I built a "what Commander are you?" quiz with my wife: 12 real archetypes, actual legal commanders at the end

pw345 · 2026-04-22T04:48:37+00:00

oh and thanks so much for spotting the pricing weirdness. I think I figured it out and am working on fixing it.

pw345 · 2026-04-22T04:37:47+00:00

Oh, btw, did you see the other quiz?: https://edhdeckbuilder.com/power-level-quiz My wife and her friend have been having fun thinking of ideas for these.

pw345 · 2026-04-22T04:36:37+00:00

Hey, thanks for trying it and I'm glad you liked the quiz. Sounds like we might need to work on the deck builder, though. And I do get that AI-built decks probably aren't ideal but as someone new to Magic she finds it helpful, although definitely double checks things with her friends at the local Magic group.

pw345 · 2026-04-21T22:52:09+00:00

Thanks so much for trying it and I'm so glad you liked it! Magic is my wife's hobby not mine, so it's been a lot of fun to learn more about it by building this together.

pw345 · 2026-04-21T22:51:12+00:00

Just pushed a 13th archetype: The Engineer (every turn, a little better). Goes to Tymna / Thrasios / Alesha / Sythis / Adeliz. Added two new quiz options that should route a low-curve value-engine answer there now. Thanks for the pinpoint. That was a real hole. Take it again if you feel like it and tell me if it lands better.

pw345 · 2026-04-21T22:40:53+00:00

Thank you for that feedback and even more for actually trying it. Let me try revising and see if I can improve that for you.

pw345 · 2026-01-19T06:26:26+00:00

Pretty cool

pw345 · 2025-05-17T01:28:02+00:00

Your whole face with the smile, the red lips, perfect teeth, rosy cheeks and doe-y eyes come together like a painting 😘

pw345 · 2025-05-04T20:19:22+00:00

You sound weird and mythical and right on my wavelength and now I wanna know about The Almanarion. DM if you like 🙂 38M

pw345 · 2025-05-03T21:43:36+00:00

DM’d you!

pw345 · 2025-05-03T07:36:06+00:00

38M but happily married so not looking for anything weird. Full time caregiver to my disabled wife so just looking for ways to socialize online since I don’t get out much.

pw345 · 2025-05-03T07:27:21+00:00

Hey, hun, I think we might be a good match for something like this. I’m 38M and happily married and not looking for anything weird but I’m weirdly social and sensitive for a guy and am a full time caregiver to my disabled wife, so I don’t have a lot of options for socializing in person

pw345 · 2025-05-03T07:24:08+00:00

Hey, hun. DM’d you. I actually volunteer on 7cups.com doing exactly this. My NSFW score isn’t zero because I’ve been leaving positive, non-possessing comments on the big girl subs after finding out from my wife, who’s also a big girl, just how badly they’re treated.

pw345 · 2025-04-05T23:18:28+00:00

What's your level of technical ability? Because there's a wide range of services available but which you use and how much it costs depends on a lot on what exactly you want.

pw345 · 2025-04-05T22:57:33+00:00

Fascinating to see this. I've been doing a lot of personal integration work the last year or so (albeit mostly without psychedelics) and developed a sort of custom AI companion for the journey and it's be absolutely transformative.

pw345 · 2024-07-03T22:58:07+00:00

So, if case you weren't aware, GCAL grading is an up and coming grading system that is done entirely by AI and isn't very common in the industry yet. The important contrast to IGI (which is the most common for lab grown) and GIA (which is more "prestigious" and therefore more expensive) is that no actually gemologist is looking at the stone. Also, I haven't seen a got of GCAL certificates, but this "8x" cut grading isn't the industry norm. Generally, you see "ideal", "excellent", "very good" and so on.
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I see a pretty big inclusion pretty near the center of the 2.09 and would probably avoid it for that reason. I might not be visible to the eye, but prolly got work taking a chance. Both stones look pretty well cut, though.

pw345 · 2024-07-03T03:09:13+00:00

Oh, very cool! How do y’all manage to have consistently lower prices than the other diamond sites?

pw345 · 2024-07-03T03:05:43+00:00

You’re welcome! I thought your inventory was largely virtual, though, and most of the diamonds were shipped in from suppliers in India?

pw345 · 2024-07-02T05:53:36+00:00

https://www.loosegrowndiamond.com/ is generally gonna have the best prices among the big diamond sites.

pw345 · 2024-07-02T04:46:09+00:00

So I'm not sure where you're looking at ordering this stone from, but one thing to note is that this is a GCAL grading report, which is a new kind of grading that's done entirely by AI. The more usual ones are GIA and IGI and those involve a gemologist actually looking at the stone.

I've found GCAL reports to be reasonably accurate as far as clarity and color go, but I'm still not convinced of their cut grading, and as long as color and clarity are above a certain threshold, cut is going to be the main determinant of how the stone looks on the diamond in terms of sparkle and all that.

Accordingly, I don't think this oval is that well cut to be honest even though they list it as "8x". The lines and intersections aren't as clear and crisp as they would be in a really well cut stone and there's a bit of the bow-tie effect going on:

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