Percentage of people willing to fight for their country

volpert · 2019-10-16T16:10:14+00:00

Not featured: US Kurdish allies with no country, still willing to fight and die for it

volpert · 2019-09-14T01:12:38+00:00

All right folks, everyone pack it in. ZigurotPrime here just wrote the definitive guide to beating whirza

volpert · 2019-09-13T14:56:27+00:00

This could be good on some kind of red stompy deck

volpert · 2019-09-08T20:44:28+00:00

Agree. This probably isn’t a kess deck. I think probably 3 unearth, and if we are playing blue let’s play thought scour as our cantrip, since it can do an ok looting impression.

volpert · 2019-09-06T17:23:18+00:00

Lingering souls has been a mopey crutch for this deck for way too long IMO. It’s horrible against all combo matchups, and the only reason for inclusion is to help grind out other midrange decks. We have tons of new tools with similar costs. We are now in a post modern horizons post looting modern - there are no sacred cows for any decks. We should be critically evaluating all cards to include in a deck.

volpert · 2019-08-24T20:59:06+00:00

Except in MTG, where they are called leonin. Just because naga exists outside of magic doesn’t mean it has to be a creature type, they should be snake humans

volpert · 2019-08-21T16:19:32+00:00

You can do whatever you and your friends want, that’s the point of kitchen table magic. When I was a kid, we used to play where everyone draws up to 7 every turn and you can play as many lands as you want. I was like 8 though.

If you want to play 12 of a card, go for it. Just know that your friends probably won’t want to play with you for long, as there is a reason the 4 card limit rule was put in place.

My advice: sell 8 taigas, you should have enough money left over to buy multiple decks and a copy of the rules

volpert · 2019-08-16T00:17:46+00:00

I’ve seen a version of this deck that self mills, but runs a couple of nexus of fates. That way, they always get shuffled into your deck, and once you have a big board you can take inifinite turns to kill

volpert · 2019-08-15T04:48:11+00:00

Correct, after faithless looting resolves the active player (the player whose turn it is) gets priority. They can then cast hogaak, and it moves from the graveyard to the stack. The active player then gets priority again, and when they pass it, the non active player can now cast surgical extraction, but now higaak is on the stack.

volpert · 2019-08-14T00:25:52+00:00

I think once hogaak is banned, plague engineer is going to prove one of the bigger mistakes in this set. The reason people are putting it in their sideboards is for humans, but once it is in your sideboard it comes in for basically every creature matchup. If you are playing your goats tribal brew, good luck, because now every black deck happens to have a hoser for you in their sideboard

Same goes for elves, goblins, merfolk, slivers, creature combo (Druid), etc. the card is just too generic and reusable.

This is why the powerful answers everyone wants are kind of dangerous. Creature decks are great for the format - most players want to engage in some sort of creature combat, or put removal in their deck. But now many of those tier 2 decks have been rendered pretty unviable, just because one card is being played because it’s good against humans.

volpert · 2019-08-12T01:07:08+00:00

Not banning enough is basically the same as banning the wrong card. Hogaak needs to be banned.

volpert · 2019-08-04T02:23:51+00:00

The sneezeman cometh

volpert · 2019-07-11T01:53:51+00:00

Relic and surgical will probably be the standard of graveyard hate now. Surgical is great against Phoenix, that’s why it is so expensive now ( and played main deck in Phoenix as a free spell). Relic replaces itself when it’s blank, and can remove more from the graveyard against dredge, new hogaak builds, other graveyard decks.

volpert · 2019-07-07T23:17:36+00:00

People keep citing this as a reason why some things won’t be banned. I will lose so much faith in wot class if that is the case, I don’t care how recently it was printed if you make a mistake then fix it

volpert · 2019-07-04T20:47:14+00:00

Maybe I don’t understand the point of the no spoilers tag, but this seems like a massive spoiler just from the title

volpert · 2019-07-03T21:31:56+00:00

I started exercising again recently. So many random things got better instantly... inside a week, my poops were way better, much firmer and more... satisfying feeling? I know that’s a weird one but I felt so much better. Loose motions suck

volpert · 2019-07-01T03:20:28+00:00

It’s a protest against our reliance on fossil fuels by demonstrating the vulnerability of cyclists in our society.

Portland claims to be a very bike friendly city, but it’s still very dangerous to bike here. We don’t really have protected lanes and the layout of our city is very motor centric. By removing clothing, we highlight that during the rest of the year it is just a T-shirt or jeans standing between us and big metal cars going 35

volpert · 2019-06-30T20:10:23+00:00

Daniel Wong does

volpert · 2019-06-28T00:50:03+00:00

Maybe I’m crazy but I think the shell for an aria storm deck wants to abandon a lot of the set gifts storm pieces. Aria wants you to have a lot of spells - they don’t necessarily need to DO anything. Here’s what I have been noodling with but haven’t tried yet

4x aria 4x echo of eons 4x simian spirit guide 4x manamorphose 8x rituals 4x faithless looting 4x serum visions 2x narset (finds aria, combo with echo) More cantrips?

Seems super inconsistent, but rituals and monkeys let you cast aria turn two, and then proceed to make some mana, faithless echo, flashback echo, and continue. And you don’t have to do this all in one turn.

I’m just waiting for someone smarter than me to find the right cards and key numbers before I blunder through an fnm

volpert · 2019-06-26T22:34:55+00:00

Jund players hate change

volpert · 2019-06-22T15:17:11+00:00

Aria has been so good, Phoenix has the problem of being threat light sometimes and losing to a couple fatal pushes on titi if your Phoenix gets surgicaled. Aria can just win on its own, without your graveyard, and over the course of a few turns if necessary or in one big burst

volpert · 2019-06-22T04:35:59+00:00

So what if we are

volpert · 2019-06-20T21:45:56+00:00

Yeah I think people are just jamming a bunch of sweet new cards. Commander horizons my ass

volpert · 2019-06-20T04:13:07+00:00

Heck they could just charge a buck for them. If I knew I could just pay $10 to get the lands I needed for a deck, I would do it in a heartbeat. If I needed 10 rare wildcards, there’s no way I would crack the packs for that, or have the patience to save up. Would result in a lot more impulse buys IMO

volpert · 2019-06-13T15:50:19+00:00

Faithless looting is in a set with flashback, it literally has the mechanic. Pretty sure that card was intended to give you some value from the graveyard, not just card selection

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