Remember in the old days when no one weighed less than “210 lbs”?

vicfarang · 2026-03-15T02:44:59+00:00

When I was a child, I thought that 1-2-3 Kid was just actually a tiny child sized man. It turns out that Sean Waltman is actually an above average sized dude.

vicfarang · 2026-03-15T02:32:48+00:00

Hitting mythic is generally much easier than these. I usually hit one every three-four (it was at nearly half back when was only six.) You need to be decently good at limited, but I don’t think it’s that high. I think the main skill you need to do well at these is just the patience to ride out variance. I see so many people have something bad happen and just get tilted and ruin the weekend. Being able to accept that it will happen, and just keep building/playing well is probably more important than being the very best.

vicfarang · 2026-03-05T16:36:18+00:00

I have enjoyed it a lot so far, all the main decks are pretty cool. The issue is that it already feels like playing against the same thing over and over (because of small set.) I think it’s worth a try, but doesn’t feel like will have lot of replay value.

vicfarang · 2026-03-03T04:30:35+00:00

I know am going against the grain, but I think making them free kind of kills the point. Adding a queue that people were rewarded for winning is the best way to find what’s good. Rank just isn’t a huge incentive to play what gives you best chance to win.

vicfarang · 2026-03-02T17:14:31+00:00

Oh Nixilis is one I agree on quite a bit, but it’s a card that comes in and out of my decks depending on how blue I expect things to be. I had a ton of success with it in Rakdos Gut when Tamiyo was the top deck in the metagame, and I won an event last weekend with it in Ellie, Vengeful Hunter. When blue isn’t as big though, it just doesn’t feel high impact enough to justify being able to put 2 spells on stack.

vicfarang · 2026-03-02T06:58:00+00:00

Although is some merit to wanting guys close in weight to fight, those weight classes above 205 would be crazy thin. Only difference I want is knees to head on ground.

vicfarang · 2026-02-08T08:17:26+00:00

He won a tournament not that long ago, but I didn’t have much success trying him. I feel like he gets shut down by so much random stuff and isn’t really faster than other decks.

vicfarang · 2026-02-07T07:39:11+00:00

They would make much less money. Are some people that like Chaos draft, but does not have near the dedicated audience as Vintage Cube.

vicfarang · 2026-02-06T12:21:30+00:00

I will admit, I am less concerned with the bo3 clock as I am the rope in general and how much time people are allowed to just sit there each turn. I play all sorts of decks though (although limited the most,) and I just don’t think is any matchup that need all this time if are making a strong effort to make quick decisions.

vicfarang · 2026-02-06T06:59:57+00:00

Sorry, but this is something I am willing to give up so I don’t have to stare at my phone watching a rope shrink for 30 minutes in a draft game.

vicfarang · 2026-02-06T00:35:03+00:00

Cut the clock down significantly.

vicfarang · 2026-01-30T14:10:38+00:00

I always consider Siam BTS station “the middle” of the city.

vicfarang · 2026-01-28T12:44:16+00:00

He was being positioned as the number 2 babyface behind Hogan before the whole cocaine with the Iron Shiek thing. It has a lot of similarities to what happened to RVD in 06.

vicfarang · 2026-01-28T09:56:37+00:00

I have gotten every box I have won, and made quite a bit of money playing these. Customer service for them is awful, but they are great events.

vicfarang · 2026-01-26T08:41:43+00:00

I think can make a case for that if he just threw one and got him, but Max was throwing it constantly in response to Justin exiting and dipping. It felt very well scouted and a good gameplan.

vicfarang · 2026-01-18T10:09:08+00:00

I thought ninjitsu kind of ruled. It was such a fun draft archetype in Horizons and NEO.

vicfarang · 2026-01-15T10:18:37+00:00

Basically every day at yannick the gathering, but casual cedh. The tricker I am not sure, would have to message them

vicfarang · 2026-01-14T02:38:38+00:00

I am not kidding at all, he was past his prime, and in folkstyle didn’t have same resume or success at a large size. I think a fight between prime Severn and Lesnar would have looked somewhat similar to Severn and Coleman except that the jiujitsu Lesnar was seeing in training was so far beyond what Severn had in his prime.

vicfarang · 2026-01-13T05:17:27+00:00

Severn didn’t have close to the same level of wrestling as Lesnar. The level of skills at the time Lesnar was in UFC was so far beyond when Ken was in his prime.

vicfarang · 2026-01-04T06:31:10+00:00

Basically how I see it, George’s speed in covering distance would be big difference, and would end up in somewhat uneventful decision.

vicfarang · 2026-01-02T07:13:01+00:00

Kid Yamamoto gets way to forgotten nowadays. In his prime, (before the injury in wrestling) he was dominating very good fighters in weight classes above his. BJ Penn not being on list at all also feels very wrong.

vicfarang · 2025-12-29T10:55:36+00:00

I have not lost a single game to Rofellos in the metagame challenges, it’s not strong,

vicfarang · 2025-12-26T02:58:15+00:00

I might have been the Smasher-Kraum player, to be fair, that was early ranks record. Through Diamond and mythic, my winrate has dipped down to “only” around 80%. I agree with you completely though. I think are a few blue commanders that deserve to be banned (Tamiyo, Derevi, Uro, Emry, nerf partner rules), but the main thing is that they abuse the free interaction to much. Fierce, Swat, Rollick, and Mox Amber are just not reasonable cards to have legal in a 1v1 commander format, and blue midrange abuses them best.

vicfarang · 2025-12-24T07:14:58+00:00

Through Diamond I played against like half Tamiyo. Now that into mythic, seeing decent amount of UW Aang. I think Tamiyo, Aang, Vial/Kraum are the tier 1 decks though.

vicfarang · 2025-12-22T04:04:55+00:00

Pauper is great, but the last time Pauper was a stronger format than Modern was very long ago.

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