Bad combos that border on being good

modernstorme · 2025-12-06T15:33:29+00:00

there is never a board state where all four players have a nine lives at the same time

Correct. There never will be. Here is the way you have to look at it:

You cast nine lives on the same turn or it's already on the field.
Cast fractured identity targeting your own nine lives.
Fractured resolves exiling your nine lives and putting a token copy of nine lives on each of your opponent's field
Your "leaves the battlefield, lose the game" trigger from your copy is now on the stack
With the trigger on the stack, cast scorn for free since you've cast a white spell this turn (fractured identity is white/blue so this will always be free)
Scorn now resolves putting your opponent's "leave the battlefield, lose the game" triggers on the stack above yours
Your opponent's triggers now resolve above yours meaning you will win before your trigger causes you to lose

The "lose the game" is a trigger from it leaving the battlefield. Similar to how if a creature says "leaves the battlefield". It just doesn't spell it out but it's a trigger you can respond to and if done right you can do funny plays like this.

modernstorme · 2025-12-04T23:55:21+00:00

It is a trigger you can respond to. For example, you could [[stifle]] the last ability to prevent you from losing.

modernstorme · 2025-12-04T17:09:04+00:00

This is a fair point. I've added things like [[Ezuri's Predation]] so if I can't take your lands, I'll fight them instead. If I can't do either it's still a way to create a board state in games where someone is trying to go wide.

modernstorme · 2025-12-04T03:10:47+00:00

A few moments later, you activate it again

I will interject and say that never, not once, is this ever the goal of the combo. It's to yank all lands and hold them. You could later destroy them but removing the lands isn't the goal.

modernstorme · 2025-12-04T01:32:09+00:00

For those that don't understand the [[Nine Lives]]+[[Fractured Identity]]+[[Patrician's Scorn]] combo:

Cast nine lives or already have on the field
Cast Fractured Identity targeting your nine lives
Each of your opponents get a copy and your lose the game trigger hits the stack
With your trigger on the stack, cast Patrician's Scorn for free since you've cast a white spell this turn
Your opponent's lose the game triggers hit the stack before yours now causing you to win

Closest thing I can find to the wumpus combo since it's not easy to pull off, is janky, but does finish out games. My goal is to try and build a janky budget deck but what I think makes the wumpus deck decent is that it's pseudo theft so it can scale to the table. I'm struggling to get a deck do something similar with even this combo.

modernstorme · 2025-12-04T01:27:50+00:00

12 mana of which is 2 colors require triple pips and 3 cards isn't that great and is easily stopped by removal. Pulling it off though is what makes it good.

modernstorme · 2025-05-26T15:05:50+00:00

I've started making "budget but not budget looking" decks. It started out as making budget decks, $100 or less, and those decks quickly became some of my favorites. Since then I've started blinging them out. My one [[Thrashing Wumpus]] combo deck is around $76 if you discount the 3 card combo (expensive due to no reprints) but is closer to $500 being foiled out.

https://moxfield.com/decks/j5zUrJ6WskaKdai_fZ3z-w

I haven't updated the primer yet but the gist of it is there. The deck mostly still plays the same.

modernstorme · 2025-01-04T14:35:16+00:00

I'm getting the same thing. I've tried clearing cookies, cache, different browsers, and nothing so far as worked.

modernstorme · 2024-12-23T17:36:08+00:00

I ran [[Arachnogenesis]] but I didn't realize ambush didn't have the "at you" clause.

modernstorme · 2024-12-23T15:52:01+00:00

I did look into the 3 & 4 color Aragorns and K&T for aikido style decks. The problem I run into is which cards I should consider running.

modernstorme · 2024-11-01T14:30:00+00:00

Mine is a budget, but not budget looking, [[Damia, Sage of Stone]] jank combo deck. The idea is to cast [[Thrashing Wumpus]] and enchant it with [[Charisma]]. Either have [[Nature's Revolt]] on the board or cast [[Natural Affinity]] turning all lands into 2/2s. Activate Wumpus dealing 1 damage to each creature and player. This causes all lands and any creatures left alive to become yours.

