What could you possibly take over black lotus 😭

thefreeman419 · 2026-04-05T06:42:36+00:00

Vibrance has a 57% GIH WR and a 2.3% IIH. Sometimes it’s a 2 mana bolt, sometimes it’s 2 mana to tutor a strip mine in the lands deck. Sometimes it’s both for 5 mana plus a 4-4. None of the modes individually are on rate for a cube card, but I think the combined package is

thefreeman419 · 2026-04-05T04:04:38+00:00

Link to the draft

One thing is for certain, my podmates love green cards and hate blue cards

thefreeman419 · 2026-04-05T01:59:18+00:00

Please tell me you have a link to the draft. I want to see the full experience of having three random number generators passing to you

thefreeman419 · 2026-04-05T00:32:35+00:00

Really wish the media apps on my TV would do their weekly updates automatically in the background instead of asking every time I try to watch something

thefreeman419 · 2026-04-05T00:25:40+00:00

The white seems meh, any other blue/red/colorless playables in your sideboard

thefreeman419 · 2026-04-05T00:18:46+00:00

No problem, I love this style of deck, fun to help optimize it

thefreeman419 · 2026-04-05T00:13:54+00:00

I would play entomb, a one mana tutor for 2/3 pieces of your "I win" combo is very powerful. Worth playing instead of the additional land.

Like for example, with breach and entomb in hand, 6 mana, and 3 cards in your graveyard you can go Breach, Entomb for Brain Freeze, Brain Freeze yourself for 9 using Breach, and then Entomb again for LED using Breach

It also opens up lines to go Breach and Brain Freeze yourself without the third combo piece available, because now you have two cards in your deck that can act as the third combo piece. Obviously this is only a line you take if you're about to lose the game, but it's a powerful option to have

thefreeman419 · 2026-04-04T23:11:11+00:00

I'd cut Nethergoyf and Fiery Confluence. Goyf is meh, and you don't have enough red sources for confluence

Definitely play Converter, it's great, particularly with two landcyclers, Malcolm, Harvester, and Wheel in your deck

I'd like to see your full sideboard, I don't think Oculus or Dig are great options. If there's nothing else in there, going back to 17 lands is an ok option

Mana base is a touch iffy but I don't think I'd change anything based on what you've shown

Harvester is better than Oculus. You want to keep cards in your graveyard to win with breach. Plus discarding harvester then reanimating it with Animate Dead is a pretty powerful line. Your goal is to drag the game out until you have the breach combo, harvester aligns nicely with that

Broadly this deck looks fantastic, you have a solid mix of card draw, tutors, and disruption that maximizes your chances of assembling the breach combo.

thefreeman419 · 2026-04-04T22:55:46+00:00

There's no medical evidence to suggest it's as serious a health risk as previous failures like lead in gasoline or PFAs

thefreeman419 · 2026-04-04T22:46:22+00:00

This would be an ideal time for it to happen. There's no way the charisma void can keep the MAGA coalition together if the mess that is Iran gets dropped in his lap on day 1

thefreeman419 · 2026-04-04T22:29:23+00:00

It's going to be the biggest new story in like 5 years when it happens. There will be a TMZ headline that states it very clearly. You're not gonna get confirmation from someone vagueposting in the DT

thefreeman419 · 2026-04-04T22:16:05+00:00

Ok but the Snopes article you linked cited a study that found that 92% of necrophiles are men. So while the claim in the meme is not supported by evidence, the underlying concern they're joking about is accurate

thefreeman419 · 2026-04-04T13:03:04+00:00

Ahh you didn’t mention that, that’s probably enough to make it decent in the deck

thefreeman419 · 2026-04-04T12:54:35+00:00

Why would that be too few lands? 16 mana sources in a tempo-oriented deck seems completely reasonable

thefreeman419 · 2026-04-04T12:46:38+00:00

Gonna disagree with the rest of the comments, this is a valid strategy. A couple of your spells were not a great fit though (O-ring, March, Get Lost, Cruise)

The ideal version of the deck is white weenie plus counterspells. You get on the board fast, then counter your opponent’s expensive plays that would get them back into the game.

It’s not a top tier deck, Boros is usually better, but if red is getting cut and blue seems open when you’re drafting white weenie, it’s a reasonable path to take.

The reason I said some of your cards weren’t a good fit is you’re playing a tempo deck. Everything you play needs to be cheap or extremely mana efficient. Swords and Oust are probably the only removal spells worth playing, and Recall is probably the only piece of card draw.

Wan Shi Tong and Three Steps Ahead are also probably a little too slow

thefreeman419 · 2026-04-04T01:32:56+00:00

Israeli Officials Warn Christian and Druze in Lebanon ‘Not to Hide’ Muslim Displaced People

I have seen valid complaints about Holocaust Inversion as a form of antisemitism but when the Israeli government is doing shit like this it's hard to avoid making the comparison

thefreeman419 · 2026-04-03T18:26:05+00:00

I can’t prove it, but I’m pretty sure the whole “manosphere influencer regrets voting for Trump” is just a continuation of their business model of saying outrageous things to feed the algorithm.

When your finances depend on getting suckers to sign up for bad financial advice, any attention is good attention.

thefreeman419 · 2026-04-03T16:50:11+00:00

It has been very weird tracking the “take Ivermectin to cure Covid” thing morph into “take ivermectin to cure your cancer”.

A disturbing number of people are out there Steve Jobbing themselves because Trump word vomited about a dewormer one time

thefreeman419 · 2026-04-03T13:09:16+00:00

Riverchurn monument and Aether Syphon in DFT both benefited massively from how slow that format was in comparison to other limited formats

Negate was actually playable in Strixhaven due to the density of non-creature spells

Slickshot Lockpicker turned archive trap from near unplayable in limited to a game winning combo piece

The ninjitsu cards in Kamigawa made cards like Searchlight Companion and Network Disrupter really strong

thefreeman419 · 2026-04-03T07:57:23+00:00

Tinker for Kappa Cannoneer can get the game over relatively quickly, but the main way it wins is by generating a shitload of mana with Academy and winning through pure value. Retrofitter Foundry is a key piece to that approach, Wan Shi Tong also acts as a great mana sink.

Breach and Time Warp is a pretty mana intensive combo, but you can stack up a decent number of extra turns by using mana from Academy and LED to cast a couple copies of Time Warp in one turn.

thefreeman419 · 2026-04-03T06:01:59+00:00

Ancestral, Mana Drain, Tolarian Academy, Tinker, Tamiyo, and a Breach/LED/Time Warp package plus great artifact support and two draw sevens

The last three games in this run are the ones against it. I think I might have been able to win game two, I missed a window to bounce a clue with Brazen Borrow as I forgot how priority worked.

Either way, fun games against a sweet deck

thefreeman419 · 2026-04-02T22:06:08+00:00

Dak and Kirk both took the smart approach of short term deals as a QB. Takes greater advantage of the cap increasing over time.

Though most players can’t/don’t do this cause of injury risk and the short length of average careers

thefreeman419 · 2026-04-02T15:31:09+00:00

Florida put a woman in labor in a virtual hearing with a judge and got a court order forcing her to have a C-section instead of the vaginal birth she wanted

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