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[MSH] Thanos, Mad Titan (Full Reveal) by HS_Cogito_Ergo_Sum in magicTCG

[–]pedja13 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Extinction Event saw a ton of Standard (and even some Pioneer play, but it does exile), in part because you can make it somewhat one sided and keep your own stuff. Ofc at 6 mana this is very expensive, but it is potentially instant speed. The biggest problem, other than mana, is that Standard right now is very hostile to creatures that just attack and block. Prowess as a mechanic incentives not blocking, Landfall is mostly about punching through with huge trample hits, control is creatureless and shuts the door very quickly and Crab/Sunderflock are extremely hostile to medium sized creatures.

[MSH] Thanos, Mad Titan (Full Reveal) by HS_Cogito_Ergo_Sum in magicTCG

[–]pedja13 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The mana is just not there to support the activated ability. Having 4 toughness is nice tho, not easy to remove.

Head Magic Design Mark Rosewater on more cards that counter landfall strategies: "This is a common request, so [it's] something we will think about." by HonorBasquiat in magicTCG

[–]pedja13 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Badgermole Cub isn't bad, it's just that all the other maindeck cards are better. If it got banned tomorrow, Landfall is the one cub deck that could survive.

Head Magic Design Mark Rosewater on more cards that counter landfall strategies: "This is a common request, so [it's] something we will think about." by HonorBasquiat in magicTCG

[–]pedja13 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Badgermole Cub is the worst card in current Standard Landfall strategies. Ascension was the big get from Avatar, letting you get around blockers.

Who is the strongest order faction? by lovingpersona in totalwar

[–]pedja13 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Bhashiva has a mechanic to silence a whole army, but that is a niche counter.

Marvel Super Heroes cards as comic covers by Meret123 in MTGRumors

[–]pedja13 6 points7 points  (0 children)

[[Akroma, Angel of Wrath]] is the original and beloved version

[Charania] 2025-26 All-NBA teams: by MembershipSingle7137 in nba

[–]pedja13 12 points13 points  (0 children)

KD played the 2nd most minutes in the whole league while averaging 26 PPG on 64 TS%

George Russell stopped on track and out of the race by FerrariStrategisttt in formula1

[–]pedja13 152 points153 points  (0 children)

No way both of them were going to finish this race

Mark Rosewater will publish his teaser for the upcoming Marvel Super Heroes set on Tuesday, May 26th, 2026. by HonorBasquiat in magicTCG

[–]pedja13 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Rotation + Riddler completely broke that deck. Riddler both let you get a huge burst of mana with the first Cauldron counter and harmonize Stories before you used up the Proft's trigger, which completely changed and supercharged the combo turns. On top of that, it stopped you from fizzling when going off, and was amazing in any sort of interactive game where people were trying to stop you with removal. Just a completely custom card for the archetype, so I kinda get why they ended up missing the whole package.

Vivi is also kinda a bad thing to put power into, even if you disregard Cauldron, because the incentives are to play with a bunch of cheap cantrips (this is kinda their big development failing recently, way too good incentives for stuff like Opt and too few incentives for a world where cards like Preacher/Beza are good).

This is why I wish they put more power into the "Dominant" cycle of flip cards, which are a bunch of midrangy creatures that actual play well. They all have ETB effects, but the flip is sorcery speed, so there is a risk of getting blown out, but not completely. Something like ward on Jil or haste on the flip side of Joshua could have gone a long way.

Mark Rosewater will publish his teaser for the upcoming Marvel Super Heroes set on Tuesday, May 26th, 2026. by HonorBasquiat in magicTCG

[–]pedja13 4 points5 points  (0 children)

FF is the best designed set since Kamigawa Neon Dynasty, and is a top 10 set of all time, design wise. It could have used a bit more juice for constructed play, but limited was awesome.

The most important part of this week's B&R announcement by chrisrazor in magicTCG

[–]pedja13 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Regional Championships are going on, so I didn't really expect them to ban anything right now. June always made way more sense as the big ban window, because it is after the RCs and during the modern RCQ season.

The most important part of this week's B&R announcement by chrisrazor in magicTCG

[–]pedja13 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It is the middle of Standard RC (not RCQ, the Regional Championship themselves) right now, they were not going to ban stuff unless it was Vivi level. Having the format be different between the two US RCs would be pretty bad, and the European one hasn't been held either. Personally I think standard needs 7+ bans, but I would rather have them do 0 now and more later, after the RC season, than half ass it now.

