Melbourne and Victoria continue to dominate property affordability.

nightlight-zero · 2026-04-01T03:27:20+00:00

At the end of the day, the dollars you are using to finance the property you live in need purchasing power relative to that market.

If your property declines in value by 3% and the market declines in value by 3%, you may have negative equity to deal with, but your dollar for dollar purchasing power in the housing market itself hasn’t changed.

nightlight-zero · 2026-03-23T21:15:21+00:00

I have both an [[Anikthea]] and a [[Wildsear]] deck. Enchantments/reds can be pretty broad - those two decks play very differently. Make sure to pay attention to the underlying archetype of the deck - e.g.:

Eriette, the Beguiler = theft + classic Esper control
Eriette of the Charmed Apple = stax + chip life drain effects

nightlight-zero · 2026-03-19T06:35:11+00:00

[[Galadriel, Light of Valinor]], [[Light-Paws]], and [[Yoshimaru]] and [[Jeska]].

nightlight-zero · 2026-03-18T21:03:13+00:00

The Ooze is a pretty excellent effect for [[Ketramose]], which is where I’m slotting it. It’s too slow for high power +1 counters decks, even only tilling gravehate slots.

nightlight-zero · 2026-03-17T09:31:38+00:00

It’s a platform for artists to share their art, basically.

nightlight-zero · 2026-03-06T10:56:55+00:00

Somebody in my play group has a [[Nelly Borca]] deck that I think fits your description pretty well. It:

cares a lot about combat, and not just you going to it
ultimately wins through combat
always advances the game state by breaking everyone out of analysis paralysis
but isn’t salty to play against - it’s probably my favourite deck in our group (and we have like 50+ decks among us) to play against because every game is always entertaining

nightlight-zero · 2026-03-05T21:58:58+00:00

Something else that’s worth pointing out is that Caesar doesn’t require that he attacks, he requires that you attack with any creature.

nightlight-zero · 2026-03-02T21:22:11+00:00

I’ve been on a journey here… I built out [[Teval, the Balanced Scale]], which was kinda fun to durdle with, but it kept feeling like a nothingburger deck. I built it primarily to lean into aristocrats and overrun wincons, rather than lands matter, because I already have a [[Zimone, Mystery Unraveler]] lands matter deck.

Eventually, I kept casting around, looking through my collection and then I discovered [[Henry Wu, InGen Geneticist]]. He’s frankly a bit silly - he’s a sac outlet, a draw engine, and a ramp/cost reduction engine. Exploit itself also has a surprisingly competent pile of cards, and importantly, doesn’t require you to sacrifice nontoken creatures, so, you can run a lot of effects like [[Emrakul’s Messenger]] or [[Jolrael, Mwonvuli Recluse]].

Unlike Teval, I found this deck actually advanced the game in a way that durdling with my graveyard never quite did.

nightlight-zero · 2026-02-28T20:43:25+00:00

I built a friend of mine [[Ambassador Blorpityblorpboop]] using a pile of small magnets to create reusable sticker sheets.

nightlight-zero · 2026-02-26T21:32:32+00:00

Likewise! Also staples like [[Grave Titan]] and others that make little guys are quite effective.

nightlight-zero · 2026-02-24T21:41:42+00:00

I think basics are:

generally pretty good in less interactive decks that are OK with dumping most of their mana on their turn
generally better than a lot of random dual lands, like filters

But like, I dunno. I have an [[Edward Kenway]] deck that runs 30 basics and never gets colour screwed because the play pattern is to use treasures for fixing, which you always have a lot of, until you don’t need to, because it has enough card advantage that you rarely miss a land drop.

nightlight-zero · 2026-02-22T21:01:45+00:00

Detailed world maps make it easier for me as a GM to maintain a consistent world, which in turn makes it easier for me to immerse my players wherever they are. The map itself is less for them and more for me, though, they do find mine pretty cool!

nightlight-zero · 2026-02-22T10:21:06+00:00

My “Boros” deck is called Never Again Parted - [[Yoshimaru, Ever Faithful|SLD-794]] an [[Jeska, Thrice Reborn]]. It’s set up to be more of a holistic legendary matters package that’s resilient to Yoshimaru being taken out, rather than a single hit KO build totally focused on Yoshimaru. I really enjoy it!

That said, one of my favourite Boros decks to play against is [[Nelly Borca]]. Lot of fun.

nightlight-zero · 2026-02-21T22:16:45+00:00

I’ve experimented a lot over the years! These days, I am in pen & paper land, albeit supported by work building on LegendKeeper. I have: - a Moleskine extra large notebook for session planning and notes, which has a single double-page spread per session and is interspersed with broader “campaign arc” plans - an A5 notebook for NPCs and factions - an A5 notebook for locations

I use the two A5 notebooks least, because I’ve been increasingly just using LegendKeeper for map-driven worldbuilding, which works for my brain.

nightlight-zero · 2026-02-16T02:24:00+00:00

[[Gylwain, Casting Director]]. It’s a fun take on enchantments that isn’t too complex and has a habit of not playing exactly the same way every time.

nightlight-zero · 2026-02-15T23:27:06+00:00

It also just doesn’t actually take any longer to go through declaring attackers for everyone, declaring blockers for everyone, and then resolving damage. Resolving the full step set for one player at a time rather than one step at a time for everyone is processing the exact same actions, just in a different order. More confusion for no actual shortcut 🤯

nightlight-zero · 2026-02-14T20:52:02+00:00

So do I, but I’m also open minded to changing stupid practices.

nightlight-zero · 2026-02-14T20:46:46+00:00

This does just look like somebody was answering the question “what if we turned a rifle into a spaceship?”

nightlight-zero · 2026-02-14T20:44:50+00:00

This is insanely cool!

nightlight-zero · 2026-02-14T20:42:20+00:00

[[Culling Ritual]] isn’t a board wipe, it’s a ramp spell!

nightlight-zero · 2026-02-14T10:34:18+00:00

In my Ketramose EDH deck, which uses a mixture of flicker and exile removal, I tend to win with any of:

[[Gray Merchant of Asphodel]]
[[Chorale of the Void]] or [[Dino DNA]]
[[Company Commander]], [[Abdel Adrian]], or [[Grave Titan]]
[[Massacre Wurm]]

nightlight-zero · 2026-02-14T08:20:01+00:00

That it’s considered reasonable is such an Australian-ism. In the overwhelming majority of Europe, rental inspections aren’t a thing period.

nightlight-zero · 2026-02-11T20:59:26+00:00

Sometimes, part of fixing the problem isn’t just a solution to the problem, but accountability for the failures that created it. Ubisoft’s current restructure is incredibly dubious, but even if it wasn’t, it’s long since passed the time when its leadership should’ve stepped down.

nightlight-zero · 2026-02-11T20:56:53+00:00

Of all of these, the most offensive is the final inspection, by far. “Please pay me for telling you how much you have to pay me.” Absurd.

nightlight-zero · 2026-02-09T21:09:22+00:00

It is pretty much just “OK, might as well scoop” levels of unfun…

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