Drisoth

@spider_mansion Yeah, if anything, I'd want to criticize putting yourself in a situation where this needed to happen, and not ripping off the band-aid once you have.

@Drisoth I’m pretty confident that all those bans needed to happen, and also I’ve seen people complaining about it BUT I think it’s great that they announced it now in hopes that people wouldn’t drop hundreds of dollars on those cards

I really like Living Legend as a format management tool. I like that you can see publicly, how much time roughly a deck has left, and there's a semi-objective way to ban broken things. It does make non-LL bannings feel much worse though.

@MreMOEtional @JulezJP

@Drisoth @JulezJP Wow this is a much shorter and concise version of what I just said… how do you words well

I've been totally riftbound pilled lately, but I keep losing games to like, very dumb mistakes (But I learn something every game!) Looking for advice from my TGC homies: After a super long day of work, I find it SO HARD to lock in and concentrate and not make those mistakes. I don't have this problem w/ fighting games or league after a long day. Any tips or personal tricks on getting the focus back?

@JulezJP @MreMOEtional Yeah, honestly the harder part is after you develop a robust auto-pilot system, you then have to snap yourself OUT of autopilot before you punt. If you're not going to time / playing with friends, you can try just always pausing for ~5 seconds for every action.

Hah both of your advice was great. I think my biggest struggle is I’ve played commander w/ friends and the only constructed I’ve played is on mtg arena and a tonnnnnnn of LoR. I’m realizing there is so much of the game that was being played for me or how much I relied on my friend/ play group to work through interactions. I literally woke up today and realized ANOTHER misplay from yesterday lol. I had 5 Energy up, Rhasa on a battlefield and they used fight or flight to bounce my Rhasa and moved in with a unit. I had Arcane Shift in hand but my mind processed FoF as a Rebuke and I put the Rhasa in my hand instead of back to base and said that’s gg. 💀

@MreMOEtional @AikadoLoR Being serious I think it’s fine to say i think XYZ deck is high agency, and the field is weak at a small local, so I think it comes out better overall, or just to say i find some other deck much more enjoyable. As long as you’re making that choice on purpose, who am I to argue

@Drisoth @AikadoLoR I agree for regionals 100% and will be pulling a drisoth on every one from now on. Except for when Zed comes out 💀

We're going into only set 3 and there's already soooooo many legends in this game. Can't even imagine what it'll be like right before rotation end of next year. Insane amounts of options to play in this game. Let alone for best ofs at RQs

@MreMOEtional @AikadoLoR x.com/dysislucia/sta…

Lucian is a great deck, and tbf I beat the decks I meant to beat. But too much random stuff to lose to. I love playing the good deck that counters the most brought decks, but I just don’t think that’s a thing at regionals with these wide fields. I’d still bring Lucian to a grassroot $25k for example, just not to a regional.

@MreMOEtional @AikadoLoR Lucian 🧐

@AikadoLoR I Hear @Drisoth whisper “just play the best deck” in my ear every time I think about my deck choice for a regional

@MreMOEtional “Boost” “crank” “boost” “boost” “crank” “gun”

My first FaB tournament I had to simultaneously explain to my opponent how it was my fist time playing in person and touching a FaB card so to please bare with me on learning the zones and not knowing all of their cards, and also explain to them that I know how to play and I deterministically killed them all by memorizing my deck.

Top 8ed a RTN while having to ask every opp how much life they start at.

Lost in semis, but got to my dinner plans with exactly 5 minutes to spare. Max EV obtained.

The further this goes the more people think I’m joking when I ask to read their format staple.

@SeffyrRB I assume its coming from trying to keep the quantity of metal cards given out under control, but I would prefer that to be handled by reducing the number of legends being released, rather than soft-rotating some.

@Drisoth Yeah, I am just super bummed that at some point the meta will revolve around which legends have metal cards and which don't.

Best of prizing is an incredible natural solution to people optimizing the fun out of the game, only thing I’d change would be giving a lesser version (prize wall) to the 2nd place also. Would want to see how things pan out with more legends before messing with stuff though.

@SeffyrRB Ah, I see what your issue is now. That's fair, not ideal for legal options to be excluded from the system. In comparison to having no best of system, still an upgrade, but I agree with your complaint now that I understand it.

@Drisoth Maybe you didnt understand, but im complaining about them taking options away.

@SeffyrRB I don't view that as an issue. It's an alternative way to compete, and complaining about being given more options does not seem reasonable to me. I could see creating a new tier to give to 2nd (per legend), and all of top 8, but the 1st place version should stay special.

@Drisoth Issue is that they wont keep best of prizing for every legal legend, so later we will financially incentivized to play the new shiny thing instead of the deck we really wanted to play.

@darkodius @MajiinBaeLoR On top of the very good game recommendation you two also managed to get me a 150% return on investment

@Drisoth @MajiinBaeLoR Wow it's almost like we know card games.

In search of people to shill me on any of FaB, Riftbound, and Magic.

@MreMOEtional I don't think the time warp was a good outcome, but this really quickly ends up in a bottomless pile of edge cases and insanely granular legalese. Broadly you'd rather people call judges more, not less, so I'd be pretty skittish about making it worse to call a judge.

@MreMOEtional This line is a lot murkier than you seem to think it is. If I can get a "Yes" to "If I hextech ray a sand soldier, will it die", then judges are allowed to answer hypotheticals. Once you have to legislate, which hypotheticals they can answer this gets really messy.

Btw this “you can take back an action if no new information gained” rule needs to be clarified or something. If my opponent plays a timewarp, then after we agree it resolves they learn it doesn’t work how they thought, there’s 0% chance they should be able to take it back. I’m kind of over all of these scenarios and rules that make it feel like mastering your deck isn’t necessary and you can just misplay or play poorly and still be rewarded for. Time rules, rewind rules, all of it