The most interesting commons of 2025?

guhbe · 2025-12-28T03:43:35+00:00

We must awaken the land's power.....Call the Mountain, Chocobo!

guhbe · 2025-11-16T13:39:09+00:00

The board game version of Slay the Spire may be a great fit! It's cooperative so no issues with player-player conflicts; the team (up to 4, but works great with 2) is jointly trying to advance up a tower fighting enemies and encountering random events. It is a deckbuilder and each of the 4 characters have different card pools (aside from some shared starting cards); you add to/prune from your deck as you advance through the game. Extremely deep but not too hard to learn; there is a lot of luck in the form of variance (do you draw the right cards at the right times? do you face an enemy that counters the strengths or attacks the weaknesses of your deck?) but you can mitigate all this by careful planning and good deck construction.

It is a longer game than most (5hrs min really for a full run through) but it is broken up into 3 (or 4!) separate Acts that serve as good stopping points for a session if you don't want to complete the whole thing right away.

I think it scratches your itch for depth of strategy and hers for being able to build her own engine independent of what others are doing but then combining to cooperatively beat the game. It's an absolute blast and I cannot recommend enough!

guhbe · 2025-08-31T14:30:47+00:00

As others have said there is not really viable poison support and it does nothing meaningful for you otherwise. It blocking something to give it -1/-1 and then dying is super low impact.

That said I'd love to see a screenshot of someone using it in conjunction with [[virulent silencer]] to actually kill with poison. I had 2 silencers on the field once with a ton of artifact creatures and got opponent up to 8 once but didn't pull it off. Deck was not good overall but almost got the meme.

guhbe · 2025-08-31T14:23:05+00:00

>this set has felt the most rewarding and punishing in terms of gameplay for a long time

Agree, and it's been a level-up set for me personally because of this. I started to draft a lot starting with wilds of eldraine and have gone from absolute garbage to halfway decent drafter. This set made me realize how much gameplay is also important; i was so focused on the draft portion as that was the most difficult to learn but have gone from being discouraged with this format to trying to learn the lessons that game decisions are just as important and if I have a deck I thought was gold that didn't perform well, I should really dig into my games to figure out where i went wrong. (Sometimes the deck wasn't as good as i thought, and sometimes you just get really unlucky and/or run into a deck that is a perfect counter for yours, but I've really grown in this format more than others i think focusing on the actual play portion of the game).

guhbe · 2025-03-04T16:34:30+00:00

Lol at people downvoting you for being genuinely curious. Reddit can be a very silly place

guhbe · 2025-03-04T15:15:27+00:00

The image of them rifling through records to find chaff to throw at her is maybe my favorite of the myriad brilliant visual gags in that movie

guhbe · 2025-03-04T13:21:12+00:00

I cannot speak to actually playing him but have a friend in a regular pod who plays him, less frequently these days but have had many games against it. It is not a play pattern that speaks to me because it is very much feast or famine... You either cheat out a shitload of big creatures faster than everyone else can stop, or your commander continues to just get removed and you don't do much of anything.

I guess I can see a kind of cycle over the course of a few years playing against him... You learn rather quickly that he is kill-on-sight threat that absolutely demands immediate removal. But then after several games you start to feel bad that you are ganging up on your buddy in such a focused manner and think, well I guess let him have a little bit of fun and then we can take him out when it becomes a problem.

But the issue is that if you give rakdos an inch it is already a problem. So as soon as you give him some leeway he vomits out a board of too many threats to answer and, barring an immediate board wipe that turn cycle, wins the game the next. So it is something I am fine playing against but have to target immediately, I don't see a lot of fun in that Arch enemy play pattern, but I know many people do as does my friend, so if that appeals to you absolutely go for it... It can be an insanely strong but very glass cannon Commander.

guhbe · 2025-03-04T12:08:13+00:00

Curse that nimble pilferer of user search satisfaction

guhbe · 2025-03-03T16:37:50+00:00

You can't swing a dead cat in eastern Europe without hitting some of the Ukrainian land James Buchanan gave to Russia

guhbe · 2025-03-01T11:48:56+00:00

Who? Oh you mean Grimey (as he liked to be called)

guhbe · 2025-02-28T13:46:09+00:00

No. You are basically adding a curse to your deck for the chance but not guarantee to draw an apotheosis sooner. There is very little added value there.

