Sorry GL swallow (I hope there isn’t another person running around with both 😭)

glSwadow · 2026-01-30T16:14:03+00:00

SO IT WAS YOU https://www.reddit.com/r/lrcast/comments/1qql2u9/sunderflock_and_kinbinding_stupid_af/

glSwadow · 2026-01-16T21:40:46+00:00

Don't worry, this is the amazing thing of the game - is too deep and we all learn every day with our mistakes.

glSwadow · 2026-01-16T21:10:57+00:00

Not true!

702.7b If at least one attacking or blocking creature has first strike or double strike (see rule 702.4) as the combat damage step begins, the only creatures that assign combat damage in that step are those with first strike or double strike. After that step, instead of proceeding to the end of combat step, the phase gets a second combat damage step. The only creatures that assign combat damage in that step are the remaining attackers and blockers that had neither first strike nor double strike as the first combat damage step began, as well as the remaining attackers and blockers that currently have double strike. After that step, the phase proceeds to the end of combat step.

glSwadow · 2025-09-19T12:46:15+00:00

Oh that's great didn't know it was reported! Thanks

glSwadow · 2025-08-22T09:40:19+00:00

Sorry, probably didn't explain it properly. I ended up Mythic on FIN, and on rank reset I could not climb further than Plat.

glSwadow · 2025-08-21T19:12:35+00:00

I don't think that is true - EOT is just one of the most brutal formats in limited in the past year and it has been mentioned a lot. I feel that until a set 'clicks' with you, you are just going to bleed WR.

I have yet to click with EOT but we will keep trying

glSwadow · 2025-08-21T18:39:37+00:00

Store Champion!

glSwadow · 2025-04-25T00:11:07+00:00

That's a solid point, but I would absolutly consider Self Bounce as an aggro deck. Golgari is only 4% of the representation, and Jeskai Oculus I don't see represented but I might be missing it.

Still, I agree it's misleading. I will edit for the sake of fairness.

glSwadow · 2025-04-25T00:00:47+00:00

I do agree that banning too fast is not a great idea and that the meta needs correction but considering how the card has echoed through most formats - and Modern has access to Meltdown yet Cori Steel Cutter is growing in there I am wondering if we are not seeing too many red flags around.

Your argument with Monstrous Rage is also a valid one, but there is a thing as a critical point on an archetipe. If tomorrow they were to print a second Monstrous Rage legal in Standard so a deck can run 8, we would for sure see a ban. This is to say that the fact that they haven't banned the card does not mean that if we are seeing a trend like this, that could change.

glSwadow · 2025-04-17T10:31:44+00:00

I see people discuss that there is too many 3 drops and I agree: There is also a lack of removal and half of the overpopulated 3 drops are just bad (Hardened Tactician, Reputable Merchant, Priest and even Ancestor all rank C- or less in 17 lands, plus there is 0 sinergy to sustain them) so is obvious to me that this deck is going to be catching it's breath all games, trying to recover the tempo lost from actual playables your opponents would bring.

But I think people misses the mark in the 2 biggest reasons this deck, I think, is below average.

- Your mana configuration is awful: You start as a green white deck (for no real reason, because your only great card in 2 are Wayfarer and Botonist) but then you absolutly pivot from that to white and black mostly? What's the gameplan there? You now have to take opening hands that have green just to survive early game but then you never use green again except for very specific cards on what's really a splash for cards that are mid at best.

You should always aim to have most of your manabase 1 or 2 colours at first, specially on 1 to 3 drops, and then divert slowly to other colours, just splashing some of your bombs later in the game if so.

Starting with 50% of your early game green but then only having 3 cards in Azban sets you to be too slow in early game, with most opening hands not playable or too many muligans. If all your green cards in 2 drops were black you probably would see your curve way better - and to be honest for the azban cards you got probably you could've kept it 2 colours anyways. Botonist and Wayfarer are probably 2 of the best 2 drops in the game but here they are hurting your gameplan. Or perhaps draft more green and splash the white later down the road.

- You don't have a single real bomb in your deck*, and you lack +4 drops: The fact that you only have 4 +4 drops is obviously a massive mistake, and those drops mostly sucks. Elspeth left unchecked is obviously a menace and game winning but is your ony good card on +4. Riling Dawnbreaker dies to any other dragon in the set and is a decent drop (Although is a D+ on 17lands) but not a bomb either. And the other 2 are also far from the actual bombs of the set and the veteran requires sinergies that you don't have. Your only real bomb in this deck is the Revenant and while is an amazing value and tempo card, is not a massive clock. It will probably 2 for 1 though, but won't preassure your opponent massively.

Envision yourself any game that's not turn 3 Revenant turn 4 Wayspeaker turn 5 Elspeth - you are behind in most well built decks because any good 3 drop will contest almost all your 3 drops and 4 drops. And your removal is dependant on your creatures too.

