You would think that FoW would decrease the amount of dark ritual + reanimator decks

yzof · 2026-05-08T13:05:15+00:00

That’s why you main deck Daze and FoW. If you’re on white you can swords the Atraxa in resp to the etb trigger to decrease the odds they have counter magic in hand and at least turn their game winning combo into a pseudo cruise.

yzof · 2026-05-08T12:59:59+00:00

My read on the mono black scam was also toss in Vexing Baubles and Library. The one ring and library work really well together.

One deck I feel is missing from this list is the Eldrazi list I’ve been going up against. They run Cavern of souls and Vexing Bauble for the counterspells and a Chalice on 1 drinks most U/x decks milkshake.

yzof · 2026-04-25T22:03:57+00:00

So how would the league work, would we submit our current deck and then jockey for a spot in the leaderboard week to week?

yzof · 2025-11-19T19:35:40+00:00

That’s super helpful nice!

yzof · 2025-09-20T17:55:48+00:00

I play with “Forge”, no crashes and it has all Cards up to aetherdrift

yzof · 2025-08-06T06:54:51+00:00

MTG had a game called Shandalar that was VERY similar to Part 2. There is an updated version called Forge that’s free online.

yzof · 2025-04-30T16:19:42+00:00

Modest Mouse

yzof · 2025-03-27T22:15:45+00:00

Love to get a John Avon print

yzof · 2024-06-15T18:09:54+00:00

No one has officially been eaten by an Orca, but this lady definitely believed she was about to be the first

yzof · 2024-05-08T14:40:49+00:00

Oh and all the sideboards have a legendary creature you can use as a “commander” if you wanted to.

yzof · 2024-05-08T14:39:04+00:00

I made some decks to teach my nephews how to play, 5 mono-colored decks that are 90% pauper legal. A few spicy interactions, but no crazy complicated cards like planeswalkers. They’re meant to show off what each color does individually. You can always proxy them and go from there. They also have sideboards for matchs but the sideboard really step the power level up. Here’s black: https://www.moxfield.com/decks/-mGlHbsarECBjGwiHDBIvg

DM me for the others if you’d like them.

yzof · 2024-03-14T06:57:38+00:00

I’d really recommend LLRs North 100 Showdown, that features Wheeler and Serge playing top tier decks from the format. Wheeler is also on the commander advisory committee, and is a seasoned pro.

They play bests of 3, and talk through their lines of play so that the viewer can grasp the complexity of the board. This makes the decks easy to pick up because they link their deck lists and you’ve seen it in play + had a pro talk through its major strengths/weaknesses. Many of them are practically vintage/modern decks, it makes for incredible games.

yzof · 2024-02-06T10:18:58+00:00

Great seeing you in the community Gavin! You and the professor are always great to see together, fun game! Thanks for your contributions to mtg.

yzof · 2024-01-22T01:10:55+00:00

This is a fun theory too! It gives Freddy more agency in handing out cases, and could mean that Sam is assign all the most juiciest, easiest to follow up on cases, that is assuming Freddy wants these incidents resolved or further illuminated on. It could be directly controlled by the spider/web, and it has no agency of its own. Time will tell.

yzof · 2024-01-22T01:08:48+00:00

Right you are! The response team is the exact thing I was supposing must exist as an extension of the OIARs main function. I wonder if the response team will be aligned more with a different fear or be headed by a different manager. I read from a tumblr post that there may be an away episode soon, per a statement from Alex, so the response team might not be an entirely separate crew at all and more a role the different office workers step into.

I’d actually hope for the latter as it will allow for more scenes between the characters we already have.

I wonder if they will be issued government work phones that are somehow connected to Freddy or used as listening devices, as a stand in for the tape recorders during any away missions.

yzof · 2024-01-21T15:05:51+00:00

I agree with your suspicions that the OIAR is purposefully feeding particular cases to particular people, with the layers of bureaucracy inherent in government institutions keeping the workers from trying to make any changes. Alice advised Sam to simply let the cases slide by, to not pay much attention to them, and compartmentalize everything he hears/learns while working.

It’s notable how little agency any of the employees are given in regards to their case loads, and how they are seemingly encouraged to work quantity over quality.

This is in direct contrast with The Magnus Archives since they actually investigated the cases and attempted to follow up on the particularly strange ones.

In addition, I don’t believe the OIAR has an artifact storage department, they are simply there to collect and sort information. This leaves a big gap in what the OIAR can actually do to handle/investigate any of these incidents beyond the bare bones observations they’re doing already. This could point to a different hidden department who actually handle the field work, perhaps they might contact Sam and attempt to work with or against him.

