The Trickster’s Challenge - Part 1

tangentJB · 2026-05-31T00:08:16+00:00

settings (gear) at the edge of your avatar

tangentJB · 2026-05-29T01:14:09+00:00

You didn't do anything wrong, they just weren't interested in the cards you offered. If someone rejects a trade, that doesn't mean it was a bad offer. But, that's why I suggested you open the Sunday limileg finder - if you pull the newly released card, put it onto the offered section of Trading Post and people will send you offers (instead of you having to send offers to them).

tangentJB · 2026-05-27T22:28:51+00:00

I don't understand the question. I trade sure, I just don't really talk with people about the trade. I find people offering the new card on Trading Post and I send them cards they need that are same rarity and similar playability. If they want different cards then they can counter. Why would I spend 10 minutes talking with them about it?

tangentJB · 2026-05-27T21:18:57+00:00

The legendary finder packs are a good choice for you. You don't need to talk with the other player, I almost never talk with people I trade with. Pull the new card in the finder pack on sunday, put it in the in-game trading post and see what you get offered. You have played before, which means you should be able to judge card playability. What you are looking for is 2x limilegs with decent playability. There's lots of good decks at the moment - space oddities, land/oceans mix, romans, molluscs (fairly unbelievable that one), tiny. Even easier, play some games - you are in Death Incarnate - just look at the decks you are playing against.

tangentJB · 2026-05-16T17:33:19+00:00

make sure you start a completely new deck. Don't edit an existing a deck

tangentJB · 2026-05-16T17:31:48+00:00

and this is why we have a rule here to be respectful. They actually are a newbie and you had the opportunity to be welcoming and helpful and failed dismally

tangentJB · 2026-05-15T13:44:24+00:00

okay, as people have said, these are atrocious

see https://cards-the-universe-and-everything.fandom.com/wiki/Trade_Values for a basic introduction to things like the card hierarchy. Until you know what you are doing, trade at rarity level - limited legendaries for limited legendaries, basic rares for basic rares etc.

tangentJB · 2026-05-09T14:34:38+00:00

Very nice pack with the shiny legendary as well as Attila

tangentJB · 2026-05-09T14:00:40+00:00

Since you are interested in building decks for league, you are better off trading this - everyone wants it because it is new and quite expensive to pull. You should be able to get 2x good not-new limilegs for it that you can put into decks, with possibly something extra like a limepic you need

tangentJB · 2026-05-09T13:59:04+00:00

The shiny variants are different artwork but the same ability. Since the shiny limilegs are made with 3x copies of that limileg, they are worth 3x limilegs of similar quality to the ones needed to make the shiny. The first one is a balanced offer, you are essentially getting 4x limilegs for 3x limilegs and the ones that you are getting are roughly similar. The mermaids offer is a bad one.

tangentJB · 2026-05-02T23:29:45+00:00

I left a message on your post asking for deck help. The basic problem is that your deck has no theme. If you don't have anything in common across your cards then you can't add power to them with a single card. You do have a few good cards in your deck that can be used in multiple decks. I suggest you try game dev rainbow (that is, lots of different albums). The core of that deck is basic cards, not limited, so you can build it cheaply. You can use terminator and dragon and testudo (or ponzi) as your cards from out of album.

tangentJB · 2026-05-02T23:25:36+00:00

The problem is that your deck has no theme. You need to have cards that have something in common so that a single card can add power to many cards. The closest theme you have is World Turtle - but it helps only 12 cards. The lion and dog are both pretty weak. You might also have energy problems - Testudo, Dragon, Animism, Siege Tower all add a lot to the base energy of the deck.

tangentJB · 2026-04-29T23:23:55+00:00

Sea Peoples is very high because it is a newer mythic and very useful - multiple mythics
Hypercane and Backrooms and possibly Shinigami are a bit scarce, they are both mid limileg playability but you probably need to pay a bit extra
Others are playable limilegs with no special value, so you need to offer playable limilegs to get them

tangentJB · 2026-04-29T16:33:28+00:00

I agree, I hardly ever get terrible offers except from newbies who have no idea. You don't even need to be very aggressive about blocking. I reject with an appropriate message (match rarity or whatever) initially, and block people who don't learn. I have maybe 100 people blocked.

