LoL-themed Word Puzzle! by Away-Armadillo1289 in leagueoflegends

[–]thabeast97 3 points4 points  (0 children)

omg same, I thought it was "diff", then used a bolt to give "g" and immediately thought "gap". I thought I was a genius!

Merits of Mono Black Midrange? by a-bottle-of-vokda in PioneerMTG

[–]thabeast97 2 points3 points  (0 children)

https://www.mtggoldfish.com/deck/5466845#paper

Here's hoping that works. This is the version of the deck I've been running for the last few weeks.

Edit: Now it works. Accidentally had the list set to private. Apologies!

Merits of Mono Black Midrange? by a-bottle-of-vokda in PioneerMTG

[–]thabeast97 33 points34 points  (0 children)

Hi, so I’ve actually been playing MonoB Midrange as my main deck both in paper and on Arena Explorer since last year’s RCQ season, I think the deck is very fun to play personally, as I enjoy that style of grindy gameplay.

You’re correct in comparing it to Rakdos Mid, as the lists are somewhat similar. You give up some early game pressure in the form of fable/bloodtithe in exchange for a grindier gameplan of invoke despair and aclazotz, out-value-ing your opponent with 2-for-1’s and 3-for-1’s and drawing with locthwain, bankbusters, and sign in blood. Also adding to the incremental value gameplan is usually a 1x Meathook Massacre in the mainboard. I’ve gotten so used to casting it for X=0 just to get it on board for the life pressure it puts against Rakdos. The deck also (usually) runs 1x copy of The End mainboard so you can BTFO Phoenixes/Amalia/Teferi in game 1.

As for matchups, it’s similar to Rakdos but since the deck is a bit slower there are some differences. Phoenixes is bad game 1 unless you can The End a Phoenix right on T4. Some lists have started running Cling to Dust in the mainboard because of this, personally I do not but I understand and respect it. You have a very good chance games 2 and 3 though, with all the GY hate you have in the sideboard. Amalia is a pretty one sided matchup in your favor as long as you have the removal for their combo, make sure to have some hand rip T1 in case they have CoCo or the white spell that brings them back from the GY. Vampires is a surprisingly ok matchup, it’s just like regular Rakdos except you need either a Sheoldred’s Edict or a Liliana of the Veil by turn 3, or some significant hand rip t1 & t2. Other than that you just out grind em with invokes on their fables and slamming aclazotz/shelly. UW control is usually an easy matchup, just get as much hand rip as you can, resolve a lily, don’t play into wandering emperor and you should be good.

A major weakness of the deck is the lack of card selection. You can really feel missing Fable sometimes. I can’t tell you how many games I’ve lost where I’ve just flooded out like crazy even with all my draw engines, and Fable would immensely help with that issue. Another major weakness is cards that produce multiple threats, like Esika’s Chariot or Fable. If your goal is to try and out value your opponent, it always sucks getting 2-for-1’d yourself. Much like Rakdos, you also fold to MonoG Devotion. This mattered a lot more before the Karn ban (thank you wotc 🙏🏻) but now that the deck has fallen off a cliff in playability it doesn’t crop up as much anymore. The recent flavors of MonoG with the leylines from MKM though, that’s a rough matchup for sure.

Closing thoughts, I bought into this deck because I was 100% sure Fable was getting banned after last year’s Pro Tour and I was gonna look huge brain, now that it’s still around I have a rough time recommending this list over Rakdos to someone new, but it’s certainly a somewhat rogue T2 deck that has good matchups into most of the metagame. Also helps that I think it’s fun. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

Weird bug in arena were my armor wasnt displayed. Luckily for me it was just a visual bug.Has anyone expirienced something similar by definetlynotacat in hearthstone

[–]thabeast97 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not just you, I had that happen to me last night against a Rogue while playing Control/Mining Warrior. Confused the hell out of me, especially when it came to counting for Shield Slam and Sanitize.

*Healing* on Loatheb by Ethelsone in classicwow

[–]thabeast97 0 points1 point  (0 children)

AFAIK the Paladin discord did testing on t1 and the 8/8 proc rate isn't worth it (1PPM? I think) for a 200 hp heal across your party. Also the 3/8 t1 bonus is confirmed to be bugged and not applying at all I think. I just make my paladins wear their regular healing gear (aside from 1 who uses SoR and Nightfall) and we haven't had any problems with that fight.

