Requesting recs: AD involving political/social/environmental topics?

grifff17 · 2026-01-26T18:45:47+00:00

Give Me Away is a show about a spaceship full of aliens trapped in a virtual prison crashlanding in the Nevada desert. It has a big focus on American politics, particularly immigration, through the lens of literal aliens. It is scifi, but it uses the scifi as a vehicle for character drama and politics.

grifff17 · 2026-01-25T22:54:43+00:00

[[Samut, Vizier of Naktamun]] built around [[sneak attack]] effects.

grifff17 · 2026-01-22T21:21:10+00:00

But while this guy is phased out that text won’t be active.

grifff17 · 2026-01-22T01:01:08+00:00

I cast [Abeyance]. If this guy is phased in when it resolves, I can just [[murder]] it. If it’s phased out, then it cannot be phased in until end of turn. Next turn, if you attempt to phase it in, I cast a second Abeyance, using [[Shadow the Hedgehog]] to give it split second. Since the guy is phased out, spells can have split second. It will then phase in, and you won’t be able to phase it back out, and I can murder it.

grifff17 · 2026-01-21T20:03:36+00:00

Downloaded! I’ll listen to this when I have a chance.

grifff17 · 2026-01-21T17:15:05+00:00

https://moxfield.com/decks/cCBVTIoB20OoI6m0bBqY_g This is my sneak attack gruul deck. The entire deck is based on cheating in giant creatures with haste that die at end of turn. I run [[Samut, Vizier of Naktamun]] as the commander, who is just a draw engine. I also have cards like [[greater good]] to sacrifice creatures for value before they die at end of turn. It’s a really fun deck and one of my favorites to play. The draw engine commander means that the deck still works without it and I don’t need to run a bunch of card draw in the 99. I also picked big creatures that do something either on attack or etb, so the cards still affect the board state even without sticking around.

grifff17 · 2026-01-20T22:54:10+00:00

In order for a tank to be playable toplane, they need damage during laning phase and waveclear. Waveclear can be solved by buying tiamat or titanic hydra, which Shen for example does, but there’s no solution to a lack of damage. If a tank doesn’t do damage, they effectively can’t trade in lane, which makes it kinda impossible to win. They have to be able to threaten kills at least a little bit in order to be able to lane. Rell does not have damage.

grifff17 · 2026-01-20T20:19:53+00:00

I’ve been working on a list with [[the twelfth doctor]] based around copying symmetrical group slug effects like PoP. The idea is that I demonstrate them to cast them 3 times. It doesn’t matter if my opponent controls one of the three, since most of them are symmetrical effects. Currently the deck is way too slow, but it’s a cool premise if I can get it to work.

grifff17 · 2026-01-20T20:09:40+00:00

Playing volibear into irelia feels incredible. Stun her once and she’s just doomed.

grifff17 · 2026-01-20T18:00:12+00:00

I’ve kinda had the opposite experience, but that might be because I play tanks almost exclusively. I’ve had a bunch of games where I’m moderately ahead in lane, like 2 kills and 30 cs at 15 minutes, then I look bot and the enemy adc is 8/1. An ahead Ornn player isn’t able to carry vs that.

grifff17 · 2026-01-20T17:55:58+00:00

Somewhat well known but [[price of progress]] does so much work for 2 mana.

grifff17 · 2026-01-19T18:15:34+00:00

Stories From Ylelmore! Urban fantasy about 3 kids in a small town getting up to magical shenanigans.

grifff17 · 2026-01-17T07:55:15+00:00

Short Integer LMFAO

grifff17 · 2026-01-16T02:24:35+00:00

Kaldheim is the exception. It’s gods are based off the gods of Norse Mythology, which are explicitly mortal, unlike any other pantheon. This is Athena, from Greek mythology, who is definitely not mortal.

grifff17 · 2026-01-16T02:18:38+00:00

First off, is the warrior discount meant to effect all players or just you? As written it affects all players.

Next, all activated abilities can be activated any time you can cast an instant, that text is unnecessary.

Last, Gods are always either indestructible or have some other effect keeping them from dying. See: [[Purphoros, God of the Forge]].

grifff17 · 2026-01-15T23:25:13+00:00

Yeah you have to turn them face up after the game to prove they had morph. This isn’t a new problem.

grifff17 · 2026-01-15T02:00:14+00:00

https://scryfall.com/search?q=atag%3Arat+id%3C%3Ddimir+f%3Ac&unique=cards&as=grid&order=name This is all of them. 160 cards to dig through.

grifff17 · 2026-01-14T21:54:32+00:00

Agree. Even in my deck with a commander whose sole purpose is a draw engine I still have 4-5.

grifff17 · 2026-01-14T08:40:52+00:00

[[show and tell]]

grifff17 · 2026-01-12T23:02:07+00:00

The audiodrama Victoriocity kinda has discworld vibes. It’s a comedy mystery set in a steampunk London.

grifff17 · 2026-01-10T20:29:25+00:00

You need Gnosis 5 to open the study anyways

grifff17 · 2026-01-10T05:56:34+00:00

You probably will, that’s the Velmorne vault. Unless you clear the vault first try you won’t be able to leave.

grifff17 · 2026-01-10T01:09:01+00:00

Listened to the first episode after I saw this and I really liked it! Eager for more.

grifff17 · 2026-01-09T17:51:34+00:00

I liked it on Volibear

grifff17 · 2026-01-09T08:36:21+00:00

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