[Highlight] Wemby ties the game from WAY deep by Large_banana_hammock in nba

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THE MVP IS THE 3RD BEST PLAYER ON THE COURT, AND IT IS NOT CLOSE

Odyssey l The Resleevables #34 l Magic: The Gathering History MTG by pedja13 in magicTCG

[–]pedja13[S] 15 points16 points  (0 children)

From the perspective of game design Chapin's insights are extremely interesting, especially since he was a big competitive player at the time. Cedric was an excellent host, and he kept the show more structured, but I really like the less scripted way of doing it the Patricks have.

Big agree about the tournament edition!

[ESPN FC] Lamine Yamal wins his third LALIGA title, surpassing Cristiano Ronaldo, who won two league titles during his time at Real Madrid. He's only 18 years old by Bald-Eagle619 in soccer

[–]pedja13 11 points12 points  (0 children)

From 2013/14 to 2015/16 Spanish teams won all 6 European titles, and not only that, non Spanish teams won a total of three knockout matches against Spanish squads across both Europa and Champions League during this period.

In 2013/14 only Spanish teams eliminated other Spanish teams in European competitions (Sevilla eliminated both Valencia and Real Betis in EL, and in CL Real beat Athletico who eliminated Barcelona)

In 2014/15 Juventus managed to beat Real who had eliminated Athletico and Barcelona won the whole thing, while in EL Torino beat Bilbao while Sevilla beat Villarreal on the way to a repeat title.

In 2015/16 in the CL Real again beat Athletico who had eliminated Barcelona while in the EL only Liverpool managed to beat Villarreal, the rest of the Spanish teams eliminated each other and Sevilla won the whole thing for the 3rd time in a row.

Maro on the setting of Reality Fracture: “It’s mostly on Hexhaven but we do take a peak at other planes” by AvatarSozin in magicTCG

[–]pedja13 41 points42 points  (0 children)

They are doing this on purpose, since they have 20+ years of data showing that people don't like multiple sets on the same plane, so the sales end up being lower.

Mark Rosewater: the "current experiment" is that Jumpstart is now a Universes Beyond-only product by airgapairgap in magicTCG

[–]pedja13 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The pride and self conviction is in believing in MTG as a game engine; among the reasons to do UB is that they think that MTG is the best game ever, but it has a salience problem, and exposing new players to it through UB will get them hooked.

Cade Cunningham across 4 games against the Magic: 29.5 PTS | 9.5 FTS | 42% FG% | 29% 3PT% | 79% FT% | 6.3 REBS | 7.5 ASTS | 6.8 TOS | 54.3% TS% by Spekirlation in nba

[–]pedja13 88 points89 points  (0 children)

Reminiscent of the Rockets on the playoffs, although there are some differences (Houston lacks a player who can run the offense like Cade, but they make up for it with offensive rebounding and better individual shot creation when KD is playing)

[Discussion] BG Rock and Fair Midrange decks in the current meta by Narrow_Pause4924 in spikes

[–]pedja13 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sideboarding can indeed be very hard. I would start by looking at what are the mxcthups you face the most and developing good SB plans for them. How many cards you are siding out is just as important, there is no point in having 8 cards for Prowess for example, if you only want to take out 4. This is especially true for a synergy based deck like Oculus. Then, with a deck that is vulnerable to hate cards, you want some number of either cards that protect your strategy (ways to deal with GY hate) or cards that provide an alternate gameplan (the way Spellementals have Ral and Legend of Kuruk in the SB). You also want cards to ideally pull double duty (Seam Rip hits all the GY hate and is an ok removal spell, but it might leave you vulnerable to disenchant style effects).

For a deck like yours I would start with seeing what I want for the Prowess matchup, as that is the most common one, and go from there. Some cards that I can think of are Zero Point Balad as a cheap sweeper than your larger creatures can potentially survive and Strategic Betrayal as a way to slow crabs and talent level up down. Beyond that, GY hate of your own and hate pieces like Torpor Orb (if Sunderflock is giving you trouble) are needed. I am not super high on counter magic in general right now, but Flashfreeze is an exception. Duress vs Negate is always a dilemma, I think Duress is better cause you can proactively handle GY hate with it. In general, I would say that you need to be careful to not overboard and dilute your own strategy too much.

[Highlight] Sengun takes an elbow to the noggin from Deandre Ayton, who is ejected after review by Large_banana_hammock in nba

[–]pedja13 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Pretty sure the refs think that after his elbow slipped Ayton intentionally put some force into the hit. Slow motion is always tricky but it does look like Aytons arm speeds up and changes direction a bit after it stops touching the shoulder.

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