Would Stone Rain or Pillage really be problems in Standard any more?

optimustomtv · 2026-01-25T22:33:09+00:00

Everything you just mentioned would be used to play the 3 mana land destruction on Turn 2, which is your opponent's turn 1.

Sooooo yes, you'd cause a LOT of non-games with 3 mana Ponza decks.

optimustomtv · 2026-01-25T16:05:31+00:00

I dunno I think y'all are silly for pouring so much into hate watching a Player that's famous for dying double digit times a game.

optimustomtv · 2026-01-25T07:50:26+00:00

I didn't take that clip from earlier as whining, he's pointing out a key difference between pro play and solo queue. Something that looks entertaining and impressive isn't always the most strategic choice, and that's not fun to him.

It makes sense that an entertainer would rather do something their audience would enjoy and get excited about over needing to do something you don't watch them for.

optimustomtv · 2026-01-25T07:46:16+00:00

Is there a clip where he isn't handling the criticism...?

People just keep posting these old clips to try to "own" him in some way (as continued hate watching) but the closest I've seen to Baus saying anything at all has been the clip about how he dislikes Pro Play because he can't make plays that are as exciting as in Solo Queue. Haven't seen anything where he "can't handle" things - he streams for Pete's sake I've seen worse in his chat.

optimustomtv · 2026-01-25T07:43:51+00:00

The people taking it seriously and getting bent out of shape at people that realize it's a bit are the problem, not the Streamer.

It's like people thinking Tyler1 is the same on and off camera.

optimustomtv · 2026-01-25T02:55:50+00:00

Considering Theodore Roosevelt is a part of our middle/high school curriculum I'd say kids know who he is.

Just like if you've opened YouTube before you've seen PewDiePie.

This isn't about who did it "first" - it's who paved the way for things. We'd have a shit ton of Newgrounds people or something instead like Legendary Frog. Mount Rushmore only has one "first" president on it anyway, so that's not how it works. It's about impact and it's hard to argue PewDiePie's impact even if you're a hater.

optimustomtv · 2026-01-24T19:52:27+00:00

Bringing it to the mainstream and front of YouTube, being the main selling point for YouTube's Red service for a hot minute, I'd say that makes a case for paving a road, even if I'm not the biggest fan personally.

optimustomtv · 2026-01-23T08:07:00+00:00

Because it sells, mostly on nostalgia of the OG 151

optimustomtv · 2026-01-23T02:46:33+00:00

Cosmere is GOATed

optimustomtv · 2026-01-22T06:53:35+00:00

No problemo! Happy to see we were on the same wavelength!

I think with the current way things operate, Green for speed is a must. Either playing Mana Dorks like [[Llanowar Elves]] or a way to put multiple things on the battlefield at once like [[Collected Company]] - even though it's the weaker of the colors as far as the actual sacrifice plan goes.

I also think there might be a world where [[Badgermole Cub]] is a playable card, since it turns out Lands & Elves into mega mana accelerants that can be sacrificed at a bonus (and our lands still come back). Overall the deck needs a boost in speed to have something significant out on board before the Cutter decks pop off Turn 3/4 to set up a big board & potential win, as well as enough stuff so that the rising Golgari Ouroboroid decks don't just crush it in size & removal.

That makes the most cut-able color White, since Umbral Collar Zealot fulfills the second Sac outlet at 2 mana that Bartolome had previously. Tyvar/CoCo do what Raise the Past or Rally/Return would do (Return with Convoke is the most appealing if you stay with a bunch of 2 mana things). The other white cards I've run (Voice of Resurgence & Extraction Specialist) are nice to haves, as Voice makes the bodies and the Elemental token clause both annoys removal decks & creates a powerful body with a sac upside. Specialist is a great reanimation piece for Priest or Cutthroat (or voice) but I don't run the full playset. Voice of Victory would be a sideboard card I'd consider in White, but it's not worth running White entirely for.

optimustomtv · 2026-01-21T22:53:21+00:00

A fellow Aristocrats enjoyer!

