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There are two ways you end up playing Jeskai. One is your U/W control deck wants to splash Red for additional point removal like the old Firemane decks. More often the reason you're playing Jeskai is that your Boros deck is improved by having counterspells in it, of course the odds of having a cheep...

So if you want to do M:tG you've got basically four options in terms of formats. 1) Draft/Limited: this is the format that 90% of cards are designed for and the one you will won't be punished for not having a collection. The upfront buy in is lower than any format, but of course you need to buy pack...

Re:Unsong, Scott touches on a lot of interesting ideas into but the actual plot in which those ideas swim is terrible. Things just sort of happen and characters move in and out of focus without coherency. This is because Scott two story ideas in mind (a technothriller with name magic and a theodicy ...

I think anime and associated works are particularly problematic for this sort of thing. Because characters drawn in anime style tend to read as older or younger than what ever age the character is supposed to be, even before you get into charters whose appearance is supposed to not match their age.

Man fuck that piece of shit at cygames who keeps on giving solitaire spellboost one turn kills while earth rite gets shit The recent sets were weighted towards Spellboost because the almost all the best spellboost cards were in sets that have since Rotated. But too be fair the backbone of Burn Rite...

So the new expansion is out and I've played some of with the new version of Spellboost Rune. There was a little worry over losing Smol Chimera but the fact that Fates Hand is back alongside the new 2pp removal spells makes up for it. The deck lost the old backup plan of vomiting out bunch of Flame d...

I like Atomy decks but hate how reanimate revolves around Zeus. Got into group A with an earthrite deck, elder Mage of dragon lore delivers surprise 5dmg finishes I got into group B also with earthrite, tried with aggro forest the previous time around but that was like banging my head against a wal...

So Reanimate Shadow is now a real deck in Unlimited (and also in Rotation but the rotation version isn't as good) Game Design wise, It's got the D-shift issue - in that playing against it, you are just hoping that the deck doesn't hit its combo(es) right, because there's basically nothing in the wa...

So Reanimate Shadow is now a real deck in Unlimited (and also in Rotation but the rotation version isn't as good) and I finished crafting the cards for it today. My list is 3x Soul conversion 3x Happy Pig 3x Lurching Corpse 2x Little Soulsquasher 1x Demon Eater 3x Gloomy Necromancer 2x Undying Resen...

I really don't get why people are so down on Rey. Rey's narrative arc such that it exists is the good part of the sequel trilogy. It's the parts of the narrative that aren't about space wizards where the ST shits the bed.

I've always been fond of Sufficient Velocity it's a pretty cool community. They mostly focus on amature writing with a sci-fi/fantasy bend, but the also talk about various other geek ephemera along with usual news and politics discussions.

So what do you guys think isp's deal is? Why is he this way, because for the life of me I can't think of a reason. Who is the hell is he trying to convince and of what? Seriously isp mah dude you are not winning here, whatever validation you seek here you will not find it. Your antics aren't convinc...

But I was thinking that Pauper would be an excellent format to get into so that I could assemble a bunch of moderately priced decks that were all documented as being on similar footing, and then maybe even slip a couple other archetypes into the pool by putting desirable rares and uncommons in seco...

It's been a while since we started a new MtG so let's talk about Pauper. Pauper is a format where you can only play cards that were printed as commons. Despite this pauper decks are not as cheap as you'd hope but regardless it's still the least expensive format. It also remains to a degree an "...

It seems like every other fvcking fantasy game design thread devolves into hand wringing about fliers with bows and how they give sword fappers the sads. Allow me to present a counter-proposal, buy a fvcking bow. Exclusively melee mundane fighter is a dumbass concept and as evidenced by the endlessl...

Tell that to the pokemon generation. That piece of crap became the new dragonball, and next thing we knew we got a full decade of mainstream anime with nothing but pre-teen protagonists and their pokemon/pokemaids/Megaman NT. Producers have to bow to market forces. If you were an "edgy early 9...

Something I've proposed before and not gotten any feedback from Frank on is slicing tiers into 1-3/4-9/10-15/16-21. Like the reason that basic is three levels is partly because it you can fit most of the lower specs monsters people are going to want to play into three levels and then have them be st...

So Daria has apparently taken over the meta (again). I'm not complaining given my love of all forms of spellboost but I'm sort of wondering why it took so long. Mysterian Knowledge came out months ago but it seems like only after all the top decks got nerfed did everyone remember who the best girl a...

As resident D-Shift trash yes that additional 1cc spell is a way bigger deal than Owl.

The weakest point for D-shift is turns 1-3 when aggro has the chance to get in under you. Getting to spellboost on 1 and then ward-up/removal on 2 because of 1 card is the business.

I really don't understand how making Bahamut safe to play against an opposing Tribunal and synergize with you own Canyon of Dragons / Polyphonic Roar is supposed to lower than winrate of Ramp Dragon builds. Also, introducing single card restrictions at this point in the game is bullshit. Have the g...

So ass is my style of following the meta like a sheep I've built Burnrite. It wins games but even if it's fairly powerful it kind of inelegant to play. It feels kind of Jundy where it's just a bunch of individually powerful cards that don't really have a common gameplan. I think it's mostly Wizardes...

My understanding of it is something like this. Initially "The Galactic Republic" controlled the entire galaxy then a bunch of planets tried to secede and there was a civil war. During the civil war more and more power was shifted from the Senate to the Chancellor and as the civil war came ...

Guts wrote:

I don't know what you are talking about, but I'm liking it. Please keep it coming. (I even received a PM from someone calling me Silva Lol).

Madokami in heaven did you learn literally nothing from the last time you got banned Silva.

Sorry if I disrupted the topic or something. Let's move on. Just bear with me for a second. So a year or so back the den had to deal with the blatant troll who did nothing but shill for *World games. It was unbearable. This has made the den a bit of a bear market with respect to games of it's ilk. ...

So I've recently gotten back into the game because I heard D-shift was a viable deck again. So I'm now running this list. 2 Angelic Snipe 3 Insight 3 Commence Expiriment 3 Magic Missile 3 Wind Blast 3 Kaleidoscopic Glow 3 Golem Assault 3 Concentration 1 Sorcery Cache 3 Fate's Hand 2 Firey Embarce 3 ...