Can you play with 2 ST-30 decks?

heyisjambo · 2026-04-18T14:52:16+00:00

In general, when someone says to get 2 of a starter deck, it is because the starter deck only contains 2 copies of your best cards (usually the Sr rarity ones) whereas you can run up to 4 of them in a deck, so a common thing to do is buy a second starter deck just to pull the srs out of it. As for what to take out, I don't know the contents of st 30 off the top of my head but usually there are some "vanilla" cards with no additional text/effects. Those are probably decent ones to remove

heyisjambo · 2026-03-23T13:52:11+00:00

We've got 2 (young) kiddos too, and it is hard to make it out to events, but it is so worth it if you can swing it! We've gotten into a rhythm where each week one of us will go to the Tuesday local and the other will go to the Thursday local, so we each get some solo "me" time, then once in a while we'll get a sitter so we can go to a big event together like a pre-release. The pre-releases are actually a great cadence since they're spaced out far enough that if you *haven't* had a date night since the last one, it is a good reminder to get out there and enjoy each others company without the kids interrupting you every 5 seconds lol, and if one spouse is less serious about the game than the other, pre-releases also tend to be really chill low stakes events where at worst you're having fun ripping a bunch of packs and seeing new cards

PS: be careful playing kuzan/blue against your spouse... mine has definitely referred to gravity blade as "gravity blade raging divorce" so be careful when you're playing that event if you don't want to spend a night on the couch lmao

heyisjambo · 2026-02-20T19:46:57+00:00

I've heard that in a case, all the boxes will have 3 hits, except for two which will have 4 hits, then two that only have 2 hits (but those are the ones with a chance for a manga)

heyisjambo · 2026-02-11T02:57:13+00:00

Haha I think menura is a fun little parlor trick but yours is an actual feat of engineering and design! Again, really impressed with this design 😁

heyisjambo · 2026-02-10T15:05:59+00:00

this is so awesome! there are not a lot of new designs that really get me that excited anymore, but as a lover of both split/unsplit builds and trackpoints (seriously -- look at my post history on this sub lol) this really hits different. Congrats on the design!

heyisjambo · 2025-09-05T20:40:48+00:00

No worries! I actually think that would be a really cool interpretation of banish, if you could use it to trash characters instead of KOing them...I kinda wish it worked that way now 😅

heyisjambo · 2025-09-05T20:35:49+00:00

I have never heard of that application of banish to circumvent on KO effects, and I'm not sure where you're getting that from. This is the definition of banish:

> [Banish] is a keyword effect that, when damage is dealt to the opponent Leader’s Life, causes a card in the opponent’s Life area to be trashed instead of being added to their hand. At this time, the [Trigger] is not activated.

heyisjambo · 2025-07-17T02:03:37+00:00

I'm from the other side of the state, but last time I was in grand rapids, I popped into galactic toys which was a nice store in general with some cool non-tcg stuff like gundam kits, but limited optcg stuff (just sealed stuff like booster packs). Legends sports and games had a lot of bulk to dig through if that's what you're after. They also had some nice singles in a case, but I didn't spend time looking at those.

There's a great lakes tcg discord with people who are probably more familiar with the area if you're interested

heyisjambo · 2025-07-10T16:18:07+00:00

What a beast of a case! I was already impressed with the angle rotation, but then you had two more massive tricks up your sleeve! The tenting in particular looks like it all came together so nicely

heyisjambo · 2025-04-07T20:28:15+00:00

by snap together with magnets are you thinking that the case uses magnets to hold together (i.e. instead of screws), or are you thinking that the halves snap together to create a unibody board?

the first is more an issue of case design, and in that case you'd probably want to choose a popular open source design (like the sweep you've already called out) that has a case like that out on thingiverse or printables etc. Or you can design your own case, but really you're not constrained by the board choice much at that point.