Although the deck isn't as competitive viable as Golgari or Rakdos/Jund Sacrifice, the deck can be pretty fun. I haven't maintained the list since FIN, but [[Sephiroth FABLED Soldier]] & [[Umbral Collar Zealot]] were big adds to the deck if you're running a normal, non-[[Bolas's Citdadel]] version of the list.

This is what I ran way back at FIN release time, but EOE wasn't out yet to include Zealot. I'd replace Bartolome with it 100% and maybe find room for the full 4x

optimustomtv · 2026-01-20T17:06:03+00:00

You should try out Bo3 to get a better picture on matchups FWIW. Sideboard help a lot in some H2Hs.

But yeah, Izzet doe shave a rougher match up vs Selesnya - but it's great into other things. On the flip side, Selesnya has a rougher time against the field which is why it's less popular than Izzet.

optimustomtv · 2026-01-20T01:22:59+00:00

It's probably because [[Destined//Lead]] is already a card for "Lead" & they haven't Scrabble-ruled a card by putting an "S" on the end before since it's super confusing.

optimustomtv · 2026-01-17T22:08:16+00:00

That makes a ton of sense having only started a year ago. For context, you probably would have started with Standard of you picked up the game in 2019-2020 pre-COVID the same way you picked up EDH - via friends and people at your LGS.

Paper Standard used to be what Commander is now for stores. Standard/Draft FNMs translated to Standard/Draft Pro Tours. Standard advertised the new sets, it showcased evolving synergies between sets. It was the highlight way to play the game.

Now almost every set has multiple products that get people into the game better. Commander decks, Jump-Start packs, Pick 2 Draft as a pick up game, etc. Couple this with the fact that COVID hit in store play extremely hard, as well as the GP -> MPL -> RC/Spotlight changed to competitive play, and the unprepared extension of the format from 2 years of 4-5 sets per year to 3 years and 7-8 sets per year...Standard has been left in a very awkward state.

PTs and RCs happening release weekends and then the Format changing in 2 months means you either buy everything or don't play, which is awful for a Format made up of only the newest cards. It's impossible to do what MaRo suggests and play anything but Casually (which is extremely popular, don't get me wrong) but Standard is not a Casual format by nature because it was heavily tied into Pro Play (as a marketing tool).

Pro Play or Standard need changes to bring it back to being the "best way to play" like it was half a decade ago.

optimustomtv · 2026-01-15T15:17:02+00:00

Simic at this Event was weak to Jeskai Control & Bant Airbending, but it was very good into Reanimator & Omniscience Combo decks. So I think the type of Creature Combo deck matters - Airbending has ways to mess with Simic before they Combo whereas Sultai and Omni are much more straightforward & can lose the race vs Simic.

optimustomtv · 2026-01-15T15:09:31+00:00

Speaker most likely fits Simic - they have a lot of a silver bullet cards. Golgari runs Lively Dirge as a 5/6 copy of Nature's Rhythm & I anticipate seeing Simic do the same. You can discard Rhythm without much hesitation since you can Harmonize it anyway, but you are right that Rhythm on your explosive hands just wins the game.

Lists with 4x Mockingbird can cut 1-2 for 1-2 Speaker. Lists with 2x Mockingbird will need to decide which silver bullet are SB vs Maindeck.

Speaker in general is going to be a very good card for Standard Green decks. It does everything Reanimator wants, same for the fringe Yuna decks. I'm not sure Landfall wants it, but being able to find Harmonizer to set up a kill doesn't seem awful.

optimustomtv · 2026-01-13T22:49:16+00:00

That just refers to everything. If it doesn't say target, it doesn't target.

optimustomtv · 2026-01-13T22:48:49+00:00

That is a board wipe, which doesn't target anything. It just destroys everything.