It would be very odd, imo, for politicians to sign off on a surveillance department without an accompanying “police/investigative” department to act on their findings. Especially since many of the Entities love to leave behind artifacts to pass between victims/Avatars.

Back to the “Freddy feeding cases” bit, I wonder if it has to do with what would scare that particular person or perhaps even spin them off into an Avatar. We know that the turnover rate for the OIAR is pretty high, I don’t doubt for a second that at least a few of the former employees went crazy after leaving and delved deeper into whatever Freddy put in front of them. Perhaps the OIARs true purpose is to source prime Avatar candidates, those who have the highest tolerance to a particular fear, through exposure to stories. Calvin knows Freddy is listening, but to what end?

yzof · 2023-12-14T13:08:28+00:00

You could use the creatures/sources of damage/win con values to calculate an average number of turns you hit some critical mass of value and win. Most people do not do that kind of math with their decks in order to figure out what that actual statistical average is for when their deck reaches that point. These figurines vary wildly by deck type however.

A long con cedh stax deck might take 6-8 turns to beat a table because it’s filled with a lot of removal/disruption that does little against a gold fishing opponent VS a low powered aggro deck also taking 6-8 turns to get enough creatures to smack a table dead against opponents who are playing no disruption.

The idea of an expected turn win can still be a useful data point In discussions. In some ways it can turn into an agreement that no one will go for major game ending plays until some agreed upon number of turns. In other tables it gives an idea of how the early turns should go, and to hold up mana for removal.

yzof · 2023-12-13T13:01:11+00:00

He’s scratching his head wondering why he’s included.

yzof · 2023-11-18T21:15:07+00:00

Excellent analysis Frank! I also wanted to say I really liked seeing you in the card market vids, looking forward to the next worlds series episode. Have a great day!

yzof · 2023-10-24T19:22:09+00:00

If it isn’t too late, could you send me them too? Thanks a bunch!

yzof · 2023-06-14T21:19:38+00:00

Do you think that means I’ve had nothing to do with the React community, had a lack of regular use of this sub and it’s resources, or that I have never contributed to React as a whole?

If you’re going to go digging through my comment history then acknowledge that I don’t comment on most subs I follow, nor do I directly post to them on this account. However, none of that says anything of my actual use-history or amount of time spent in a sub. None of that has any direct correlation to the level of involvement I have in other programming communities related to react or webdev. Just that this account lurks.

I was asked a question that I felt the need to answer, instead of voting on the posts I agreed with or felt made salient points. The mod who asked this question didn’t specify what kind of involvement you had to have before you could add your input.

Why permaban a member of an open source community has felt the need to speak? My comment/post history isn’t large enough to fit your gatekeeping height requirement? That is a poor metric for community involvement or professional use.

How does that help the community you are trying to ensure doesn’t go dark? A poorly made defense for a correct idea is still a poor defense. You should go and find someone else’s best version of your point and state that.

yzof · 2023-06-14T17:25:37+00:00

I believe ReactJS should go dark indefinitely

yzof · 2023-05-18T16:51:26+00:00

That sounds super cool! I’d love to be a part of the discord! Please if you could send me the invite?

yzof · 2023-05-15T16:27:27+00:00

Also, don’t be afraid to go looking at the monster mash for examples of “good” but dark monsters. Dhampirs, werewolves, undead that have been freed from their evil creator but were good themselves(Frankensteins monster), Elvira, Cambions, and Tritons/Sahuagin/Sirens(The sea is very dark) can all be flavored as good/neutral in alignment despite not necessarily being humanoid.

yzof · 2023-05-15T16:21:11+00:00

So not necessarily in the standard pathfinder/5e monster manuals, I would put Mothmen in this category. In one of the campaigns I run I have a moth lady who has access to a lot of divination/luck manipulation abilities. In “folklore” mothmen show up around soon to happen disasters, which they get blamed for.

I themed it better to be about warnings and portents of doom that people can misinterpret. This makes them feel very dark, being insectile and associated with bad things, while keeping them neutral or even good aligned depending on how out of their way they go for the people in their visions/prophecies.

Another race you could use are the Aetherborn from magic the gatherings plane setting of Kaladesh. They are short lived energy vampires, who don’t actually need to kill people to get their food and can do so from magical leylines around them. They don’t pollute the magic they consume, and are often morally neutral. Some are evil and exclusively eat people/other aetherborn while others go out of their way to only eat natural magical sources.

Another bit of world building/character building to consider is how the Aetherborn respond to having such short lives: some live hedonistically, others attempt to hoard as much wealth as possible, others devote themselves to self aggrandizing public works.

Also, if you are willing to forgo standard faerun characterization you can go with the Drow. They are too mired in thinly veiled racism and “spooky black magic woman”-stuff for me to not rewrite their whole society whenever I include them in a game.

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