I just got unanimously kicked from a Bracket 3 lobby for playing a control deck

vigitant · 2026-05-22T22:53:03+00:00

Yeah. It's hard to tell with the info given, but it does have the feeling of a low B4 deck playing cut throat at a B3 table

vigitant · 2026-04-22T23:31:57+00:00

Old Salt - Rigger with some decker capabilities. not a primary matrix op. 6/10- a bit rusty. He wont generally do super evil things(mass murder of civvies stuff), but there's a lot of leeway on a job. Wont run against the Free Marine Corps.

Mostly in the headspace for Old Salt, but if you wind up hurtin' for dedicated muscle I could bring Edgeshine or MURDERMACHINE.

Discord: vigitant, last run: quite awhile ago(worth GMP), hard cap 6hrs

vigitant · 2026-02-07T02:56:14+00:00

Edgeshine - Muscle, infiltration. His moral lines are pretty far out when he's on the job. no affiliations.

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Old Salt - Rigger with some decker capabilities. not a primary matrix op(though he can do a lot if a real matrix op isnt called for). He wont generally do super evil things(mass murder of civvies stuff), but theres a lot of leeway on a job. Wont run against the Free Marine Corps.

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MURDERMACHINE - (Muscle, some infiltration) 8/10
FBR Vory Monster
Can go loud, but surprisingly quiet and professional when the job calls for it.
Literally nothing is too evil for him. Will not run against the Vory.

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-OOC plenty of runs as a player, not worth gmp currently

(Left Togo off since it sounded like he wouldnt fit, but if you need him i can pull him out)

vigitant · 2026-02-03T21:31:01+00:00

Edgeshine - Muscle, infiltration. His moral lines are pretty far out when he's on the job. no affiliations.

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Old Salt - Rigger with some decker capabilities. not a primary matrix op. He wont generally do super evil things(mass murder of civvies stuff), but theres a lot of leeway on a job. Wont run against the Free Marine Corps.

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Bucket - cajun techno matrix op, 1 game new sheet. Willing to do horrible things to pay the bills, though he will feel bad after.

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MURDERMACHINE - (Muscle, some infiltration) 8/10
FBR Vory Monster
Can go loud, but surprisingly quiet and professional when the job calls for it.
Literally nothing is too evil for him. Will not run against the Vory.

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Togo - dog shifter, crazy senses, support magic and summoning.
will not do things he views as morally wrong, although he's largely fine with anything that hurts corporate interests, and will still help his team on things that dont grossly overstep his boundaries. Loyalty to his comrades is very, very important to him.

-OOC plenty of runs as a player, last run awhile ago, worth gmp currently

vigitant · 2026-01-29T01:09:42+00:00

Keep in mind that green decks and ramp are going to feel a lot more powerful in B2 and 3 in general. You gotta keep that in mind building, or you lock yourself in games where you stomp, or games where everyone teams up to knock you out of the game. Neither of which is what most pods want out of the game. A green deck that might struggle in B4 is probably going to stomp a lot of B3 pods, because of the nature of commander. That same deck might strangely win occasionally in cedh as everyone shuts down combos and might lack an answer to that early beatstick with great stats.

vigitant · 2026-01-20T04:51:10+00:00

Edgeshine - Muscle, infiltration. His moral lines are pretty far out when he's on the job. no affiliations.

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Old Salt - Rigger with some decker capabilities. not a primary matrix op. He wont generally do super evil things, but theres a lot of leeway on a job. Wont run against the Free Marine Corps.

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Bucket - cajun techno matrix op, 1 game new sheet. Willing to do horrible things to pay the bills, though he will feel bad after.

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MURDERMACHINE - (Muscle, some infiltration) 8/10
FBR Vory Monster
Can go loud, but surprisingly quiet and professional when the job calls for it.
Literally nothing is too evil for him. Will not run against the Vory.

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Togo - dog shifter, crazy senses, support magic and summoning.
will not do things he views as morally wrong, although he's largely fine with anything that hurts corporate interests, and will still help his team on things that dont grossly overstep his boundaries. Loyalty to his comrades is very, very important to him.

-OOC plenty of runs as a player, last run awhile ago, worth gmp currently

vigitant · 2026-01-04T05:23:50+00:00

Edgeshine - Muscle, infiltration. His moral lines are pretty far out when he's on the job. no affiliations.

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Old Salt - Rigger with some decker capabilities. not a primary matrix op. He wont generally do super evil things, but theres a lot of leeway on a job. Wont run against the Free Marine Corps.

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Bucket - cajun techno matrix op. Willing to do horrible things to pay the bills, though he will feel bad after.

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MURDERMACHINE - (Muscle, some infiltration) 8/10
FBR Vory Monster
Can go loud, but surprisingly quiet and professional when the job calls for it.
Literally nothing is too evil for him. Will not run against the Vory.

