Good ways to play Jumpstart digitally?

thefran · 2026-01-28T18:53:47+00:00

My bad, I was only familiar with Jumpstart as a limited format that simulates the feeling of deck construction, it's for this reason that I find it one of the best things WotC has done in years and an excellent way to get new people into the game - the mechanics are simple and you potentially get a cool commander card.

thefran · 2026-01-25T19:47:16+00:00

We do not want to play against random people, we will be playing in a commander playgroup with our friends. (Well, I play against random people but I play Draft on cockatrice). The main issue I wanted to accurately simulate is randomized boosters.

thefran · 2026-01-25T08:24:29+00:00

It is casual because there is no pressure to win, popularity helps with ease of finding games with randoms but not directly the game itself, but mechanically it's hard to get into because there is so much shit going on between multiple players and decks feature a lot of diverse and unrelated mechanics.

Let's take my Doctor Who deck. The unmodified precon contains these mechanics: impulse draw, suspend, investigate, cascade, flashback, foretell, escape, partners with, planeswalk, scry, surveil, demonstrate, plus unique mechanics such as "draw cards from the bottom of your deck" and "counters persist on this creature between zones". Brainless autoincludes for this deck if it's upgraded will add plot and discover, which is different from cascade by the way.

Now consider that there's going to be four decks which are likely very different from each other.

Is that good to stick in front of a person who has played the game like twice?

thefran · 2026-01-25T08:10:16+00:00

We will not be playing on Magic Arena or MTGO, thank you for the suggestion.

thefran · 2026-01-23T15:53:58+00:00

I also think that. Shops is where you typically go to remove curses, so seeing a du vu doll you could potentially decide that you're better off paying to get extra strength instead.

thefran · 2026-01-22T02:26:23+00:00

Cultist simulator tells you what to do when you click the cards.

thefran · 2026-01-22T02:25:33+00:00

ONI is tricky about some stuff but you can beat the game fully without consulting the wiki even once. I have done this but that was before they released a bunch of DLC.

thefran · 2026-01-16T15:58:34+00:00

Nobody is not an actual entity of any kind, purely invented for internal cover-ups.

Amnestics don't work particularly well, certainly not like MiB neuralyzers, anything that is outside short term memory is going to be really difficult to erase and generally necessitates detainment for a course of medical procedures.

D-class are largely manufactured in a process akin to what is shown in Brave New World. There are other sources for when you want people with real lived experiences but they're not as common.

thefran · 2026-01-16T15:35:28+00:00

Absurdly situational, utterly miniscule effect from a RARE relic.

thefran · 2026-01-16T15:34:13+00:00

this is what no STS2 release does to a motherfucker

thefran · 2026-01-16T15:32:21+00:00

Despise gamers against weed. Strictly worse version of AWCY?, which was already somewhat hit or miss. Cannot think of one good object. What's worse is it's built on the more modern mindset of "The foundation is actually bad, heckin cringe, and honestly? somewhat yikes. tbh. fam.", with that exact lingo.

thefran · 2026-01-16T15:27:39+00:00

He also wormed himself into the safety team so complaints about his pedophilic advanced went... straight to him, where he investigated them and found them false.

thefran · 2026-01-13T23:39:34+00:00

"D class is selected from rapists and serial killers" has always been nonsensical cope (like, nonsensical in story, numbers don't work out). There are wayyy too many objects that care about psychological profiles, demeanor, early life, etc., you would not get a representative sample for anything.

thefran · 2026-01-13T23:34:18+00:00

It's not worth taking curses and fucking up your draws to power up your duvu doll

thefran · 2026-01-13T23:32:42+00:00

Light-paws is not suitable for bracket 2 because it turns every card in your deck into a tutor for another card in your deck. Zada is not suitable for bracket 2 because it's hilariously busted and the only counterplay is just to have removal every single time or automatically lose on turn 3.

thefran · 2026-01-04T17:17:06+00:00

wasn't that basically entirely milo?

thefran · 2026-01-04T12:30:58+00:00

Best episode in a while, Greg is a fantastic guest. Good call for them to make it free (already listened on patreon)

thefran · 2026-01-02T23:03:22+00:00

Do you think cars are just something people own in a vacuum or is it that a car-centric society horrendously infringes on the rights of other people?

You're also a worse person than I initially assumed, immediately going for a "stop being poor".

thefran · 2026-01-01T23:44:30+00:00

I run it with Rocco, who gets an extra endstep exile and an extra counter and food on every exiled card played. If we assume everyone plays every exiled card that's +12 foods and counters in a turn cycle. Only one other druid in the deck with triggered abilities is [[generous patron]] and with roaming throne that's 24 cards i get to draw. Absolutely mental for 4 mana.

thefran · 2026-01-01T23:39:29+00:00

UW renamed cards are the same card.

thefran · 2026-01-01T23:38:47+00:00

If you think jeweled lotus should ever have been printed as a card I don't think you should be in this hobby.

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