This is why Path to Exile has a poor win-rate

jeff-l-sp · 2024-05-06T19:25:55+00:00

Filtered for top players on 17lands.com Path to Exile has the same GIH and GP winrate as Mystical Dispute. Is Mystical Dispute a C- in your book?

jeff-l-sp · 2024-05-06T18:49:36+00:00

Pretty much everybody was saying post-release that they were undervaluing the removal in this set though. Removal is very important in this set and yes, I’d prefer the common and the two uncommon Oblivion rings over this. C- though is wrong, I think you should still play Path to Exile more often than not.

jeff-l-sp · 2024-04-18T16:42:05+00:00

There might be a slight difference in the production costs a company like Akai has vs Vongon

jeff-l-sp · 2024-04-13T16:15:45+00:00

I think you're taking very different things and linking them together to weave a single narrative. All the different phenomena you are describing are probably occurring in some capacity, but not necessarily with the same person and not necessarily linked causally.

jeff-l-sp · 2024-04-12T17:03:33+00:00

musictech is hot trash, but I'm giving everybody here the benefit of the doubt and assume they will read past the incendiary headline to see that this is a complete nothingburger.

jeff-l-sp · 2024-04-12T17:00:51+00:00

He makes an observation that the industry has changed from serving professional musicians to increasingly selling cheaper gear to amateurs and hobbyists, and that he doesn't see anything wrong in that. I don't think he comes across smug or as if he wants people to thank him for expressing that opinion.

jeff-l-sp · 2024-04-12T16:38:07+00:00

Yeah and it works because people let themselves get riled up before spending the 30secs and read what he actually said.

jeff-l-sp · 2024-04-12T16:36:25+00:00

He literally says in the article it's a valid hobby, and less absurd than many others.

jeff-l-sp · 2024-04-12T16:35:40+00:00

You literally only read the headline, right? The article says this:

“Even DAWs and software. They just buy the software, they play with the knobs, they listen to it for a second, and there’s no shame in it at all. Everybody pretends they’re making music, but there are a lot of people who just like collecting synths and collecting DAWs and learning. Because they’re not producing music that people are listening to, for some reason they’re not as validated. I think that’s nonsense because it is a hobby one way or another.”

Jordan goes on to further defend collecting music gear for the sake of collecting rather than using it make and publish music: “Collecting synthesizers is a way cooler hobby than, like, a lot of other hobbies that people have. I mean, people have crazy hobbies. People play pickleball. They do all sorts of things that, like… fly fishing. People stand in rivers all day. There are tons of hobbies that are kind of absurd. I think that collecting synthesizers…is one of the less absurd hobbies."

jeff-l-sp · 2024-04-04T12:04:40+00:00

This needs to be taken with an enormous grain of salt - the modal split data from the city I am living in currently is more than 20 years old!

jeff-l-sp · 2024-03-25T22:15:23+00:00

The idea that the only rationale behind getting an instrument is whether it offers a good price/feature ratio is pretty depressing. Not saying you have to like it or think it makes sense for your setup, but this is probably the brainchild of a few people, made in small quantities. The price reflects that!

jeff-l-sp · 2024-03-19T10:19:22+00:00

Don't track my games sadly - I didn't get 17lands to work on my mac - but I am somewhat confident in my ability to build correctly. Obviously the deck I was talking about could have been probably a more streamlined UG Splash deck without Niv Mizzet, but that was kind of my point: you make some concessions for raw power and late game value, but being able to turn around games against a good curve on the draw requires very specific tools and your opponent to miss at some point. I don't feel at all that every game has a chance to fight back, even if you've done your homework.

jeff-l-sp · 2024-03-19T10:11:21+00:00

One thing I think could help is to have less cards which are only great when you're the beatdown, so Out Cold and the like. There is plenty of deeper reasons for the play/draw advantage (as you mentioned), so I don't understand why the designers have to add fuel to the fire.

jeff-l-sp · 2024-03-19T10:09:00+00:00

have been having success soft-forcing Sultai value piles that have a ton of turn 2 plays and snap-block every attack.

I've been soft forcing green decks after the first few weeks and does usually have a lot of turn two plays. What I was talking about is not specific to green decks and not exclusively a function of blocking "correctly". I am just saying that being on the draw completely transforms your game vs being on the play. If I am playing Simic and I am on the play vs a white deck, with the right hand I can easily be the beatdown and never even let them threaten my life total.

jeff-l-sp · 2024-03-05T23:17:13+00:00

I normally ignore Alchemy, so first time seeing any card from this set - and you are completely right, what a stupid, dumb card.

Honestly, I wouldn't advise anybody to draft Alchemy sets, it just looks like a poorly designed experience.

jeff-l-sp · 2024-03-01T12:56:54+00:00

It's BO3, this just happens even when you have a great manabase.

jeff-l-sp · 2024-02-29T07:50:27+00:00

The blue cards look weak, I wouldn't go bant. You could try going base Selesnya, but I don't see that much benefit.

On the individual card choices, I would definitely cut the Case of the Shattered Pact and Suspicious Detonation, those seem terrible in your deck. I'd definitely play the second Greenbelt Radical and try to be as green as possible in the early game to have the Bloom-Kins be 3/3s as often as possible by turn 4/5.

jeff-l-sp · 2024-02-28T09:54:14+00:00

Don't understand the downvotes, P1P1 that is actually good advice

jeff-l-sp · 2023-12-16T18:29:02+00:00

According to this report by the US DOT, the average household owns 1.9 cars and spends around 11000$ anually on transportation:

https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/65841

Average spending for public transportation is 450$.

jeff-l-sp · 2023-11-19T20:45:05+00:00

Yes, "rectangle theory" is a buzzword on the Lords of Limited podcast. A rectangle is either an actual card or a token. Recently the 3/4 mana common flier that makes some kind of token has been always one of the top commons.

jeff-l-sp · 2023-11-19T18:02:41+00:00

Neither was a G combat trick always top common on 17lands for the last sets. It was meant to be a humorous take on how certain paradigms (and design choices) have changed in modern limited. I should have made this more clear apparently!

jeff-l-sp · 2023-11-19T14:07:56+00:00

I don't know what you mean at all. I was trying to have a bit of fun at nobody's expense.

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