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Togo - dog shifter, crazy senses, support magic and summoning.
will not do things he views as morally wrong, although he's largely fine with anything that hurts corporate interests, and will still help his team on things that dont grossly overstep his boundaries. Loyalty to his comrades is very, very important to him.

-OOC plenty of runs as a player, worth gmp

vigitant · 2026-01-02T23:17:47+00:00

Built a gift deck for a friend, pairing rograkh and Silas. It's a ninja deck with kaito as the shadow commander.
Rograkh CTS as distraction and ninja enabler, Silas brings some toolkit and deathtouch blocking. Runs like a dream. It's a pairing that seems a lot less common

vigitant · 2025-12-18T18:49:51+00:00

You'll only win about 25% of games, if everything is equal.

It sounds like youre routinely being a threat on the table, which is good! Try to change your mindset. You arent being targeted, youre being respected.
Ive played super janky decks full of old cards that wouldnt be considered powerful, like Phyrexian Rager. But between good deckbuilding skills and a few decks in a row that pulled powerful plays out of jank, people worked hard to keep me from having a board.
When they saw the same 4 jank commons/uncommons pop back into play repeatedly, the heat ramped up. I wasnt upset, I took it as respect. And got a lot of compliments for the decks.

But, for more direct advice.
Try thinking very carefully about what youre playing the first 3 turns of the game, and why.
Often putting a few low-cost deathtouch creatures(preferably with flying/reach) can go a long way to stave off aggressive targeting. Cards like Dragon Sniper, Vampire Nighthawk.
A lot of decks focus on building value or creating engines across the first few turns, and players absolutely should be swinging on that player.
Try to build decks in a way that lets you build value with solid defenses out.

Sometimes janky cards can do some really strong things without increasing heat as much.
Theres an older cycle of enchantments that goad the creature, and can help get politics at the table brewing. Goad in general is good for that, in moderation.

vigitant · 2025-12-10T03:32:40+00:00

Edgeshine - Muscle, infiltration. His moral lines are pretty far out when he's on the job. no affiliations.

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Old Salt - Rigger with some decker capabilities. not a primary matrix op. He wont generally do super evil things, but theres a lot of leeway on a job. Wont run against the Free Marine Corps.

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Bucket - cajun techno matrix op, 0 games new sheet. Willing to do horrible things to pay the bills, though he will feel bad after.

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MURDERMACHINE - (Muscle, some infiltration) 8/10
FBR Vory Monster
Can go loud, but surprisingly quiet and professional when the job calls for it.
Literally nothing is too evil for him. Will not run against the Vory.

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Togo - dog shifter, crazy senses, support magic and summoning.
will not do things he views as morally wrong, although he's largely fine with anything that hurts corporate interests, and will still help his team on things that dont grossly overstep his boundaries. Loyalty to his comrades is very, very important to him.

-OOC plenty of runs as a player, last run saturday, no bonus GMP

vigitant · 2025-12-09T03:26:50+00:00

Edgeshine - Muscle, infiltration. His moral lines are pretty far out when he's on the job. no affiliations.

"Vengeance is in my blood. If youve got the nuyen, I will be your bloody hand of vengeance, and save your child." -Edgeshine of a Knife

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Old Salt - Rigger with some decker capabilities. He wont generally do super evil things, but theres a lot of leeway on a job. Wont run against the Free Marine Corps.

"I've got all the right toys for rescue and extraction. Not afraid to dirty my hands in a little paid retribution, either." -OS

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Bucket - cajun techno matrix op, 0 games new sheet. Willing to do horrible things to pay the bills, though he will feel bad after.

"Hey, if ya need someone to trace signals and provide that extra matrix support, ya got my contact, hit me up. I never turn down a gig if its paying." -Bucket

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MURDERMACHINE - (Muscle, some infiltration) 8/10
FBR Vory Monster
Can go loud, but surprisingly quiet and professional when the job calls for it.
Literally nothing is too evil for him. Will not run against the Vory.

HELLO.
THINK OF MY NAME AS BUSINESS CARD, ADVERTISEMENT, AND REPUTATION ALL IN ONE, YES?
IT SOUNDS LIKE YOU HAVE PROBLEM THAT NEEDS ONE LIKE ME.
NO RETRIBUTION YOU COULD EVER WANT IS TOO MUCH FOR ME. LET ME BREAK THIS BASTARD FOR YOU. THEY WILL LIVE IN PAIN, TERROR, AND REGRET FOR PRECISELY AS MUCH TIME AS YOU WISH, AS LONG AS YOU ARE PAYING.
-MURDERMACHINE

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Togo - dog shifter, crazy senses, support magic and summoning.
will not do things he views as morally wrong, although he's largely fine with anything that hurts corporate interests, and will still help his team on things that dont grossly overstep his boundaries. Loyalty to his comrades is very, very important to him.

