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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by EstraDoll@hexbear.net to c/memes@hexbear.net

do i have to CW this for transphobia or is it detached enough from the original?

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[-] Kaputnik@hexbear.net 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Counterpoint: Commander on tabletop sim is really fun. Why yes my deck does cost 800 dollars on mtg goldfish because I put all the prettiest cards in it. How much did I pay? 5 dollars for tabletop sim on sale

[-] Anvil_Lavigne@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago

i rly should try tabletop sim for this! i have a krenko (mob boss) deck that i tinkered w/ for quite a while before actually building it, but it turns out getting games can be kind of a nightmare. tried w/ internet randoms over spelltable, never again agony-turbo altho! we might eventually be able to start a pod w/ commune folks & that'd honestly be kinda incredible :3

[-] SmokinStalin@hexbear.net 4 points 2 months ago

Arena has mob boss and loads of goblin support.

[-] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 14 points 2 months ago

Idk what all that shit is I just accumulate fun mid decks from doing draft once a year

[-] moondog@hexbear.net 13 points 2 months ago

for real struggle session hours I'll say Cube is the only good format.

[-] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 7 points 2 months ago

I've got a box of bulk I got off ebay and I kinda want to make it into a cube, get more value out of it than just throwing it at a store

[-] moondog@hexbear.net 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Do it! I'd play whatever cube you make if I lived near you. I'm sure you can convince your local gamers of the glory of Cube.

[-] EstraDoll@hexbear.net 6 points 2 months ago

I had an idea for a cube that's entirely stuff from the Unsets and proxies of shit from Hellscube that I want to make sometime

[-] Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 12 points 2 months ago

feeling like starting a struggle session this morning

Oh yeah... well uh, fuck you then

[-] Omegamint@hexbear.net 12 points 2 months ago

Fyi they make very good Chinese counterfeits. But also pauper and Penny are both very fun. Idk I don't play anymore gigachad

[-] DefinitelyNotAPhone@hexbear.net 11 points 2 months ago

With the advent of cheap Chinese high quality cardstock printers, anyone can have a proper Vintage cube for like $150.

[-] Ivysaur@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Limited is the only real format(s?)

[-] Babs@hexbear.net 8 points 2 months ago

Bloomburrow draft is very good. Presumably other drafts are good too but I only play the cute Redwall game.

[-] Acute_Engles@hexbear.net 8 points 2 months ago

Made by someone who doesn't play with proxies

[-] EstraDoll@hexbear.net 8 points 2 months ago

why would i need to proxy a card i can get for $0.04 off card kingdom

[-] Acute_Engles@hexbear.net 5 points 2 months ago

Fair point. I like the silly stuff the high power cards can do though

[-] EstraDoll@hexbear.net 7 points 2 months ago

i suffer from terminal red player brain so any card with more than two lines of text is bullshit to me

[-] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 7 points 2 months ago

What about commander with proxies?

[-] EstraDoll@hexbear.net 15 points 2 months ago

It's turn 38, no one has moved more than 5 points of life from their starting total, the table is covered in about 147 cards and 738 dice. The average player is taking about 17 minutes to complete one turn. 4 players running a collective total of three pieces of removal in all of their decks combined. No one has swung with anything in the last hour

idk, maybe it's just because i only have the worst pod, maybe it's because i have terminal red player brain, but commander games are all agonizingly boring to me

[-] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago

You need more board wipes. hahaha

[-] EstraDoll@hexbear.net 7 points 2 months ago

I have a Henzie deck and I keep thinking about what a funny dick move it would be to say "I Blitz Bearer of the Heavens" and watch the whole table stare at me in horror

[-] Acute_Engles@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago

Stuff like this is what commander is for. Who can get everyone at the table to go "Aauuugggggguuhhh" at once

[-] Ivysaur@hexbear.net 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

casual commander games do tend to drone on tbh. there is a whole...subculture? around basically not trying too hard, but not sandbagging, and it just leads to massive stale boards until someone hits their win condition eventually or whatever. cedh is a lot more fun to me because games dont take an hour or longer and no one cares about "feeling bad" because you play land hate (let's not talk about the green player who just played four lands in one turn) or a counter spell lol.

[-] somename@hexbear.net 4 points 2 months ago

Believe it or not, aggro/burn exists in Commander too. You can play a quite high tempo deck with the right build.

[-] Beetle_O_Rourke@hexbear.net 2 points 2 months ago

skill issue

[-] moondog@hexbear.net 7 points 2 months ago

Good take. I've recently been invited to play in a (proxy friendly) Premodern tournament which is a format I've actually never heard about before, and I've also never heard of most of the cards in the big decks. @EstraDoll@hexbear.net do you think premodern is kosher?

[-] EstraDoll@hexbear.net 5 points 2 months ago

bold of you to assume i know what a premodern is

[-] moondog@hexbear.net 4 points 2 months ago

Yeah I think if someone's inviting me to play a format not mentioned on scryfall it's like wtf

[-] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 3 points 2 months ago

Just built two Pre-Modern decks (Mono-Blue Storm and Sewer Sl*** Black) and plan on building two more. It's amazing how many unique brews there are with a fixed card pool that's 20 years old.

[-] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 5 points 2 months ago

It took me a while to figure out this is referring to Magic: The Gathering formats

[-] niph@hexbear.net 5 points 2 months ago

Limited is superior to all of the above

[-] Ivysaur@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I had so much more fun with magic when I decided that all constructed formats are bourgeoisie decadence and shitty day trading disguised as a game and that I would only play limited

[-] niph@hexbear.net 3 points 2 months ago
[-] EstraDoll@hexbear.net 5 points 2 months ago

alright alright, that's fair

[-] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 4 points 2 months ago

Vintage and Legacy are real formats. Probably the most real because you can fetch + Brainstorm into Force of Will against someone casting turn 1 Trinisphere.

[-] Babs@hexbear.net 4 points 2 months ago

Pauper EDH is pretty cool too.

[-] Beetle_O_Rourke@hexbear.net 1 points 2 months ago

1v1 only, the lack of sweepers @ common means multiplayer traffic jams will be slowly decided by a 2/1 bird token

[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 2 months ago

Is there so many MtG formats nowadays? I feel schadenfreude looking at that. But i'm not surprised, nobody would survived that crunching pace.

[-] EstraDoll@hexbear.net 2 points 2 months ago

idk but all these formats just make me think of that one XKCD comic. It's probably a similar story to how all the MTG formats developed

[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 2 months ago

Fun but not really, open (iirc it was called extended or something like that) format always existed and everyone could play it, but at the same time nobody should because decks were wild even 20 years ago, i actually quit after witnessing open format tournament with two guys with 1st turn win decks (otherwise entirely obsolete) which both predictably met in finale, ruining quite some fun in the progress, and basically entire match was decided who won the coin toss to start first.

This above formatbloat is effect of opposite direction, to facilitate most possible players who were utterly lost between cutting edge but ultra whale standard and monstrous extended. After all the pillar of MtG success was that they managed to sell that to the wide audience and under that success there are hundreds of already forgotten card games.

[-] Farvana@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 2 months ago

Switched to netrunner instead of magic, now I'm 10x more intolerable

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