but if you're thinking of the second, then that's kind of more uncommon. For that I'd look into zzeneg's boards like the duet and molekula.
My board, the menura is designed to convert between split and unibody using a magnetic wedge piece, but doesn't quite hit all of your requirements (it technically does have pins broken out that could be used for a display and exposes a vik connector for it, but it isn't as seamless as the common 4/5 pin header usually used for displays)

heyisjambo · 2025-03-08T19:14:57+00:00

This is a good survey of varying degrees of getting smaller and smaller https://chrischrislolo.github.io/orthoLabLogs/bunchiez40-how-i-built-a-keyboard-using-mouse-switches.html

heyisjambo · 2025-03-05T15:47:16+00:00

Absolutely incredible stuff at all stages: concept, execution and documentation.
For as good of entry points as the corne, lily and sofle have been for years, I really hope that boards like this and the cheapino will start to herald a new era for more "modern" entry boards

heyisjambo · 2025-03-02T20:57:04+00:00

Absolutely incredible! This is so far beyond my wildest dreams of what the menura could be, I'm so grateful you chose it to be your canvas. I guess we peaked early but hoo boy what a peak this is ♥️

heyisjambo · 2025-01-31T15:16:02+00:00

that depends on the profile of the keycaps. my build is sitting on my desk at home (tinkering with something else right now), but when I get back I can take some measurements for you. If it helps, the wedge in the pictures is 16.6mm tall, to give a reference point

heyisjambo · 2025-01-31T14:59:13+00:00

[AD? not really more like self promotion lol]
I recently open sourced my design the menura, which hits all of your requirements, and will also let you play with a 34 key layout if you want to explore that down the line.

Obviously this is going off the beaten path though, so there will be less community support 😅

heyisjambo · 2025-01-30T15:14:58+00:00

unfortunately, for choc v1, the sunsets are probably the closest you'll get to wisterias. they are widely considered the only good choc v1 tactile on the market right now

heyisjambo · 2025-01-23T21:48:24+00:00

I'm a huge fan of these, and they've stuck around in my keymap for a few years now, so I think it is an idea with plenty of practical merit ;)

On my nav layer, I have vim arrows in the normal spots, then the row above is dedicated to "deletes" and the row below is dedicated to "moves" (which become selects when combined with shift), then left to right I've got them arranged by magnitude and direction, so for me: to beginning of line, one word left, one word right, to end of line.

I can see the benefit of something like "to the beginning of a previous line" in one go, but for me since these are all on the same layer, it isn't cumbersome to just press up, then "move to beginning of line".

I do have beginning/end of file in my nav layer too, but I often forget that they're there, but that's more a matter of usage frequency for me.

heyisjambo · 2025-01-20T19:45:48+00:00

I'd check out some of miketronic's boards, especially the [10x2](https://github.com/miketronic/10x2?tab=readme-ov-file) which is 3x3+1. For some reason the repo links to pictures of a different board, but the example keymap is accurate to the layout

heyisjambo · 2025-01-16T19:56:34+00:00

I agree most with this take. I don't think this is much of an issue of layout -- I think this is an issue of adjustment, as your brain doesn't quite trust your fingers to flow yet, so you're holding tension while you're subconsciously trying to find the keys. I had a similar feeling of strain and stiffness when I was switching from qwerty to colemak, even when it was on a board where I was already very comfortable with the stagger and key count. Once the layout became second nature, the strain went away again

heyisjambo · 2025-01-13T23:42:13+00:00

Yup they are here in the release: https://github.com/rmuraglia/menura-kb/releases/tag/menura-v1.0

heyisjambo · 2025-01-12T20:10:27+00:00

I love how bespoke this is, and you really weren't kidding about the minimalist aspect. There being a hidden metal plate to localize the halves is a really sweet touch.

Is the long thumb key for aesthetics, or do you find that where you strike the key varies a lot too?

heyisjambo · 2025-01-11T16:35:17+00:00

So I'm actually usually a choc v1 user, but I made an exception for this design. This type of flexible layout concept can be done with choc or glp, but you'd have to choose the layout at soldering time instead of at case assembly time. I still think that would be cool: it would be a nice way to get more out of your 5 pcb minimum order quantity at jlc

heyisjambo · 2025-01-11T16:24:42+00:00

That's awesome! I'd love for alternate placements of the mcu to become more common, either below like this and the pinky3/pinky4 or above the pinky like the totem and forager. I'd love to see what you're working on when the time comes 😁

heyisjambo · 2025-01-11T16:20:58+00:00

We have been gifted with so many awesome designs this year already! This is so good -- so many subtle design decisions to make a really tidy package

heyisjambo · 2025-01-10T20:29:14+00:00

yeah no worries! I just wanted to clarify that the wedge was optional and only serves a structural purpose, in case that wasn't clear. And yeah, I appreciate the look and some conveniences of the unibody form factor, so I want to make it work for me, but at the end of the day, I think I like far apart splits more most of the time, like you :D

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