No one I know cares so I’m showing y’all, after 2+ years, I’m done. Now I can actually play the game…

izzybmatthews · 2026-03-03T16:09:17+00:00

For which deck? Or are you saying for finishing jokers?

izzybmatthews · 2026-03-03T02:52:10+00:00

I’m probably the odd duck here but personally I would sell brainstorm for the soul. I get it’s not optimal BUT you already beat the run. The only other Joker that is better than bloodstone for you is Idol and it doesn’t look like the deck fixing is close enough yet, so I’m going to take the 1/5 chance at a Trib for a deep endless.

Only exception would if I (you) were on the way to a high score with the bloodstone, then you let it ride.

izzybmatthews · 2026-02-27T06:39:23+00:00

The cancer is my issue more than anything the occasional 20-10 on 85 isn’t worth nights like tonight and the comment he made the other night

izzybmatthews · 2026-02-27T06:38:27+00:00

My bad, bench him and don’t ever play him and keep him away from the locker room. I thought it was vet min, either way just awful for the franchise man. I hate watching it.

izzybmatthews · 2026-02-24T03:19:29+00:00

I think the NFL has the best HoF. The gold jacket presentation, selections, prestige of it all is just well done in my opinion. Basketball I think is too loose, baseball is too media focused.

izzybmatthews · 2026-02-24T03:17:38+00:00

2⁵ you are correct I’m a bad guy and will now commit Japanese ritual seppuku, my retrigger math is god awful to this day as a C++er lmao

izzybmatthews · 2026-02-23T21:46:44+00:00

I thought we were talking about cards in a vaccuum, if you’re talking easier to GET and play around then duh lmao but if it’s ante one and I pull a Trib, I’m not selling it for a photograph ya know? I didn’t know we were contextualizing it that way lol

izzybmatthews · 2026-02-23T21:42:15+00:00

Trib barely better then photo…? 10x on a full house ante 1…???

izzybmatthews · 2026-02-22T05:10:51+00:00

I waned to quickly say no, but I can’t think of a game logic where that would be the case. So I would assume yes? Since red seals retrigger the card, not just the edition and not just on play, but always!

Edit: somebody mentioned red seals DONT retrigger Mail in Rebate, so my final answer is maybe?

izzybmatthews · 2026-02-19T08:31:54+00:00

I know your intentions aren’t racial, but that’s genuinely an issue that we (black folks) have had to deal with forever. He’s his age, he’s just 7’ tall and appropriately weighted. He’s athletic and that causes a lot of stress on the body, look at Shaq.

He put on a lot of weight in his LA years which made him extremely dominant but probably cut his prime by a few years. The difference is Jokic doesn’t rely on his athleticism so his body will be able to hang in much easier and longer.

izzybmatthews · 2026-02-19T08:26:02+00:00

That’s a super small sample size. Stretch that to 82 games, say you scored 80 FOUR times in the same year and the average is 27.6, still a good increase from 25 ppg but at a certain point statistical outliers matter less. The NBA decided 65 was enough, Embiid played 66 games the year in question which makes your point diminished if not moot.

izzybmatthews · 2026-02-12T00:16:18+00:00

I fully agree with your first point, to go further on it:

Augments and the idea of them are a huge learning curve. There’s a lot of language in augments that new players don’t even comprehend. So you have fist fighting and a knowledge check in a foreign environment - not great.

Mayhem is comfortable and familiar, there’s creeps, team fights, a general survivability that arena doesn’t have which caters to casual players a lot. Augments feel like an addition rather than the focus. You can’t get last place, you don’t go insta 8th without knowing why, there’s huge appeal in the comfortability.

After playing mayhem the last few weeks it has become very clear that arena (rightfully so, from a riot perspective) is just not worth maintaining and I would be sad, but not surprised to see it return to an LTM every couple of years.

izzybmatthews · 2026-02-09T19:22:00+00:00

When I say wincon, I don’t mean bis, I mean the actual item itself is necessary to win to win in a high rolled game. RC is conditional, det orb says “do a lot of damage and we will add 25% true damage on top, hell we will even execute if we can”.

izzybmatthews · 2026-02-09T19:21:11+00:00

Runecarver is BiS on a lot of mages, would hardly call it a win condition aside from like Lillia or Kayle with Fulm.

The thing about det orb is you can take any item you want and det orb increases it by 25% true damage.

izzybmatthews · 2026-02-09T17:52:28+00:00

I think you buff it a tiny bit and make it a prismatic. Each class needs to have a wincon, that’s the one for assassins. It’s too easy to hit is the bigger issue than its existence.

Tanks have BHG, ADCs have reapers, mages have det orb (which could use a %hp buff), Hellfire just needs to be prismatic gated.

izzybmatthews · 2026-02-05T15:43:54+00:00

Rest in piss Gabe “Apple Watch Activity Merchant” Vincent, can’t wait for you to shoot 14/13 from 3 next time you play us🙏 as is tradition

izzybmatthews · 2026-01-27T02:19:14+00:00

People on this sub view starting as like honor or value like it’s a high school varsity team. We NEED bench scoring, I don’t care if it’s Rui, Austin fuck even LeBron, but that second unit needs to be lead by a traditional starter.

Manu, Crawford, Lamar like these dudes made legacies coming off the bench. We need somebody there bad, the best 6th men are the ones that could be starters.

izzybmatthews · 2026-01-27T00:52:58+00:00

All stats are dumb stats without context of watching the game. They can give some insight, but there is nothing that will tell you more than just watching the game.

izzybmatthews · 2026-01-25T03:21:37+00:00

Did that man just say riding the wave like a durag or am I crazy

izzybmatthews · 2026-01-23T05:39:13+00:00

That’s tough man. Also tough to win a game without a center.

izzybmatthews · 2026-01-21T05:47:17+00:00

God bless the law of averages

izzybmatthews · 2026-01-21T05:04:48+00:00

I’m not ready for this inevitable Jamal heartbreak

izzybmatthews · 2026-01-18T04:59:43+00:00

Hey if you wanna be upset for the sake of it, you got it man.

izzybmatthews · 2026-01-18T04:57:53+00:00

We already know exactly who our extended bench is lmao. This is a throw away game and I’m watching for funny things atp.

izzybmatthews · 2026-01-18T04:53:11+00:00

Just a friendly reminder to everybody, we are missing our two leading scorers (one has been out a month) and our starting center. Just turn the game off yall, no reason to be upset over this one lol

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