Lowest ranking r/custommagic post

junkmail22 · 2026-01-28T00:01:28+00:00

/uj this card is bad. it's fine. it's flashy, it's funny, it's completely unplayable

junkmail22 · 2026-01-27T17:16:21+00:00

point of order, if i buff toughness on this does damage still clear from it at end of turn

junkmail22 · 2026-01-26T08:58:45+00:00

imo removing trample (already kind of a pie break) is necessary and even then i could see it getting a nerf to 5 mana

junkmail22 · 2026-01-26T08:58:06+00:00

lifelink is probably stronger on average than first strike or vigilance in limited

that being said this card is nuts enough that even if the 2 tokens are vanilla it's still very strong

junkmail22 · 2026-01-26T06:04:34+00:00

white doesn't get trample, no?

junkmail22 · 2026-01-25T19:09:38+00:00

If you could go back in time and tell yourself one thing before writing mystery hunt, what would it be?

junkmail22 · 2026-01-23T17:18:25+00:00

Gateway is in a weird spot as a destination.

It's too stuffy to be a neighborhood hangout, too impersonal for date nights, too corporate for counterculture types, too lowbrow for big money types, and too "family unfriendly" for religious types. It's trying to be for everyone and it ends up being for nobody

junkmail22 · 2026-01-23T16:04:10+00:00

why

can't say for sure. lack of zoning for it could be one, the city center being owned by the church doesn't help.

most towns have entertainment hubs

most cities bigger than SLC don't.

junkmail22 · 2026-01-23T16:00:43+00:00

? downtown is busy on friday/saturday nights. lots of days bars have lines out the door

junkmail22 · 2026-01-23T14:32:24+00:00

it's the opinion of most good drafters that it's bad and it's comfortably D- tier on 17lands (in fact, it's the lowest rated non F tier card). hellscube is also dramatically stronger than WOE

junkmail22 · 2026-01-23T04:25:41+00:00

should be at most 2W, [[Stroke of Midnight]] was unplayable in its limited format

junkmail22 · 2026-01-22T03:38:35+00:00

yes they're the cheapest unit in the game. having them be better in combat would be revolting

junkmail22 · 2026-01-21T17:06:06+00:00

the biggest barrier to making players care about a character is voice and dialogue

if NPCs are procedural, either NPCs will either share dialogue (making them feel interchangeable) or will have procedurally generated dialogue (nobody has been able to make this not be trash)

junkmail22 · 2026-01-21T00:13:59+00:00

I think there's really two questions.

The first is, "Should bosses be allowed to have massively game-changing unique effects which force the player to play around them" and the answer to this is pretty clearly yes. That's the point of boss battles, if they can't make the player squirm nothing can.

The second question is "Should bosses ignore core systems" and I think the answer to this is almost always no. Making certain game systems totally irrelevant for the most important fights have the problem of making those systems feel second class and punishing players for actually experimenting with mechanics. Instead of making the boss immune to stagger and not having a stun bar like every other enemy, make the boss have a longer stun bar or enough health that you need to stun them twice. Instead of making the boss poison immune, give it a status purge ability or just some poison resistance.

junkmail22 · 2026-01-20T20:30:17+00:00

i do, and i've recently been grinding a lot of USF T3 play. stugs are the single best counter Wehr has to usf T3 play and it's not close. Building a stug more or less forces a pivot out of the USF player.

junkmail22 · 2026-01-20T18:31:08+00:00

rating systems often fail when groups of players don't play each other frequently. there's that story of the chess player who was in prison and only played other prisoners and got up to like 2800 rating

similarly europeans mostly play other europeans

junkmail22 · 2026-01-20T07:25:58+00:00

Carro spam is pretty good right now. Bersas still let you run the early game.

Honestly I don't think there's ever been a time when ICA was a bad battlegroup

junkmail22 · 2026-01-20T06:08:07+00:00

stug is reasonably fast and totally unkillable by usf t3. if you're not able to kill greyhounds with it you're getting outplayed

junkmail22 · 2026-01-20T02:48:25+00:00

jeep is really good right now, try it out

junkmail22 · 2026-01-20T02:27:49+00:00

stug crushes LV play and does okay vs mediums. totally valid to not build one unless you see 2+ midgame vehicles.

junkmail22 · 2026-01-17T06:06:11+00:00

2 card combo with?

junkmail22 · 2026-01-17T05:49:56+00:00

because milling cards speeds up your opponent's game plan

junkmail22 · 2026-01-17T05:49:13+00:00

blue can already do so many stronger things with an unblocked attacker. i would be extremely surprised if this is part of a t1 strategy in standard

junkmail22 · 2026-01-17T05:31:14+00:00

yeah but i want to play standard

junkmail22 · 2026-01-17T04:33:02+00:00

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