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Jiro
Jan 13, 2004

I stumbled across Archidekt before I knew what Moxfield was, I still tend to prefer using it especially when my nitpicking self wants the deck list to be as accurate as possible when it comes to the cards displayed.

Stuff has been easy to import and export. If anything I'd say their mobile version of the page needs a bit of work in finding the right options to be displayed.

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Jiro
Jan 13, 2004

How obvious is it in setting it up, is it the only wincon you're putting in to win the game? And if you were playing against it would you even want to play against it?

Jiro
Jan 13, 2004

The Elven Empire precon is pretty simple to pick up and use, just Elf Tribal in Golgari in two colors, if you want more of a tutorial in a precon that fixates itself on keywords, the Symbiotic Swarm precon from the Ikoria set will definitely do that and is decent in a 1v1 settling, the Naya colored precon that has Ghired just popping out 5/5 Rhino tokens and populating mechanic is decent as well. The Dimir Zendikar Rising precon can get pretty mean on it's own, but is good at introducing a bunch of fun rogue mechanics along with what those two colors can do together.

Jiro
Jan 13, 2004

Framboise posted:

Still kinda wanting to grab the Prosper precon, the Quandrix Precon, the Bant Equips precon, and the Silverquill precon myself.

Since I'm thinking about converting my very battlecruiser Queen Marchesa deck into a more high-power "treasures matter" deck, the Silverquill deck looks like it will quite happily fill in its role. Inkshield looks like an absolutely nuts card in a very, very, very slow pod.

The Silverquil precon is all about politics and I don't see my friends enough to warrant to upgrade it. :smith:

Jiro
Jan 13, 2004

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svUaYeBWLmA

Personally I feel like the best set(s) for EDH that EDH wasn't considered is probably Ravnica block. I don't count Commander Legends since it was a set specifically made for EDH play.

I personally never opened any packs of Conspiracy or Battlebond like Proff prefers.

Jiro
Jan 13, 2004

Batterypowered7 posted:

I mentioned how mediocre my decks felt when playing against someone that clearly had much better tuned decks. I've always been a pretty lousy at putting decks together, so what are some commanders you guys would recommend building around so that I can try honing that skill? We've talked about things like having good pieces of interaction in a deck (in sufficient amounts) and I've asked about using the Game Knights template as a starting point, but what are some other good things to keep in mind?

E: I guess I'm just susceptible to falling into the trap of adding cards to a deck that might work within a theme but are either not that great (overcosted, for example), or don't really help further my game plan in a significant way.

Personally I pick a commander that I just personally find fun to do things with, a lot of trial and error, figuring it out. I always make room for at least one or two "pet" cards that are just really old/obscure/does some really janky poo poo that if it works is hilarious but I'm not too bummed if it doesn't happen. Checking EDHREC as far as the particular commander you want to use and how it's used in EDHREC depending if you're going with a theme, tribal, etc etc etc has helped me just get a more defined vision of what I personally want from my deck, even if I don't really use the card recommendations.

Jiro
Jan 13, 2004

New era of I Hate Your Deck begins....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKYgAKhH2Ks

Also I'm curious as to the non cEDH crowd in this thread what people thought about a Command Zone ep that just came out yesterday. It's a long episode for Command Zone so I understand if people don't have the time to listen all the way through it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rx3FNa5K4M

I generally agree that the format keeps going faster as far as new rocks that just stack with existing fast rocks making more ridiculous and janky "fun" commanders less viable since the game is ending way sooner.

Jiro
Jan 13, 2004

Prosper can just constantly throw up treasure with the right parts not called dockside

Jiro
Jan 13, 2004

Party Miser posted:

Makes total sense now. Your magic posts shall continue to be as good as your video game opinions are bad :P

Prosper is really fun to go hard into treasure/exile stuff. I need to figure out how to cram as much foretell into prosper and maybe adventure as I can. The Kaldheim demon that gives all your spells foretell is pretty banger. Maybe I will try to get into goon spelltable stuff to try things out.

