Albert Henderson

The Pokemon community when the S10 ruleset is leaked

@ragimali Lum Aerodactyl and White Herb Garchomp with Stone Edge. If the Charizard you made popular wasn't so bulky, Rock Tomb would work BUT IT WAS

given that I need top4 at Indy to get a worlds invite does anyone know how to beat charizard

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@IsTheBanlistUp Dang, I thought this one was it

no

@thatguyinabeani Reminds me of this

my wallet said no 😔

3-2 I could technically go on a run, but I have some other things I want to do, and I don't want to be stressed out all day because I can't get another loss. Ggs to all my opponents. Lack of prep definitely showed, so I have a lot to work on and improve! :)

3-1

Currently 2-0 in the Grand Champions Festival :)

Heading into round 2 of the biggest tournament ever! Currently 1-0. Come through!

@PyreonPT Feel free to hmu 👀

Does anyone have or know of active Discord servers for VGC teambuilding and discussion? I miss bouncing off ideas with people.

ANNOUNCEMENT: Tonight at 9:00PM EST I'll be LIVE ON STREAM with Professor Rex. He's the judge who spoke out against the Orlando Regionals ruling regarding @Firestar73_ , and was then banned from the Pokémon Professors Discord. Please share this around the Pokemon community.

@ninopokebros @Wiltank Leech seed, rage powder, flamethrower, protect. Super annoying to deal with because every hit burns no matter if it was a contact move or not. Can be very oppressive if you have a mostly physical team.

@Wiltank what the heck is even the set

Mega Scovillain is annoying

@DistantCoder Mtggoldfish is a great resource.

MTG people who play EDH, how do you go about building a deck? As someone new to the game, idk enough cards to just build a deck from scratch. EDHRec is cool and all but it gives card suggestions rather than decklists and nowhere online can I find good decklists to start with :(

@bailey_abner_ The points required would have to change based on participants/rounds, but it's something to consider. I'm not sure if it needs to change, but there are ways other than making a draw the same as a loss.

@bailey_abner_ Fastest way to kill cedh is 0 point draws. It's an incredibly high powered 4 player game, win rates are always going to be low. There is just too much out of your control. Maybe a point threshold for cut? It promotes going for wins, but it doesn't punish you for a draw

The only round at the mid season invitational that didn’t have at least a 50% draw rate was the final round, in which players HAD to win to secure a spot (that being said, you could pretty easily get in with a single win and all draws). I seriously think the format would be better off with 0 point draws, or a maximum of 1-2 points from draws during Swiss or something similar. The format is not going to be taken seriously when you can get top cut with a 20% win-rate and only have to play one game of magic well.

@Treeman69318774 @Bully_Ranger_Ak @BoshNRoll We already have something similar enough in Genesys. Took out certain mechanics and has a separate "banlist". Also, Time Travel sucked, and kills all the old formats. No reason to play Goat or Edison with modern erratas and rules. It's an entirely different format that point.

@Bully_Ranger_Ak @BoshNRoll I think a community managed format in yugioh is next to impossible at this point. If we wanted an Alt format like this Time Travel was the best option present and the community had some much backlash it bullied them out of doing it. You reap what you sow.

Just birded a Premodern match where player said “I’ll Meddling mage that uh 4 drop you played last game? The 4/4?” And opp instantly volunteered “Arrogant Wurm.” Playing Magic from the draconian era with modern rules is so smart for the format. In 2001 that Mage isn’t on shit.

@knarz_ @joyful_waffle Imagine you have a counter-spell but you are in seat 4. Player 1 can win, and P2 has a win if they untap. So you lose if you counter and if you don't. P1 will lose if you counter and P2/P3 will lose if you don't. In this scenario you can offer a draw and probably it because 1 > 0

@knarz_ @joyful_waffle Cedh draws mostly come from agreements. If turn player is presenting a win, and you can stop it but only in a way that loses you the game, the table may agree to a draw. Because if you don't stop it no one else gets points, so they will likely settle on getting 1 point

Almost 20 percent of CEDH games ending in draws is absurd. I don’t want to just dunk on CEDH players, that’s low hanging fruit, but I think the format is fundamentally flawed in ways that can’t be fixed without changing the rules of magic to the point its unrecognizable

@SaffronOlive It just feels like the importance of GCs and brackets becomes diminished if they keep this philosophy. I don't play a ton of cedh, but it just seems silly to not trust the process you have in place for casual games. When I play, brackets and GCs come up, and it helps.

@SaffronOlive Would it be negative for the banlist to be primarily aimed for the health of cedh? Isn't the entire point of the bracket system and rule0 to keep strong cards out of lower brackets? Why would bans cater to the casual base? Card is too strong in casual = GC, too strong cedh = Ban

I've seen some posts from CEDH players upset that the Commander ban list doesn't cater enough to their style of play. I don't think you can both have CEDH be part of Commander and have the ban list cater to CEDH. If you want control of the ban list, be your own format and manage it however you want like Premodern or Duel Commander, otherwise accept that the ban list is for the 95-ish % that play causal Commander, not the 5-ish % that play CEDH (couldn't find real numbers, but clearly casual Commander has a huge majority of players). When it's a card that is only relevant for CEDH (Flash, Thoracle) I'm fine with the CEDH community deciding what to do with that card, but for cards that would heavily impact casual (Griselbrand, for example), I believe the ban list should do what's best for the 95%, not the 5%.