Shuu (Carter)

Sooo fuckin hyped for your brackets gamer this shit always so awesome to see

I could kiss you rn big bro

We can still fix her

It could have been a really cool CnC for Betsy that can be sent for 1 resource + surge with the downside of blocking 2!!!

I'd take it as a 6 attack I'd be pumping it up by 1 anyway

Wage gold should have been a 2 cost

I'll die on this hill you get to do way cooler shit and justify the 2 block if putting a seismic surge on this attack meant literally anything

I'm not letting you have this one deathbladekiller

That's what I'm saying!!! I hope they up it esp for like Pro Quest season (where people usually try a bit harder), because at the rate which heroes are being released and how hard the new heroes seem to make an impact on the meta I don't think we will hit their desired LL goal

If only one hero LLs off this RTN season I will be severely disappointed

1 is better than 0 ofc but I'd much rather have a slightly more aggressive rotation system than a slightly more passive one, especially at the rate which we are releasing heroes atm (Gonna be like 6 in the next 6 months?)

this one's like, the peak of cmvs and has shaped the genre for me since its release unfortunately

Made me look so fuckin good in this appreciate you sm

The rolling card is good IF MST wasn't overtuned, so it's great future-proofing but doesn't really help the current landscape

Betsy specifically needs a lot more support in other ways and I'm a little upset they're still waiting on giving her a real weapon (hopefully it's in the mastery set)

Oh yeah some people have asked

New guardian cards are pretty whatever

The boots are pretty awful and even if the rolling card helps with Enigma, it's still one of guardian's worst matchups + doesn't activate Anothos

If you are interested in guardian wait til mastery set lmao I'm playing Kassai rn

Reminds me of a crazy Sledge of Anvilheim Betsy build I want to run soon

Sledge isn't a once per turn action so if you generate quicken or agility tokens you can swing multiple times per turn

betsy

I know most people follow me for FAB but I just wanna be a bit emotional here on the tl

s/o to Pat for the photo, because I was having so much fun and I forgot to take any

will try to juggle my games better and continue to be a beating heart for the communities I love

prepping for this calling shit easy as hell wtf

I think on paper she looks really healthy, you can clear the wards by going tall or wide and she has to actively engage in defending with them

However once you actually start playing with it you realize you can just board 12 d-reacts and there goes the tall strat lol goodbye to tunic miragai

I think the more I stress out about my decklist and matchups and stuff, the more I'll get annoyed

I'll be getting my Calling practice on Friday anyway

Cardboard Diamonds is relatively new and small compared to the rest of the PDX scene, gets about 6-8 people on average according to my brother? Maybe more because people are flying in but I also heard the judge conference is tmrw so maybe less too lol

@lookinforascrap.bsky.social weigh in boss

Not playing a single fucking game of flesh and blood until friday lmao see y'all on the other side

I think a lot of his deckbuilding choices make sense in a vacuum, but there generally are better choices that you can make and even he says so himself in hindsight (snaps/give and take are big points)

But that's just release day so it's bound to happen, can't wait to see him do well with Ira again

That answers all of my main questions regarding the deck. Mariano also talks about his games and general matchup/gameplan, and I encourage you to watch the video to learn more about how he plays

If anything I have so much respect for him bc I think this deck is so suboptimal yet he clutched up LMAO

The reason he opted for Hundred Winds was mainly for a 0 cost go again so that he can threaten a Vambraces proc behind it, too.

Again, I'm personally a bigger believer in the Double Strike gameplan. Here, the vambrace + 2x Hundred Winds took the same amount of tech cards, anyway. Better w/Shuko too

Snapdragons help with this a lot, making it such that you essentially can give any 0-1 cost go again. I have never had a problem with needing wider pressure, and in the matchups where I felt like I needed it such as Enigma, I opted to tech in Double Strike instead, which synergizes great with Shuko.

While I can see why you would want more 3 block go agains in your deck, I just don't see the purpose of this card. You're paying 1 resource to go wide, essentially relying on tunic or another card to pitch for the 4th attack (Or, do only 1 kodachi which defeats the purpose of wanting to go wider)

Mariano talks about Give and Take a bit. He says that the main purpose of it was to be a 3 block, 1 cost go again combo piece to go wide if necessary. The effect does not matter for Ira that much here, and is more an unintended effect.

He also says it would be one of the first cards you could cut.

The blues (And the rowdy locals cut I assume) were chosen in such a way that Nuu could not effectively use any of it (No go agains, just tiny amounts of damage)

I actually agree with him here, and I can see a world where you drop Rowdy Locals if you expect a lot of Nuus, even with only 3 flic flak

Side note, he talks about his blue count here. I'm currently on 24 blues, and this list is on 23. He states that he tested with different blue ratios until he found one that is right, but in hindsight he states that the deck would probably function better with just 1 extra blue (putting it at 24)

I also believe that if your general goals are to target DIO/Aurora/Nuu, then the Wax On/Wax Off package is actually much more preferrable than changing your equipment.

Wax On targets a lot of those heroes' cards, and you are usually creating 1 or 2 Zen States in a game to help slow them down a lot