This is my most recent version of my Prosper pre con modified.

https://archidekt.com/decks/1699947#Prosper_Work_in_Progress

I put big dumb fun things like Dark Depths and Elbrus in just in case I can't get to marionette master or whatever else as a "normal" wincon. Come to think of it I need to stick Fireball, Lava Burst, and or Disintegrate just as a giant gently caress you direct damage spell. Cause I love Kamehamehas.

Jiro
Jan 13, 2004

Batterypowered7 posted:

Banefire, so it can't be countered.

Banefire can't be countered if X > 5, Disintegrate will exile anything it kills, Lava Burst sort of can't be countered I need to look that one up in Gatherer. :hellyeah:

Jiro
Jan 13, 2004

Am I the only one that doesn't look to buy singles at "near mint" most of the time?

Jiro
Jan 13, 2004

Heath posted:

Mitch, Jesus loving Christ, please go back to using a script, holy poo poo

Hahahahahaha nevermind I thought he was doing one of those pre-taped WOTC things and was just floundering around.


Jiro
Jan 13, 2004

To be fair most of us were really disgusted and pissed about that poo poo at the time. I honestly didn't expect them to finally cave in and do in universe re-prints of those cards

Jiro
Jan 13, 2004

Drowning Rabbit posted:

Unfortunately he is toxic AF and left the show on a fit of rage.

He banned multiple people from the Patreon discord for beating him in games and targeting him on Spell table. Even though his motto was "I'm always the threat".

There is a Patreon exclusive game where his salt is on full blast, a little too spicy for YouTube.

His Tabletop Jocks episodes of stuff out so far are rough on the edges as far as sound quality goes, but is nice in the representation of POC hanging out playing Magic. I haven't been able to finish a full ep because I can't hear what the hell is going on.

Jiro
Jan 13, 2004

Bust Rodd posted:

I’m gonna be honest, Im in the process of selling some of my EDH decks and thinking of taking the year off. I was really unhappy with the last year of products outside of a few cards, and don’t feel a connection to any new planes or characters because the one-&-done blocks don’t give you any time to put down roots.

But the art in Neo-Kami is absolutely blowing my mind and I am back to considering buying a box just because holy gently caress this set is firing on every cylinder for artwise, and I hadn’t realized how much I missed connecting to a magical plane through the art until I saw good art on magic cards again.

I'd say make a final decision after the new Commander Legends set comes out, even if it is flavored with Baldur's Gate. Brother's War and new Dominaria set are things to look forward to as well. But I definitely get what you mean.

Jiro
Jan 13, 2004

Framboise posted:

I'm just sad there aren't enough good dog and cat cards to actually make Rin and Seri reasonably viable.

There are plenty of cats, too many even, there aren't enough DOGS. :colbert: Ren and Siri is a fun janky time with Maskwood Nexus and Taurean Mauler as your big chonky boy is the best Dog/Cat.

https://archidekt.com/decks/928845#Linda%27s_Deck

This is the deck I made for my girlfriend's birthday as a starter deck. I think we've tweaked the lands a bit going to have to go look through it and update the decklist.

Jiro
Jan 13, 2004

Batterypowered7 posted:

Hounds were erratad to Dog. Does that help?

Deck already has Mowu, and Bolt Hound. Magic does tend to go for wolves and werewolves, but dogs/hounds not so much.

Jiro
Jan 13, 2004

Dizz posted:

Considering breaking up my Prosper deck. I wanted to focus a lot on just generating treasure tokens but my goal after that was nonexistant. a fat majority of the deck is proxies so it doesn't bother me much but it's still upsetting that my idea didn't come to fruition.

just glad i didn't loving buy dockside, ragavan, etc.

