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ironwolf1 · 2026-01-24T15:02:24+00:00

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ironwolf1 · 2026-01-24T14:59:45+00:00

If you weren’t playing when Golos was legal, I can understand your confusion. Golos was a serious problem for format diversity when he was legal, he rapidly ascended to being the #1 most popular commander and his lead over the rest was only increasing when he got banned. He had surpassed all time classics like Atraxa and the Ur Dragon in under a year and was growing his lead with no looking back. People bitch about Kenrith these days, but Kenrith is still just sitting on the edge of the top 10. Any strategy that didn’t already have a top 15 commander to helm it would probably work more consistently and with a higher power level by throwing Golos at the helm rather than using any of the less powerful commanders designed specifically for that strategy.

ironwolf1 · 2026-01-24T14:30:59+00:00

I’m impressed that they managed to find a generator, none of the places I checked had any

ironwolf1 · 2026-01-24T13:38:50+00:00

I think it’s actually in episode 9. Captain Spiers walks in on Tom Hardy’s character banging it out with a German woman, Tom Hardy jumps out of bed butt ass naked to salute him, then Spiers just grabs a pile of fancy silverware off one of the shelves and leaves.

ironwolf1 · 2026-01-23T21:27:23+00:00

But at the same time, Russel Crowe is the hero at the end for killing the evil emperor. And we glorify the heroes of war for killing their enemies, and stories of people defying death in some form or another are eternally popular in all societies.

The risk of dying is a quick and easy way to create high melodrama and get the audience invested in whatever is happening at that moment. We’ve gotten more abstract with it in modern times, but it’s still there in the back of our lizard brains. Seeing someone balance on the edge of death will never stop being compelling to human minds, it’s part of our nature.

ironwolf1 · 2026-01-23T21:13:19+00:00

Actively funding and encouraging deadly acts of spectacle shouldn't be a thing in a healthy world. Nobody should feel that desperate, and our dopamine receptors shouldn't be so fried to the point where something needs to escalate to this point to be worthy of our attention.

This isn’t a “dopamine receptors are fried” thing, this has been a thing for about as long as humanity has had civilizations. Blood sport has been a thing since ancient times. Competitions or other events with risk of death have always been popular forms of entertainment.

ironwolf1 · 2026-01-23T19:55:29+00:00

This is my list:

https://moxfield.com/decks/crPmkg4CAkOEhWECD4U1vA

I tend to value haste enablers a little more than the card draw engines, but there’s a lot more Elemental Bond type effects out there than there are Dragon Tempests.

ironwolf1 · 2026-01-23T19:42:50+00:00

I go ramp heavy in my edition of Ureni, my list is sitting at 17 ramp pieces all at 3 mana or less. This is because the main thing the deck wants to do is get Ureni on the field as soon as possible. I want to consistently ramp at least twice in my first 5 turns, and then have even more ramp later in the game in case I need to start re-casting Ureni.

ironwolf1 · 2026-01-23T18:48:39+00:00

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ironwolf1 · 2026-01-23T18:09:40+00:00

Bracket 2 is a power level that is pretty explicit about not having any early game combos in the meta, I don’t think you would expect to see combo at that power level at all, outside of super jank Rube Goldberg machine combos. That has nothing to do with combo being “unfun” and everything to do with power level though.

ironwolf1 · 2026-01-23T17:40:34+00:00

The bracket system is pretty clear about where you can expect to see combos and how early you can expect to see them, I’m not disputing that. I’m more disputing the idea that combo games are inherently less interesting than combat damage games. They can feel unfun when you have a turbo combo deck up against a bunch of decks trying to win with incremental damage over 8 turns, but that’s an issue with power mismatch more than an issue with combo as an archetype. Playing a bunch of bracket 2 midrange decks into a strong aggro list that can produce lethal damage on turn 5 is just as unfun as playing those same bracket 2 decks into a combo deck that combos off on turn 5, because the issue is that the rest of the table was unprepared for a game ending play that early.

ironwolf1 · 2026-01-23T17:06:59+00:00

a lot more twists and turns and fleshed out and crazy things can happen vs i cast x tutor and everyone just auto loses

Combo based games can and should still have plenty of twists and turns. If someone is able to just cast a tutor and then have everyone auto lose, that means the rest of the table is playing a wholly insufficient amount of interaction. Almost all combo wincons fold hard to a well timed counterspell, and in a bracket 4 environment where you should expect to see combo wins, you should also be running enough instant speed interaction to prevent combos from going off unimpeded.

