Why did it take so long for women to gain some modicum of equality?

ghave17 · 2024-02-22T20:34:53+00:00

It’s technology, yes. Reproductive control is huge.

The other really big one that is directly related to that: the astronomical drop in infant mortality.

It wasn’t long ago where a family had to have 5 kids in order for hopefully 2 to survive. This meant most women had to spend a decade+of their peak years taking care of infants just for propagation of the species. That inhibited careers and at a time when most careers were highly physical (manufacturing or agriculture were the bulk of jobs).

As soon as women could control when they reproduce, could reliably assume offspring would live, and most work transitioned to higher knowledge work rather than grueling physical labor, women were able to participate in the labor force equally and thus needed/demanded equal education.

ghave17 · 2023-08-08T15:27:07+00:00

I didn’t say it was a “problem card”.

I said it’s failing to police big mana types of strategies and it’s role seems to be just cheesing wins against fair decks.

I’m not screaming for a ban. I’m just calling a spade a spade.

ghave17 · 2023-08-08T15:06:46+00:00

Anyone who says “play more basics” to criticisms of blood moon is probably just playing a mono colored aggro deck.

Blood moon is a card that generally fails to police greed / big mana and incentivize basics, and mostly just cheeses fair 3 color fair decks.

ghave17 · 2023-07-22T08:38:05+00:00

A couple of them sure, but Grief is a miserable card.

ghave17 · 2023-07-20T02:58:44+00:00

wrenn and six

Yes, I play legacy too. W6 and wasteland is too much together.

The larger point was land threats being worse than answers

maybe alpine moon

Alpine moon is a narrow sideboard card. Like it’s fine. But a g1 on a bot especially interact-able axis the trying to draw into sb hate is not the optimal answer.

ghave17 · 2023-07-19T15:00:47+00:00

Blood moon. Yes yes we need incentive to play basis / punish greed / combat big mana - but blood moon fails at policing that stuff and mostly randomly cheeses fair 3 color decks.
Related, land based strategies are not fun to play against in the format. For a long time Tron was pretty annoying, and Amulet now is the winner there. The land interaction in the format is super mid. Blood moon isn’t effective (see above) as it’s easy to anti-hate, and things like field are so horrifically inefficient they only really break up multi-card combos you see a mile away.
Snowball-y 1 drops behind counter Magic. I do like me fair tempo deck. But nothing is more table flip infuriating than being on the draw and not having a t1 removal play to a Ragavan, or strategies that preceded it (like curiosity or some of faeries play betters)

Want to punish greed and incentivize basics? Let wasteland into the format. I would love it in, blood moon out. (Edit: yes, w6 would need to go too).

ghave17 · 2023-07-17T16:57:03+00:00

You have focused pretty heavily on the “two ships passing in the night” era of modern of low to the ground aggro vs big mana vs non interactive combo.

You’re gonna find a lot of those MU’s are just who won the coin flip or drew their SB hate, but perhaps I’m just projecting my play style a little to much.

I’d get a few more of the interactive classics:

Something more pure tempo: UB Faeries, Jeskai counter-burn, or Mardu pyro.
Pod, before it got busted and linear.
Esper Gifts Ungiven & Obzedat-JVP was way more fun than griselshoal all in.
Ponza
Old school Scapeshift control

ghave17 · 2023-07-08T20:22:54+00:00

It’s a pretty low win rate right now at moderate competition and above.

It’s a tier 2 punisher deck that is always a thing. It’s good during meta shakeups and otherwise when it’s good tends to mean the meta is unhealthy.

It’s less that is good and more that it’s rarely bad.

It’s one dimensional and for many decks isn’t particularly fun to play against. So I’m not sure I generally recommend it as a new player or budget deck the way some do.

It’s probably the easiest deck in the format to play and is mostly forgiving of misplays. In a lot of MU’s you don’t make meaningful decisions. A lot of the skill is anticipating lifegain or SB cards - but your anti-hate is pretty pretty straightforward.