Just get a Dark Depths, Marionette Master, and a bunch of other dumb ,mana, expensive devastating poo poo to swing around with all that money Uncle Scrooge. Even a Ghirapur Aethergrid is going to have a hilariously nasty effect.

https://archidekt.com/decks/1699947#Prosper_Work_in_Progress

That's my upgraded Prosper in it's current form. Unsure if I want to stick a big dumb expensive Eldrazi in there, but it's fun to pilot around and just acrue a gently caress ton of treasures per turn when one or two pieces are out on the board.

What's neat is there are so many different pieces that will just net you treasure for doing things I don't really need to worry about not having one or two certain pieces, outside of Prosper, to just start generating money.

Jiro fucked around with this message at 16:57 on Jan 26, 2022

Jiro
Jan 13, 2004

Aranan posted:

I've also got a dedicated treasure deck and it sure does churn out treasures.

It doesn't really do anything after that, though :v:

What are your outlets to actually use the treasure you built up? Revel in Riches, Marionette Master, some crazy rear end Eldrazi? Direct damage spells plus something like Fork?

Jiro
Jan 13, 2004

New IHYD Episode dropped

Lynch, Rachel Weeks, Olivia Gobert-Hicks, and Brian Kibler for this episode

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FftAGmz25_c

loving Lynch running Toxrill :lol:

Jiro
Jan 13, 2004

Dizz posted:

i dont know about this shrine nonsense, but if it has attack and toughness then I assume i'm able to slap someone with it, unless the card specifically says i can't do that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXe6fSE6KfU

Command Zone ep going over all the multi colored potential commanders

Apparently Go-Shintai is only available in set boosters.

Jiro
Jan 13, 2004

Is it just me or is that kinda sad that the entire competitive meta of one color depends on one card? Would that even be considered a meta or just a one trick pony?

Jiro
Jan 13, 2004

DontMockMySmock posted:

white and red have guns already




I love Mogg Assassin that takes me back to HS days.

Jiro
Jan 13, 2004

https://youtu.be/ljkhuZ32kd8

Kamigawa precon analsys vehicle deck

Jiro
Jan 13, 2004

I loving love the grouchy old man who runs a nearby LGS and gives no fucks about street dates especially MTG related poo poo. Sold me 3 pre-release packs. Now I get to open them during work! :dance:

Jiro
Jan 13, 2004

From what I've seen on IHYD eps that has a member of Playing with Power they seem to be pretty knowledgeable, and I am once again reminded to seek them out and check out their content.

That's a good tweet.

https://mobile.twitter.com/ManaCurves/status/1494790908708933633?cxt=HHwWgsCi8ayayL4pAAAA

The tweet below yours sounds like it was a kick rear end time. Ruining a Wheel of Fortune tho. :v:



Edit: woaaaahh totally DIFFERENT Playing with Power than what was on IHYD, https://mobile.twitter.com/PWPMtG ,I thought Higher was part of a collective or something, serves me right for not looking it up.

Jiro fucked around with this message at 19:33 on Feb 19, 2022

Jiro
Jan 13, 2004

So what's been everyone's experience in slotting in new Kamigawa cards into existing decks or building something out from a legendary from there?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYI7RwvOac4

Prof has a Kickstarter collab with Gamegenic for a new box.

Jiro fucked around with this message at 18:55 on Feb 25, 2022

Jiro
Jan 13, 2004

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3d1Ze6SEe2A

New IHYD with Kyle Hill doing ratchet poo poo with Lynch just apparently can't stop laughing.

Also it sounds like he keeps saying Marchesa has a "deep-throat" ability in my headphones and that Marchesa gives everyone else the ability to "deep-throat".................I should probably raise my volume a lil bit.

Also Lynch taking a fuckload of shrooms and watching new Matrix explains a looooooot.

Jiro fucked around with this message at 17:15 on Mar 4, 2022

Jiro
Jan 13, 2004

Macdeo Lurjtux posted:

That's a good episode, Kyle and Olivia slowly losing their poo poo because Lynch is too stoned to play his deck optimally and Kibler just trolling the table.

