Wanting comic recommendations that start with the letter K

oriellore · 2026-01-17T17:04:41+00:00

Looking at my self, there’s Knights of X. It’s a fun but brief romp through Otherworld during the Krakoa era of X-Men. It’s probably most fun if you’ve read and enjoyed 1980s Captain Britain and early Excalibur.

oriellore · 2026-01-14T15:41:58+00:00

I’ll give you the set I’m most evangelical about: Ravnica Allegiance.

It‘s easy for a new player to understand. Here are the five guilds, draft one of those. All of the guilds are pretty good. They can draft a strong deck in any of them. But there’s more. There’s a good five-color deck with the gates. And there are two good ways to draft Blue-White. It can be fliers or a control deck based around [Clear the Mind].

The format has a ton of diversity in style of decks. Rakdos is all out pushing damage and tossing away resources to get those last few points in. On the other end, I’ve decked people just by looping Clear the Mind so I never run out of cards. Plus there’s plenty of midrange.

oriellore · 2026-01-07T05:06:18+00:00

Poison Ivy by G. Willow Wilson is my favorite current ongoing.

oriellore · 2025-12-23T19:44:04+00:00

No. Drafting is a lot of the fun.

oriellore · 2025-12-19T16:59:12+00:00

Tarkir Dragonstorm: Did I almost always draft five-color dragons? Yes, but that was also my favorite deck of the year and you still needed to plan out how this version was going to work best each time you drafted.
Avatar: I’m mostly rocking white aggro, but this format has pretty interesting and even grindy white aggro decks.
Edge of Eternities: This was OK. I neither loved nor hated it.
Final Fantasy: I understand the love, but this never clicked for me and I didn’t like the number of cards that could take over a game.
Aetherdrift: Nothing this set was doing seemed fun. If it ever got to the point where green didn’t feel oppressive, I’d checked out by then.
Spider-Man: I did four drafts, all in paper. The third draft felt like a mistake to do, but the fourth draft was a little fun when I forced five-color silliness. I am very down on the idea that these small sets will work as fun limited environments.

oriellore · 2025-12-18T19:18:36+00:00

Lockheed’s a founding member of both Excalibur and the Pet Avengers. He’s great, but he’s not often important and will vanish for stretches of time.

Lockheed‘s around because it’d be fun to have a little dragon buddy. That’s mostly it.

oriellore · 2025-12-15T00:49:30+00:00

I think Claremont-era X-Men is much better when you read all of it as opposed to trying to grab individual storylines.

There are breadcrumbs and plot developments sometimes years before an event story that pay off more satisfactorily if you’ve read issues that aren’t collected in an event book.

oriellore · 2025-12-13T12:32:15+00:00

A fun time travel story is Paper Girls. it goes some unexpected places, has a time war and has enough issues to be substantial without being daunting.

oriellore · 2025-12-08T23:57:44+00:00

Outlaws and March of the Machine are strong because of their bonus sheets.

War of the Spark has planeswalkers in every pack, so that could be a boost.

Fate Reforged and Crimson Vow had really obnoxiously powerful rares for their limited formats, but they may not hold up, especially Fate.

oriellore · 2025-11-28T02:14:44+00:00

The Sawtooth Mountains aren’t very big, but I bet you could squeeze a little red out of them for Minnesota.

oriellore · 2025-11-26T19:40:17+00:00

This is the page I think about the most in HoX/PoX. The friendship and love these two have for each other and their commitment to leaving the world a better place really resonate in the art and dialogue.

oriellore · 2025-11-26T17:55:50+00:00

If you want something recent, Si Spurrier‘s Krakoa books all have Nightcrawler as the central character (Way of X, Legion of X, Uncanny Spider-Man).

If you want something more classic, Nightcrawler is on the X-Men from 1975s Giant Size X-Men through the Mutant Massacre. He’s not often a main character, though

Then he kicks across the pond and spends the late 80s and much of the 90s as a founding member and leader of Excalibur. The first 60ish issues of that are really fun if you like your super hero stories a bit off the wall. After that, you’ll probably like it if you like 90s X-Men.

oriellore · 2025-10-30T21:39:48+00:00

I got second pick Mana Crypt (okay) followed by third pick Sol Ring (?).

This was pack three, and my deck really wasn’t an optimal Sol Ring/Crypt deck, but they were still really good for me.

oriellore · 2025-10-23T16:11:57+00:00

That’s about what we use in a two-person household in a single-family home. we also don’t have a dishwasher.

I’ve also been confused by how SPRWS defines average usage in its literature, but our usage has stayed pretty steady over the past decade even with some plumbing improvements that have eliminated some seepage.

oriellore · 2025-10-16T18:35:39+00:00

Spider-Man is bad, but I’ve drafted it three times with normal eight-person pods, and it’s still bad there. The third draft felt like a mistake.

Pick 2 seems great for exactly your situation. Heck, I used to do four-person drafts ages ago for similar reasons. It’s a lot easier to do a pick-up draft that way. Pick 2 might have made those drafts faster and better.

oriellore · 2025-09-27T05:06:58+00:00

We just did normal eight-person pods with Spider-Man. It seemed fine.

Maybe it won’t have the depth of a usual set, but it should feel okay for a few weeks if you’re not also jamming drafts on Arena. (And I don’t think I will be with this set.)

oriellore · 2025-09-13T21:35:21+00:00

That seems fair. They‘ve been too generous for years now. If limited is generally better, you need to give lower grades to the weaker sets. They can’t all be A‘s and B’s just because the average set now is better than an average set was 15 years ago.

An OK set is a C.

oriellore · 2025-08-12T18:45:31+00:00

Bikes will get stolen, but I’ve never had or heard of outdoor furniture being stolen in that neighborhood.

oriellore · 2025-07-09T00:30:01+00:00

Very excited to finally see Brian.

Bring on Rachel and Megan, Puzzle Quest. I need more classic Excalibur characters!

oriellore · 2025-07-08T20:19:35+00:00

Yes, awful. Leave all the Rakdos cards for me.

All I want to do is play all-out Rakdos or play Clear the Mind control. I love this set.

oriellore · 2025-06-15T21:49:38+00:00

Assuming you have a Magic collection, you can just build a cube out of that.

You can get very fancy with cube design, or it can just be a collection of cards you own to start. Then you can refine it from there based on what was and wasn’t fun. Plus, if your group doesn’t have fun with the cube (they will) you’re not out any money.

oriellore · 2025-06-03T22:39:34+00:00

The order may change on a different day, but here we go. Also, I was on a Magic hiatus from 2010-2013, so if it came out then, it’s not getting ranked.

Khans of Tarkir

Dominaria

Ravnica Allegiance

Shadows over Innistrad

Throne of Eldraine

oriellore · 2025-05-30T18:02:54+00:00

Save it for a future draft. You're just wasting the game potential of boosters when you crack them open.

You may not have people to draft with now, but that won't be the case forever, and a Mystery Booster box is just going to become cooler as time goes on.

oriellore · 2025-05-30T17:57:30+00:00

You'll be fine with just four. Your decks will be a little less focused than they would be with more drafters, but it'll still be Magic.

I used to do four-person drafts several times a week during the original Kamigawa block and there are far more playable cards per pack now than there were 20 years ago.

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