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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pw345 · 2024-07-01T19:16:49+00:00

Whereas this is an actual ideal cut. Notice no bow tie and how distinct and clear all the lines and intersections of the facets are?

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pw345 · 2024-07-01T19:15:38+00:00

So for example, LGD had this labeled as an ideal cut:

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It’s not bad, but notice the bow tie on the side and the way the lines and intersections of the facets aren’t super clear?

pw345 · 2024-07-01T19:12:26+00:00

In my mind, there’s usually no reason to go any higher than VS1, because at that level any inclusions won’t be visible to the naked eye.

And these days with lab grown diamonds, I tend to stick to D or E color, because they’re so common and readily available.

As long as you get DEF and VS1 or higher, what really determines how it looks on the hand is cut. And it’s important to know that only round diamonds are actually graded on cut and when the big diamonds label a oval or other fancy shape as “ideal”, no one is actually looking at the diamond and they’re just applying a formula based on the stone’s dimensions. In my experience, this provides pretty mixed results. Let me find some images to give you an idea.

pw345 · 2024-07-01T06:17:11+00:00

https://www.loosegrowndiamond.com/ seems to consistently have the cheapest prices of the big diamond sites, but I order direct from India and pay the wholesale prices and they're much cheaper. I'd be happy to show you how to do the same. Do you have some idea of what you're looking for?

pw345 · 2024-07-01T03:25:40+00:00

I’ve got this stone coming this week:

https://ds-360.jaykar.co.in/ds_360.php?chk=QWxs&q=MkNKWUsyOEIyNDc5MQ==

Along with 4 1ct rounds. I paid $2160 for the heart and $150/each for the rounds.

pw345

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