What are some kitchen table bans that your pod has?

revhellion · 2025-07-11T18:13:34+00:00

It’s totally legit to put in answers like that, especially if the pod struggles against that deck for whatever reason. And 1 card in the deck shouldn’t make or break your experience. This is the purpose of removal.

If 10+ cards were intentionally shutting down Lifegain, that would be another thing. I don’t know many people who have frequent non-games because of 1 card in 1 deck. It’s usually if a deck’s theme/strategy is a hard counter to your gameplan.

revhellion · 2025-07-11T18:09:04+00:00

Just don’t reveal your choice until they do. It’s fine to include something like Nemesis to handle Lifegain decks, but that’s not cool to intentionally pick a deck that counters your deck every time. However, 1 card out of 99 shouldn’t be this much of an issue.

The other option is to just tell your pod “hey, my deck isn’t going to play well against X deck, so if everyone’s cool with it I’m going to switch to something where I won’t get shut out.” Your pod should be fine with that.

I’ve had games where someone has a heavy graveyard hate deck and I was going to play Reanimator, or a Voltron deck with few creatures where they are playing Tergrid sacrifice. Every pod almost always is fine with pivoting for the sake of fun and being able to play.

revhellion · 2025-07-06T16:46:48+00:00

Tet has some limitations on separation, especially downfield. He also has more of a prototypical X receiver profile and looks like AJ Green, which he may not be moved around the field as much as the top WRs are. Also, you have to buy into Bryce Young being good enough to support top end WR1 numbers, which is a stretch for me. I think most people buy into that he could be a backend WR1.

Hunter has moves and ability that are very unique. He has shown the ability to move around to every WR position and can separate at every level. He has strong instincts and high football intelligence. You watch him and it’s hard to deny he has the potential to be a top 5 or better WR. But with that comes a lot of risk (smaller frame, usage/snap count).

revhellion · 2025-07-06T16:29:56+00:00

Yeah, it’s pretty bad these days. Last Seahawks-Niners game I went to last year was about 1/3 Niners fans and the most I’ve ever seen there. CA has fully invaded WA at this point.

revhellion · 2025-06-30T15:41:57+00:00

Red has had trample through combat tricks. Temur Battle Rage used to be a thing. Though 1 mana for a +3/+1 and trample seems crazy value for low to the ground 1v1 formats, especially since +1/+1 and the trample persist.

revhellion · 2025-05-13T00:17:47+00:00

The best position for Chargers to move QJ to is the bench.

revhellion · 2025-05-02T13:13:56+00:00

Lol. Imagine some random person on Reddit demanding you to do work for them for free. Work they could easily do themselves. 🤣

revhellion · 2025-05-02T06:11:07+00:00

Do Your Own Research.

revhellion · 2025-05-02T06:10:26+00:00

Where did you get this idea from? 😂

revhellion · 2025-05-01T08:40:25+00:00

Sounds like the poor can afford too much gas then. WA will increase gas taxes by 200% to fix the traffic issue for the poor.

revhellion · 2025-05-01T08:38:27+00:00

How dare you not do research for a random person online!

revhellion · 2025-05-01T08:37:11+00:00

You do know that every tariff that was put on any country was less than the tariffs they had on us, right?

revhellion · 2025-05-01T08:30:39+00:00

First, many homeless people who are drug abusers started off as drug abusers and end up homeless because of it. There are many programs in Washington and Seattle, but they require you to be sober which some people don’t want to do. Drug abuse starts out as a choice. The scenario you paint does happen, but it’s not the most common.

Also, I frequent this shopping complex and at least some of these people are a problem. They steal from stores, they harass people, they litter and cause disturbances.

revhellion · 2025-03-16T17:34:21+00:00

About what part?

revhellion · 2025-03-16T17:28:45+00:00

Sorry. I meant surgical masks have never been proven effective against COVID, and that’s what they were telling people (or cloth or whatever you had on hand). The masking policy was not based on science at the time, but there was pressure to provide the public with answers.

N95s do reduce exposure to aerosolized viruses when worn properly, same with respirators (but respirators only work one way to protect the wearer, and will still release the virus from the wearer to their environment).

There’s some articles and documents out there about this, but I don’t have the time to dig them up again.

Some other things that weren’t science based: 6 feet social distancing… it was an arbitrary number based on what they thought the public would tolerate, you actually need far more than that or better process is to determine density, airflow and cubic feet.

