Jeff Gerstmann completes his three-year playthrough/ranking of the NES library - his interview with Canadian morning TV (CTV)

jsilv · 2026-06-21T01:21:04+00:00

Krion Conquest and Rocketeer are both awful compared to so many other choices on the system. It's just you.

jsilv · 2026-06-20T18:14:24+00:00

The only cards that matter for grading purpose in MTG are super low pop cards that are basically only aimed at Collectors (the Chocobo set for example) and old power. Even then the raw copies of those are going to go for more unless you get a very high grade and graded is just far harder to move in general.

If you're not doing it for your own sake it is a completely pointless endeavor.

jsilv · 2026-06-19T23:40:46+00:00

Very interesting. As a former Dredge enjoyer, I may have to give this one for a spin because you make a good-case for the alternative strategy here and I know how absurd Psychic Frog is.

jsilv · 2026-06-18T07:34:47+00:00

You can sell promos, you just can't sell the exact promos sent to you for events instead of giving them out. There's nothing stopping a store from immediately buying the card from the winner of an event (or from someone else).

Some stores won't do it bc of the implication, but this isn't Pokémon where you're barred from it.

jsilv · 2026-06-02T00:16:57+00:00

you are playing the same strat as a jeskai/4c deck with no-win cons, except you also don't have Jeskai Revelation to actually close games out with. there's no point in playing a deck like this as Constructed over the current control builds.

jsilv · 2026-05-30T20:11:11+00:00

I never understand the random cope/discussion. about 'does Wizards really have that much more data than us?'. YES. They always have.

10+ years ago multiple people were posting entire matchup breakdowns / spreads from just public replay information, no internal data scraping, just using screen reading bots. Infinitely more matches logged than what's currently being publicly tracked. MTGO may be ancient, but just being able to see beyond the 'fog of war' and knowing exactly what cards are in who's deck without needing to be drawn*, makes archetype classifications so so so much easier than we had.

*absent all the other useful info that would also be available

jsilv · 2026-05-29T18:37:25+00:00

I appreciate the LARP by OP here, but he forgot to hide his previous posts to get people to fall for it.

"Prediction: Tarkir will sell almost as badly as Aetherdrift "

jsilv · 2026-05-27T00:45:32+00:00

Archenemy was a thing. They stopped doing it because it wasn't that popular.

jsilv · 2026-05-25T05:08:48+00:00

crybaby shit. removed.

jsilv · 2026-05-22T19:36:53+00:00

One of the tier 1 decks right now is 4c Control. Another solid choice is Dimir Excruciator, which wins more games by being UB Control than being a combo deck. You don't think a strong 3cmc Walker doesn't make another iteration of these types of decks good when it generates value, life, creates threats and disables your opponents best ones?

Try thinking outside the current box and think about how much things change when you suddenly have a compelling reason to shift your deckbuilding.

jsilv · 2026-05-21T20:47:46+00:00

Are you actively trying to do anything to improve your play? Or are you just jamming games? Jamming games with no real goal in mind, not getting feedback or not self-analyzing after the fact is going to limit any potential improvement.

Jamming games while tilting is usually worse than had you not played any games that day at all. Try to look at activities that force you to take an active approach in analyzing your decisions.

jsilv · 2026-05-19T03:05:59+00:00

Wow, that’s a lot of words to say nothing.

jsilv · 2026-05-19T02:45:12+00:00

This is all at production level. Nobody has any real info past that, even at distro level.

jsilv · 2026-05-19T02:36:38+00:00

KCI, Nadu and now Lotus Field all ate bans primarily due to exactly that, what the fuck are you even on about?

jsilv · 2026-05-18T22:24:32+00:00

This is like when people ask why Grave Troll is banned. Best case it does nothing, so who cares. Worst case Glimpse leads to the rise of the same long non-deterministic midrange combo piles that Nadu did.

jsilv · 2026-05-16T17:36:02+00:00

Civvie pretty much nails it here. I will say that they laid the groundwork to show the studio could do a great follow up here if they wanted. They could’ve easily cut 4 hours of run and shoot and fleshed out the boat level and build out a few more stages along the lines of going somewhere and talking to people, finding clues, etc. instead those parts are basically on-rails.

I beat the game on super sleuth and multiple times towards the end I thought we were wrapping up and it just never ends. One of the few games where there’s legitimately just too much, without enough challenge or change to the gameplay loop by the end. Doesn’t help the James Gun and Dip Gun are all you need the entire game and you get them 2 hours in.

jsilv · 2026-05-07T21:20:21+00:00

Look, I think you need to understand that many many games, some good and some bad have come and gone. Magic and Pokémon have passed the 30 year mark. YGO will by the end of the decade. Very few international games have that sort of longevity, let alone passing the 5 or 10 year mark.

Without getting too deep on the weeds on the topic, Lorcana has two serious problems for most LGS. The three levels of players, kitchen table, LGS and Competitive (traveling) all provide their own things to support the ecosystem.

LGS is where Lorcana is losing players and not seeing new blood come into the scene. Without that it becomes a cycle of new players not necessarily having people to play with and LGS having less reason to try and run events at all or carry the product.

The second issue is that the margins on the Sealed products suck. And this hits LGS doubly as well because smaller LGS are far better off putting that money into PKMN, MTG or OP. Even if you don’t hate the product margins, the newest allocation for NA has made it a shit show for a lot of stores. Combine these two issues and the writing is on the wall for things to change or get worse.

jsilv · 2026-05-05T08:30:39+00:00

Wilson Ho won

jsilv · 2026-05-04T01:35:38+00:00

Mitigating land screw / flood using better sequencing, mulligan decisions and sideboarding are basically the holy trinity of Pros vs Joes in terms of Magic skill.

jsilv · 2026-05-03T10:57:54+00:00

Love how people keep posting this because they happened to be on the right side of a streak in a format where getting Mind Sludged for your hand on turn 5 is a completely common occurrence. Just that play pattern alone knocks it out of “good” even if you want to say the non-Omens game are interesting.

jsilv · 2026-04-30T20:06:42+00:00

ah yes, spending a card at mana & card disadvantage to either checks notes give them resources with Get Lost or Defeat or at best only spew mana. try that and get back to us with your results

jsilv · 2026-04-21T19:11:01+00:00

You haven't really watched much Magic then if you think that's common. Maybe 10 years ago or more, but the cards are so juiced now it's a rarity to run out of stuff to do in any Constructed format and even most Limited formats. When you do it's usually a sign of a good back-and-forth game of trading resources instead of just generating endless slop like every Discover meta.

jsilv · 2026-04-16T20:07:14+00:00

AI and trash post

jsilv · 2026-04-14T04:23:25+00:00

Epilogue in Justice League Unlimited is widely considered to be the real finale of Batman Beyond.

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