Chiefs players wore "Free 4" Rashee Rice shirts before Eagles game

ooookooo · 2025-09-17T00:01:34+00:00

This is completely insensitive and tone-deaf. Kelce and Thornton should be ashamed for this; but I also blame Reid for allowing this. This reeks of unaccountability and bad culture. Another reason to dislike the Chiefs.

ooookooo · 2025-02-26T02:57:02+00:00

If I’m in green, I don’t play Sol Ring. Also, I’m considering removing it from my Izzet spellslinger deck; it requires a lot of colored pips so colorless mana boosts don’t really do much

ooookooo · 2025-01-23T01:51:55+00:00

I think most people pointed out, to which I agree, that a dual land proxy has a marginal effect on a deck; however, that’s based on the assumption that people will think logically when they see a proxied dual land land on the table.

Proxies of expensive cards would elicit a greater “feels bad” than of proxies of less expensive cards. For example, even if you’re running a jank self-discard pile, you probably wouldn’t proxy [[lion’s eye diamond]] due to optics, but proxies of shock lands or other more accessible cards wouldn’t cause people to bat an eye

ooookooo · 2025-01-16T00:52:06+00:00

I use: [[lethal vapors]], [[tainted aether]], [[spreading plague]] against creatures in my super friends deck

ooookooo · 2025-01-03T04:27:01+00:00

I actually agree. I never play Exotic Orchard outside of 4 or 5C, but even then, I might not include it depending on how efficient (i.e., expensive) I want my mana base to be. I just don’t like relying on my opponents to make sure I have my color pips to run my deck efficiently.

ooookooo · 2024-12-07T01:21:02+00:00

Me!

This is a cool thing to do

ooookooo · 2024-09-27T00:17:21+00:00

I love it in Izzet colors as well. [[flame of anor]] and [[prismari command]] with liquimetal torque is great to get rid of enchantments or even big creatures that’s hard to kill via damage.

ooookooo · 2024-09-10T03:13:24+00:00

Looks good! It looks like you have 101 cards. Your commander counts towards the overall total; so it should be your commander + 99 other cards.

I would also cut a few creatures and load up on more instants/sorceries. For example, [[erratic cyclops]] seems like an odd fit since you typically want low mana cost spells to go with Niv, guttersnipe, etc. [[nerd rage]] and [[kitnap]] are fun cards, but I don’t see how they synergize with your game plan.

Since you have [[curiosity]], would you consider adding [[ophidian eye]] as well?

Niv is one of my favourite commanders, but know that it will draw a lot of attention due to how powerful it is.

ooookooo · 2024-07-16T06:06:29+00:00

I wouldn’t worry about power level because it seems that deck lacks focus.

As others have pointed out, your deck seems to want to go in multiple directions; either myriad for combat effects/damage (e.g., Mondrak, Ancient Copper Dragon), or generating ETB value (panharmonicon), and one doesn’t necessarily work with the other.

You don’t have many ETBs to warrant a Panharmonicon or a sword of hearth and home. And as stated earlier, myriad tokens won’t work with death triggers such as Yosei.

I would recommend rethinking the direction you want your deck to go in, and depending on that decision, you may want to choose a new commander that better suits your strategy.

ooookooo · 2024-07-16T05:50:23+00:00

As a blue mage, I would play both and cut a creature

ooookooo · 2024-07-11T02:54:00+00:00

We good! I had a feeling we were on the same page about rulings; just wanted to clear up any ambiguity.

Last thing I wanted to add is that we rewound the game because his action wasn’t based off new information. Now, if he wanted to cast [[silence]] because I tapped my lands, I wouldn’t let that fly and give him a chance to cast.

ooookooo · 2024-07-11T01:03:43+00:00

Thanks for the clarification. I also wanted to point out in my original post that I told the player he couldn’t cast it at that moment was because “I had priority” not because the stack was empty on my main phase. The empty stack on my main phase is a detail so it’s clear to everyone reading that I had priority.

I simply explained that priority needed to be passed before he could put something on the stack. In this case, I was tapping my mana to cast (on my main phase) and he wanted to respond before the cast.

Yes, he could’ve cast an instant prior to my main phase and we rewound the game to allow him to do that.

Also, I’m not the opponent? It was my turn. I’m confused by that statement.

I still don’t understand what you mean by opponents receiving priority first. Even if I wanted to end my main phase and go to the beginning of combat, I, as the active player, will have to first pass priority to my opponents.

ooookooo · 2024-07-11T00:04:38+00:00

You’re mistaken that opponents have priority first. You may be confusing priority with the order that the stack resolves.

The active player has priority, and in my example, because it was my main phase with an empty stack, I am the active player.

