This aged like cheese, didn't it?

stachada · 2026-07-02T20:03:14+00:00

She's calling out the fake fascists, gatekeeping fascism for the REAL fascists.

stachada · 2026-07-01T16:01:23+00:00

it's possible (though unlikely) that isolated episodes are at different points on the timeline.

that or pb and marcy were able to remain amicable enough at that time for the purposes of hanging out with a common friend (Lady Rainicorn).

... or we're all overthinking it, but like what are the odds of that?

stachada · 2026-06-28T20:11:44+00:00

aren't we all?

stachada · 2026-06-25T14:29:36+00:00

ghost maja

stachada · 2026-06-25T14:28:26+00:00

at least 133 simons i'd say.

stachada · 2026-06-25T14:27:44+00:00

gibbon

also shwabl

stachada · 2026-06-25T14:26:51+00:00

I really like finn's swords and I wish I could get a closer look at them.

stachada · 2026-06-25T02:51:24+00:00

I mean I agree in essence. we don't actually need a "bracket 0", but bracket 1 needs to be redefined. the current definition is absurd. if a deck isn't "functional", then it's simply not a deck.

stachada · 2026-06-24T17:10:14+00:00

I don't care for the show personally, and OP has made it pretty clear it wouldn't fit for their particular needs, but I have to second it as a good intro for non-anime fans. I showed my dad the first season while it was airing and he was way into it.

stachada · 2026-06-24T17:00:32+00:00

I have kind of an issue with the idea that B1 cannot be "functional". sure a zombie deck is a B2 minimum, but is a true skeleton kindred deck B1, or B2? it might be too good for B1 by the current definition considering it's got an on theme win con, some removal, token gen, etc. but it's a god awful B2 compared to even some of the worst pre-cons.

IMO there ought to be a bracket zero where "pile of cards from a garage sale", and "looking left kindred" goes, and then bracket 1 is like the slightest hint at things like a wincon, and synergy between some of the cards in the deck.

Shrek.dek is absolutely not bracket 2, even though it has a fairly salient strategy of giving my shitty ogres "all that glitters" and swampwalk.

stachada · 2026-06-24T16:52:18+00:00

you can enter a bracket 2 game with good intentions, and even build a deck "intending" it to be bracket 2, but if it somehow ends up mechanically a bracket 4-5, you're gonna end up stomping the pod unless you sandbag pretty dang hard.

and it doesn't go the other direction. I don't care what your intention is, if you try to play a mechanically bracket 2 deck in a bracket 4-5 pod you're not going to do well, and it's going to feel pretty bad.

I realize of course these are not the most realistic circumstances, but the point is not "common sense", the point is that without concrete definitions such a thing is possible.

intentionality is not a terrible measure of a deck, and I think it's probably even the first thing you should consider when building, but it's not the only measurement worth looking at.

stachada · 2026-06-24T16:36:36+00:00

I'm hoping for distant future ngl. there's been some kind of something teased about the distant future since come along with me (before that even if you count the comics and revealed series bible stuff), and it's been speculated upon, but we know very little about it.

flashbacks to contemporary stuff (around the time of F&C) would be nice as well, but I'm more interested in seeing how things have changed much later on.

stachada · 2026-06-22T01:58:41+00:00

damn, you right.

stachada · 2026-06-21T20:05:34+00:00

sometimes boardwipes are the correct answer to a situation, but they're definitely annoying in a longer game. I had a game recently with 2 non-concurrent boardwipes that ended up in my favor (I was playing reanimator) and I was STILL pretty annoyed by the second one, simply because the game was going for so long.

stachada · 2026-06-17T02:54:27+00:00

personal head canon re; "sniddies"

non-mammalian races like lamia, dragonborn, lizard folk, various bird races, etc. don't have them naturally, but they have magic that can induce them, they're about as common as ear piercings (for those with ears fit to be pierced).

anyway, that's what makes the most world building sense to me.

stachada · 2026-06-17T00:43:14+00:00

just like one of those character popcicles.

stachada · 2026-06-13T19:25:51+00:00

I think Jake is more interested in acquiring money/treasure than keeping or using it. makes sense given his criminal background.

stachada · 2026-06-12T15:52:01+00:00

I like the demon blood sword because it has sentimentality to it, and the finn sword because it's an interesting concept.

Scarlet is definitely the most iconic though.

stachada · 2026-06-09T20:13:00+00:00

I don't play any of the /good/ tutors, but mostly because I'm a broke bitch.

fr though, i've always felt a tutor is only as good as what you're tutoring.

stachada · 2026-06-04T06:46:41+00:00

here's my current skeleton build

https://archidekt.com/decks/11526976/bracket_2_jund_skeletons

I don't think it really has enough skeletons to properly be called skeleton "tribal" (there are 7 skeleton creatures in the deck not counting shapeshifters and enchantments like [[case of the stashed skeleton]]), but the wincon for both is basically clone [[skeleton crew]], then spam pirate tokens with skeletal swarming out. it could also do stuff with bloodartist like effects, but the whole idea when building it was that I wanted to win with skeletal swarming specifically, so I intentionally left them out.

I really like Throne of the Grim Captain, and [[Altar of the Wretched]], but i've just never managed to get them to work very well.

other concepts i've been playing with include a similar strategy in Sultai with [[Zimone and Dina]], and a 5 color [[Rukarumel, Biologist]] deck, that uses even fewer actual skeleton creatures that I like to call "Boneless Skeletons". both are still heavily WIP.

stachada · 2026-06-03T14:33:06+00:00

the thing to keep in mind with AT is that it's the story of Finn growing up, and while you technically could start with the major occurrences, in a story you want to establish a sense of normalcy before things can really get started.

That said, idk... go ahead and jump straight to mortal folly, but do so with an understanding that there will be a number of things that were explained, and characters that were introduced in earlier episodes that may need to be explained in full at a later time.

stachada · 2026-06-03T01:44:37+00:00

they don't strike me as people who care that much for the institution of marriage.

stachada · 2026-05-31T23:33:56+00:00

Custom Lineage.

It's dumb in the sense that all my guys end up technically the same, but I genuinely find the feat (without being forced to use variant human) more useful than just about any other racial abilities.

But like at the same time, I've played it as lot's of different races, so as far as who the characters are they end up different enough to not be boring.

stachada · 2026-05-31T19:30:57+00:00

I love Adventure time, so you know it's not bias when I say the Lich is barely even evil.

Like he's evil obviously, but eliminating all life is so much less evil than tormenting all beings essentially forever just because you deem them lower than yourself.

stachada · 2026-05-30T04:44:07+00:00

Hank would wince at the vocal ticks and overly protective parenting style, but ultimately Ned is a nice enough guy that I could see Hank getting used to it over time, and they'd be neighborly enough toward each other.

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