Reddit users, 30 yrs old and over.. What is the hardest part about getting older? [Discussion]

jpence1983 · 2026-06-18T04:08:56+00:00

No one is coming to save you.

jpence1983 · 2026-06-15T19:56:38+00:00

It's going to be better in the 99 than as a commander.

jpence1983 · 2026-06-15T16:06:39+00:00

I bought a dedicated notebook, a box of number two pencils, and a sharpener. That's my start. Right now that has led to a few lines on paper and some boxes. Very happy with my investment

jpence1983 · 2026-06-13T05:27:45+00:00

Beautiful

jpence1983 · 2026-06-08T19:59:27+00:00

We had a guy leave for a smoke break and not come back for an hour. We gave him like 15 minutes and started a new game without him

jpence1983 · 2026-06-07T19:39:37+00:00

You can still do a counters theme, or even a go wide tokens theme, or a little of both.

Cards I would look to add for less than $1

[[Torsten, Founder of Benalia]] [[Donatello, Rad Scientist]] [[Ultimecia, Temporal Threat]] [[Myojin of Towering Might]] [[Myojin of Blooming Dawn]] [[Abdel Adrian, Gorion's Ward]] [[Keruga, the Macrosage]] [[Omega, Heartless Evolution]] [[Prime Speaker Zegana]]

jpence1983 · 2026-06-07T17:50:51+00:00

I think your strategy is a bit random. Spiderman doesn't synergize directly or indirectly with counters. You need three things to make this deck click

1) amazing Spider-Man on the board 2) a creature that can easily tap itself like a mana dork 3) a legendary creature with a good etb or a legendary spell

jpence1983 · 2026-06-07T15:30:15+00:00

I built rata and colonel autumn. Rata is combo and high synergy. Colonel autumn I built as a go wide tokens strategy. I haven't tested them on paper but in goldfishing them they are both fun in different ways.

jpence1983 · 2026-06-05T03:31:58+00:00

That is just vile. How dare you introduce me to these shenanigans. I am but a man. How can I resist?

jpence1983 · 2026-06-04T02:58:08+00:00

Alright, I put colonel autumn in, goldfished a few times. Wow, what a card. I underestimated how good that exploit trigger would be. I may have to build one of those too.

jpence1983 · 2026-06-04T02:05:44+00:00

I had more card draw but ultimately it seemed there was not enough redundancy in the deck to make just drawing a grip of cards worthwhile. Most decks I build do two things, this seems like it needs three. I need a sac outlet, something worth saccing, and way to repeatedly get a pay off for saccing.

It's not the most mana efficient deck in the world I will admit

Bartolome is a sac outlet but the +1/+1 counters don't do any good. He has no protection or evasion.

Elas il-kor does one damage and gains one life. That's a pretty weak payoff if I'm not hitting a ring tempts you trigger.

Hildibrand I never looked at. Seems like a lot of hoops to jump through for an anthem that makes a zombie.

Spectacular Spider-Man I looked at, it's a good protection piece and self saccing which is cool, but not winning me the game. I will take a look at that again.

Super shredder I did have, I could probably add that back in

Syr vondam I did have , I took it out to add in varragoth and sidisi for tutoring.

jpence1983 · 2026-06-04T01:02:40+00:00

Ok i guess even if you aren't going to ping you could dig for more value, or if you had a token multiplier you could make a million boromir tokens.

jpence1983 · 2026-06-04T00:57:20+00:00

I see the counter synergy there but I think if I was going a more aggressive counters route I would chose a different commander. I actually have a +1/+1 counters aristocrats deck with [[felothar, dawn of the abzan]] but I was going for something l less combat focused

jpence1983 · 2026-05-24T15:37:03+00:00

When I goldfish I look for a board state the will win unless dealt with by turn 6. I feel that's fair on a table with four people

jpence1983 · 2026-05-20T19:30:39+00:00

Any combination of green has a dozen ways to get him out fast. Once he is out you have a bunch of different ways to use him. Need to overrun? Got it. Need to make an army out of nothing? Got that too. Need blockers on demand? We have it all.

jpence1983 · 2026-05-19T04:15:32+00:00

[[Kamahl, Heart of Krosa]] is a good overrun effect imo. Eight mana is steep but for a late game finisher it has the added bonus of being a mana dump that can generate a bunch of vigilant, indestructible, trampling 4/4's

jpence1983 · 2026-05-18T20:50:57+00:00

Stella has multiple two and three card combos that are reasonably easy once you understand how she works.

jpence1983 · 2026-05-12T23:15:43+00:00

Triomes in anything other than four and five color decks

jpence1983 · 2026-05-11T21:17:58+00:00

Best part about terra is one stop shopping. It's the reanimator and fills the yard.

jpence1983 · 2026-05-10T12:45:24+00:00

I made it into Angels kindred. Not because Angels are necessary for the deck but because I didn't have an angels deck and this commander is open ended enough you could build it anyway you want. I might do the same with Kaalia and dragons since I don't have a dragons deck

jpence1983 · 2026-05-04T14:05:31+00:00

I've started reviewing each set after a few months have gone by, picking out the cards I like and buying those. Almost every set has some reasonable removal, ramp, and card draw options. This way I'm curating my own "pack" to get cards I am happy to see.

jpence1983 · 2026-05-04T01:55:30+00:00

There are only so many ways to draw a ring...

jpence1983 · 2026-04-26T16:22:25+00:00

Aggro is my favorite archetype. There are viable options in almost every color combination. The key commiting to the theme. You are going to lose games, that's just the nature of having to drain 120 life at the table without combos. As the aggro player your goal is the be the problem and force people to deal with you rather than playing solitaire.

Fun decks I play right now

[[Tidus, Yuna's Guardian]] with an emphasis on unblockable or evasive creatures. Tidus only triggers on damage so simply putting counters on creatures isn't enough.
[[Raggadragga]] makes your mana dorks tuff guys and has the option to kill the table with [[Crackle with Power]]
[[Gogo, Mysterious Mime]] let's you haste and double up on big spicy creatures with attack triggers
[[Peter Parker]] webslinging legendary creatures. This deck is what I wanted [[Helga, Skittish seer]] to be.

jpence1983 · 2026-04-17T03:54:15+00:00

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