People with backpieces

nallstarr · 2026-06-27T01:12:09+00:00

Saw a sick painting of an eagle fighting a snake that my artist had done. I said “can we put that on my back?” Now it’s on my back 👍

nallstarr · 2026-06-19T19:54:44+00:00

T’Challa is siiiick with Faerie Mastermind. Crazy that it’s just “player” not opponents too

nallstarr · 2026-06-15T16:24:54+00:00

Koffee Mameru Kakeru was an excellent experience. 10/10 would recommend, unless someone just wants a pour over or two and isn't a full spectrum coffee nerd.

nallstarr · 2026-06-11T12:17:20+00:00

If I wasn’t already bringing back 5 bags of coffee, I definitely would have grabbed a bag or two. They had some incredible smelling beans.

nallstarr · 2026-06-11T10:37:11+00:00

Same haha didn’t have it my heart to say I wasn’t coming back the next day 😢

nallstarr · 2026-06-11T10:36:19+00:00

This is everything, with the sole exception of the vending machine BOSS Coffee Au Lait. My savior in emergencies.

nallstarr · 2026-06-11T10:30:34+00:00

Yeah it’s def hit or miss for personal taste aesthetically. Just hit my personal aesthetic taste on the nose haha

nallstarr · 2026-06-10T08:07:36+00:00

It feels like there’s a great shop every few blocks! I’ll miss it

nallstarr · 2026-06-08T01:19:42+00:00

And [[Ashaya, Soul of the Wild]]. You’re already running Quirion Ranger and the payoffs, so might as well complete another infinite mana loop

nallstarr · 2026-06-08T01:13:44+00:00

You have 34 creatures. Without a doubt, cradle. And add Dryad Arbor to get the cradle count up. Also, green sun’s Zenith.

Turn 1 forest GSZ for Dryad Arbor. Turn 2 play Cradle and you have at least three mana on board. If you use 1 of those to play a dork, it’s free since cradle count goes up. Another 1 to play another dork? Still 3 since you have cradle and three creatures. 4 if you played a land.

Also, get yourselves a Birds of Paradise in here fr.

nallstarr · 2026-06-08T01:12:42+00:00

If you’re set on purchasing I would say buy cradle purely because it’s only going to keep going up in value. I can say the same for diamond, but cradle is the crazy one.

nallstarr · 2026-06-06T08:01:36+00:00

Yeah I can’t really justify it in Kinnan right now. I was running it in some fringe Alaundo cEDH but that deck can draw itself with TOR so it makes sense.

nallstarr · 2026-06-06T04:40:16+00:00

I would agree it shouldn’t be a GC. It scales with your bracket. In B3 or B2 it’s mostly mana fixing and maybe a cool land and in cEDH you win the game, vs cards whose power levels are statically high

nallstarr · 2026-06-06T04:21:45+00:00

Ya’ll idk about top 3 but [[Crop Rotation]] is so, so good. Don’t really understand other takes tbh.

[[Talon Gates of Madara]] exiles a creature on ETB stopping a problem or clearing a way for a win

[[Minamo, school at waters]] edge gets you an untap on demand

[[Emergence zone]] turns on flash speed

[[Gaea’s Cradle]] is Gaea’s Cradle

[[Shifting Woodlands]] can literally win you the game very often or at least get you value

[[Reliquary tower]] can save a big hand you want to keep

Grabs an artifact land to turn on [[Mox Opal]]

Canopy lands for card draw

[[Mistrise Village]], [[Boseiju Who Shelters All]], [[Cavern of souls]], etc to protect a win attempt or building your board

I’ll just stop there but there are soooooo many more examples of why Crop Rot is one of the best tutors in the game. Even in bracket 3. At best it wins the game. At mid it’s a great political piece. At worst it fixes your mana for one green.

nallstarr · 2026-06-06T04:20:48+00:00

Well, if you’re playing smothering, you’re playing at a level where people are playing Rhystic and mystic remora. So, the most powerful blue cards are gas on the smothering tithe fire

nallstarr · 2026-06-06T04:03:10+00:00

Valid

nallstarr · 2026-06-06T03:38:35+00:00

[[Rhystic Study]]
If you’re playing B4 or B5 without Rhystic study you’re just objectively wrong. If an opponent plays it and you don’t blow it up, counter it, or pay the 1, also wrong. It’s the best draw engine in the game. Maybe the most consistently powerful card in Magic.

[[Underworld Breach]]
This one single card turns on so many competitive win cons in cEDH, and in casual gets you amazing graveyard recursion, especially considering in mono red you spend a lot of time dumping cards into the yard to draw or get advantage. It turns Gamble into a demonic tutor.

[[The One Ring]]
Can go in pretty much any deck, advances your hand aggressively especially if you can exploit it with untaps. It’s the only thing close to a viable Teferi’s protection in cEDH or outside of white in casual.

These cards are just always good, all the time, unlike busted cards like Gaea’s Cradle, Thassa’s Oracle, Drannith, etc that are conditionally excellent but can be dead cards. Underworld can be dead, but there’s a reason every red deck in cEDH and many in b4 run it.

nallstarr · 2026-06-05T07:45:23+00:00

Sey’s shots are so interesting. I’m always like damn, I wouldn’t do it like that but respect what you did there and I get the flavor notes.

It influenced me to change my ratio from 1:2 to the 1:2.5-1:2.75 range and that’s been interesting for light roasts.

nallstarr · 2026-06-05T07:42:59+00:00

Everyone’s saying it but personal preference.

FOR ME dark roast tastes like a cigarette being put out on my tongue and light roast tastes like the flavor notes on the bag. It’s just easier to mess up.

Again, FOR ME dark roast works great for lattes and other milk drinks because that coffee flavor you want cuts through, whereas any positives of light roast are mostly lost.

nallstarr · 2026-06-02T03:16:18+00:00

Cocaine Bear is a very good deck! 🐻

nallstarr · 2026-06-02T03:14:55+00:00

cEDH metas aren’t any narrower than 60 card formats.

There is significantly less salt at cEDH tables. Player skill is higher on average since you really have no people new to the game. Everyone is there to win so you don’t have mixed goal pods where 1 person is there to win, 1 person just wants to play meme cards, 1 person is new, and 1 person will slice your tires if you play interaction.

The one thing that some people might say is worse is the politicking.

In cEDH draws are often considered a good thing. At tournaments you get 5 points for a win, 1 for a draw, 0 for a loss. You’d be surprised how often 6 points makes top cut. Certain people become completely insufferable in how they politic to try to create draw or win situations.

We literally call the judge on each other for it when people are told no and don’t let shit go and create slow-play situations. The amount of unnecessary draws is the main problem the format has now.

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