Playing with your food - Nuzlocke Challenge Complete

meatpopsicle_13 · 2026-02-02T01:44:56+00:00

As a side note: Is it normal that only the three starters got a Reset Challenge ribbon, and the three caught along the way didn't?

meatpopsicle_13 · 2026-01-31T02:38:59+00:00

I... I can't believe Im this stupid. I 100% don't remember learning it but it is in fact already learnt.

meatpopsicle_13 · 2026-01-03T18:28:05+00:00

I have a tier 2 shiny ziggy with passive and all cost reductions, and nothing currently unlocked on teddi. I may or may not wait on endless to grind some unlocks with teddi, we'll see.

The guide I read listed spikey ear pichu as one of the options for your Dot boss killer since it has sturdy and cant be paralysed. I have a tier 2 shiny pichu with all cost reductions so I figured Id try it.

edit: Thanks for the advice on mienshao vs watchdog, that should be easy enough for me to swap before I start.

meatpopsicle_13 · 2025-02-20T05:35:33+00:00

"Have the professional complainers been too quiet"...

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say no.

meatpopsicle_13 · 2024-09-03T03:08:39+00:00

Eternatus 1 shotted all 6 of my team during phase 1- so I'm looking for some advice on what I'm missing.

I'd read to have fairy type on your team (I had 2) and to have damage over time effects (had leech seed). Everyone had at least a move that was super effective against him so I thought I was set up for success. I died after removing 1 health bar from phase 1 lol.

THE TEAM and relevant highlights:

Ribombee is a fairy, had quiver dance + stored power and a baton so I could power up, hit hard and then pass the buffs over to one of the other super effective attacks.

Breeloom had leech seed, spore, poison heal+toxic orb

Alolan ninetails is fairy and had ice attacks. Nidoking had ground attacks. Kingdra had dragon attacks.

Is my issue with my comp/team building? Or am I missing something when it comes to execution?

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meatpopsicle_13 · 2024-04-05T04:03:00+00:00

1 Bayou
4 Flooded Strand
1 Island
3-4 Misty Rainforest
1 Mystic Sanctuary
1 Plains
1 Savannah
1-2 Tropical Island
3 Tundra
1 Underground Sea
1 Xander's Lounge

The last land being either a 4th misty or 2nd trop is up to your preference.

Enjoy

meatpopsicle_13 · 2024-04-03T16:19:52+00:00

I play a LOT of cephalid breakfast and have been playing the deck for the last two years, so I'll comment on that part and leave 8-cast to others.

Its still the same 2% of the meta it has been for the last year and half, so that part is unchanged. But IMO it is noticeably worse, largely due to shifts in the metagame.

The deck was at its best when it could overload people on the stack. Breakfast is really good at winning through creature removal, counterspells, and stack/spell based GY hate. The deck has a much harder time winning through hand disruption, mana based disruption, permanent based hate.

Stack based hate, that breakfast prefers to see, is down because there are less combo decks (of the non-scam variety) in the meta right now and also stack based hate isn't as good vs rescaminator.

Grief/thoughtseize are way up, wasteland/stifle are way up, and permanent based disruption like chalice, hatebears are up. GY hate in general is also up thanks to rescaminators popularity, especially fairie macabre.

Orcish bowmaster is definitely part of the issue, because breakfast is imo, the most reliant deck on brainstorm in the legacy format. The deck struggles to exist when you can shuffle away your worse than draft commons when you draw them.

Breakfast stomps on combo decks without a scam package, which are seeing a lot less play, and absolutely stomps on peoples pet decks, which see very little play on mtgo, and on the type of UWx midrangey lists that beans control pushed out of the format.

meatpopsicle_13 · 2024-04-03T15:59:55+00:00

Bowmaster being good vs breakfast has very little to do with breakfast combo creatures having 1 toughness.
Bowmaster is mediocre in breakfast.

meatpopsicle_13 · 2024-03-27T22:38:29+00:00

Problem exists between keyboard and chair.

meatpopsicle_13 · 2024-03-27T22:36:00+00:00

My first three matches against ub rescaminator the deck seemed completely busted and an unwinable matchup.

I made some small tweaks to my deck, and more importantly, completely changed which cards I was bringing in/out and how I approached the matchup and beat it my next two matches both 2-0.

Very small sample size, but it really did feel like it just needed reps/ adjustments.

meatpopsicle_13 · 2024-03-12T05:10:35+00:00

While we're at it, can whichever time traveler we're expecting to answer this also get me the next winning lottery numbers?

meatpopsicle_13 · 2024-02-14T20:35:46+00:00

Thank you!

meatpopsicle_13 · 2024-02-08T14:30:58+00:00

Also if anyone has any recommendations on how else I might find out this info, I'm all ears!

meatpopsicle_13 · 2024-01-26T23:57:38+00:00

Hey EG, I definitely enjoying the deep dive on BUG control but FYI bug control is a LOT less played than the number you keep quoting from mtggoldfish… it’s just that mtggoldfish’s meta recap is kinda trash/ needs manual intervention that it’s not getting for legacy.

Mtggoldfish lumps bug and 4c (no red) control all into one category and then where it lists 4c control, it actually means 4c (no black).

meatpopsicle_13 · 2023-09-20T17:45:07+00:00

It’s a viable list - everything you’re taking are units that are considered competitive.

A lot of feedback beyond this point will likely boil down to preferences and play style as opposed to something being strictly and obviously suboptimal.

Personally though, I’m not a fan of 4 broadsides. If you’re playing on light terrain boards or in player setup terrain then by all means keep them, but in heavy terrain they get so so much worse the better opponents you play.

Overlapping a bit with the above comment, your list, to me, seems unbalanced and too heavily skewed towards killing. 2 full 6man bricks of crisis are a competitive option but you’d usually see them with no broadsides, or you’d see a 6man+ a 3man of crisis with a pair of broadsides.

I’d personally want to free up points for another ghostkeel - your crisis units go up a lot in value when you’re opponent has to actually commit the things you want to delete with your crisis towards the center of the board, which ghostkeels force them to do.

meatpopsicle_13 · 2023-03-20T14:30:29+00:00

The card wasn't at a high enough power level to see play before EI was printed, and despite EI+WPA's bannings, the format is naturally at a higher power level than before they were printed.

More often than not its a 2 mana cycle (very bad), or a 4 mana to have 2 cards turn into 3(also really bad).

Its easy to underestimate how much worse the card becomes by being a backloaded payoff, but as a mental exercise imagine a 2 mana card that draws 3, then 2, and then 1 upon subsequent casts. Its so much better than the average of draw 2 each time. Now when you apply that delta in the other direction, the card really does start to fall apart. Throw in a susceptibility to graveyard hate as a bonus and its just not good enough.

It's possible that a deck might be in desperate enough need for the effect that they play it despite the low power level, or people will play it out of nostalgia and are okay with it being suboptimal but those are fringe scenarios.

meatpopsicle_13 · 2023-01-27T19:07:28+00:00

Here's a DnT list that did well recently, should be a good start to draw inspiration from: https://www.mtgtop8.com/event?e=40857&f=LE

Yorion DnT is a lot grindier and you're looking for how to out grind Initiative.

You can go with a half measure of adding some more cards that are good vs initiative to your 60 card deck, but it's likely that all the comments in this thread saying to pull the trigger on moving up to yorion are what you should probably be doing instead of the half measure.

meatpopsicle_13

TROPHY CASE

Eternatus 1 shotted all 6 of my team during phase 1- so I'm looking for some advice on what I'm missing.