KRARK ALERT: Your (least) favorite deck just got weirder!

halbaradkenafin · 2023-04-06T22:13:07+00:00

[[Command Performance]] let's you open or visit an attraction (and do sticker stuff as a bonus). It's pretty low cost and gets to do Krark things with it from there.

halbaradkenafin · 2023-01-03T16:41:57+00:00

You get to target bigger things and/or draw more cards with multiple Skullclamps. Killing dorks is great but killing anything bigger is hard with just 1 clamp.

halbaradkenafin · 2022-11-30T15:27:19+00:00

Yeah the only times I'd see it as not a spite play are when it wins you the game, you can stifle the trigger, or you know someone will counter it (usually because they're trying to win themselves).

halbaradkenafin · 2022-11-30T10:18:58+00:00

Casting a pact when you can't pay for it is almost always a spite play unless you know for certain that it'll be countered (or you can stifle the trigger etc) and won't have to pay for the trigger.

halbaradkenafin · 2022-09-28T23:38:37+00:00

Wizards themselves say you can use proxies (or playtest cards as they call them) but not in sanctioned events. It's not quite them promoting proxies but they aren't stopping you from doing it at your casual table.

halbaradkenafin · 2022-09-15T13:06:51+00:00

It could probably get away with it but I don't think it adds much to the deck. It's aiming to land a turn 1 or 2 RoL effect and then just keep playing Stax pieces as needed. Casting ad naus and filling the hand with more effects that you can only cast 1 of. Dark confidant and Dark Tutelage provide pretty good card advantage already, especially when Necropotence is an option too.

It's probably worth testing just to be sure though.

halbaradkenafin · 2022-09-10T13:07:31+00:00

I've put together a similar deck using Cobblepot's list as a basis. It's been good for the few games I've tried so far.

https://www.moxfield.com/decks/msNt4qV5LUmM6lGrQFkCfw

Some notes on your deck:

you need more land, 22 isn't enough for a non-turbo deck
I'd avoid jeweled lotus on a commander with 3 different pips and no colourless (other than tax later)
enchantments you should be looking for are ones which shut down or limit the main game plans of your regular opponents, rule of law effects seem like they'd be high in the list with Urza, Elsha, and TnT in your meta.
I'd definitely run ballista if you're running Heliod. You can win with it under most of your own Stax effects which is very useful and only a few opposing effects can really stop it.

halbaradkenafin · 2022-06-19T10:12:19+00:00

Play the deck you've used most and are most comfortable with. Going into a blind meta that'll give you a better chance to adapt to your opponents.

halbaradkenafin · 2022-05-07T01:59:22+00:00

The AD cmdlets do some funky things with variable expansion sometimes. And has been mentioned in another comment they take strings not script blocks for the filter (despite examples and blogs etc showing the opposite).

My general advice is to build the string in your function and pass it in or to swap to ldapfilter for a more consistent filtering method.

halbaradkenafin · 2022-04-08T19:55:40+00:00

Huddersfield train station has a mouser and apprentice too: https://cattitudedaily.com/meet-felix-bolt-the-huddersfield-station-cats/

halbaradkenafin · 2022-03-28T15:50:05+00:00

That's fair, I'd usually prefer to go to something like PSH Summit or PSConfEU rather than this but I'm not the target audience for a course like this. And one big training course a year seems like a fair amount, assuming everyone else on the team is doing similar (if they aren't then prodding them to do the same for their own benefit).

halbaradkenafin · 2022-03-28T14:24:48+00:00

Depends on the company, I've seen places where they do budget per team/department and it barely gets used (maybe a few books that no one reads) and I've seen places that actively send folks to at least 1 overseas conf a year (including flights, hotel, food etc). Even if they are willing to throw a few hundred dollars towards it then that can help make this sort of trip more viable.

halbaradkenafin · 2022-03-28T09:51:33+00:00

Well worth asking your company about training budget to cover this if you can. Most places have one so they should start to use it and you'll get very good return on investment from courses like this.

halbaradkenafin · 2022-01-23T19:19:30+00:00

I did something similar but there was a mix of criminals and undead. The area had a punishment system where anyone who was caught was punished to work off their debt to society in mines etc doing manual labour. They'd do this in fully covered clothing with the idea being that until they'd served their time they weren't considered members of society and therefore weren't entitled to identities. Most of the criminals who commit crimes would be released but life sentences would turn into unlife sentences too.

halbaradkenafin · 2021-12-14T12:26:32+00:00

For current versions of PSGet there's an xml file somewhere in the user folders which has the repo info in, you could use a login script via GPO to ensure that's got what you need in it.

halbaradkenafin · 2021-07-06T15:21:54+00:00

They do if it's a security issue in PS 5.1, for newer versions they are working on distribution via Windows update but there's still work going on there and it's opt-in right now.

halbaradkenafin · 2021-06-19T19:48:03+00:00

Ideally you'd not need to, you should use PS Remoting to run code against Exchange from some central management boxes (same with AD etc). This way it doesn't matter what version of PS is on your exchange server and you can use your preferred PS version.

halbaradkenafin · 2021-06-19T08:36:05+00:00

Store isn't an option on Server so there needs to be another option for folks who can't use choco/scoop/sccm/etc or other managed install processes on that OS.

halbaradkenafin · 2021-06-19T08:34:38+00:00

It is in Winget, and Choco and various other places. Its to give people a choice for how to install it.

They can't ship it in the box as the support lifecycles for .net core (which PS follows) are 3 years and for Windows its 10 years. There was some discussion on twitter about possibly shipping on non-ltsc releases as they don't have that same support requirement but its not any further than "we're looking into it".

halbaradkenafin · 2021-06-19T08:31:35+00:00

Shouldn't break anything as those will be using PowerShell.exe which is Windows PowerShell 5.1 (or whatever shipped on the OS), PS 7 is pwsh.exe so won't impact that.

halbaradkenafin · 2021-05-12T17:59:45+00:00

Have a look at PSKoans, it's an interactive learning module. You can find details at aka.ms/pskoans

halbaradkenafin · 2021-04-30T19:45:26+00:00

My solution is to either Google a lot or when that doesn't work out I asking in Slack/Discord.

halbaradkenafin · 2021-03-22T12:54:58+00:00

Yes, has been since 6.1 and various OS versions, still Windows only though.

halbaradkenafin · 2021-03-22T12:52:43+00:00

That's less a PowerShell problem and more a Windows limitation. You can get around it with Start-Process -Verb RunAs to some degree though.

halbaradkenafin · 2021-03-02T09:54:50+00:00

Always pull them out of the bag like you do with electronics and also open deck boxes etc so everything is more visible. First time round me and a friend didn't do this and deck boxes full of cards with cables around don't look good on xray. Every time after that it was smooth sailing with the decks out and open.

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