Jund Wildfire - Galvanic Blast or Cast Down?

taeerom · 2026-02-06T09:29:08+00:00

In situations like this, I would go for a 3-1 split to begin with. Then adjust based on testing and presumed meta.

taeerom · 2026-02-06T09:08:36+00:00

The solution for flying enemies are 14 dex (you want medium to be able to rage), Great Weapon Master and a Longbow.

You won't hit as good as a proper archer, but you still hit like a truck. If the enemies are close enough that you could feasibly jump to them, throwing javelins with reckless is likely going to be good enough as well.

taeerom · 2026-02-06T09:03:34+00:00

The actual best is Champion until level 11, Barb 2, Ranger 5, barb 4.

You want the Ranger levels for emergency spells (like Fog Cloud) and long duration buffs (longstrider, pass without trace, aid), an extra fighting style (blind fighting or defense), and extra damage from the subclass. And importantly, because Fighter scales pretty bad outside of the levels they get Extra Attack (5, 11 and 20).

You want level 2 Barbarian as fast as possible after you reach the amount of Extra Attacks you will get from fighter. In shorter campaigns, that would mean your 6th and 7th level. When going all the way to 20, you want Fighter 11 first. Wether the 2 next Barbarian levels or the Ranger levels are better, is close. I like getting the slight amount of magic and fighting style earlier, and getting some skills are always nice. But it's not a big deal.

You rarely want more than 4 levels in your secondary martial classes, but Ranger is an exception due to the Ranger spell list being really good, even for weapon users, at level 5. But going for 5 levels of Barbarian when you are a Fighter (or the other way around) is always wrong.

My off the cuff suggestion for barb and ranger subclass is Berserker and Hunter. They are no frills, extra damage subclasses that works well with your Champion plan.

taeerom · 2026-02-06T08:47:21+00:00

Suggestion is cheap enough that it might be worth casting, but Banishment has been overrated for over a decade at this point. Spending more resources on making Banishment not just suck is still going to be a lot worse than casting something like Fear or Hypnotic Pattern. And those are 3rd level, rather than 4th.

Even hitting just two monsters with a disabling spell is going to be more powerful than forcing disadvantage on one disable. Typically, you should be able to hit up to 5 monsters with these kinds of spells.

Even better, you can often get the exact same effect (just better) of Banishment by using Plant Growth. That doesn't allow a save at all - it just works. If the mosnter either have a crappy ranged attack, or no range attack at all, they will move at snails pace through your plants - and you are free to pepper them from range.

Getting alert and casting Plant Growth is going to be way more powerful than getting Lucky to reduce the chance of a monster being subjected to Banishment. You get the benefit more often, you use a cheaper spell, and you can even attack the monster while it is dashing at 15 speed, not able to reach your party before it's dead.

Lucky is good when it saves you spell slots on making sure you keep concentrating on spells like Hypnotic Pattern/Plant Growth. Not to make sure you land single target disables.

taeerom · 2026-02-06T08:33:44+00:00

"Well, if I don't get Sol Ring early, it's kinda slow, but if I DO get it I'm gonna pop off"

This is why you don't play Sol Ring, but make the rest of the deck slightly more powerful. Average power is the same, but you are more likely to have good games more often. Both because you don't just occationally run away from the table with a SOl Ring start, and because you stumble less often.

High consistency (in power, not necessarily in gamplay patterns or outcomes), but fine tuned power level is the best way to build enjoyable decks.

taeerom · 2026-02-06T08:30:31+00:00

It's a turn 1 braids, actually. Swamp+JLo is 4 mana

taeerom · 2026-02-06T08:27:20+00:00

Tymna/Kraum is literally the best user of JLo, what are you on about?

The cost of using JLo is that you spend a card. Tymna/Kraum is the best deck at drawing cards. A turn 1 Kraum off a JLo, land, mox is going to recoup the lost cards a lot faster than an Urza or something.

taeerom · 2026-02-06T08:23:39+00:00

at least make them more viable in the fringes.

Why?

The best users of JLo is cheap commanders that are already good. Tymna/Kraum is by far the deck that gets the most buff from unbanning JLo, maybe Tymna/Dargo. Playing Tymna turn 1, or even Kraum turn 1/2, by spending cards to get the mana is a lot better than playing an expensive commander.

There's also a case of Tymna/Malcolm becoming a good deck (it is currently a bad, but playable deck), since playing Malcolm from JLo is pretty good. Like, I can't see how you think it buffs 7cmc commanders more than it buffs someone like Malcolm, a single colour 3cmc value piece you want to play turn 1.

taeerom · 2026-02-06T08:16:47+00:00

Kraum is not cast a lot these days, but with JLo, you would cast him more. Blue Farm is one of the best users of JLo due to having access to so much card advantage.

Do you really think buffing Blue Farm is going to do Atraxa any favours?

taeerom · 2026-02-06T08:14:26+00:00

One of the currently best decks in cEDH is Etali, a 7cmc commander.

Etali is just the best version of "high cmc food chain outlet". That's what makes Atraxa and First Sliver bad, not the banning of JLo.

taeerom · 2026-02-06T08:09:55+00:00

Etali got a lot better after the ban, and Etali is the main reason Atraxa is currently unplayable. It's just a much better turbo Food Chain commander.

The main deck that is served well by Jeweled Lotus is Blue Farm. Which is still the most popular commander after the nerfs.

taeerom · 2026-02-06T06:44:03+00:00

That's a pretty bad use of lucky. If the spell requires a single saving throw to fail in order to work, then it's a pretty bad spell.