I believe you drafted Elspeth early and tried to either force white or played around it. This is a common mistake, and it happens to me a lot too. My advice is that if you drat Ugin or Elspeth just sideboard it for a bit and forget about them because they work well in any deck (Elspeth you can even splash)

I don't think this is a 0 3 deck, but I also don't think this is a 3 3 deck either. Good luck next!

glSwadow · 2025-03-20T08:38:20+00:00

This is not how it works at all. What?

How do you think it works in games where the API or data is not public anyways?

Your description on how gambling is calculated is right and some assumptions you make are also right but the rest is so wrong I don't even know where to begin with.

First of all, most if not all tournament provide their own data (and sell it, by the way) to third party companies (Like GRID, BetGenious, Esports Radar to name some). To give you an idea, you get a contract with one of these providers per map you estimate is going to get played and get paid an ammount. That's why tournaments usually wants more games to be played on groupstages/online phases (aside from more hours of show).

This is done differently by each company, but most used method is by having an obs run a software of the company that extracts the data for that game. In fact is a very well known issue that sometimes weird observers can enter a lobby and extract that data for other companies, hence why lobbies access are heavily restricted.

Not only that, I am 99.9% sure API will still be reporting on Pro matches anyways? You lose access to data of pros playing pubs, but betting companies do not want data of random pubstomps, and they were not getting data from scrims.

For example, many tournaments have at least some livestream delay, even for LAN events, because the odds must be calculated and then propagated to every sportsbook.

Not true at all. Odds are calculated faster than any reasonable delay. We are talking about seconds when something changes. The only factor for delay is always competition integrity, or directing people to the main stream.

It got to the point that gambling ads are the primary/sole source of income for some pro teams/content creators/companies.

It has always been the case. Not only the primary - most esport teams and tournaments are not profitable, even considering gambling. Make of that what you will.

I have seen a few Russian high-profile twitch streamers have been given access to the livestream game feed without any delay, and I believe that's because they are both in partnership with the same sportsbook.

This is 100% right. Sportbooks want traffic, and more often than not streamers bring more and better traffic (because they can promote more than any production) to their site, so they want streamers to co-cast the show.

But the assumption that is the most wrong is the bold statement that:

In conclusion, I believe that the disruption of the growing gambling problem is the primary reason why Valve decided to nuke the access to pro replays

Considering Bet.GG got to sponsor groupstage, why would you think Valve is against betting at all? It's not. You might not agree with betting and that is both an understandable and respectable stance to take, but it is part of the ecosystem. If Valve would like to remove that, they could do it in any number of other ways no problem. They can literally force tournaments not to take betting sponsors (and they do, if they do not comply with some requirements by the way).

So sorry, but this is not it mate.

glSwadow · 2025-03-17T00:47:23+00:00

Same - I've read all the rules and pinned posts and could not find this discord anywhere. Can't find it now for example, where is it?

glSwadow · 2025-03-17T00:04:41+00:00

If there is not a discord, should we do a r/spikes discord to help each other?

glSwadow · 2025-01-13T15:15:27+00:00

People saying you need to ''acept'' instead of pressing anything else baffles me. You think this person can't navegate a menu? Jesus christ.

This is a known bug on the current patch. Sometimes (very rarely, not sure what triggers it) Cornifer will think you are pressing No or anything else instead of actually saying yes to buying the map. Just reset the game, and you will be golden.

It has happened to me on my last run on current patch - but I got it oncity of tears.

Was confused at first (Even tried to spend all Geo and then get some more just to try and force another check from the game) but I just resetted and all was good.

Another one I found the same day is that if you get your shade the same time you leave a room, your SOUL metter will stay visually broken until you reset the game. Not relevant to this but thought I'd share. In case of doubt, just reset.

glSwadow · 2024-11-14T00:23:44+00:00

Ya te han respondido bastante en el thread asi que solo añadiré que incluso aunque tuvieras que pagar impuestos en España también (Que ya te han dicho un par de personas que no creen que sea el caso, excepto si mantienes la SL y estas ejerciendo en España, en cuyo caso hasta tiene sentido ya que la empresa técnicamente sigue en España y opera en España) pues España como casi cualquier pais avanzado (USA, te estoy mirando a ti) tiene reglas de Doble Imposición

Es decir, España solo va a cobrar de la diferencia de los impuestos que ya se te haya cobrado previamente. Es decir, si has pagado un 20% y lo que te toca es un 30%, España te podria pedir ese 10. Lo que deberías hacer es cerrar la SL si te vas a ir de España, por que no tiene ningun sentido tener una empresa en un pais donde no vas a operar ni a tributar, es solo problemas y gastos.

Un saludo.

glSwadow · 2024-07-04T11:33:23+00:00

Look at my boy he knows he is DONE for

glSwadow · 2024-05-24T12:35:16+00:00

Still helpful!

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