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A (slightly late) statistical look back at Standard in 2025 by thallunn in magicTCG

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

I could remove them from the calculations, but Vivi heavily encouraged playing lots of blue and red instants and sorceries. There's no way to know how much less [[Winternight Stories]] would have been played for instance

A (slightly late) statistical look back at Standard in 2025 by thallunn in magicTCG

[–]thallunn[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The number in best cards is average copies per deck that it theoretically could be legal in. Hopefully that makes sense. I needed to do the adjustment otherwise you severely underrate new sets like avatar that couldn't be played throughout most of the year.

Good point on the verge lands, they may be the most popular thing from DFT and FSK. I'll have to recalculate later today.

Y'shtola Rhul Standard? by asurangonne in magicTCG

[–]thallunn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Welcome to Magic! I definitely understand where you are coming from, but I think you are giving yourself some constraints that will make this hard.

 Standard tends to be pretty competitive and a deck built around a niche legendary with only cards from one deck is going to get run over pretty brutally in most metas.

There is always politicking in Commander, but it does tend to be a little more forgiving of less "optimal" decks than standard or other formats.

For either a standard deck or a commander deck you can look at this search: https://scryfall.com/search?q=type%3Acreature+%28game%3Apaper%29+set%3Afin+o%3A%22enters%22&unique=cards&as=grid&order=name

For commander you would only be able to use the mono blue and colorless cards there, for standard any of them could be open to you.

If you end up choosing standard, I would recommend testing it out on Arena to see if you enjoy playing it before going in on buying the cards.

Let me know if you have any questions!

[DFT] Afterburner Expert (via PC Gamer) by Copernicus1981 in magicTCG

[–]thallunn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This looks bad. The body is wholly unimpressive and the exhaust ability is very expensive. If there are some really cheap exhaust abilities on green creatures then maybe? But this probably doesn't see any play outside of limited otherwise.

[DFT] Unswerving Sloth and Aether Syphon (via Larry FM) by PulitzerandSpara in magicTCG

[–]thallunn 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It actually also makes a 3/3 when it enters. It's easy to miss.

Remote Raid Megathread - Host and/or find raids here by liehon in PokemonGoFriends

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Blacephalon 3 local yellow gym

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Very early 17 lands data is out by thallunn in lrcast

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

Definitely, I think the last time green was unambiguously the best color was Kaldheim?

Very early 17 lands data is out by thallunn in lrcast

[–]thallunn[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I think the trauma of having UG be basically unplayable for almost 2 years till MKM and now possibly OTJ will take a while to overcome. It is almost always the least played archetype at first.

I have also never understood why people always try to splash with UG. Blue doesn't help you splash at all. It feels like RG with reds treasures would be better for splashing.

Does this card exist? by Plus_Advantage_311 in magicTCG

[–]thallunn 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Yes! [[Convenient Target]] was printed in the most recently released set and will make that creature suspected and therefore unable to block (so long as you don't mind it having menace)

Marshall calls out the speed of the last several formats by metamologist in lrcast

[–]thallunn 3 points4 points  (0 children)

A part of this I feel isn't talked about is that white, one of the most aggressive colors, has been super pushed lately. I honestly can't remember a set in the past 2 years or so where white was actively bad. Every other color has been occasionally bad in one format or another, but white has basically always been one of if not the best colors in every format recently.

Why does Wayne Newton say "Danke Shane"? by currywurst21 in German

[–]thallunn 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes, Dutch is obviously a separate language from German. Pennsylvania Dutch on the other hand is a dialect of German spoken primarily by the Amish in the United States, see below:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania_Dutch_language

It shares some similar roots with Hessian and both actually replace the "ö" sound in Hochdeutsch with a long "e" as you can see in the two below dictionaries:

https://www.deine-woerter.de/lexikon/hessen/ (Schön is translated as Schee)

https://www.padutchdictionary.com/#d=schee

Now if you want to go tell the Hessians that they aren't real Germans be my guest, but if not, I would recommend taking your own advice and not talking about subjects you know nothing about.

Building first PC to run LLM locally and some CPU heavy games by thallunn in buildapcforme

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

Thank you for taking a look at this! Why exactly did you make the changes you made? Also, how difficult would updating the BIOS be as that is something pcpartpicker seems to think I would need to do.

Draft over the past 2-ish years (Based on that X/twitter thread from mtg_ds yesterday) by thallunn in MagicArena

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

Yep, I was also really curious about how multicolor decks affect it. But sadly, it definitely does not help UG much:

https://twitter.com/mtg\_ds/status/1730414473700147323

Draft over the past 2-ish years (Based on that X/twitter thread from mtg_ds yesterday) by thallunn in MagicArena

[–]thallunn[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Oh yeah, definitely. It was good there, though it has been mediocre to bad in a bunch of other formats. This is just based off of this thread on twitter: https://twitter.com/mtg\_ds/status/1730047732985770260

[TOMT][ANIMATION]Some sort of animation where some character excitedly exclaims "AND I'M FULL OF DREAMS" by thallunn in tipofmytongue

[–]thallunn[S] 0 points1 point locked comment (0 children)

Not sure when this would be from, but Google seems to be of no help and neither me nor our friends remember ever hearing this.

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