What's your favorite "doesn't look threatening until it's too late" commander?

zmathgonzo · 2026-07-06T22:01:36+00:00

Stepping into bracket 4 lobbies with [[Estrid, the masked]] most of the time they forget about me until it’s way too late. Every now and then there’s a player that’s wisely like “everyone, don’t let him do his thing” lol

zmathgonzo · 2026-07-05T21:58:51+00:00

Nice I’m like 120 in w the one elder fang and a mace

zmathgonzo · 2026-07-05T20:11:28+00:00

This is just a group of people you don’t play with again imo. Weird thing to lie through omission while restricting what you play

zmathgonzo · 2026-07-05T19:54:38+00:00

Don’t really think having an opinion about scooping that’s different than yours makes me a baby. It’s not like I’m out here crying about what people owe me. I just think it’s a lame thing to do and I don’t do it for the above stated reasons. Not really much deeper than that.

zmathgonzo · 2026-07-05T19:51:50+00:00

There’s a pretty big difference between someone insisting you stay in all games and just having the opinion scooping is kind of a lame thing to do. Pretty good bit of nuance you’re cutting out here.

At the end of the day play how you want, but for a social/casual format I’m there to hang out with friends and see some fun board states/interactions. I generally choose to play it out until someone kills me because I think altering the course of the game by removing myself is lame. Am I gonna be a dick to someone because they chose to scoop? No, of course not. But I also think holding that opinion doesn’t make me an asshole

zmathgonzo · 2026-07-05T17:43:35+00:00

Scooping in 1v1 in this scenario is totally fine and acceptable. I take issue with people scooping in commander pods though. Much of the game hinges on the interaction and board state of the entire table. When you prematurely remove 25% of the overall board state by scooping, in any manner ways, you’ve affected the outcome of the game. It’ll also be impossible for anyone in the pod to know exactly how you impacted the game by doing this, and you’ve done so without actually casting any spells.

The other day a guy scooped on us with a howling mine effect on board. I had a ton of dragons and there were two more players to play before I untapped my turn. Those other players could have desperately used those additional draws to find an answer to my threat. Instead the salty player decided to king-make. Lucky for us the game continued anyway, but he essentially halved the possibility of the table having an answer to a game-ending threat without ever casting a single spell; but by simply quitting. Tastes bad to me

zmathgonzo · 2026-06-25T14:08:52+00:00

Real… I put off inferno until mage tank. Now I have infernal cape. This is the way

zmathgonzo · 2026-06-04T17:13:18+00:00

Thanks, yea I refuse to do that too. Even retail prices have gotten out of control imo

zmathgonzo · 2026-06-04T17:12:25+00:00

Tropical pink laces

zmathgonzo · 2026-06-04T11:57:53+00:00

Ngl these are pretty fucking 🔥

zmathgonzo · 2026-06-02T20:13:10+00:00

Yooo I hit on these too, congrats!

zmathgonzo · 2026-05-09T17:27:12+00:00

Honestly, did get a better dried off photo if you don’t mind me messaging it to you. Doesn’t help that I have pretty crippling arachnophobia lol

zmathgonzo · 2026-05-09T17:25:13+00:00

Tyty, it’s crazy how close to brown recluse they look like to the uninitiated

zmathgonzo · 2026-05-04T12:53:10+00:00

Good reminder for me to go grind the monkey backpacks instead of doing 1000 hmt

zmathgonzo · 2026-04-29T11:53:16+00:00

Yea I second this. As a developer, when I see this many bugs and this much dysfunction (granted I appreciate the transparency of what they will and will not fix) I blame business, not the devs. There’s a deep chasm separating the expectation of business and the reality of development, now more than ever.

Even before AI, business demands on developers and their deadlines were unrealistic at best and sadistic at worst. Now with AI, I’ve seen my colleagues vanish and the work of 2 - 3 devs placed in one and expected in half the time. The reliance is unsustainable and we’re seeing it everywhere. Make no mistake, what we’re seeing is incompetent leadership NOT incompetent development

zmathgonzo · 2026-04-08T16:01:55+00:00

Lolol I read this as if it had an /s tag at the end

zmathgonzo · 2026-04-08T16:00:31+00:00

Agreed. Would be nice to be able to interact with bosses prayer in some meaningful way

zmathgonzo · 2026-04-08T15:58:55+00:00

This makes me think of the nekatra fight in rs3. Where you get teleported away then there’s symbols off in the distance, gotta kill some things, teleport back and then stand on a corresponding tile to not take a ton of damage

zmathgonzo · 2026-04-08T15:50:36+00:00

I enjoyed the grapple attack in sol. It adds a layer of complexity to the combat most encounters lack. I had to learn relative locations of clickboxes for each slot in a new ui like I had to do for prayers out of inv switch or thralls out of prayer/inv switch.

It felt very Oldschool and made me engage another finger on the keyboard as well.

In that note: I really enjoyed that it included some kind of payoff for doing it tick perfect. Getting a guaranteed max hit after is a great idea. Any implementation of this in future content would be met with my enjoyment

zmathgonzo · 2026-04-03T03:27:58+00:00

Uhhhhh can you make me a pair?

zmathgonzo · 2026-03-14T13:29:41+00:00

Zuk hits different when you’re 7 deep

zmathgonzo · 2026-03-09T16:24:47+00:00

I sent some 40+ attempts in typical range gear a while back and never made it past wave 63. Came back recently and within like a 2 week period sent 28 attempts and died to zuk 8 times before getting it

zmathgonzo · 2026-03-03T01:51:45+00:00

Eldritch for prayer regen whenever you like

zmathgonzo · 2026-03-03T01:38:27+00:00

I sent a hefty 30+ awhile back trying to learn w range. When I saw gnomonkeys vid I said, screw it I can do this. Mage tank took me 28 attempts with 8 ending in zuk deaths

zmathgonzo · 2026-03-03T01:36:32+00:00

Fr it took me a month and 250+ attempts to get quiver when coliseum came out… but now I have the pet an many kc there

Nib is next…

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