But it's a Beta Armageddon!!! :v:

Jiro
Jan 13, 2004

TheLawinator posted:

Oh god I read it as pauper cedh instead of paper and I was even more intrigued.

Same, then I saw Tymnas in there and then I got sad.

Jiro
Jan 13, 2004

Bust Rodd posted:

https://twitter.com/wachelreeks/status/1503407969698041859?s=21

yeah this is fully out in the wild and all anyone in the commander sphere is talking about. I wouldn’t expect too much more from IHYD unless Lynch, like, hires a Hollywood PR firm

https://mobile.twitter.com/TolarianCollege/status/1503182365056651264

Low rent Oscar Issac will now be replaced with actual Oscar Issac.

This is just incredibly disappointing, and gross and......ugh

Jiro
Jan 13, 2004


I'll throw in my lot with Nitpicking Nerds

https://www.youtube.com/c/NitpickingNerds

And Quest for the Janklord even though their main commander content is tied into an interesting narrative and that makes it come out very seldom for YouTube content.

https://www.youtube.com/c/QUESTFORTHEJANKLORD

Jiro
Jan 13, 2004

Was able to pledge for 2 of the regular Academics, apparently you can only pledge for one of the LE signed ones. The expandable space filler is a really good idea.


:stare: Holy poo poo this is already at 200K.

Jiro
Jan 13, 2004

Framboise posted:

The demand for a top quality deck box is very high, and this reaches that standard with a very reasonable price tag. I'm not surprised it's a home run.

How much did the last Game Knights Ultra Pro Kickstarter end up going for?

Jiro
Jan 13, 2004

Framboise posted:

Looks like it went for 60. And that's just their own branding on Ultra Pro's Mythic Alcove, which seems to retail for $54.99 on their own site.

This feels like it's held to a higher standard as it was something specifically designed for someone who is extremely persnickety about deck boxes and reviews them as part of their living.

There we go thank you for finding that. That price is definitely what kept me away from it.

Jiro
Jan 13, 2004

Aesthetically I prefer the TCC shield on the inside than the signature. It would be cool to get his actual signature on the inside flap someday though. That and I'm hoping stretch goals include having different colors that coordinated with his suit and shirt colors he's worn over the years and maybe even changing the inside shield color to a bronze or gold.

Jiro
Jan 13, 2004

I'm really really curious as to what the stretch goals are and if a lot have already been made.

Jiro
Jan 13, 2004

https://mobile.twitter.com/michaeldlynch/status/1503809741738311682

Lynch posted a statement about the poo poo from yesterday earlier this afternoon.


It's honestly what he loving should have said first than whipping out videos and talking about someone else's sex life.

Jiro
Jan 13, 2004

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tolarian/the-academic-133-xl?ref=nav_search&result=project&term=The%20Academic

Stretch goals, at least the cleared ones, revealed. I'm curious as to what kind of stache Prof will be wearing and for how long. I really want some color options.

Either Lemmystache, or the Hollywood Hogan route of having an all black beard save for bleach blonde handlebar mustache

Jiro fucked around with this message at 18:31 on Mar 16, 2022

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Jiro
Jan 13, 2004

LeafHouse posted:

I don’t really get how including a card with his signature printed on it is worth gushing over. IMO it’s pretty lame that he isn’t signing any of the boxes either just adding a foil printout to them. 2,000 boxes is a lot to sign but it’s hardly an impossible quantity.

More than likely it's a logistical aspect, you would need 2k of compleated (heh) Academic boxes shipped over to where he is for him to sign each individually, and then repackaged and sent out to the lucky fuckers that got one, OR you fly him out to wherever they're manufactured or being held before shipped en masse for him to sign and then packaged up and sent off to be stuck in a shipping channel for a few months.

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