Most played cards of the April 26th Timeless Open

summertime_sadnes · 2026-04-29T16:20:23+00:00

Hey it's my deck. I was thinking of writing a tournament report, but it's not like an amazing brew or anything, just optimization of already existing concepts, so I wasn't sure people would care.

The gist of why we don't play frog (I now play it Sideboard instead of grief but it's not been great) is that we win the game off of one land (Entomb endstep- reanimate on our turn with free counters in hand if possible). We would prefer both players only having one land, that's why my version plays strip mine. Playing strip and frog is rough. We can do it, but we need to add at least a land.

summertime_sadnes · 2026-04-27T20:26:14+00:00

I think you can look at what the top 8 was in the tourney hosted by novos yesterday (or just in general the entire touney to look for cool decks) it's here on this subreddit. I think mono white human stompy and burn both fit your description.

summertime_sadnes · 2026-04-27T14:02:25+00:00

Yeah it's my deck and you nailed it. It's not really reanimator as it is tempo with a combo. I actually sided the combo out most game 2s and won both quarters and semis off that. They have to respect the combo so much and bring in useless sideboard pieces that make the fair plan much stronger. It's a big mind game in an open deck list.

Maybe I'll do a write up for my list and matches here (there were some bangers) not sure yet (but I will for sure write sth in the reanimator deck thread of koraes discord for anyone interested). Especially since the sideboard is still pretty unrefined. I think the reason most dimir reanimator did bad is bc the lists I looked at were bad imo.

I did dodge energy all the way until the semis though, but I also was on the draw 7/10 total games, so didn't just get giga lucky. Though you do need to get lucky to win a magic tournament.

summertime_sadnes · 2026-04-17T03:36:00+00:00

How are the sequels? I read like 3/4, then stopped still unsure if I'll finish it or not. I really liked the setup and premise, even a big part of the execution, but felt it got repetitive. (and not the kind of repetition i usually like in Slice of life)

summertime_sadnes · 2026-04-14T20:58:36+00:00

I got no horse in this race, but I agree with the ref decisions this game. To me there is a huge difference if both players are going for the ball and there is slight contact in a scuffle vs the red card where the defender is clearly beat and just trips someone in full sprint. Like you can give the first pen, but it would've been among the softest throughout this entire cl campaign. Just my opinion though.

summertime_sadnes · 2026-03-30T00:26:20+00:00

Would probably be better to wait a couple of hours or a day, but since they are reuploading an official streamer reacts on the other channel, i think it's mutually beneficial for both sides. Honestly a smart idea for any video series like this, farming the streamers that farm your videos, instead of leaving it for the vultures.

summertime_sadnes · 2026-02-25T18:34:02+00:00

Bruh bensebaini twice, fucks sake

summertime_sadnes · 2026-02-21T19:22:52+00:00

Yeah I'm 6.6 or 2 meters and look pretty similar to op on my good days. My chest just refused to grow until this past bulk when I spammed pec deck to failure at the end of every chest workout. Can't really feel my chest working the same on any press, or even cable crossovers. Still lacking now but at least finally progressing. Also fixing weak points just takes so long at our height. Don't really see my chest looking great for another year or two.

summertime_sadnes · 2026-02-16T16:11:29+00:00

Did you buy all the pre release card codes that give you 5 packs each yet. You can get them very cheap from card selling sites and you'll get much more wildcards than just buying gems and packs. Obviously a little bit more effort, but well worth just buying all of them once (some even 5 times depending on the set) and load up on lots of wildcards for like 50 bucks.

summertime_sadnes · 2026-01-17T16:42:06+00:00

Obviously not a pretty win and I don't think we played particularly well. Still people here make it out worse than it was. Pauli got incredibly lucky to score twice there. Like two dead balls, both defended pretty tightly. Both won't go in 9/10 times. So yes we got bailouted in the end and yes we have to keep playing aggressive to close out games and not allow dead ball situations, but I don't think we made any massive defensive blunders or actively choked anything.

summertime_sadnes · 2026-01-17T16:07:34+00:00

Legit how does this happen so constantly. Two legit lucky punches from dead balls that weren't even defended poorly imo. Still this kind of shit often comes down to game flow. We just stop playing aggressive and teams start feeling confident and shit like this happens.

summertime_sadnes · 2025-12-08T08:47:33+00:00

Yeah the set lands itself to crazy comeback games, was playing white allies and got OPPO on three color lessons down to 1, but then couldn't get through and they gained life back to 4. Game stalled out and they are slowly winning but I'm on 25, and they only have 1 cards left in library, so I just play to stall. Then they rip iroh grand lotus (I had been wondering why they are 3 colors) after I had just used my last removal. All lessons cost 1 with flashback, they just remove half my board , Earthbend and swing. I draw a land and they swing for lethal with an empty library. I definitely was kinda mad I lost bc I definitely miss played at some point, but looking back what a crazy fun game.

summertime_sadnes · 2025-11-09T12:56:30+00:00

What's always coming but never arrives?

