alexgndl

Lili of the veil, snapcaster, sphinx rev, abrupt decay...they're literally just reprinting INN-RTR standard in one amazing set and I am so okay with it. This is possibly the greatest set they've ever made, and spoilers are only like half over. I genuinely think I'm buying a box. Wotc knocked this set out of the fucking park.

HOLY SHIT FINALLY AND ENEMY FETCHES AT RARE AND RESTORATION ANGEL ALSO AT RARE WHAT THE HELL IS THIS SET ALREADY

I'd love to build Yahenni, she sounds so fun. But I know that if I do end up building her, it's inevitably going to turn into monoblackgoodstuff.dec, AKA a carbon copy of my Erebos deck. I just have way too many pet cards in mono-black.

It's okay, I think I still have the worst offense from when I said that I needed multiple copies of Emmara Tandris for my Selesnya deck. Saw that one and actually cringed.

Man, rereading this thread is pretty funny. We were all so hyped for Dragon's Maze. Raz also thought that M14 slivers were like...the best thing ever. It's also funny watching us all slowly become EDH players. I never did make that Brion Stoutarm deck... EDIT: Raz, you called Dack Fayden absolutely terrible when he was spoiled. Just thought you should know.

So I've been looking at Gifted Aetherborn, and I've been thinking. What're some other hyper-efficient black creatures, on the same-ish level as that and Vampire Nighthawk? You could probably make a pretty great mono-black casual deck built around those two guys and creatures like them.

Vader's always been a sarcastic jokester, it fits both his and Anakin's personalities. Does everyone forget this classic?

My LGS was selling unused prerelease packs, so I bought one. Opened a promo Paradox Engine, a planar portal, Tezzeret, Oath of Ajani and Fatal Push. Would've been an amazing pool to play around with, if I had been playing with it yesterday. Probably could've gone U/B and had no trouble at all. Also I really think that Kari Zev might be my new favorite card. She's deceptively good, and again, I gotta say. Legendary monkey token is just amazing.

God, I love prereleases. I realized today that I almost always go R/G aggro, even when I open bombs like Torrential Gearhulk. And it always goes well, too. Ended up going 3-1. The legendary pirate who makes a monkey token is so good.

That ban though...Emrakul, Smuggler's Copter and Reflector Mage in standard, and Gitaxian Probe and Golgari Grave Troll in Modern. Holy shit. This is huge.

Saheeli's jumped from about $3 to almost $17 since Felidar was revealed. If you have any spare copies, now's the time to unload them.

Best flavor ever. Decent card, as well.

They reprinted Shock and it really says something about red removal these days when I'm actually excited about it.

Pardon my pun, but this card is so goddamn pushed it isn't funny. This will see modern play, at the very least.

I'm gonna have to go with 2 here. Hearts of Iron IV: It's still in the very early stages of its life cycle. Paradox games, much like Civilization games, just get better with age, and HOI4 only came out in June. That being said, despite all the bugs and truly horrific AI, it's one of the most fun strategy games I've ever played. I've got a history degree and I studied a fair amount of World War II, so being able to take control of a country and actually guide it through the war is fantastic. There's just something about playing as the Soviet Union and completely shitting all over Operation Barbarossa that I can't describe. Or playing as fascist Cuba and taking over the entire Western Hemisphere. I can't wait to see what future expansion packs bring to it. Rocket League: I know it came out last year, but I got it in May, so it counts for this year. It's such a simple concept-soccer with remote controlled cars-but it's just so addicting. The controls are incredibly smooth, and the game itself is easy to learn, but the skill ceiling is so huge. I've got nearly 120 hours in the game and I still absolutely suck at it. But that doesn't really matter, because the game's so fun as it is. And a special shout-out has to go out to the devs. I've NEVER seen a game with devs as involved with the community as Psyonix is. Seriously-you go to the Rocket League subreddit, and in pretty much any discussion you'll see devs chatting with the players. I've even seen posts where someone's like "Hey, what if you guys implemented 'X'?" and then a dev will be like "Done. We just hotfixed that." maybe 15 minutes later. Do you know any company that will not only take community advice, but implement it within an hour or two? Because I don't. They're also constantly bringing in new content, both with paid cars (which are purely cosmetic) and in free maps and game modes. It's just a fantastic game, with a fantastic company behind it.

Umm. What.

So I'd heard good things about Araquanid, and I thought that a water spider sounded awesome so I beelined for one. Holy. Fucking. Shit. He's so overpowered. I slapped Scald on him (which is conveniently found in the same exact location that you can find Dewpiders, almost like they were trying to tell you something) and let me tell you. Nobody survives a Z-moved Scald unless they have resistance. And even then, it's not a sure thing. If you didn't know, Dewpider and Araquanid have the ability Water Bubble. The game says that it decreases fire-type moves against it and gives immunity to burns. What the game DOESN'T tell you about the ability is that it also doubles the base power of all water type moves, before adding in STAB bonus. Which means that your 80 power Scald is now roughly...240. It's...really good.

So I'm in New York City for the weekend, and I went to this big store today called Forbidden Planet. Bought 2 packs of Eternal Masters, because it's the first place I had seen them since the set released. Pulled a Sylvan Library and Mana Crypt. It was a pretty good day.

I just ordered the Breya C16 deck, thinking of smushing it together with my current Daretti deck to create a superstorm of 4-color artifact value. Should be interesting to see how it goes. Resisting the urge to insert a few infinite combos into it. She combos off SO FUCKING EASILY though.

Or maybe the strong shouldn't be dicks to the weak?

Verumae, you're from NC? Holy shit, I would so watch a sitcom of you and Raison living together.

Well this has been an interesting discussion...I really hope raison's trolling there because goddamn, dude. Also, slight comment on the "we're gonna become Brazil" comment you made there-isn't the current government pretty conservative? Because I'm pretty sure they recently impeached the left-leaning president and replaced her with a really conservative government. So wouldn't you WANT the US to be more like Brazil at this point? Anyways, it seems like a lot of Democrats, including Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and my boy Chuck Schumer, are really rallying for Keith Ellison for the new head of the DNC. I never had heard of him, but he seems pretty legit to be honest-I think he would be a good candidate to try and pull the Democrats further left of center, which is where you could argue they're at right now. Plus, he's a black muslim, which I'm sure will endear him to people like...well, I guess people like our buddy Raison.

Right. And the Dems were all like "Look at these people, they're destroying the very fabric of our democracy by saying that!" and then they're in a lot of cases the same people who are out protesting and rioting right now.

It's honestly ridiculous. I mean, I get where they're coming from, and to a certain extent even agree with them. But the hypocrisy here is just absolutely astounding. He won. It happened. And now, instead of trying to figure out what went wrong and fixing it for the midterms, they're refusing to accept the results and are rioting. Which is exactly what everyone was screaming that Trump would do if he lost. I mean, for god's sake-who is an undecided voter now more likely to vote for, the Republican, or the dude who's likely to throw a garbage can through a window if his guy loses?