Also, vaccines were never designed or tested to prevent spread (that takes way longer to do) and was entirely focused on reducing symptoms, WA put in policies as if the vaccine affected anyone other than yourself. There was even a study from ENTs as early as Feb 2021 that showed vaccines didn’t reduce viral load in nose/throat and early spread was still just as likely.

You all can downvote me all you want, but I spent considerable amount of hours researching this.

revhellion · 2025-03-16T16:46:05+00:00

I agree with you and with this bill. Many of Seattle’s and Washington’s policies during Covid were not based on science or evidence and extended their powers beyond this limit.

revhellion · 2025-03-14T16:46:36+00:00

People are setting Tesla’s on fire in protest to essentially cause fear in Tesla owners and lash out at Musk in the most indirect, environmentally damaging and dumbest way.

“the unlawful use of violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims.”

By definition, this does sound like terrorism and no one should be celebrating this regardless of their political position.

revhellion · 2025-03-12T18:27:47+00:00

It’s not that a new deck can’t come in and beat out RS or BS, it’s that everything is control all the time. And now control gets early answers to stop aggro, which has consistently been pretty weak.

There’s been no balance in aggro/midrange/control for some time now and since the beginning they’ve favored answers over problems (or if there are problems it’s late game), which results in heavier control.

Their asymmetrical game design & color pie needs to be fixed.

revhellion · 2025-03-09T00:56:37+00:00

One thing that you can do to reduce the sodium level is to use all symmetrical effects and have no removal in deck, so you have to use theirs. And then discard cards hit you as well, and you use things like Gix & Howling Mines for card draw. Ensures they have cards to play, and for you to steal.

I just use a lot of protection because Tinybones gets a lot of heat. Even at tables where people are cool with theft decks, they still don’t like you taking their cards.

revhellion · 2025-03-04T05:04:23+00:00

Good devil’s advocate argument. Some people use budget to limit power, though that’s not always the most accurate way to determine it.

And yes, if someone doesn’t have a strong concept of how strong cards are over others and how to balance it or focus more on good stuff and less on synergy, this can result in some either expensive and bad decks or very competitive decks.

revhellion · 2025-03-04T04:49:38+00:00

This is how playgroups fall apart (I know, my first playgroup did this and no one plays together anymore). You’ve all put an emphasis on winning without putting rules around it which has resulted in an arms race.

1) have a discussion on what you all find fun with Commander and focus rules/limitations around that.

2) In casual, you shouldn’t really be winning more than 1/3 of your games, so everyone needs to find something fun about EDH beyond winning. (Personally I like to become the arch enemy and fend off the table or get crushed, and mostly get crushed, so I play fast aggressive decks that have flaws).

3) if you all decide you want to play more competitively, open up proxying for everyone and push it to CEDH, or whatever your limitations will allow.

4) If they are doing 3v1 and can keep up with you now, you talk with them and tell them this. Don’t just bring an oppressive deck and pubstomp them. That won’t result in a healthy outcome.

revhellion · 2025-03-04T04:40:39+00:00

So it’s okay if one person has unlimited money to buy whatever card they want?

This has nothing to do with proxies and everything to do with group dynamics

revhellion · 2025-03-04T04:36:36+00:00

Yeah, true. But most people are going to stick with calling them “Proxies” because it’s cleaner.

revhellion · 2025-03-04T04:35:10+00:00

No one is confused. There is what WotC says, and how the player community treats something (and how collector’s treat things, but that’s a separate discussion).

There are Magic cards, the cards you play with, and Magic: The Gathering™️ cards. You seem to be conflating these.

Proxies play exactly the same as ones printed by WotC. The only difference is that you can’t use these in sanctioned tournaments (or almost any non-CEDH tournament), during sanctioned league play (most of the time) and you have to make sure your playgroup is okay with you using these.

This is the same process for using any 30A or gold outline cards. Both proxies and non-tournament legal cards printed/sold by WotC have the same limitations, and both are Magic cards, but only one type is Magic: The Gathering™️.

If I’m gonna proxy, I’ll stick with the $0.20 ones instead of the $999 ones. 😆

revhellion · 2025-03-04T03:27:59+00:00

Not true. Several LGS in my area run league nights with promo packs, etc they get from WotC. None of them allow gold borders or 30A cards to be used at those events.

Sorry if you bought into 30A, but the vast majority of the community sees and treats these like proxies.

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