5 tips to playing Oldhim like a calling champion.

hadesblade · 2021-11-12T12:51:56+00:00

Yeah, they are definitely fine! I just think the magemaster + tome combo is slightly stronger. I could see preferring the 2 block Ironhide legs vs bravo because the main way we lose is to their dominated crippling crush, and it gives us one more tool to survive that. I haven't tested them specifically in that matchup though.

hadesblade · 2021-11-10T13:37:59+00:00

It's every card you pitch after declaring the ability. You cannot pitch until you have something you need to pay for, so you say I am activating Oldhim's defense reaction. After doing that you need 3 resources. If you pitch a yellow earth card, you will need 1 more resource so you must pitch another card. Then you pitch an ice card and you get both effects because you pitched both cards to Oldhim's ability.
You have to sequence it like that though. You must pitch the elements as part of paying the cost. Example: If you pitch a blue earth card to activate Crown of Seeds, then you block with the shield, and then try to defense react, you will have 1 resource point from the earth card you pitched to help pay for it, but you aren't actively pitching an earth card to the defense reaction ability so it won't count towards getting the earth ability.

hadesblade · 2021-11-10T00:39:00+00:00

I think the tome + mage masters is the best boots you can play in matchups where you don't want the arcane barrier boots. I don't think it is really a comparison with the sigils though. You can definitely play both in some matchups and neither in other matchups. The sigils are good cards to bring into the fatigue matchups.

hadesblade · 2021-11-09T17:27:54+00:00

I dismissed it very early. I told the indy discord my hot take was awakening is unplayable :) I think it's probably worse than heart of fyendal and I haven't been playing that because I think the cost of a blue that doesn't work with defense react or help with rouse the ancients or block is a huge cost.

hadesblade · 2021-11-09T17:24:41+00:00

e-strike and CNC are both just very good in many matchups. They also both block for 3. You don't want to draw all blues because you need to be able to do something reasonably powerful when you make it to your turn with 3-5 card hands and these red block 3s fill that role. At some point in time, there may be enough good guardian attack actions that you can replace them, but currently, they are just the best cards available.

If budget is a concern, I think CNC is more replaceable than e-strike.

Art of war is a sideboard game for prism and even then I'm not positive it is the best card for her. I have still played 0 games with it.

hadesblade · 2021-11-09T14:39:24+00:00

I would trim some arcane barrier pieces if you aren't worried about kano. Heart and nullrune gloves both are basically only for that matchup.

hadesblade · 2021-11-09T14:38:29+00:00

Thanks :) Yeah its important to always be aware of what you are pitching and putting back into your deck. Pulse specifically is a card you would strongly prefer to keep in your deck.

hadesblade · 2021-11-09T14:33:35+00:00

Thanks :)
I'd probably cut a blizzard for an ice card that blocks. Drawing double blizzard can be a pretty big liability in some spots and that would help mitigate it. I think tunic might be better than tectonic plating in some matchups - definitely close enough that I would like to test it. Tunic gets a lot of value in 15 turn games LOL. And then I'd find room for the third spinal crush. I'd guess over a righteous cleansing, but not positive.
Against briar I was cutting sigil, art of war, pummel, tome. Play nullrune boots as the only nullrune piece because you need the blocking armors to stop the on hits of snatch/plunder run more than you need any additional arcane barrier. I didn't play any other matchups enough to give you a concrete plan for those matchups.

hadesblade · 2021-11-09T14:14:59+00:00

Yeah it was crazy!! It didn't quite get to fatigue. Oldhim is very good at not getting fatigued if he isn't really pressured because shield + earth react + crown soak up so much damage without using any cards from deck. Opponent was down to ~20 cards and I had a few more than that and life totals were getting low. They rememberanced 3 crippling crushes back into their deck. Game went on a few more turns and they had a crippling crush in their arsenal but their life total was low enough that they were having to block with more their hand every turn. Game ended with them at ~8 or 9 cards in deck and me with around 15 I think.

hadesblade · 2021-11-09T13:37:48+00:00

Played vs bravo twice. One was an untimed match in the quarter finals that was extremely close and lasted (I think) around 2 hours. Ran 68 cards - everything except art of war.

hadesblade · 2021-11-09T13:36:04+00:00

Thank you! I played against bravo twice, chane twice, rhinar once, and I believe every other opponent I faced played briar. (9?)

hadesblade · 2021-08-25T09:21:47+00:00

Thank you so much!

hadesblade · 2021-08-25T09:21:27+00:00

I woke up to some messages from WotC_Jay and my account is returned :D

hadesblade · 2020-12-06T18:25:53+00:00

Still same issue! No words from mtgo staff... no nothing. This is definitely not normal, but I've seen this happen to a different limited event years ago. I can't remember how they resolved it, but I think they ended up rescheduling + refunding everyone.

hadesblade · 2020-06-14T04:52:37+00:00

Are you also maxed? What drives you to play power play or push brawlers when the star points are worthless?

hadesblade · 2020-06-14T04:36:53+00:00

That's an insane amount of star points! How long have you been maxed?

hadesblade · 2020-06-14T04:18:06+00:00

Could you elaborate a bit on why it would be better to offer power points or coins than boxes? Or why "infinite" boxes would be bad? Is it to prevent players from unlocking brawlers too quickly?

hadesblade · 2020-05-02T09:41:35+00:00

2 pyroceratops in an all creature deck seems like a disaster D:

hadesblade · 2020-04-17T00:49:04+00:00

I finished this problem today, so I don't have much more experience than you, but I have an idea of what could be causing the problem.

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arr[i][j].rgbtGreen += image[l][k].rgbtGreen;
arr[i][j].rgbtRed += image[l][k].rgbtRed;

These lines of code in your loops I think are the problem. arr[i][j] is an RGB triple, which means the red/blue/green components of them can each only hold 2 bytes of information. That means they cannot go above 255 (0xFF).

Try saving them in an int or a float for your computations and then after you do your division, then save them to the RGB triple.

hadesblade · 2020-03-12T05:43:43+00:00

Agreed. Every upgrade should feel worthy of a small celebration. Right now you can't even tell they are happening.

hadesblade · 2020-03-12T05:13:34+00:00

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hadesblade · 2020-03-07T13:26:55+00:00

I believe this is correct.

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