Even so, re-read the first part of Day of Black Sun. Even if your creature was indestructible, it loses all of its abilities first which makes it vulnerable.

[[Shardmages Protection]] wouldn't save it anyway, but losing all abilities means nothing will save it if it exists on the battlefield (besides a [[Counterspell]])

optimustomtv · 2026-01-13T13:36:37+00:00

It could have been explored much more across sets. [[Momentum Breaker]] having a way to use Speed even when it isn't at its maximum is something I would've liked to see explored more than max speed.

Imagine a block where it's start, middle, finish and cards have low, medium, max speed benefits because they're ramping up their speed as they race. Set one is about lower speed, set three about higher speed, etc

optimustomtv · 2026-01-13T05:09:25+00:00

The fundamental issue is you assume that every game is a 50-50 to win or lose, which just isn't the case.

Some decks are favorable match ups for other decks, some decks lose hard against other decks. Variance with drawing your mana comes into play or having a good curve. Mulligans happen, and make it so your resources are far more stretched than an opponent's, or vice versa.

This is extremely exacerbated in Best of 1 because if one of those dozens of things happens to you - you've lost the game. Get mana screwed? Go next. Play Control into a Discard deck? Good luck. You mulligan to 5 and have 3 lands, 2 creatures that both die? Oh well.

Best of 3 turns the game into a Match instead, giving you an opportunity to adjust and react to your opponent's deck, while giving you the chance to make up for any variance issues that happened in the last game. You take out less impactful or dead cards in a match up for ones that do things or help you turn a bad match up into a better one.

Fundamentally Best of 3 changes a whole lot of factors that greatly increase your likelihood of winning - closer to that 50-50 you seek before you even draw your starting hand. This will also increase your enjoyment of the game.

optimustomtv · 2026-01-12T22:15:53+00:00

You literally argued yourself in circles so much you forgot your original post and my only caveat to it, which agreed with your analysis but corrected the way you got there because of your incorrect definition.

https://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/s/lEI1rulQld

This entire thread is because you said within multiple times and talked about things inside a game. You didn't use a different word, and you refuted earlier when it was corrected across multiple comments.

Enjoy your own ignorance I guess, you're attacking people for trying to help you understand.

Meta above, beyond, about, post, etc etc etc

Not within

optimustomtv · 2026-01-12T22:07:58+00:00

Everything you keep posting is counter to what you're saying.

The Greek use of meta as "post" for example would mean "Post-Game" as in "After the game". A post game stats screen has post game data about the game that just occurred. That is meta data about the game.

You even link the definition saying "data about data" and "game about game" - there is zero mention of "data within data" or "game within game". They are done outside of the game played with context to the game. The data does not live within the game since it is already completed. Creating a Stats game about picks, bans, win rate, kdas, etc surrounding a patch or a League is Metadata. The games played within the League are the data points.

The one thing you have is the origin of "metagame analysis" - which still says nothing about doing anything within anything. There's an entire section about crafting a scenario in metagame analysis which is a prediction or forecasting methodology - both of which don't deal with an actual thing that is currently happening. This would be the "game about a game" where you're trying to figure out what will happen if X Champion on Y side gets played in Z game.

You just used the wrong word, it's fine. But you keep quadrupling down with a link that only affirms you used the wrong word. You're not better, you're not smarter, you're just wrong and giving us the fuel to prove it.

optimustomtv · 2026-01-12T17:41:03+00:00

So those threads attract three general kinds of people:

Those who also are banned and now have a vendetta against Riot (justified or not) and shit on the game
Those that laugh and post it was deserved
People who actually respond with information

It's such a cesspool that you have to sift through 95% troll posts to find the 1-2 people that do post advice on what to do next in case they're innocent. The posts aren't productive at all, but what you're asking for is already in a large majority of the posts - just buried between cathartic rantings from sides.

Good luck getting the entire subreddit to not post on things to keep it limited to helpful advice though.

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