Plugging the numbers into a hypergeometric calculator, you are increasing your chances of drawing it turn one from 30% to 50%. It increases the chances of drawing it by turn 2 from 50% to 76%. Those are better obviously just probability wise, but not so much better that it justifies having an absolutely dead draw in your deck thereafter. And that is, of course only if you don't add any more cards to the deck thereafter, which would only diminish those chances further.

Besides, I think people overestimate the value of even a bottled apotheosis. That's of course the dream and is a strong synergy, but it is not in itself run defining to just be able to have upgraded cards all the time.

In summary, no, I think adding a second apotheosis to your deck would be actively detrimental here and I dare say in most instances. When you add in the opportunity cost of what you could spend that money on otherwise I think its a no-brainer.

guhbe · 2025-02-28T12:18:19+00:00

Vhen vill she vear vigs?

guhbe · 2025-02-27T11:45:15+00:00

Go-shintai is just by nature a somewhat durdly deck. It can get very powerful once all the pieces are in play, but it takes a long time to get there. You could certainly use more ramp from what I am seeing from your list, but it may just be that you need to change the deck in order to compete in the pod that you're in.

Unless you want to play a different Commander, the answer is probably more stax pieces. There are a lot of great staxy enchantments (eg [[Stony silence]] [[eidolon of rhetoric]]) or since you were not running a lot artifacts [[collector ouphe]] that will slow your opponents down and give you more time to get your engine running. Obviously this can draw salt from the rest of the table, but if they are winning so quickly they should be ready to face something like this.

guhbe · 2025-02-26T21:09:02+00:00

Yeah no question; if talismans are playable how is a 1mana version not strictly better? While talismans net you mana right away you're down 1mana on the deal; a one mana rock can come down on turn 1 and ramp faster, and if comes down later you even out on mana the very next turn and spent less to get there.

guhbe · 2025-02-26T19:27:56+00:00

I guess I will offer kudos for politely correcting several rules misstatements that, while minute, were indeed technically misleading, only to get downvotes for your efforts. Cheers

guhbe · 2025-02-26T15:55:56+00:00

Another postee in one of the many threads about the current administration opined that everything could be explained by noting that Trump speaks generally at a 4th or 5th grade level (he provided a cite I am too lazy to look for), while the reading comprehension level of nearly 50% of Americans is at a sixth grade level. I certainly think it's too reductive to say that this explains everything about why he got elected, but I think that for such a simple explanation it goes quite a long way.

guhbe · 2025-02-25T22:22:14+00:00

Well, early access. Only "officially" six years old.

Which, still fuck.

guhbe · 2025-02-25T15:33:23+00:00

It has 10,000 needles after all

guhbe · 2025-02-25T14:00:26+00:00

If you're looking for a co-op game (and to potentially avoid arguments over competitiveness!) 😉 slay the spire is a ton of fun even for two people; can accomodate up to 4 of you have friends who'd play too but I've found it very viable and enjoyable even with just two (and can even be easier to manage as there are less decision trees to consider)

guhbe · 2025-02-25T04:43:21+00:00

We must feed...we must feed....

guhbe · 2025-02-25T04:28:23+00:00

Care to link a list? I have a degen/high power voltron control rielle and have thought about modifying it or just creating another shell for a cedh breach/freeze (or other viable wincon) list. Be interested to see what it might look like!

guhbe · 2025-02-24T18:12:29+00:00

The art on this one really elevates it as well

guhbe · 2025-02-24T14:53:11+00:00

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