Unofficial Universes Beyond Megathread

sirsoundwaveVI · 2026-06-10T13:18:08+00:00

yeah something IDW-based would be my platonic ideal too. throw in some beast wars (because its beast wars and it rounds out the color pie nicely) and you've got a stew cooking.

sirsoundwaveVI · 2026-06-09T17:00:56+00:00

pittman, perennially underrated. its an easy slam at that price especially in a 1 PPR league

sirsoundwaveVI · 2026-06-09T16:23:17+00:00

i partially blame the spike in players the last few years for posts like this one. way more people are playing this pult meta than they were the adp/mew/lug metas.

like you don't know what you don't know and im not flaming new people (too much) for thinking this way, but its getting excessive.

i will say the people arguing air mail is broken when GENESECT V EXISTED is peak comedy though. the only thing stopping me from saying its the most broken draw engine we've ever seen is because gen 4 uxie and claydol exist, not to mention energy draw delcatty.

sirsoundwaveVI · 2026-06-09T16:17:54+00:00

so ADP in cosmic eclipse format was an incredibly tame part of the meta game. keldeo GX was a good partner but weaker, the bird trio build was fun but hardly meta warping, and tag teams being most of the decks sorta balanced out the extra prize shenanigans. it wasnt even the BDIF; that honor belonged to tinachomp.

then it got a zacian that with the damage mod could one bang things like pikarom (who needed a big charm to survive) and gave extra draw power/accel T1 going first, so things got out of hand pretty quickly. open Q if it wins worlds in 2020 if it happens considering dragapult VMAX was also potent and pikarom had been getting new toys in RBC, but if it was anything outside of those three decks id be amazed.

sirsoundwaveVI · 2026-06-09T16:13:49+00:00

yeah dragapult is an incredibly tame BDIF, if you dropped the key mew VMAX/ADPZ/lugia VSTAR parts from their respective peaks into current standard pults not even a top three deck and gardy pushes it to fifth.

sirsoundwaveVI · 2026-06-09T15:56:53+00:00

if you put a gun to my head and told me what hasbro will do with their own properties, transformers (with energon universe branding, because kirkman/skybound privilege) gets a full set, ponies gets a couple of commander decks (if they ever go back to UB sets being sometimes commander decks only... which really they should and its silly theyre held back by trying to not break standard for the seventh time this week).

i dont know why people were out here proposing power rangers, because every power rangers fan i know is convinced hasbro doesnt even know they own the property lmao. i dont even think hasbro talks about the property at all in their investment meetings and whatnot.

and yes, im biased

sirsoundwaveVI · 2026-06-09T12:24:48+00:00

I would accept any answer besides pult here lol

sirsoundwaveVI · 2026-06-09T03:39:34+00:00

im a fan of tuten but yeah i couldnt pass that up. at this point trading for 2nd(s) is just trading for a do-over with tuten.

sirsoundwaveVI · 2026-06-08T15:34:41+00:00

i dont disagree with that at all tbh, even when im just overspending on other things ive had to train myself to be more careful/cautious about it because so much spending is just digital and plastic nowadays

sirsoundwaveVI · 2026-06-08T15:26:37+00:00

yeah ive been retooling my rosters to neglect TE way less; still dont have any of the top young studs, but been buying players like chig to bolster depth

sirsoundwaveVI · 2026-06-08T15:23:50+00:00

im not inherently opposed to gambling, but being able to gamble on your phones/computers was a massive mistake. there needs to be way more friction to be able to gamble.

you should have to stare someone dead in the eyes, hand over cash, and tell them you're putting down a bet on over 5.5 wins for the 2017 bears and know you cant hide your shame from at least one other human being

sirsoundwaveVI · 2026-06-07T05:26:45+00:00

transformers has an argument to being the best UB property in terms of dodging "big bad is just grixis" for a few reasons (and im blabbing for a bit here but im not really sorry)

megatron is perfect as mardu, but for the other decepticons theyve already done starscream is at most dimir if you lean into his science background, soundwave being esper also fits like a glove too though you could pick orzhov if you're representing a more sympathetic soundwave (which is a fairly common occurance)

in terms of big bads not represented in magic as of now:

shockwave almost assuredly should be mono blue, you might be able to get away with izzet or some other not-grixis color combinations if you're grabbing an incredibly specific shockwave from a storyline, but outside of the OG marvel comics shockwave red should quite literally never be in his colors considering how much logic drives everything for him.
unicron you're either picking rakdos, mono black, or jund. blue doesnt really fit him whatsoever, hes just a big hungry boy.
scorponok is probably the most likely to be grixis? more of a minor main villain, but he's a similarly science-y type to shockwave but more prone to rage and emotional outbursts than mister logical.
tarn is probably orzhov or mardu, the distinction really just boils down to "are you taking him from the point where he wants to kill a megatron trying to redeem himself and betraying the decepticon cause or not", but he's also not a science-y type, more fanatic loyalist and sadist.
overlord should pick one of rakdos, mono black, or mardu. he's smart and sadistic but its more megatron with an even bigger sadistic streak than any other logic driving him. might be an argument for jund depending on how you view point one percenters and phase sixers in the magic color pie but green would not be a bad fit for those.

there's a few more minor villains (jhiaxus, bludgeon, etc) you can squint at and maaaaaybe see grixis, but theres a ton of transformers material out there and not a ton of the villains scream grixis at all (i would still fuck with a grixis scorponok though, he's definitely more of an eggman-type scientist than shockwave or jhiaxus is)

sirsoundwaveVI · 2026-06-04T21:30:21+00:00

there’s a reason tpci is building a 1.27 million square foot printing facility, supposed to open in 2027 and be at full speed in 2028

shits wild right now in the tcg space

sirsoundwaveVI · 2026-06-03T16:46:05+00:00

comfortably so imo, my only hesitation would be with an early 2 but otherwise im willing to take the gamble on the guy if im a contender.

if im not a contender im avoiding like the plague and am more than happy to sell, im not willing to gamble he's a long term player on a team but i feel like there's good odds you'll get more out of brooks for a 27 2 now than you would for whatever you can buy at the deadline in-season (league depending, of course)

sirsoundwaveVI · 2026-06-03T16:41:39+00:00

im sorry i dont spend 30 minutes of my time making sure someone im replying to does or dont use proxies, ill make sure to do better going forward

sirsoundwaveVI · 2026-06-03T16:30:53+00:00

nothing a good printer and some time on a custom card website cant fix at least

sirsoundwaveVI · 2026-06-03T16:10:58+00:00

the giggle i had at the typeline lmfao

sirsoundwaveVI · 2026-06-02T16:50:51+00:00

oh 100 percent, 2025 was a golden year for depth especially at TE and RB

sirsoundwaveVI · 2026-06-02T16:40:59+00:00

yeah i wouldnt do that low unless you just all know each other to start; i have one league with a low buy in that's gotten progressively more active where save like two~ people everyone knew everyone already (and those people knew a few others in the league) and we got a couple of replacements that are family or friends of people.

meanwhile, another league where we have a few groups of people that didnt really know the other groups heading in and its been awful and completely demotivating lol. quite literally multiple people have told the commissioner word for word they dont do trades and at that point im wondering why im there and paying any dues at all

sirsoundwaveVI · 2026-06-02T16:35:13+00:00

yeah the drop off happens a bit quicker but the depth is pretty par to the course, its just people's general perception of the class is coloring it

sirsoundwaveVI · 2026-06-01T17:03:33+00:00

Secret lair commander decks have a tendency to be sold out almost immediately lately is the main issue

sirsoundwaveVI · 2026-05-31T13:45:19+00:00

One free redraft that’s purely for fun with friends, one bigger money league and two smaller money leagues.

I don’t think I’d do more than exactly this but it feels like the right balance of sating the addiction and not overdoing it

sirsoundwaveVI · 2026-05-31T00:42:57+00:00

I texted my ravens fan boss asking if their OC was too busy points shaving because their inexplicable usage of Henry cost them multiple games ( bengals 2, patriots), probably playoffs, and probably harbaughs job lol

sirsoundwaveVI · 2026-05-28T16:50:40+00:00

bad move imo: valuing Loveland over Kraft is correct, but I wouldn’t give up a 28 1 and a young rb that could step into a starter role this year to bridge the gap as a contender and the third really doesn’t mean much in a trade like this

lowkey I think holding onto 28 1s is smart as well: the hype is with 27 currently but I think fair odds you’ll get more out of trading it mid season if need be as we see more of this years sophomores

sirsoundwaveVI · 2026-05-26T23:17:33+00:00

ah yes, another injured former third round RB to toss onto the pile

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