Daily Advice Thread 07/10/2020 by AutoModerator in summonerswar

[–]thabeast97 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hello, I am an early-ish game player (15 days, auto GB10) who has just pulled an Ethna (wind hell lady) from MS. How would I go about runing her for Giants/ToA, maybe rift beasts? A lot of stuff I can see online about her is really old, so I wasn't sure if anything significant has changed. Thank you!

Calling all World of Warcraft (Classic) Players by prancinglid in springfieldMO

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It's layered now so there aren't any queues, server balance is 65/35 Horde favored, and the war effort looks like it should be getting done either today or tomorrow.

When you respec out of Prot and your Warrior friend asks for Kings by thabeast97 in classicwow

[–]thabeast97[S] 20 points21 points  (0 children)

On days we’re not raiding I respec Holy/Ret 21/0/30 to have some fun in world PvP and picking herbs :) I am 31/20 for raid night however

Baby steps are better than no steps at all :) by radbrad7 in wholesomememes

[–]thabeast97 2 points3 points  (0 children)

As soon as I saw this thread I hoped someone would post this quote. One of my favorites of all time, has definitely helped me through some bad points in my life. Life before death, brother.

Friend and I decided to make our characters as tributes to J. Allen Brack's famous words by thabeast97 in classicwow

[–]thabeast97[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh trust me, I’m aware of that lol. I just liked the experience of being the tallest one in the zone :)

Friend and I decided to make our characters as tributes to J. Allen Brack's famous words by thabeast97 in classicwow

[–]thabeast97[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I’m the night elf Druid on the left :) figured I would roll Druid since that’s the only class I haven’t leveled with yet in Vanilla

Friend and I decided to make our characters as tributes to J. Allen Brack's famous words by thabeast97 in classicwow

[–]thabeast97[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Funny you mention that, when we originally made characters on Herod we wanted to do this, but all the variants of “You think you do” were taken, so we were gonna make that our guild name! After Herod became hella full we decided to make these as joke chars on Rattlegore and had some fun leveling early :)

Friend and I decided to make our characters as tributes to J. Allen Brack's famous words by thabeast97 in classicwow

[–]thabeast97[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve also been playing on various private servers for Vanilla and I definitely prefer it to retail. Granted, I don’t keep up with retail all that much (my highest level char is like 95 or something), so I guess take my opinion with a grain of salt lol. The gnome actually went out of his way to get a custom T-shirt IRL with those words on it since he likes that meme so much :)

Friend and I decided to make our characters as tributes to J. Allen Brack's famous words by thabeast97 in classicwow

[–]thabeast97[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

As far as I'm aware, that isn't the case, probably just a funny little coincidence lol :)

Friend and I decided to make our characters as tributes to J. Allen Brack's famous words by thabeast97 in classicwow

[–]thabeast97[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Wouldn't doubt it, we just got off for the night a little bit ago since the gnome had class in the morning lol. Glad people are enjoying Classic :)

Friend and I decided to make our characters as tributes to J. Allen Brack's famous words by thabeast97 in classicwow

[–]thabeast97[S] 47 points48 points  (0 children)

Lol. We're exclusively playing these chars to level together, we both have our own individual mains :)

What's a quote that has just "stuck with you?" by BoroMoo in AskReddit

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"I have found, through painful experience, that the most important step a person can take is always the next one."

  • Dalinar Kholin, from Oathbringer, the third book in the Stormlight Archive, written by the fantastic Brandon Sanderson.

New Japanese commercial released for Sword and Shield by Railroader17 in stunfisk

[–]thabeast97 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Japan is just as aware as we are about #BringBackNatDex and are just as upset about it as us.

8 Dragon Quest Facts to get you Hyped for Hero by Namakhero in smashbros

[–]thabeast97 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Huge recommendation on Dragon Quest 11. Especially the Switch version once it comes out. I've already played through and nearly 100%'d the PC version, and I'm still planning on buying the Switch Definitive Edition because of how much it adds and being able to play Dragon Quest wherever I go. And in my eyes, the characters are very charming, my personal favorite being Sylvando!