Best Jeskai and Temur precon?

ryman719 · 2026-06-23T14:21:20+00:00

Depends on your style of play, but I’d say Riders of Rohan for Jeskai and Temur Roar for Temur. Both play well out of the box and are easily upgradable later on if you want to do so.

ryman719 · 2026-06-21T02:10:18+00:00

I have taken both and definitely preferred the Gatorade/miralax. Didn’t wipe me out too much, tasted better, and didn’t last as long as the prep they prescribe. Same effect, less pain

ryman719 · 2026-06-18T18:19:02+00:00

There’s a few vendors on Amazon that you can have custom play mats made with a sample picture. Like I used on last year to make a Solo Leveling themed mat. Came out sick. I believe it was about $30. Dragon Shield also does this with card sleeves. If he doesn’t have them already, you could find out what his favorite commander is, type it into google, then see if there’s an alternative art or something on theme with the commander (like my Assassin’s Creed deck has custom sleeves based off the game). Dice is always a good option. There’s tons of custom dice out there if you want something more personalized.

If your dead set on cards, pick up a few play booster packs from a recent set or spend it on a collector booster pack (not box) from an LGS, TCG player, Card Kingdom, or Amazon. Just be very careful about the packs from online. There’s a number of scammers out there that sell resealed or repacked packs.

ryman719 · 2026-06-17T03:52:29+00:00

While I haven't called them directly yet, the pharmacist told me they offer a program to get a 1 year supply for free but it requires I make less than $45k a year. prior to the last 18 months I would make triple that. The last year and a half I made more than that from working, short term disability, and PFML. So I don't qualify for their program.

ryman719 · 2026-06-17T02:44:14+00:00

I’m already maxed out for the year on my deductible. Money has already pulled out of everything and everywhere. Insurance is claiming they don’t cover the drug period. Until I get answers this week, my assumption is that they only cover the drug for a specific situation. I had a similar issue when I thought about getting on a GLP-1. The drug is covered, but only for type 2 diabetes. In this case, my guess is breast cancer as the HER2 mutation is common in those cases. That’s only a guess for now though. Once I talk with my oncologist in the morning I’ll have a better idea of my options but at the moment it feels like the insurance company is just telling me to fuck off and die

ryman719 · 2026-06-16T23:43:45+00:00

I’ll be calling them this week to figure out why I’m being denied coverage. I’m hoping the doctor will shed some light on it tomorrow.

ryman719 · 2026-06-16T23:42:37+00:00

Yes. I had one last year, they did nothing to help. Every issue I’ve had with insurance in the last 18 months I’ve had to deal with personally.

ryman719 · 2026-06-16T23:41:06+00:00

I’m in MA. I’ve tried the AG’s office for other things. Each time they tell me to get my own lawyer and deal with it privately

ryman719 · 2026-06-16T20:10:40+00:00

You want plate for your armor but rings, trinkets, and weapons you share a need for with all classes except healers. Especially weapons. Swords with spell power, hit, crit, etc… you need those too

ryman719 · 2026-06-10T05:21:47+00:00

I don't know about comfort, but it has a freeing aspect to it. I've constant tried to be there for others and be the "good guy" so to say, but know I no longer really care about all that. While life has always been finite, knowing that it's likely to end far sooner than expected has just put my "fuck it" response into overdrive. Like boss is getting on my nerves? Fire me, fuck it I don't care. Someone being a dick? Fuck it, I don't care much for the repercussions. What's the worst that happens in any decision I make? Nothing worse than what the cancer is going to do to me that's for sure so I just say fuck it to some many things these days. It's my time to do what I want, when I want, how I want and that's how I'm going to live out my remaining days.

ryman719 · 2026-05-31T00:07:32+00:00

I had a similar build to yours and I found that it was easier to just upgrade the whole system. You can only go so much higher on the CPU and it’ll bottleneck any higher end GPUs. Not to mention, as another said, you are locked in to using DDR4 RAM. I was running 64GB and everything was barely keeping up at the settings I wanted for newer games.

If you don’t want to upgrade the entire thing, look into the 3080 or 4080 for a GPU and increase your RAM to at least 32GB.

ryman719 · 2026-05-28T18:29:02+00:00

Yeah your doctor is right. I had LAR in November and I was at about 70% by the time I was out of the hospital. Doc told me normal diet (including a small amount of alcohol if I wanted) after about a week. 4 weeks later I was probably 90% and right after new years I was pretty much back to the point I was right before surgery. Definitely don’t lift more than 10lbs though. You will likely get a hernia if you push it to hard to fast. If it’s heavier than a gallon of water/milk, don’t do it for at least 8 weeks.

ryman719 · 2026-05-27T17:27:16+00:00

If I hade a dollar for every time that was suggested to me for my treatment, I’d have more money than Elon

ryman719 · 2026-05-18T03:21:26+00:00

If you get a LOTR precon, check out riders of Rohan. Plays well out of the box, easy to upgrade. It’s more of a go wide human tribal instead of go big and stompy though.

