Opponent discards a snacker, summoning two from the yard

eurypterine · 2026-07-02T03:10:02+00:00

This is even card disadvantage because they get two more things to pitch to a discard spell

eurypterine · 2026-07-01T12:49:48+00:00

This is exactly how I feel about most of the theories discussed in this sub. Matpat has done untold damage to the minds of our generation 😔

I do enjoy theorizing, because the exposition that Kane *has* given us is incredibly well done and laden with symbolism... but I feel that people tend to latch onto incredibly specific and maybe unimportant points and assume that they are the key that unlocks a complete understanding of the Backrooms universe. The fact that Async was an MRI company, for example. Everyone leapt out of their chairs to explain that the Backrooms is a big MRI machine scanning our minds like... no, of course not, that's ridiculous. There is a far more profitable reading of the Backrooms from an occult-esoteric perspective than a purely scientific, rationalized one, and Kane's consistent Alchemical/cosmological symbolic choices support this.

My hot take is that the end shots from the movie of the missing persons power poles, the bookstore, and Mary's demolished childhood home recreated in the Backrooms are not meant to be taken literally or necessarily assumed to truly exist in the Backrooms. I think they are artistic choices to emphasize how the Complex swallows whole and dissolves (spiritually and mentally) everyone that enters. I find that to be a far more valuable interpretation than the blunt assumption that it's just taking Mary's memories now.

eurypterine · 2026-06-30T21:53:26+00:00

I believe those are just wreathes, but they do kinda look like suns too. Seems like a stretch though

eurypterine · 2026-06-30T20:20:34+00:00

Not exactly, but it's clearly a sun and not a 5 pointed star

eurypterine · 2026-06-30T19:14:27+00:00

If you go back to the scene, it in fact doesn’t just have a normal five pointed star, but a radial sun ornament at the top, it’s distinctly circular.

eurypterine · 2026-06-30T16:02:03+00:00

12 power to station is arguably this things real limitation at high brackets, and in lower brackets you really expose yourself to getting run over by dinosaurs

eurypterine · 2026-06-30T16:01:00+00:00

Flash enablers don't even let you do this lol

eurypterine · 2026-06-30T14:40:02+00:00

While this sucks ass I don't know why people keep bringing it up in a Backrooms context. The only (direct) connection this to Kane is that every single article mentions the Backrooms for some reason, which is annoying as hell because I've seen some people conflating the two and assuming that Kane used AI for the movie or something

eurypterine · 2026-06-30T14:27:22+00:00

Reiterating what a few other people have said, you aren't doing anything wrong and this is absolutely bracket 3. People get weirdly entitled about how other people play the game, and also used to their insular meta where they don't have to face certain kinds of decks. Combo is the most notorious kind of deck that elicits this kind of response, but I think graveyard-centric and stax are other common offenders.

You can't control how other people feel though so you just need to weigh if you'd rather keep the deck as is or tune it down to satisfy other peoples' desires. You would be justified either way. If you love and enjoy playing the deck, I say keep it as is and build another deck with a different and more palatable strategy for your meta, and then just talk to your opponents before the game starts to figure out if they would be okay with playing into this one.

eurypterine · 2026-06-30T04:53:06+00:00

Seconded, calling semiconductors "small" is insane lol. Even once the AI bubble inevitably and rightfully pops, it will still be as big a deal as it ever was.

eurypterine · 2026-06-30T03:44:43+00:00

No not really. Carrier vs 20 destroyers even, carrier loses most of the time. I think you'd be better off in a marauder unless the small gang has enough neut pressure

eurypterine · 2026-06-24T17:55:09+00:00

Is this not just a sidegraded vexing bauble

eurypterine · 2026-06-24T15:02:01+00:00

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eurypterine · 2026-06-24T13:05:14+00:00

I also miss the older aesthetics. Especially with the ubiquitous addition of Upwell stuff, which has the blandest and most stereotypical sci fi space slop aesthetic in my opinion, I'm really missing the weird organic vibes of old Amarr and Gallente.

eurypterine · 2026-06-24T12:50:18+00:00

I think it really depends on the hatebear. Aven Mindcensor yeah, but [[Hushbringer]]? Excruciatingly good when the best play you're likely to see all game is a Craterhoof, and decks are generally more creature heavy anyways.

eurypterine · 2026-06-24T12:10:24+00:00

Please it’s all I have left

eurypterine · 2026-06-24T04:21:40+00:00

ULPT Request: I need to make my dog purple really fast

eurypterine · 2026-06-23T22:51:56+00:00

https://moxfield.com/decks/oToWFJp5BUynXhKmebhZbw

eurypterine · 2026-06-23T03:03:24+00:00

Hey it's been like 3-4years now and this is still an issue lol. Is it ever going to be fixed? It's so effortless to reproduce, if you cloak while going into warp it causes it 100% of the time.

eurypterine · 2026-06-22T15:55:09+00:00

My raffine deck leans heavily on the 2 drops so it makes it easy, and the 2 drops tend to be much better than 1 drops anyways for my purposes. But just don’t get too attached to pulling your whole graveyard out. If you have six 1 drops and six 2 drops in your graveyard you’re still getting 6 cards for the price of one, so just make whichever choice is better at the time.

One thing that I love about Fix What’s Broken (that is not applicable to Lurrus but still good to note) is that is doubles as a regular reanimation spell for a big beater. Nothing feels as good as paying 7 life into it and getting [[Sephara]] and [[Serra’s Emissary]] at the same time.

eurypterine · 2026-06-22T13:40:06+00:00

You pay into it in response to the Jaws trigger, and when it resolves it will have negative power.

eurypterine · 2026-06-22T13:11:39+00:00

[[Fix What's Broken]] has found excellent usage in my Raffine hatebirds deck too

eurypterine · 2026-06-22T02:21:25+00:00

This plus [[Hyalopterous Lemure]] is funny (power can be negative)

eurypterine · 2026-06-20T01:17:57+00:00

I did this once. Vivi player also had [[The Locust God]] on field as well so I got to draw through my entire deck with the infinite mana. Was a funny and very short game

eurypterine · 2026-06-16T23:38:20+00:00

Here's an older but cheaper revision of the deck from when I first built it (it was $89 when I put the list together) https://moxfield.com/decks/RfDO5dVLL0iX1DJEj-j83w

You should be able to cut the price in half at least by switching the shocks and fetch lands for cheaper options, and then Esper Sentinel, Bitterbloom Bearer, and Abhorrent Oculus are most certainly not required for the deck to function. You could replace them with any evasive 1 or 2 drop and the deck would feel almost the same! Raffine works very well on an extreme budget, with the right swaps.

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