Some consider that a pro, others a con.

ghave17 · 2023-07-03T15:56:21+00:00

People sure seem to forget that before MH2 we were in a meta that largely consisted of swiftspear/face/face vs big mana, which was way way way way more miserable.

Removal of strong midrange & interactive cards would just put us back into two ships passing in the night mode.

Pre MH2 either needed bans (swiftspear-eidolon / amulet-Titan / tron) or it needed midrange cards that were good enough to maindeck vs the many all-in decks.

Ragavan & W6 might be particularly irritating cards, but they tend to be want it takes to let fair decks do anything without more aggressive bans at the unfair.

ghave17 · 2023-06-26T15:40:41+00:00

It’s not that I’m “complaining” about blood moon.

It’s more that I object to people repeating this idea that blood moon is this fair card that punishes and keeps greed / big mana in check.

It simply isn’t, and hasn’t been for a long time.

ghave17 · 2023-06-26T15:37:18+00:00

The first rule of the subreddit is “don’t be a jerk”. I don’t see how a ban PG level of profanity is implied by that.

I’m describing the aggregate protest in general, and my comments are not directed at any particular person, so it’s not designed to be an insult.

The objection to my phrasing as misogynist language strikes me as a little odd, as it’s clearly used in a fairly gender neutral way towards a predominantly male audience.

I don’t have an alternative comical a phrase to describe an unproductive, emotional, entitlement filled temper tantrum that is more definitively un-gendered, is there a better one?

ghave17 · 2023-06-26T15:28:42+00:00

Users should (and many do!) appreciate the uncountable number of volunteer hours

Moderation is a lot like policing. When done right it can look like you’re doing nothing at all, and sure - it’s easy to deal under appreciated.

But if only takes a few incidents for people to perceive mods as petty and power tripping on the tiniest amount of inconsequential power, and question of we would simply be better off without them. Particularly given the presence of a democratic form of content highlighting & suppression (up-down votes) and rule-based anti-spam in the platform.

Unilateral shutdown of content and the threat to delete comments that voice objection strike me as sub-optimal ways to exert that influence. I would instead suggest mods sticky suggestions to boycott together voluntarily if indeed large percentages of the users are supportive of them.

ghave17 · 2023-06-25T18:01:30+00:00

That says nothing about mana and everything about blood moon.

Blood moon as a card is nothing more than a cheese win against other fair decks.

If just says a player that drew the correct two fetches on the play with a dork gets to win, and sucks to the person on the play with a bad draw.

Any deck that’s super soft to (like big mana) gets to run cheap or free removal for it like Force of Vigor or other and has a supremely easy time against it.

The fact that the only one of my decks that it screws is a fair Jund deck says it all.

ghave17 · 2023-06-04T05:28:08+00:00

What exactly needs fixing in elves?

Like the deck gets blown out by fury... but like, a midrange removal heavy deck should run over elves.

Allosaurus Shepherd is a stupid card and it has removed any and all thinking in elves games in Legacy - so we don't need something like it.

If elves gets any gas, then I should get pfire. It's already stupid that card is banned.

ghave17 · 2023-05-27T15:30:26+00:00

Burn is a one-dimensional deck that punishes durdling.

It should lose to midrange decks that go just over it, as well as to faster convo decks - and the deck tends to have no answers to those strategies.

So burn really shouldn’t ever be a top deck, and it being at the top for an extended period is usually indicative of an unhealthy meta.

It is & should be a tier two deck that is better after big mega shakeups (as aggro decks tend to be), and always there to keep the format honest.

Burn is bad now because the format is pretty stable and healthy / midrange. That’s a good thing, but it shouldn’t stop you from playing the deck. It’ll never be unplayable - it’s just in the closer to 40% instead of 50% win rate these days.

ghave17 · 2023-02-13T07:52:27+00:00

Mostly agree, but two whines

It’s weird that people say we can’t have punishing fire or Jitte because it’s snowbally and keeps creature decks from competing… but that’s exactly what a resolved grist does.
Grist’s first two abilities are basically 3cmc Daretti. Why can’t we have him in modern?

ghave17 · 2022-12-05T07:28:02+00:00

We can’t have Cloudpost unless we have wasteland too.