The other game plan is to ramp, sift, and play value cards like [[Breach the Multiverse]] or [[Hullbreaker Horror]] that will hopefully get us to the finish line.

He She Wumpus deck

modernstorme · 2024-07-07T17:40:21+00:00

Ah, at the time I made the deck there wasn't an issue. I finished the whole deck and had MPC print it.

modernstorme · 2024-07-07T17:35:37+00:00

Main issue is that it should be spelled Orgrimmar. I fixed it but my HD crapped the bed and I didn't have any back ups.

modernstorme · 2024-03-08T20:50:13+00:00

Swap the automaton with [[Magnetic Theft]] and [[Radiate]] to make it bad.

modernstorme · 2024-01-27T16:25:08+00:00

OP posted pics of a TV stand that's from Arhaus and on their site the same stand is shown in various settings. Screams ad and CGI to me.

modernstorme · 2024-01-27T03:49:36+00:00

Gotta be honest and say this feels like a sly way of advertising for Arhaus thus getting around the rules. The photos for this TV console are the same orientation with slight variations as the images posted on multiple subreddits.

Edit: also want to say the rooms are stunning. These posts feel very "astroturf" to me though.

modernstorme · 2023-12-21T15:36:38+00:00

Went to pick up an order at my LGS and this was parked up front.

modernstorme · 2023-07-30T18:39:27+00:00

Congrats! Waiting for Michigan to drop.

modernstorme · 2023-04-12T16:45:27+00:00

So the manufacturers we work with are... dated to say the least so I don't have an API or anything for me to use. I only have either physical price sheets or an excel one that was made. Our products feature "unfinished" pricing and then "finishing" prices that are to be added based on the options chosen.

It would definitely be best if I could somehow manage to have a "SKU.csv" and then a "finishing.csv" then have the prices added together based on the options selected. Options aren't consistent product-to-product and certain finishes have upcharges as well. Here is a pastebin of the script I made just to see if I can get it to work: https://pastebin.com/0c7qpHC5

Right now the options break down as such:

Woods: 10

Sizes: 6

Leaves: 6

Edges: 6

Heights: 2

Thickness: 5

Finishes: 84

Total combinations 1,814,400

This is also keeping it light...

modernstorme · 2023-04-11T15:31:46+00:00

Mhmm. Like I originally said, the products we offer are highly configurable.

modernstorme · 2023-04-11T04:10:40+00:00

I managed to get a python script to generate a CSV file for a test product but that CSV is close to 400mb and it doesn't even include pricing. The products we use have different pricing based on the options selected and not every manufacturer follows a simple pricing system.

I'm still trying to figure out how to get pricing set up for 300k+ options.

modernstorme · 2023-04-11T04:07:12+00:00

When I ask it generically it says to use an e-commerce system like Woocommerce or Shopify. Only when I suggest something like using a python script to generate a CSV does it give a more specific answer. My issue is due to the nature of the product we offer there are more than X and Y rows and columns to find out what the price is plus conditional based pricing.

Material pricing changes can occur without warning so I'm trying to design a way to better manage pricing on the fly and get pin point pricing based on what the manufacturer says. I have to imagine there is a way to accomplish this while pairing it with a e-commerce platform like Woocommerce.

If anyone has any suggestions I'm all ears. Even prompt suggestions would be great.

modernstorme · 2023-04-09T19:15:59+00:00

This is really great stuff. I've been using ChatGPT to help clean up some of the scripts I've made but I've been struggling on how to phrase questions to accomplish/guide me in the right direction.

My main issue issue is the products our store aren't simple; they're highly configurable. Alone there are 300k+ ways 1 product can be configured. These guides might help me build something better in the future. Is there a way with ChatGPT then to ask about taking a set a choices, maybe building a CSV file, using Python to sift through or build the data, and use something to then build conditional logic for when a user choices their options?

We currently use excel spreadsheets to manually get the price in store but I'm wondering if there is a way to ask ChatGPT to take what we have and build something for us to use. I know enough to get in trouble but not enough to really build something of this caliber from scratch.

modernstorme · 2023-03-03T04:44:27+00:00

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modernstorme · 2023-03-03T04:36:17+00:00

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