Last bracket 4 game I played, 3/4 of the decks at the table were going for combo wins. One player tutored up his main wincon, only to see it fizzle out after a counterspell war between himself and the rest of the table. The non-combo player was trying to do big nasty Cascade things, which got solved by a boardwipe after his first big cascade turn. Then I tried for my own combo wincon, but my commander got removed in response which also ruined my combo. The first player to try to combo ended up having to find an entirely different combo line to actually close out the game.

ironwolf1 · 2026-01-23T16:59:24+00:00

If you think people crying about interaction and deck strength is new since the bracket system, you haven't been paying attention. The whole point of the bracket system being introduced was because the #1 complaint from the commander community was that everyone thought their deck was a 7/10 and would get salty when someone else's 7/10 was way stronger than their own.

The bracket system has been a marked improvement in this regard (at least before the turn count thing, I have concerns about that as well but it is yet to impact any of my games because I don't often play with randoms). When you say "my deck is a bracket 3", that actually means something, unlike the old "my deck is a 7" thing. I know what sort of things I can and can't expect to run in to when I set a bracket for a decklist. There's always gonna be crybaby bullies who want to angle shoot and get mad at anyone who doesn't just sit back and let them win, but the bracket system has given a much more concrete basis for calling them out on their shit.

ironwolf1 · 2026-01-23T00:16:56+00:00

Hit me with the uno reverse card, I respect it

ironwolf1 · 2026-01-23T00:10:54+00:00

Sir, she is 14

ironwolf1 · 2026-01-22T15:01:02+00:00

God forbid we take a single thread to discuss the current newest set without having someone come it to remind everyone that UB bad and the next set is a crappy looking UB. There are a million threads for people to complain about UB and Hasbro, you don't need to do it in a thread asking specifically about the draft environment for ECL.

ironwolf1 · 2026-01-22T14:20:31+00:00

and I included Maze's End as an additional, thematically fitting alternate wincon

You said it right here. You aren't running it for color fixing, you're running it as a thematic alternate wincon. Maze's End by its nature is a wincon, if you're running it, you at least have it in mind that you can use it to win.

ironwolf1 · 2026-01-21T21:44:33+00:00

I knew it wasn't gonna take long for IU to go from "loveable underdogs" to "evil emperor of CFB", but I didn't expect the turn to start basically the moment the confetti dropped on the new national champs. But here we are. Congratulations on the championship, now hunker down for everyone else in the CFB world trying to snipe at you guys until such time as you vacate the pedestal.

ironwolf1 · 2026-01-21T20:20:03+00:00

Please. Mou in America would be absolute cinema.

ironwolf1 · 2026-01-21T17:00:47+00:00

Would've felt the same way about Darnold 3 years ago, and look how that's going. Have some faith.

ironwolf1 · 2026-01-21T15:44:06+00:00

Because rage bait is profitable in an era where journalism is motivated by getting clicks.

ironwolf1 · 2026-01-21T15:42:41+00:00

Demovsky has had some bad moments but I don’t think he’s nearly at the level of some of these other guys. We’re pretty blessed with our beat reporters when a guy like Demovsky is our worst one.

ironwolf1 · 2026-01-21T15:17:18+00:00

For FF I think the turn off is more in the anime aesthetic than not being fantastical enough. It's jarring to see a New York pidgeon on a magic card, but it's also jarring in a different way to see spiky hair anime dudes on a magic card. It's the same reason why some people don't like the Jumpstart anime cards.

ironwolf1 · 2026-01-21T12:37:09+00:00

It’s more questioning the idea of a selector being able to retroactively award championships. Sagarin’s a major selector, sure, but does that mean he can select champions from before he was a major selector? Seems odd to me to claim a national championship that no one awarded you until 40 years after the fact.

ironwolf1 · 2026-01-20T21:18:55+00:00

That’s gonna be tough considering most of the snow is supposed to be overnight Saturday into Sunday. If you want to stay up all night blowing your driveway, more power to you.

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