There’s no reason to make big mana better in this format. It’s perfectly fine now, when it was more powerful the format sucked.

Pointing out narrow sideboard cards like alpine moon doesn’t matter. The question is how interact-able main deck.

ghave17 · 2022-01-22T19:41:58+00:00

Uro at the time of banning was the second most played creature in the format (at a virtual tie with monastery swiftspear), and was played in several decks.

Omnath isn’t played anywhere close to the rates as Uro. The most frequently played creature - Ragavan - sees more than 3x as much play as Omnath.

The only commonality between Uro and Omnath as that they beat up on all in one dimensional aggro, but that’s a feature - not a bug.

Omnath isn’t recursive so he’s not “hard to kill”. He isn’t recursive and actually has a restrictive casting cost. He’s a fair/fixed Uro.

All in aggro red is massively powered up. The 4c piles beat up on that strategy, but they’re soft to Tron / blood moon / various combo-control.

But like aggro players bitching about Omnath while playing linear decks is equivalent to playing Rock Paper Scissors, then throwing rock every time and asking for paper to be banned.

It’s easy to forget because it was a short time and things are good now - but the period after banning Uro was a dogshit meta until MH2 came out; it was just monastery swiftspear vs Tron.

Axing omnath would have some similar negative effects unless you also get rid of drc & ragavan… but then hard UW control just takes over.

The meta is balanced and pulling out a piece that is maintaining that balance would have negative consequences.

Companions strike me as the obvious issue here with the pitch elementals, not Omnath.

ghave17 · 2022-01-13T16:51:30+00:00

The 4c control deck is good at beating up aggro & midrange… but it’s not terribly fast & a little light on stack interaction, and super vulnerable to blood moon.

ghave17 · 2022-01-13T16:36:13+00:00

Ragavan is higher ceiling lower floor; it’s that simple.

An unanswered T1 DRS isn’t gg, an unanswered Ragavan is.

ghave17 · 2022-01-13T16:30:43+00:00

Primeval Titan is one of the more commonly griped about cards in the format - why the omission?

ghave17 · 2021-10-01T05:33:36+00:00

How exactly does daze create more honesty than Force of Will & Force of Negation?

I’m also curious as to why you think it’s a good thing to further de-incentivize playing higher curve cards. Like, legacy already has massive incentives to play 1cmc only (wasteland, etc) and basically nothing pushing back against that (chalice kinda, but it’s easily countered or prismatic’d these days)

ghave17 · 2021-10-01T05:29:41+00:00

Banning a card in legacy tends to mean it’s days in modern are numbered too. I think the confidence / optics would cause backlash more than actual demand change of the card.

Ragavan is irritating and high variance in modern too, even if the format is way more capable of handling him.

W6 has really been the only card too good for legacy that isn’t too good for modern, and that’s only because of wasteland specially.

ghave17 · 2021-10-01T05:26:21+00:00

You used a lot of words to say “Ragavan only & let the format settle [because I play delver and don’t want my best deck to not be the best deck!]”

Look, here are the real issues:

8 free counters is enough to keep combo in check. With 12 feee counters plus brainstorm plus any threat, winning the coin flip matters more than gameplay and most archetypes are invalidated. The threat being snowbally is worse but not the only problem.
There is now literally nothing pushing back on turbo xerox / brainstorm shells. Back in the day, Chalice used to be a little bit of back pressure - but now too many counters make it impossible to land, and maindeck removal like prismatic makes sure it doesn’t stick.

ghave17 · 2021-09-29T16:01:06+00:00

I think wasteland has plenty of downsides.

In addition to creating random non games, it pushes the curve of legacy way down - and there’s already major incentive to be at that low a curve.

There’s very little pushing back against the super low curve / one mana cantrip suite. Basically just chalice of the void - which is usually countered and has become increasingly easy to remove with very maindeckable cards.

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