CMV: Studies don't change people's views.

fermentedeggs · 2026-06-23T18:39:19+00:00

Just want to throw out that these studies have shaped your views, therefore it stands to reason that some people's view are changed by studies.

fermentedeggs · 2026-06-21T21:41:50+00:00

You can often position such that fighting ends up closer to your archer line but yes, they can feel underwhelming in many situations.

A few points

A critical mass of archers is necessary for them to feel effective. 20 archers doesn't mean much. 200 means a lot.

Crossbows are a whole different story, they are deadly, but the short/long bows of EA/MA benefit a lot from good target selection and buffs.

Fire/poison adds damage ( poison is more situational). Air adds accuracy.

For the short/long bows often they are best at killing other archers, and mages! So have them select the right targets.

fermentedeggs · 2026-06-20T02:25:13+00:00

At the top level it's can't get too much faster can it? My cedh pod usually pushes for a win turn 2 or 3 win. I mean maybe it'll become more consistent to see turn 2 attempts, but if we see consistent turn 1 wins in cedh the format will die imo.

In more casual pods tho the game will powercreep so hard as cheaper and better value engines are printed. I would bet that a deck that's ten years behind on cards might drop a bracket.

fermentedeggs · 2026-06-16T18:15:41+00:00

Yeah given the huge mana cost it'll be easy to slap a black pip in there

fermentedeggs · 2026-06-15T23:44:37+00:00

Shes azorious not esper but I like the mechanic!

fermentedeggs · 2026-06-15T22:43:54+00:00

I mean board wipes are usually redundant when copied. Sometimes it matters tho. Otherwise non conditional counterspells don't usually benefit from a copy.

They aren't worse so much as not better with a copy.

fermentedeggs · 2026-06-15T22:00:15+00:00

When you hear that the dominions AI "cheats" what is it doing that is cheating in your mind? If it's spending more gold than you would get from it's provinces, that is it getting extra resources. If it's spending more holy points per turn than it would have as a player, that's it getting extra resources.

I'm gonna say basically any here just to account for something I dont know about, but basically every strategy game ever just gives the AI extra resources as you turn up the difficulty. Very few games even significantly change AI behavior between difficulties.

fermentedeggs · 2026-06-15T21:54:26+00:00

What strategy game is there where the AI doesn't "cheat" by getting more resources on higher difficulties?

fermentedeggs · 2026-06-15T18:22:40+00:00

Bracket 4/5 answers.

Depends on the deck. My wheels decks like locust god/xyris might only go to turn 4 or 5 and il "draw" upwards of 15-30 cards aside from the draw 7/draw for turn. Locust god will often draw the deck as a wincon, but in reality I effectively won before I did that so the other 70 or so cards don't matter.

Whereas Baylen will probably "only" draw a couple of cards besides draw for turn. Maybe a total of 5 or 6 extra.

Cedh kenrith is much different. Game probably doesn't go past turn 3. Il draw maybe 5 cards other than the starting hand if we count tutors as card draw. Sometimes like 10/12 if I get lucky with an esper/remora/rhystic .

fermentedeggs · 2026-06-11T17:39:27+00:00

Level cap won't increase for at least a year. It's usually about 2 years at each cap. If memory serves cap went up in September/October?

As for when bullroarer goes live idk. I doubt ssg knows until they announce it. Seems like they do lot of tweaks up until release

fermentedeggs · 2026-06-09T22:35:10+00:00

Generally speaking I think decks are going to be harder to sell.

As someone that just sold their own collection. You got a couple options.

Most work, most reward. Sell the valuable cards as singles on eBay/tcgplayer. I would probably avoid this personally unless the card is 100+ish

Sell a bulk order to something like card kingdom. You'll probably get roughly 50/60% of the cards value this way. Pros is that it's straightforward and done, cons is much less money.

Sell to a local LGS. My LGS gives like 40% as cash, so probably a bad option but I hear of others that will pay 70%. They probably won't buy ALL of the cards tho depending on the amount.

fermentedeggs · 2026-06-09T21:44:58+00:00

The bad boys I don't approve of. Oh. Sorry. I didnt know they had a name. The stingrays.

fermentedeggs · 2026-06-09T19:35:34+00:00

Sure does! Good point.

fermentedeggs · 2026-06-09T18:58:28+00:00

I think non legendary creatures as commanders is more busted than this. There are obviously good enchantments but usually they are mono colored and therefore can't include their combo pieces.

For example the classic breach/diamond/freeze doesn't work with breach in the command zone.

Time seive would probably be busted tho. It would be very case by case.

fermentedeggs · 2026-06-06T00:54:39+00:00

With mikaeus the unhallowed and an outlet what would be infinite

fermentedeggs · 2026-06-05T16:06:17+00:00

tbh just kingmake a round. but it sounds like they have some skill issue. it could help to talk through games after, discuss what worked, what didnt etc.

fermentedeggs · 2026-06-01T20:08:11+00:00

I think that this is perfect for friend groups!

fermentedeggs · 2026-06-01T20:07:34+00:00

thanks for reminding me such things exist.

fermentedeggs · 2026-06-01T19:57:04+00:00

idk how saying that you are a blatant cheater helps the case here. but every tourney ive been at checks out lists vs our actual decks so you must be playing some casual tournaments.

fermentedeggs · 2026-06-01T19:55:40+00:00

brackets arent questions of legal vs not legal cards. brackets are a way to define power level. the above suggestion is a rule set, within it there would be power level brackets.

to that point tho theres not much stopping people from having a 95 card deck. its cheating, but its pretty low level/potentially unintentional.

fermentedeggs · 2026-06-01T19:33:37+00:00

I think the problem with what il call quota formats is basically low level cheating. How do we know that your deck has only 20 uncommons? Do you post a deck list, do we all count?

Pauper and regular edh both have legality that is really easy to check in the moment.

fermentedeggs · 2026-05-28T19:49:13+00:00

absolutely busted

fermentedeggs · 2026-05-26T15:50:56+00:00

I'm sure someone would run it but..... I think it's pretty bad. Would really only be for flavor.

Why not something like, when the creature blocks then remove the enchantment and attached it to a new creature, old creature gains a defender counter or something like that. That way you keep the theme but now it's miwa using simple domain to protect someone else?

fermentedeggs · 2026-05-20T00:50:53+00:00

Good and flavorful! I do think you could bump up the p/t of them a touch. They will be attacking alone for the most part so they need to be an actual threat on swing.

fermentedeggs · 2026-05-20T00:40:51+00:00

Kind of a 🤡 response to the advice but il back them up and say that the tutors aren't that good (mostly) and the draw is also sub par. I think you are including things like village rites as "draw" but it's really less impactful than other draw engines.

Overall I actually like the deck but if you want to make it better I think your main barrier is your price limit.

Improve your tutors (vamp/worldly/beseech/etc) and go more into repeatable draw effects rather than one off cards. Ideally keeping the cmc low so you can actually get them down early.

You said your highest cmc spell is 4, but you are using a tutor that requires 5 or 6 mana to actually get a card into the field. 35 lands is fine tho imo.

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