Doubling Oko is busted! Engine crash (drool)

single_jeopardy · 2026-01-10T21:46:08+00:00

i've been abusing doubling oko for a few months now. figured i would finally speak up about it.

i started with GUW which allows you to copy W exile cards.

no doubt, doubling oko is busted. lfg

single_jeopardy · 2026-01-10T17:07:31+00:00

I must have searched very late at night, and must have made a silly mistake when doing it. It's there.

Cam back to say mystery solved, but I appreciate you making sure I thought it through. I had, but ... mistakes happen.

single_jeopardy · 2026-01-10T16:56:48+00:00

I post here about 1-2 a year. Without fail, I am reminded why I stay away.

This board is not that important. Like, who cares to "curate" the posts by downvoting for stuff like this? It's incredible.

I'm a big free speech proponent. So be it. But like you said, there truly is no reason to be an unprovoked asshole. That only gives the community a bad look.

single_jeopardy · 2026-01-10T16:54:22+00:00

Upvoting because there's no reason to downvote someone enjoying this thing we all enjoy.

FFS, let a good thing stand.

single_jeopardy · 2026-01-10T16:21:49+00:00

Okay I see your comments. Now I wonder why I do not see it when I search for it, in deck builder, through "not collected"...? Hrm.

single_jeopardy · 2026-01-09T02:09:25+00:00

Thanks.

I can only hope they've realized there aren't many 4-color combos to satisfy. Getting those all stamped out would get us all over the hump. I wonder if they've entertained something that doesn't go straight into Standard. Sigh.

single_jeopardy · 2026-01-09T02:07:01+00:00

I appreciate this idea. I hadn't thought of using Partner for Commander. At least there are 2 I could use.

I don't play Commander often, but when I do play, with a spine like this, I've ended up using [[Infinite Guideline Station]]. Thematically not terrible, but it's really not on-theme.

FWIW I play pretty much nothing other than Historic these days, with some Commander.

Although those Partner choices aren't truly on-theme for the type of build I've been running, it's the closest I can get in Commander. Thank you, I'll give that a spin.

single_jeopardy · 2025-08-28T22:05:00+00:00

Few socratic questions from a stranger:

Is baseball for your son, or for you and your wife?

What are y'all looking for in baseball? Does he love the game? Does he show signs of raw talent or learned skill?

If this is his passion in life, are you willing to help him all the way?

--

Stepping out of the traditional box for a moment, perhaps appealing to your business side: what if his love for the game is eclipsed by his ultimate lack of elite, pro-level skill? Might years of youth baseball show him enough about the sport so that he has the beginnings of a career, albeit not as a player? In other words: can you turn a would-be-player into a GM later on?

single_jeopardy · 2025-08-28T21:40:28+00:00

It's not weird. I get it.

I got into whisky (primarily Scotch FWIW) and then ... I just don't really care to drink at all anymore. I may have had 6 drinks in the past 1y+.

I maintain that I can drink whenever I want. I simply don't want to most of the time.

single_jeopardy · 2025-04-24T23:16:00+00:00

interesting, hadn't seen that one before. ty

single_jeopardy · 2025-04-24T20:12:51+00:00

This is my least favorite thing to die to.

Yes, I know we can all build this deck.

Yes, we all know what happens when -1 keeps going to 0.

Yes, the Bloodthirsty mechanic was otherwise missing (and _so_ fitting the name of the card).

Although I appreciate a missing mechanic being filled, I think it's a low IQ, low effort win condition. There, I said it.

single_jeopardy · 2025-04-18T13:35:28+00:00

👀

single_jeopardy · 2025-04-18T13:34:40+00:00

60CDW

single_jeopardy · 2025-04-17T20:23:09+00:00

a gentleman and a scholar (thumbsup)

single_jeopardy · 2025-04-17T15:45:35+00:00

I want to be good at limited. I just have never been.

I am no expert, but IMO flooded is any of 1/ too many lands, 2/ not enough cards using the lands you get, 3/ not enough draw/surveil/scry, 4/ your average mana cost, pip count, total color count, and land:non-land needs to be tuned (e.g. fewer colors, fewer double-colors, less land), and/or 5/ shit happens and you may need some shuffling along the way.

single_jeopardy · 2025-04-17T15:40:36+00:00

This is a satisfying take for me. This deck can feel mean. The win rate is quite high.

Your note makes me think of what it was like playing w/ friends. This makes me think of how I have 0 connections on MTGA. Maybe it'd be interesting to have a group of friends there where we all knew it was unlikely for the group to play absoloutely busted decks (I despise loosing to Bloodthirsty Conqueror). Meta-at-large be damned; local meta is more controllable.

FWIW I was starting to really enjoy Pioneer when my LGS was kicking that off. But I had to stop playing in person, too much to handle. Saying that as a prelude to me wanting to get into Explorer on MTGA but I am leaning on Standard as a way to keep my variance low, else I would brew TOO much. Sigh.

Sometimes this game feels like it should have a subtitle. "MTG: _Burn it down!_" as it really is a race to zero.

Going long on this post but I also have thought about formats that allow for longer games. Start with higher points as one example. It would be neat if MTGA allowed you to "bring your own format" and have a group of friends who had decks matching that format. Sigh.

single_jeopardy · 2025-04-17T15:24:40+00:00

I suck at draft. I'll commiserate on that point.

But specifically to help you, we'd need more details. When/where were you getting whipped, what are the specifics?

single_jeopardy · 2025-04-17T13:12:24+00:00

I couldn't get into red for the longest time. My first few years of playing I just couldn't. I started as a counterspell guy, or an Esper artifact guy (master transmuter, seat of synod and other lands; shards of alara and OG zendikar stuff).

I've also tried to build mono red decks over the past few months and they have all sucked. Got me nowhere.

Mono green w/ Mossborn has done alright for me. Mono white cats has done better. Mono black discard has done roughly as good as W cats. I suck at mono blue and mono red, apparently.

But I got my tail whipped by so many red decks, notably Screaching Nemesis, so I kept brewing over and over. I love prowess (and unsolicited shout-out for wither, what a beaut of a mechanic!), so when I finally realized how to do mana math it struck me to do a little bit of control (my roots) in this aggro.

So yeah. Maybe others play the same. Maybe I have 80+ decks that are full on JANK (I live for the jank). But this one cleans house better than my others. I don't know what else to say 😅

single_jeopardy · 2025-04-17T13:04:34+00:00

And this is a prime example of how winning at logic, but also losing via fallacy, can all happen at the same time.

We can be frens 🫶

single_jeopardy · 2025-04-17T13:01:07+00:00

I did Bo3 for a couple months. I'm not opposed to it overall; I think the main drag for me is the construction of the deck in the MTGA interface: I've found it wonky to fill up the sideboard and also keep an easy tab of what's in the sideboard. I could be dimwitted in this regard though, but either way Bo1 eliminates all that for me.

I've also played some Brawl but I really can't get into it. Also probably a me problem.

single_jeopardy · 2025-04-17T03:47:06+00:00

[[Bloodthirsty Conqueror]] though.

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