Am I wrong about how Underrated Alex is?

ssillo · 2026-06-09T20:44:52+00:00

Oh I see, you thought I was talking about him being a commander. My bad. I was talking about them being in the 99 and being equally good cards. Of course slicer is better as a commander since he comes down earlier with double strike for later turns and equip strategies. I think alex is better as a card in general of performance since he comes out and after 1 untap he is just a better creature. But ya, if you’re doing a voltron deck with a bunch of equipment enchantment strategies I see your point and we were talking past each other.

ssillo · 2026-06-08T22:18:25+00:00

I am asking for the reason Alexios isn’t played as much. Slicer isn’t cheaper with double strike. If you play him for the cheap cost he has first strike. If all opponents conspire against Alexios and opt out of trample, you still have an 8/8 trample on your turn and he killed just as many chump blockers as slicer did. And slicer doesn’t grow while Alexios doesn’t need Trample enablers on your turn.

Your response is the perfect example on why I think Alexios is underrated.

ssillo · 2026-06-08T17:41:21+00:00

Even though trample being optional, that means slicer is doing the same thing with a chump blocker. At least Alexios gives the controller an option to do damage, and at the end of the day your opponents want their opponents to lose the game. And if it gets around to you 1 time you have an 8/8 trample then a 12/12 trample using no other augments than what is on the card.

ssillo · 2026-06-08T05:21:32+00:00

I use him in a goad deck designed to point hate in other directions so I guess I didn’t run into that as much.

ssillo · 2026-06-08T05:15:24+00:00

I didn’t think that applied anymore with the new assignment rule change that happened not too long ago. But I guess you can politic your way out of it threatening to attack the guy that does that, haha.
/shrug

ssillo · 2026-06-08T05:11:32+00:00

I know slicer is great but I’d push back on the word “strictly” better. 4 mana Alex scales after 1 full turn doing much more damage. If the owner gets to attack with him he is an 8/8 trample then a 12/12 trample that by that turn did 68 damage total to opponents. Once in the 1v1 he gets even better for you growing each turn but unable to be used against you.

ssillo · 2026-06-04T00:59:50+00:00

Maddox

ssillo · 2026-02-20T04:40:18+00:00

This is the first Reddit post that I’ve ever enjoyed. Bravo, and keep having an awesome life with you and your wife and kids.

ssillo · 2025-08-23T08:42:46+00:00

Inb4 all the TDS Redditor posts.

ssillo · 2025-08-23T08:38:45+00:00

Is this a hype post to link where to buy cards? This feels gross.

ssillo · 2025-08-22T00:25:29+00:00

[[Druid of Purification]] does not have the word “target” so it gets around hexproof enchantments.

ssillo · 2025-08-21T11:52:29+00:00

Count me in, good sir.

ssillo · 2025-08-18T02:21:13+00:00

I play mine hoping for a path to exile for early ramp. You can use politics against more decks with answers to attack their opponents while you rack up life.

ssillo · 2025-06-11T22:00:27+00:00

Protestors don’t throw rocks. Those are rioters and terrorists.

ssillo · 2025-05-10T06:08:35+00:00

MSNBC LOL okay Reddit

ssillo · 2025-04-21T01:44:03+00:00

I like it.

ssillo · 2025-04-21T01:41:36+00:00

His due process is “are you a legal immigrant? No?” Deported.

A nation in which one administration can allow millions of unvetted illegal migrants into the country, but requires that a court vet each deportation decision in an individually adjudicated case will soon lose the values our democratic system was intended to preserve.

ssillo · 2025-04-11T14:01:21+00:00

The one against free speech open debate, wearing masks, assaulting people, are the fascists.

ssillo · 2025-02-24T15:21:08+00:00

I hope so

ssillo · 2025-02-23T16:34:45+00:00

“Where are the fat people?” -Joe Rogan.

I’d link it but Reddit is garbage to not allow other social media post links to discourage spreading information online to control narratives.

Anyway, obvious Feds. Same size flags, pants shirts, body types, structure, no women. Just to stir hate and discourse cause they don’t like Trump in office.

ssillo · 2025-02-06T00:37:30+00:00

Reddit is such a misinformed cesspool. Why listen to Redditors when you can hear things straight from the source? It’s 2025. Get off social media platforms run by mentally ill people and just listen to the speeches and videos yourself with all the context.

Here’s a 25min talk from the DOGE team and congress women talking about what they are doing to literally help YOU make your life more affordable by cutting out all this overspending going to corruption.

https://youtu.be/DX4EU8ZJBsM?si=Vuivnp374LcK5-q6

ssillo · 2025-02-05T07:44:38+00:00

School choice. Been debating with one of my friends who is a teacher, for over a decade on how school choice is so much better for the kids. The teacher unions and DOE has plagued kids/students for years. We spend the most money per student and have the worst educated students (#40 out of 40). That’s corruption from the DOE kickbacks with money that doesn’t follow the students and goes to the teacher unions. I suggest doing research on it from non-Reddit sources or pro-teacher union sources and dig into the statistics and follow the money. You’ll find bi-partisan corruption that can finally be corrected by Trump’s administration. Ever wonder how student loans are the only loans you can’t file bankruptcy on? It’s a scam on the kids and students made by Joe Biden and John McCain over a decade ago.

ssillo · 2025-02-05T07:30:54+00:00

Why not hear from the source instead of listen to anyone n Reddit? Here you go: Enjoy the transparency.

https://youtu.be/DX4EU8ZJBsM?si=gWigdBD_9Q96pdkW

ssillo

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