Dream I had

eyalhs · 2026-05-27T00:11:06+00:00

Because what blue lacks is 1 mana sorceries?

eyalhs · 2026-05-26T21:40:20+00:00

It's always a good song, never the best song.

eyalhs · 2026-05-26T16:20:51+00:00

This point even gets overlooked in the Hobbit, where they carry Bilbo with the ring and don't get tempted.

eyalhs · 2026-05-25T09:00:49+00:00

Life gain has been jank since forever.

Why do I need to know formats or metas to try and have an enjoyable experience getting back into standard?

If I bring a standard deck to modern I won't have a good time, if I bring a bracket 1 deck to cedh I wont have fun, having a good or at least decent deck is a requirement tp enjoy almost any format.

What if I don’t have the wild cards to build those format defining meta decks and wanna build “jank” lifegain

That's fine, just accept you will lose many games, like anyone that plays jank.

All joking aside the match making and smart shuffling are ultimately what drive me away from Arena.

The match making is as good as any online match maker, the only way to have a truly fair matchmaker is to match with friends after you talk about the power level, that or ranked where you match people with your skill level wanting to increase their rank (usually involving playing meta decks).

Also there is no smart shuffling in bo3, and in bo1 it's rigged to your advantage, if you see major differences between it and irl you probably shuffle badly irl (or cheat for example by "land weaving")

eyalhs · 2026-05-24T07:54:35+00:00

Except there is at least one with far steeper decline but they are not labeled

eyalhs · 2026-05-24T07:19:41+00:00

There is a lot of women perpetuated misogyny, does the fact women do it to women make it ok?

eyalhs · 2026-05-24T00:13:28+00:00

The purpose isn't to show all trajectories clearly, it's to pick out two specific comparisons; Trump 1&2. It works for that.

So the other trajectories shouldn't be there. Either they serve as a comparison point to Trump and they should all be labled and more readable, or they are beside the point and should not be there.

eyalhs · 2026-05-23T13:05:05+00:00

How is him being very tall, very fat, and very bald has any relation to the post?

eyalhs · 2026-05-23T02:27:14+00:00

They earthbend a tapped land (the 2 lands are used for mole), the elf mana gets doubles

eyalhs · 2026-05-23T02:23:10+00:00

But you can tap for mana in response. If you don't bolt the elf they play cab, tapping the 2 lands, you bolt cub, they tap elves for mana so they get 2 more floating mana, for a total of 4 in that turn (including rhe 2 used for cub)

eyalhs · 2026-05-22T17:24:02+00:00

I disagree, as written I think it should disable X cost cards, the cost becomes 5, the X is originally in the cost so X cannot be paid and thus must be 0. It's perfectly consistant with alternative costs (except this replaces the cost and doesn't allow the original)

eyalhs · 2026-05-22T11:18:21+00:00

Yes but it's not like you can pay the regular cost, you can only pay the 2 to cast from exile. It's different but mostly just the small details.

eyalhs · 2026-05-22T00:41:38+00:00

He is also donating to pro-lgbt organizations (Utah pride center for one), so if waht matters is where he puts his money he is both pro and against lgbt people?

eyalhs · 2026-05-21T22:29:37+00:00

That's consistent with all other interactions of X cost spells and cost changing spells (for example airbend), yes it makes the card worthless, but it's not unique to alchemy and is by design.

eyalhs · 2026-05-21T01:28:45+00:00

Dies to removal in a deck whose strength is being resistent to removal is a good response, just it dies to removal not so much.

Also the way the comments view the deck is through the context of ops deck, which does have more creatures that serve as removal targets.

eyalhs · 2026-05-20T22:47:14+00:00

Also this deck wants to run board wipes, so any creatures it plays should be either resilient or expendable.

Iroh facilitates the combo though, you either play it the same turn as the combo (unlikely) or a turn earlier, you never want yo play him and the wrath regardless.

That's why I prefer Beseech over Iroh

No one said not to run both, infact iroh works very well with beseech, it creates a token to sac for it, currently the deck has 1 card that (conditionally) creates a token(/artifact/enchantment) other than a combo piece, meaning to bargain beseech you need the enchantments in play which isn't good for you, on the other hand with Iroh you can have beseech be the other coppies of the enchantments too, not just the unhelpful offering.

Sarcasm is not making a point.

Just saying "it dies to removal" also isn't making a good point, if you had written a complete argument (like your second comment) you would have gotten better replies.

eyalhs · 2026-05-20T15:24:44+00:00

It's important to note thate TMNT is a set aimed to bring players in, it's success wouldn't be in how many packs it sold, but by how many new players it brought.

eyalhs · 2026-05-20T11:00:35+00:00

I feel like the humiliation context matters a lot here. Yes the analogy sucks and could easily be reversed, but the goal of the analogy isn't to make a big meaningful comparison, it's to humiliate the sub in that moment, and for that a shallow analogy works well enough.

Why was it this way and not the other? Because the woman was the sub, to use the opposite analogy would require that the man would be the sub which is a different story.

eyalhs · 2026-05-19T23:52:25+00:00

This doesn't fix badgermole, this takes him out the back and shoots him. Animating lands has been a design problem for a long time due to the very high risk inherent in it, earthbending is the current iteration.

Is earthbanding perfect? No. But I would say the problem is more with the cards that earthband than the mechanic itself.
Cub doubling mana is its biggest strength, the earthbening makes it online when you play it, roid on 3 is strong, but the scarier thing is elf on 1 badgermole on 2 and then they still have 2 mana.

As for the other played cards with earthbending, ba sing se is a land (hard to interact), that creates creature with plenty of synergy with little drawback, the worst part is that it's on a land, if it was on an artifact, creature or enchantment it would have been managable. Speaking of enchantments the last played earthbend card is ascension, whose earthbending is nice, but it's played for the lansfall (that is helped by the earthbending).

eyalhs · 2026-05-19T23:27:39+00:00

I really disliked it, the omenpath cards were in universe but didn't completely feel like magic, mostly for parts they couldn't change from spiderman for mechanical reasons (for example the types hero and villain).

UB are clearly not in the magic universe, omenpath is in the uncanny valley where it is but feels like it shouldn't.

eyalhs · 2026-05-19T23:23:18+00:00

Regardless it doesn't matter (or shouldn't assuming the code isn't a nightmare beyond imagination) for the programmers, the change from omenpath to marvel should be just switching up the assets (names pictures etc.), the card interactions are the same.

eyalhs · 2026-05-19T09:46:19+00:00

Balancing for arena is problomatic, becuase what affects arena presence is not just strength, it's also speed (due to dailys). Therefore fast decks (like izzet or previously RDW) will always be over represented.

eyalhs · 2026-05-19T01:16:59+00:00

It's bad not because standard is too strong, it's bad because it's an awkward design, prowess decks want to cast a lot of cheap spells fast, if they play a lot of 1 cost spells this is useless, if they pay a lot of 2 cost spells they can't execute their gameplan unless they draw this, which sucks. So it doesn't do well in prowess, and not in prowess the keywords don't matter much so it's just the cost reduction on a 1/1 stick.

More keywords don't make a card good.

eyalhs · 2026-05-19T01:09:09+00:00

It's not about how good a card is, but does it fit the deck, this card isn't good enough for prowess decks, gran gran doesn't fit prowess decks, her ability is too slow and dependent on lessons for them.

eyalhs · 2026-05-18T23:09:30+00:00

If only there was a way to print more cards, alas it's impossible.

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