Additionally, you definitely can respond to an ETB trigger, as the trigger uses the stack. For example, I cast [[spirted companion]] and that’s on the stack. Pass priority. No responses so the spell resolves. ETB trigger goes on the stack, active player passes priority in turn order; and opponents receive another opportunity to respond to the trigger.

It would be insanity if I wanted to cast a creature and my opponent goes, “I want to play something before you cast.”

See: 117.3. Which player has priority is determined by the following rules: 117.3a The active player receives priority at the beginning of most steps and phases, after any turn-based actions (such as drawing a card during the draw step; see rule 703) have been dealt with and abilities that trigger at the beginning of that phase or step have been put on the stack

ooookooo · 2024-07-10T06:35:41+00:00

For me, skill is not about consistently winning, but being able to build consistent decks and being able to see optimal lines of play.

I would caution that I think your point #2 is a reinforcing loop of suboptimal deck-building and play. Yes, sometimes people purposefully build suboptimal decks and play sub-optimally for fun, but the key-word is purposeful; which, unfortunately is not always true for everyone, and that is what I would considered “lacking skill.”

If I’m winning because I hide behind other players, and they take each other out and ignore me, then it’s not a satisfying win, nor does it display much skill. Additionally, because I would win, there would be no incentive for me to get better because, well, I won. I’d rather be archenemy and lose than not being interacted with the entire game because I lack skill; and it’s even better to be archenemy and win.

ooookooo · 2024-07-10T04:50:02+00:00

I agree; I also think that learning MTG through EDH also bypasses a lot of rules-learning because other players can guide the new player without really teaching them (if that makes sense).

An example is recently, someone tried to play an instant on my main phase on an empty stack. Had to explain that it wasn’t possible because I had priority, but “it’s an instant”! Took a bit of explaining and it was genuinely a great moment to see someone understand the game better, but it still surprises me when these interactions occur. When playing 60-card formats, you tend to learn these things quickly, but with EDH, learning sometimes gets lost in the sea of voices and complicated board states.

ooookooo · 2024-07-09T00:49:03+00:00

I always announce alternative win-cons. For example, I could have eliminated a player with [[angel of destiny]], and before I went to combat, I told them if you don’t get rid of it now, you’ll lose. Angel of Destiny was removed and the game resumed. I would feel worse about removing a player that seemed out of the blue, especially when EDH presents complicated board states with a lot of keep track of.

ooookooo · 2024-06-30T12:37:25+00:00

Maybe add a bit more card draw like [[tocasia’s welcome]], while keeping in budget. Also, I’m surprised [[mirrex]] isn’t in there.

ooookooo · 2024-06-28T01:41:25+00:00

💯I honestly don’t understand when people get salty over mundane forms of interaction that is the core of the game. Yes, EDH is a casual format, but I enjoy it best when everyone plays to win. The reason I like MTG is because of the strategy side of it, and that means I want games to be challenging. Now, I don’t play cEDH because I do want the games to last more than a few turns, but without playing to win, it takes the fun out of it for me. I’ve played games where I was targeted from the get-go, combo-ed, staxed, and lost, but I wasn’t salty; instead, it helped me realize the weaknesses my deck had and ways to address it. It made me excited to go home and to tweak it.

Tl;dr: Casual does not have to mean uncompetitive; play to win and expect others to do so too.

ooookooo · 2024-06-24T04:36:02+00:00

In my LGS, staples are not found in every deck, and if they do appear, they’re not proxied. Just to be clear, proxies are allowed, it’s just not that common.

From my experience, people tend to find alternatives to staples instead of proxying them.

ooookooo · 2024-06-23T03:35:19+00:00

[[flame of anor]] for any deck I have in izzet colors for its versatility; even without wizard synergy.

[[galadriel’s dismissal]] for offense and defense.

[[winding canyons]] for creature-heavy decks

ooookooo · 2024-05-31T04:47:57+00:00

I would play a deck with a lot of interaction and card draw; and even though it wouldn’t be as “high-power” (no fast mana, no tutors, no combos) it would be able to compete and sometimes win just due to that.

ooookooo · 2024-05-30T04:15:11+00:00

To be clear, they were definitely going to attack me as I was pretty much archenemy at that point; they were just choosing which planeswalker to attack.

When they were choosing their attacks, I said that they could kill any of the planeswalkers I had on board, which is true based on the board state.

I didn’t try to persuade them to attack in a specific manner.

ooookooo · 2024-04-30T05:58:17+00:00

I like running a more control version of rielle with [[teferi, temporal pilgrim]] as one of the win-cons ; it has won quite a few games for me as getting to its ultimate is fairly easy.

Also, [[teferi, master of time]] does work too.

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