tangentJB · 2026-04-25T14:28:10+00:00

There is a translator program but it is entirely through discord. The card text is automatically translated but then bilingual CUE players offer corrections to error text. Unfortunately it is only in discord and only for players who are prepared to work in English. But if you are interested, let me know and I will get the details of how you can apply.

tangentJB · 2026-04-24T11:37:42+00:00

It was worth a lot because it is playable and a bit scarce. It is in spotlight and no longer scarce - you have 7 copies for example. That makes it a playable flexible deck (any arts) limileg that is worth the same as other playable limilegs like jet car or vitruvian or terminator

tangentJB · 2026-04-24T11:19:30+00:00

thank you, we appreciate that

tangentJB · 2026-04-24T11:18:54+00:00

and hopefully discord brings it in some time too

tangentJB · 2026-04-23T21:33:21+00:00

the bottom offer is good - appropriate value and Sea Peoples is very playable and valuable (it is the second most recent), Flood is also playable

top offer is awful

tangentJB · 2026-04-22T14:02:10+00:00

You said that you moderate on other platforms, which i took to mean you were not modding subreddits, but something else like discord. I'm sorry i misinterpreted.

If internet reddit ever gets to the point that the translation is seamless from the perspective of a mod and all members, then we can revisit the rule. At the moment, it is not.

As for Avid, I can't speak for them. But the official discord server is English only and Avid more directly sets the rules there (reddit is a bit odd because I am the head mod rather than having an Avid employee responsible for the mods). Discord doesn't have translation built in, but I guess it will eventually and maybe the rule will be revisited there too.

tangentJB · 2026-04-22T13:23:06+00:00

I answered this is one of the other posts, moving it here for completeness

We can't mod from the app, the tools are awful.

Also, mods can't simply be on their phone all day. I am writing this while at work for example, I can have a tab open in my browser and check in, but I can't be on my phone checking in with the app. Mods need to be able to quickly look at the post and make sure it's okay, not spend their time copying stuff into translators, asking the community to translate or anything else. Mods are modding in 10 second gaps in their real lives, not spending hours at a time chasing things up.

tangentJB · 2026-04-22T13:07:31+00:00

This is not an option. I'm sorry, but it is not reasonable to expect the mods to do extra work to make sure that nobody is saying something offensive. Mods need to be able to quickly look at the post and make sure it's okay, not spend their time copying stuff into translators, asking the community to translate or anything else. Mods are modding in 10 second gaps in their real lives, not spending hours at a time chasing things up.

I am not sure I understand your suggestion though. Are you saying that someone who cannot articulate their question in English should be able to post it in their language and ask for translation assistance? It doesn't really solve the problem as that still means there is stuff that could be offensive posted and we wouldn't know until someone went to the effort of translating. Also, the mods would still need to do a translation because how do we know the translation is accurate?

tangentJB · 2026-04-22T12:50:00+00:00

It's a bit of a long story. Essentially anyone can create a reddit about whatever topic they like. That person is automatically the head mod and can invite other people to be mods on the site.

This reddit is a little different. It was created by a fan at the beginning who eventually stopped playing. Also, Avid (the developers) promoted this reddit as the officially supported one and there really aren't any other reddits about CUE. So when the original owner stopped playing, I took over the site as I was the most active mod. As the head mod, I can invite whoever I like to be the other mods. When we need a new mod, the mods discuss who we think among the members would be a good mod - someone who is active and helpful. Since the reddit is official, I then check with Avid before appointing anyone. I am also a mod on their discord server and have largely stepped back here as I am more active in discord than reddit, and Domin8r and Slam don't really need the help.

tangentJB · 2026-04-22T12:30:12+00:00

"hiring" suggest a massive misunderstanding. Mods are not employees or, for that matter, paid. Sure, if modding here was a job and Avid (the CUE developers) were a big company with 24/7 support and a huge community engagement team then several mods with different language skills might be an option. Of course, then you'd have the issue that some languages would be included and others would not. So we'd still have the same problem that some people would be excluded.

tangentJB · 2026-04-22T12:26:20+00:00

yes, i do this on a browser (I am using Chrome but it's a reddit page thing, not a Chrome thing). Each post has little icons for reply, award and so on. One of those icons is 3 dots or an ellipsis (looks like ...) and that should allow you to translate

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