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One day I’ll be able to upgrade a flight to first class. Today is not that day.

I have this whole cycle in my commander cube. They’re great!

I love crossing the street at the 90 off ramp. With the light. Off ramp has a red light. I am wearing white and a high vis safety vest. My dog is wearing a reflective vest.

Had to yell at a driver that apparently couldn’t see us as he kept coming forward. Into the cross walk.

I’m so happy all our prereleases are sold out. It’s a good sign for drafts and the upcoming standard “season” doing well. Holidays will always throw a wrench but I’ll take these wins for the store.

My family hates my man bun too! My mom, brother, and sister. But I love it and my wife loves it, so we keep rocking the bun.

I used to referee soccer at the rec complex, one of the other refs told me about this game he played. I had a million questions and got hooked once my brother and I played using the 7th ed starter with the comic to teach you.

Heck yeah is it! I’ve gained over 30 life with this in 60 card multiplayer back in college.

People responding to Wumping the Table has me thinking about making a stupid deck to pull it off. Like BW with Thrashing Wumpus and Pestilence Demon.
Some auras for pro creatures or pro black. Some stuff for lifelink.

This is not good. But this hasn’t left my mind since I posted the pic.

Sadly it was only ever okay. But giving it protection from black is hilarious!

A baby wumpus (big beast creature) breaks through ice looking very upset with life. The card is 3BB Thrashing Wumpus a 3/3 beast. B:Thrashing Wumpus deals 1 damage to each creature and each player.

Only one card lets you “Wump the table”

Thrashing Wumpus!!!

Dial in the precons for level setting making sure those provide on ramp.

Talk with RC about lowering the starting life to 30. It makes aggro more viable without overhauls and decks using life as a resource a little closer to normal game design.

Make deckbuilder toolkit for commander prodcut.

RPG campaign is having another off week. I know life happens, I’m not blaming anyone in the group.

But I feel like we’re missing weeks more than gaming and it does not spark joy for GMing. Considering pitching weekly to rebuild consistency (currently play every other week).

YouTube video by Pie Break Burn It Down: Taking Apart Your Decks | Commander Sphere Presents A Magic The Gathering Video Essay

I blame this video/podcast youtu.be/ymBLUsjcdQs for having me all excited to scrap decks when fall hits fully.
Vivi is likely cut for playing a little too solitaire.
Rip is solid, but I think the two decks I’ve built recently capture my goals better.
And the Clue commanders are calling to me.

Games take too long to finish if you’re waiting for a friend but everyone waiting for the last person to start is kind of butts.

Also how a bunch of gamer food is terrible to eat and game. Pizza is greasy, sandwiches are great but easily drip. Need more utensil based foods at game night.

This!!

I’ve been putting more restrictions on myself because I’ve been playing against more people with stock or barely modded precons.

This is my problem with so many cards. I’ll throw together stuff from a box and the deck is suddenly over $400 if someone else bought it all today.

This is awesome! I’m torn about it not exiling with counters so recasting Koh can’t keep old stuff. But this is probably the design that better long term.

When the Partial Paris mulligan went away, why didn’t commander keep the exile bit to minimize shuffling?

What if we only shuffle once during mulligans? Just exile the hand, draw new hand, repeat. Shuffle your exiled cards and then bottom any cards to reduce your starting hand for the mulligan.

Going with work! Excited to game, shop, and get an egg and cheese on a roll!

Man I miss east coast breakfast.

Took apart a couple decks. Built some new ones. Some rpg prep work for Saturday is tomorrow’s big goal.

Today the dog gets a bath and the dishes are cleaned and put away.

Later this week- possible rebuild of Oros? He’s been on various equipment builds for a while.

Big walk, in a park, while listening to music or a podcast or something. The movement is critical. But also critical is something to mentally focus on so that you don’t keep circling that low point with your thoughts.

I struggle with combo because the social nature of the game disincentivizes some of the best tools against combo (hand attack and resource denial).

And playing combo too often feels like playing solitaire.

Threw together a Mr Orfeo deck running a bunch of the vanilla legends and stuff like Quakestrider Ceratops. Attacking with ceratops, double power into disciple of bolas to draw 24 cards and gain 24 life was amazing. This deck is so fun! Whip of Erebos is by far the MVP.

I beat Liz at Shobu for the first time in years! It may have been a while since she played and she forgot. But I haven’t won a game since like 2022. I will take this win against her!

This is opposite my challenges. I struggle to not quickly hit the point of “oops I basically just combo out now” with aristocrats.

I do run into decks in the wild with way too many payoff cards for sacrifice but not enough stuff to generate anything to sacrifice.

10 years, 1,200+ shortened Commander games, and 100,000 subscribers

What a wild trip this has been!

I think it’s time for me to retire Oona, Queen of the Fae. I really enjoy this deck, but it never performs how I would like. Maybe I can revisit this in next year or in two years and see what I can pull off then.

Low key think this is why they added them together.

They do the conflated variable thing a lot, really curbs the survey usefulness in general.

Man, I actually liked the set and survey is closed. Love the welcome decks for teaching and they captured a bunch of characters well.

Rip, Spawn Hunter is such a fun commander. I love playing this against some friends precons and other bracket 2 nonsense at my store. Still WIP, but it’s fun running something not my usual style- and it’s a GW deck I haven’t scrapped after like two games!

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