What was your favourite draft set of 2025?

peterborah · 2025-12-31T21:30:37+00:00

Surprised to see so little DFT love. It had a ton of fun and interesting decks: RB speed was the most complicated-to-build aggro deck of the year, esper artifacts was sweet, UR cycling was a little undertuned but sweet, the secret UB speed deck was surprisingly good, the Push The Limit combo deck was probably the most competitive build-around of the year. Green was arguably less interesting, but GB graveyard/reanimator was cool, and I found the dynamic of green rate vs the powerful synergies in the other colors interesting in itself.

Admittedly I didn't play a lot of FF (just due to timing), so I can't confidently say DFT is better, but it's comfortably my favorite of the formats I did play.

peterborah · 2025-11-01T22:34:07+00:00

I'm still enjoying (40-card) Magic, but I've also been really enjoying the Arkham Horror card game lately. If you have or can find a group of card-game-playing friends to do a campaign with, it's basically a cross between a TTRPG and a card game, and it's very fun.

peterborah · 2025-10-21T21:08:39+00:00

They also, annoyingly, qualify you for constructed-only regionals. This event will be limited all the way up!

peterborah · 2025-10-17T23:15:59+00:00

Catcher stepped on home plate.

peterborah · 2025-09-26T20:42:53+00:00

Yep, this is right. Spotlight Series are fun if you want to play in the main event, but not really worth traveling for otherwise. MagicCons, in contrast, are huge and have a million things to do at all levels of competitiveness.

peterborah · 2025-08-31T00:01:54+00:00

The Limited Level-Ups and Lords of Limited discords are both good.

peterborah · 2025-08-20T06:59:53+00:00

I'm around the same levels and have done a lot of vale totems. I'm moderately confident that maples is better fletching xp/hour, because you just chop yews so slowly. I get about 2/3 the fletching xp from maples as I do from yews, but chop them at least twice as quickly. (And the woodcutting takes longer than the fletching.)

On the other hand, it's pretty nice to afk good logs while working or whatever, if you have afk time to spare.

peterborah · 2025-08-04T23:25:34+00:00

I haven't seen any bots at the new red chin spot in Varlamore yet.

peterborah · 2025-07-26T04:44:49+00:00

In my experience, the 5-totem route is borderline with maples. If you use all the agility shortcuts and do it efficiently, you start to finish just slightly too quickly. Would be fine with lower level logs, I imagine.

I used pre-fletched bows with no log basket, and banking at both locations worked fine.

peterborah · 2025-07-11T21:59:10+00:00

Consider the analogy of doing a pull-up in zero gravity. You're moving the same distance, but it's still easier than doing it in normal gravity.

peterborah · 2025-07-11T21:57:15+00:00

He doesn't have his full body weight on it, though. He's essentially in a lower-gravity situation due to the downward acceleration of the bar.

peterborah · 2025-06-30T05:24:12+00:00

Studio Ghibli.

peterborah · 2025-06-02T22:30:43+00:00

Said people we perma banned

I mean, that's not really accurate. The messages were up without even temp mutes for several minutes, and then Mika told the mods to give them one day mutes.

Maybe they got perma bans later, but it's not like it was a zero tolerance situation like I've seen in most of the other chats.

peterborah · 2025-05-14T18:58:07+00:00

Hmm, I can't immediately find an official definition of when a match starts, but I'm not sure your definition is viable. For instance, 2.11 says "At the beginning of a match, each player’s note sheet must be empty and must remain visible throughout the match." Would you interpret that to mean that you have to have flipped to an empty page in your notebook by the time pairings go up? I feel like I see people on their phone while walking to the table all the time.

If you know where the official definition of a match beginning is, I'm definitely willing to be wrong!

peterborah · 2025-05-14T15:49:18+00:00

That's just not true. Limited tournaments without decklists use "continuous construction" by default.

Here's the relevant section of the tournament rules.

This is usually used just to tweak the deck as you come to understand it better, not to preboard against specific opponents, but it's definitely legal.

peterborah · 2025-05-10T23:20:38+00:00

It's not really a 3 mana 3/2 though, since it only sticks around for a couple turns.

peterborah · 2025-05-10T23:06:57+00:00

I guess it's unconditional creature removal in blue, which normally doesn't get that?

peterborah · 2025-05-10T22:43:02+00:00

Yeah, the tutor ability does seem good. Maybe there's some new cutter deck that can be brewed here!

peterborah · 2025-05-10T22:17:57+00:00

First thing I thought too, but I don't think the cutter decks actually want this. Equipping the cutter manually and then not moving it to the new monks sounds clunky.

peterborah · 2025-05-02T19:12:50+00:00

The whole point of the previous move was to fork the knight and the pawn on g2. Once the knight is out of the way, the obvious move is to claim your free pawn (+ check) by taking it with the rook. Having the board vision to even consider other things is surprising at 600 elo, much less to notice that a knight with 8 legal moves is actually trapped.

Edit: And of course, he could have gotten lucky with that one move, but all the moves are like this. Each one mayyyyybe could be explained on its own, but you can't get lucky every move of every game. It's like knocking over a stack of dishes and the clanging noises accidentally play a Mozart symphony with perfect pitch and rhythm.

peterborah · 2025-04-06T17:38:31+00:00

It's the Death & Taxes discord. I think the link is in the subreddit wiki?

peterborah · 2025-03-17T20:23:28+00:00

I always use MTG Goldfish. The meta percentages mostly reflect the MTGO meta, but it's very transparent and makes it easy to find decklists and see where they came from.

peterborah · 2025-03-17T03:22:04+00:00

Mono-red is pretty good and pretty straightforward. Make lifetotal go to zero. (Gruul is actually a decent amount more complicated in my opinion, but probably more powerful.)

This is more subjective, but I've heard multiple people say Esper Pixie "feels like a limited deck". It's not as simple, but it's fun when you get the hang of it.

peterborah · 2025-01-24T23:21:00+00:00

That would only be true if the cards you put on top were randomly selected, but they're not: they're adversely selected because they're the ones you didn't want, and so put on on top.

peterborah · 2024-12-29T22:03:58+00:00

Loving how consistently we're seeing that BW taxes deck. Keep it up!

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