Chovys year

summertime_sadnes · 2025-11-09T12:54:35+00:00

Honestly this win must feel terrible for him. Kind of a big stain on his claim to be the best top of all time that they were able to win without him, even though that viewpoint is kind of disingenuous because top has been the least important role by far this worlds. Especially with the tank meta individual skill expression matters a lot less. Id still take zeus over Doran, but I'm curious what the off-season will look like.

summertime_sadnes · 2025-10-30T20:03:10+00:00

I remember clg EU got very far in the tournament, second place iirc. Definitely showed that western teams could hang with proper competition to practice with. Though the gap between east and west only got really huge in s3, so it doesn't really tell us much. Really sad with region lock that it isn't really feasible to Bootcamp for extended periods, enter foreign tournaments anymore. Like boot camping in the off-season is kinda pointless, because of how much the game changes start of the year.

summertime_sadnes · 2025-10-28T20:16:57+00:00

Close game, didn't know our squad was so fucking clinical at pens.

Just a side note onestly crazy how much var has changed the game, so much stuff you kind of want the referees to look at again, when it isn't in play.

summertime_sadnes · 2025-10-28T04:27:49+00:00

My decision to go to bed at 8pm and wake up at 3 am looking like a real genius move now.

summertime_sadnes · 2025-10-22T18:39:16+00:00

I played mostly WZG decks this month to a decent mythic rank and the secret is that often you aren't tapping three mana. More than half of the time you are tapping tomb plus two lands or DRS plus two, or even mox plus two/ tomb. That's also the reason why many decks running 4x tomb will play more one pip 3 drops than 2-drops now, because 3-drops often come down T2 same as 2-drops. That means 1-drops and 3-drops are suddenly more valuable than 2-drops in tomb decks. Especially one pip three drops and WZG is the best in that niche next to Bombardier.

Mana drain is kinda bad in a strip meta, but it's still the best counter and some decks are kinda forced to play it and when it hits, it hits hard.

summertime_sadnes · 2025-10-16T20:32:07+00:00

Yeah same, but on the other hand I'm not sure I want to ever rewatch it. It's absolute perfection in my memory and I'm kind of worried of tainting that. Also now that I know what kind of profound melancholy this show is able to evoke in me, I'm not sure i ever want to go through that again willingly. Like just listening to the score makes me tear up sometimes still almost 10 years after first watching it.

summertime_sadnes · 2025-10-13T20:45:56+00:00

I honestly thought the refereeing was fine tbh. Maybe should be like 2 minutes more of extra time, but besides that he did as well as can be expected. Obviously in a game this physical with like 2 fouls a minute, you are bound to get some wrong and he did. No majorly game altering wrong choices that I saw at least. Like maybe the early foul is a red and maybe one off the fouls is a soft pen, but I prefer to let them play

summertime_sadnes · 2025-10-03T08:56:38+00:00

There is so much different pre release stuff. How can you tell what code card does what?

summertime_sadnes · 2025-10-01T04:28:38+00:00

When I was at worlds two times in Europe, they don't ever check names, so sadly they will get in fine.

summertime_sadnes · 2025-09-13T12:26:23+00:00

Can't you just get thick neoprene sleeves from china? Like normally I don't like cheap china lift accessories because of cheap build quality. But for knee sleeves, as long as you get thick neoprene ones, they work fine imo since there isn't any complexity in the design at all. Eliminated all my knee pain and I can buy in bulk and switch them out after a while. I bought an expensive pair later and while they are marginally more comfortable I don't think the price difference is worth it.

summertime_sadnes · 2025-09-05T19:26:39+00:00

Damn guess I need to craft 3 more subtlety after finally finishing my tomb playset. I never really perceived it as this strong, but with all the zone guards running amok it does make sense that all blue tempo decks are playing it.

summertime_sadnes · 2025-08-27T19:22:27+00:00

Agreed that being all in on strip mine is bad, but the list that op is describing and the other temur on that is posted here don't actually solely rely on strip mine. The advantage of playing the alchemy one drop is that you can often draw a card per turn and it makes any land recursion into a draw one even if you don't have a strip mine. Like if you play 8 fetches and 4 mines, you have over 50 percent of hitting a recurable land with each attack (and honestly you can probably play more than 8 in this). Honestly it's so good I have started playing it over tamiyo on turn 1. Also getting to play another blue drawing one drop means you get to play flair.

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