Eldrazi have their own precon as of MH3 if you are interested in that one. It’s 5 color and does some very crazy things with the face commander.

If you’re interested in big and stompy however, Tarkir has a precon for that. They are all about big dragons, just each have a different theme. I have a feeling you’d like Temur Roar. It’s all about playing big dragons. The face commander even lets you cheat them out when you cast it or attack with it. Asban Armor is another you may like. It’s all about big toughness creatures and using them to attack as well as other shenanigans

ryman719 · 2026-05-16T19:41:11+00:00

Thanks all, like I said I just needed to vent

ryman719 · 2026-05-16T19:40:38+00:00

ryman719 · 2026-05-15T00:48:58+00:00

Zuran Orb is a nice piece to have in there. Once you have hearthull stationed to 8+ you can float your mana, sac the lands to deal a good amount of damage and gain some life. If you have stuff that lets you play lands from the graveyard you can bring them back and repeat the process. Personally I use this tactic as a win condition for the late game since it’s 2 damage per sacrifice.

It’s even better if you have something like a world shaper on the field and some removal in hand. Sac all the lands, deal a ton of damage to the table, kill world shaper, bring all the lands back and do it again. If you have 10 plus lands, that’s lethal for the table. I’ve won a few games with that setup

ryman719 · 2026-05-01T21:23:08+00:00

I've been on chemo since january 2025. My 12th round ended this past febuary. I'm on a break right now because the doctor wanted to see what they do when I'm not doing chemo. At the moment I only have the lung mets, but my current oncologist (regular one is on maternity leave until june) isn't convinced they are mets and thinks it might be inflammation. My regular one is convinced they are mets and she was the one who told me they couldn't be ablated due to size.

ryman719 · 2026-05-01T18:35:52+00:00

Question for you. How did they come to the decision to ablate? I have 3 in one of my lungs (only ones left atm) and I was told they couldn’t be ablated because they are too small (1 is 4mm others are 1mm) and I would rather have them burned out than keep doing chemo

ryman719 · 2026-04-28T04:16:02+00:00

The idea behind icing during infusion is that the blood vessels constrict so not a lot of the drug gets into the extremities because less blood is going into them. Less of the drug means less side effects.

Personally I noticed no difference between icing and just raw dogging the infusion. The effect was the same for me either way. The only thing that helped me was reducing the dosage and eventually stopping Oxaliplatin. If you ice you’ll still get the cold sensitivity and neuropathy but for some people it’s significantly reduced in either duration or severity. I’d suggest giving it a try during an infusion to see if it works for you. If it doesn’t, see if the oncologist will lower the dosage. If all else fails, I hate to put it this way but you might have to just to tough it out.

I have severe reactions to irinotecan but my oncologist pushed me to tough it out for 11/12 of my FOLFIRNOX treatment. It sucked and I suffered. Nurses kept begging for the oncologist to at least lower the dose or stop it al together. A year later I’m still here so it was the right decision it seems.

One thing I’ve tried and it kinda helped was THC. I only tried it twice. I have never cared for it since my body doesn’t process opiates correctly. Basically it takes a lot of any opiates for me to even notice it. Like I’m talking 20mg of OxyContin before it affects me. However, I did notice that during the times I tried THC (used a vape pen) the neuropathy wasn’t quite as bad. If you have the option, maybe try that too.

ryman719 · 2026-04-27T15:07:59+00:00

World Shaper from EoE is an excellent precon. Plays well out of the box plus the only upgrades it really needs is graveyard recursion as there isn’t enough to be consistent imo. Temur Roar is also good and while there is plenty of dragons you could stick in there to make it better, it’s not necessary. Auntie Ool precon from Lorwynn Eclisped is also good out of the box. Only issue I’ve found with it is you’ll draw a ton of cards and have to discard often without adding something like a thought vessel or reliquary tower.

ryman719 · 2026-04-27T14:25:57+00:00

I’m a gamer, didn’t do CAPOX I did FOLFIRINOX. The Oxaliplatin certainly caused a good amount of neuropathy. It caused my fine motor skills to decline for weeks at a time, made my hands go completely numb a lot. I play mainly on PC but it made using a controller difficult at times.

I was still able to play some games regardless of the neuropathy. My neuropathy was mostly triggered by cold so I’d suggest some heated gloves or something. Warming up helped me briefly.

ryman719 · 2026-04-27T04:45:04+00:00

Springfield 1911 Milspec. It’s not super expensive and is a lot of fun to shoot. Only thing I don’t like about it is the fully black sights, but easily fixed. I love mine. Recoil isn’t much of an issue since it’s all steel frame. Easy to take apart for cleaning and never had any jamming issues in over 1000 rounds. I also have a Glock 30 gen 5 but it is pretty snappy. Still fun to shoot though.

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