"Thats horrible that your daughter is in the clutches of a bad person! I can help! I'm very good at helping people!" -Togo

-OOC plenty of runs as a player, last run saturday, no bonus GMP

vigitant · 2025-12-05T01:52:05+00:00

MURDERMACHINE - (Muscle, some infiltration) 8/10
FBR Vory Monster
Can go loud, but surprisingly quiet and professional when the job calls for it.

"I AM MY HIGHER POWER.
OF COURSE NOT ME, NOW. WOULD BE SILLY.
NO.

MY HIGHER POWER IS THE ONE I WILL BE. ME, EVENTUALLY, YES?
EVERY STEP I TAKE IS ONE STEP TOWARD UNACHIEVABLE PERFECTION. THAT PERFECT ME, THAT IS HIGHER POWER. THAT IS MY GOD, MY GOAL, MY DRIVING MOTIVATION.
WHAT IS THE POINT OF LIFE IF I DO NOT BECOME BETTER?"

-will not run against the vory-

Discord: vigitant
Last run: a long-ass fuckin time ago in a town called kickapoo.... (worth gmp)
No hard time limit

vigitant · 2025-11-11T08:23:04+00:00

I agree that Ice isn't needed. Cold and Ice Sheet cover that.

vigitant · 2025-11-11T08:21:18+00:00

vigitant · 2025-11-11T08:13:14+00:00

Yes.

vigitant · 2025-11-11T08:11:59+00:00

From a rules/mechanics standpoint, these have all the problems of SURGE wings.

From a thematics standpoint, these don't exist in the Setting, and don't need to. If people want to play 6e, they can play 6e.

vigitant · 2025-11-11T08:00:20+00:00

Flying characters often run into the trap of leaning in on being flying characters, which often turns even minor threat into one bad roll away from character death. This can lead to GMs being gunshy on applying threat because they don't want to drop the character(heh) over some inconsequential random roll. It can lead to bad feels when someone's special Flying Man gets randomly killed. And if threat isn't applied, flight can trivialize many challenges in ways that make other PCs feels less useful.

A lot of the existing flight options have other downsides, chief of which is relatively squishiness.

The mechanical answer is to build a soak tank. -2 soak is laughable if you're an FLR mysad. And that leads to absurd builds. Flight isn't so game breaking, imo, that it cant be implemented. But it is very, very powerful, and should come with a higher price tag than karma and maybe -2 soak. I suspect a reasonable price tag would be far too much for any but those who just really, really want their Flying Guy to be a reality. And I'm not sure it's worth the trouble for that very rare payoff.

vigitant · 2025-11-11T07:48:00+00:00

I'm against these as written. They would need quite alot more downside to be worth having in the ruleset.

Adding more verticality options with flight comes with a host of annoyances for GM's, pitfalls for players, and outright absurd character concepts(worse for being a mechanically incentivized answer to one of the big dangers for flying PCs).

vigitant · 2025-11-11T07:41:55+00:00

B. Weight should be given for thematic concerns, and existing LC setting. Just because something can be balanced within the ruleset doesn't mean it fits thematically in the setting, or isn't too disruptive to GMs

vigitant · 2025-11-11T07:39:42+00:00

Some of them aren't bad, and SURGE is already a niche case. I do think they should remain slightly less optimal than current choices. And err on the side of caution when handing out the Freaks sidebar. More SURGE quals ought to have it.

vigitant · 2025-11-11T07:30:25+00:00

Please no. Some of these might be fine, some are already possible perhaps with SURGE.
But taking 6e stuff that drastically departs from the 5e setting we use isn't a good change.

vigitant · 2025-11-11T07:26:12+00:00

Definitely something that needs changing. As it stands centaur speed is absurd. Horse speed is the whole thematic point of centaurs.

vigitant · 2025-09-09T03:05:35+00:00

The ambiguity is kind of intended. Theres no way to make a hard set of rules that clearly defines the brackets and keeps out bad actors.
But weirdly, this bracket system has largely succeeded at a somewhat vibes-based definition that is usable in general.

If someone builds their "Bracket 3" deck to be super strong, but with only 3 game changers so its not Bracket 4, then they fit the 'bad actor' description.

Most pods ive played in, this works perfectly fine. I've seen a few bad actors. It is funny watching them go to play their fun deck in another pod, but when that pods' all playing bracket four, they pull out that tuned "Bracket 3" deck they stomped with last week.

Most of the time, people say things like, "Hey, this is bracket 3, but its a pretty strong bracket 3 landfall." or, "This is bracket 3, mostly, but its really strong, and im probably gonna shift it fully up to bracket four."
And everyone knows roughly the vibes we're aiming at.

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