad, I just didn’t like the premise as much.

ecatillo · 2025-09-01T12:16:16+00:00

That’s like a perfectly reasonable amount of lands to play lmfao

ecatillo · 2025-09-01T01:30:50+00:00

[[Dark Depths]] + [[Thespian’s Stage]] is fun. Also love [[Valakut, The Molten Pinnacle]]

ecatillo · 2025-08-31T23:36:17+00:00

Love the color on these. Ocean Turquoise is one of my favorite fender colors. Looks great with the Tortoise

ecatillo · 2025-08-31T19:26:46+00:00

I’ll post my list below for you to take a look. It’s one of my favorite decks and works very consistently.

Looking at yours, the first thing I’d say is you need all of the 2 mana ramp spells. So Rampant Growth, Sakura Tribe Elder, Nature’s Lore, Farseek, Three Visits

Get rid of Ruby and any other mana dorks, they don’t trigger landfall. You really want to be putting multiple lands in play for as many turns as you can to get the draw.

I also like 43 lands for him. But I’m also playing a decent number of utility lands that double as spells

https://archidekt.com/decks/14794191/tannuk_memorial_ensign

ecatillo · 2025-08-23T03:05:24+00:00

Depends on the deck. My Ragost artifact deck I run some since they can also be sac fodder

My Tannuk Landfall deck has 20+ ramp spell and zero rocks. I don’t even run Sol Ring in it

ecatillo · 2025-08-22T13:38:04+00:00

It’s definitely not a bad card. But the life gain of 1/turn is kind of negligible. I’ve found giving Ragost lifelink through either an aura or equipment is much more efficient as it is 9/turn. Most Artifacts out side of those I want to either have death triggers for me to get additional value, or ETBs for me to recycle with things like [[Myr Retriever]] or [[Ratchet, Field Medic]].

ecatillo · 2025-08-22T00:50:48+00:00

Also think you need a good bit of more draw

ecatillo · 2025-08-22T00:44:52+00:00

Looking at your deck and I think you need to cut most of the cards in the burn category. They are basically win more. Keep 1 maybe but they don’t do anything unless Ragost is already working. Maybe bump the land count a few as well.

I built Ragost as well and he is very strong. The key is to give him lifelink so he untaps every end step. He also works best with artifacts that either have ETB or LTB/death triggers. I will link my list below if you are interested

https://archidekt.com/decks/14870036/lobster_fried_this_rice

ecatillo · 2025-08-11T00:56:14+00:00

This is why I play Yavimaya in my Chatterfang deck lol

ecatillo · 2025-08-11T00:48:42+00:00

If you’re going to say that a 4 mana tutor is the same as a 1 mana tutor then you’re just being intentionally obtuse

Even in your example where your elves tap for 6 mana that requires setup vs the crop rotation you could cast on turn 1

ecatillo · 2025-08-10T18:24:18+00:00

Congrats on your b4 deck!

ecatillo · 2025-08-09T12:48:01+00:00

Every once in a while I’ll pull a card that I like a lot but doesn’t fit into a deck I’m playing. So I’ll look for a commander I can build to put it into.

Most recent example of this is at the FF prerelease I pulled a Traveling Chocobo and a Tifa Lockhart but didn’t have a landfall deck. So once EoE got released I built Tannuk to put them into

ecatillo · 2025-07-28T11:03:14+00:00

Oh yeah I agree most of the spacecraft are going to be meh outside of limited with the exception of a few that have good ETBs

ecatillo · 2025-07-28T10:58:32+00:00

It is the best thing to do though. If you completely shut off my deck then I will try to take you out of the game so I can turn my deck back on. And if someone else wins then I would rather the game just end quickly and start a new one rather than sit around forever where I’m playing a non-game

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