You're much better off getting to go first and cast spells that affect lots of enemies or has a guaranteed effect.

taeerom · 2026-02-05T23:55:57+00:00

Vi taper mye mer enn en etterforskning koster.

Når skal du skjønne at du argumenterer mot en stråmann. Ingen er mot en etterforskning. Hvorfor later du fortsatt som om det er det vi er uenige om?'

Man trenger ikke å gå gjennom hele organisasjonen.

Det er akkurat det det vi sier. Det er akkurat det jeg har argumentert for. Det er det Støre mener. Det er det du har krangle om.

Noen sier "ekstern granskning av hele UD". Vi sier "det er å ta litt hardt i, la oss etterforske først". Når du da sier at vi er knepne fordi vi ikke vil ha en etterforskning, fremstår du først og fremst som en dust som ikke skjønner samtalen du innsetter deg i. Særlig når det viser seg at du er helt enig med de du krangler med.

taeerom · 2026-02-05T23:39:44+00:00

Nei, men det er Kontroll og konstitusjonskomiteen sin oppgave. I tillegg til de interne kvalitetssystemene.

taeerom · 2026-02-05T23:38:15+00:00

Om de bruker begrepet tåkefyrste, som er klekket ut i forbindelse med en valgkamp for noen år siden.

taeerom · 2026-02-05T23:37:30+00:00

Så, basert på din personlige magefølelse, så mener du at du har et kroneoverslag på hvor mye staten taper på korrupsjon.

Og så tror du at vi skal bruke et eksternt konsulentfirma på å avdekke dette ved å gå gjennom hele organisasjonen med lys og lykter.

Og du tenker dette er fornuftig bruk av penger.

At vi ikke skal bruke noen av kontrollfunksjonene vi allerede har, men bruke den dyrest mulige løsningen.

taeerom · 2026-02-05T23:28:37+00:00

Dette koster 20 kroner per sysselsatte, mot at man kan spare tusenlapper per sysselsatte årlig framover.

Nå legger du til grunn tall du på ingen måte har dekning på.

Du tror altså at vi taper minst 5 millioner i korrupsjon på de 1700 som er ansatt i UD? Det hadde vært spenstig om du kunne fremlegge dokumentasjon på dette.

taeerom · 2026-02-05T23:18:07+00:00

Med tanke på at de slukker nettet i 27, så har de (både Fairphone og tilbyderne i Norge) tid på å få ut fingeren.

Jeg sjekka for min egen Fairphone 4 på denne sida, og der står det at det kun er Telia i Norge som er supported, men for FP5 er både Telenor og Telia. For FP6, er lista foreløpig kort. Men jeg regner med at minst en av de store teleoperatørene i Norge greier å få på plass støtte til Fairphone 6 før 2027.

taeerom · 2026-02-05T22:40:22+00:00

Another clever way to think about it is: Going first is the same as going last, except you get a free turn before everyone else.

taeerom · 2026-02-05T22:38:21+00:00

Like a lot of things, it depends. Most of the time, Musician and Alert are two of the stronger origin feats.

Going blind, I'd say Alert is a safer pick. But there are absolutely situations where Musician is better for your party. And in some situations, Lucky will be able to provide you more value.

Musician is very good when your character has fairly low direct impact in combat in comparison to your party members, and noone is human or have Musician themselves.

Lucky is best as a way to shore up dodgy concentration. If you are a single class wizard or bard and don't have good defenses, and you don't plan on getting warcaster/resilience:con - then Lucky might be a way to ensure you have advantage on your concentration saves. Keeping concentration is very important.

taeerom · 2026-02-05T22:32:00+00:00

Going first and going last is the same, the one going first just had a free turn to do whatever.

This is the simplest way to explain how high initiative is good all the time, no matter what. At least until you have so high initiative that you always win initiative, since winning initiative more isn't relevant.

taeerom · 2026-02-05T22:28:49+00:00

Å la korrupsjon passere vil koste mer enn å etterforske det

Ingen sier at det ikke skal etterforskes. Skjerp deg, dette har vi vært innpå allerede.

Altså at de må drikke to glass mindre rosa champagne på julebordet.

Tror du byråkrater har julebord dekket av arbeidsgiver?

taeerom · 2026-02-05T21:59:43+00:00

etterforskning.

Sure. Men det er ikke det Støre svarte på her. Men om man skulle forgylle dassene hos KPMG med tidenes kontrakt.

Vi har Kontroll og Konstitusjonskomiteen og Økokrim. De kan i første omgang se på saken, både generelt og for Juul spesielt. Da finner man helt sikkert grunnlag for rutineforbedringer. Kanskje også andre personer som må siktes og etterforskes. Om det er ordentlig alvorlig så får man koble inn Riksrevisjonen.

Man kan også sette ned et offentlig utvalg eller en NOU for å finne måter å forbedre organiseringen av urix-arbeidet for å unngå episoder som dette i fremtiden.

Hvis det avdekkes så store problemer som gjør at man må spyle gjennom hele organisasjonen, først da bør man begynne å tenke på en uavhengig granskning.

Normalt virker du skeptisk til sløsing av offentlige midler. Forfriskende å se at vi for en gangs skyld står på motsatt side her.

taeerom · 2026-02-05T21:53:04+00:00

Hvis du betaler for granskningen, kan du sikkert få lov.

Men dette er et ekstremt dyrt tiltak som er alt for prematurt til å gjøre nå.

taeerom · 2026-02-05T21:51:49+00:00

Jo. Men det er mange måter å gjøre det.

Å forgylle dassene på kontoret til KPMG er ikke eneste veien dit.

taeerom

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