Shark Stunter

Just a capsuleer floating in space. Also, happenings in my imaginary dreamworld of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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@MTGCal @winstonchamora You going to post some actually good cards or just post random ones

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@winstonchamora @MTGCal I'm still trying to find any actually powerful cards in the last three years and "Bear that is a mana ramper" being the highest pull is incredibly sad.

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@Pimpdonny @wildstwawberry I liked it when secret lair was print to demand, so everyone could order it and get it at a reasonable price. Quantity limiting and artificial scarcity is what generates scalpers in the first place, as seen by the Pokemon TCG.

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@SaffronOlive Jitte unban is fucking wild.

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@SonRebell People play standard? I thought everyone only plays commander or draft.

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@Metallix87 @SaffronOlive I'm more impressed it's survived the last six years, with sets getting worse and worse and worse with every set.

How are people even still playing, let alone playing the premier format of Standard, with cards this unfathomably bad and still crying about power levels?

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@pickin_pines @wildstwawberry @MillThat Hell even the mass bannings of 2019-2020 were unnecessary at all and just kneejerk reaction to mass opinion. The only need to bans from that era were field, oko, and agent.

And clearly they don't play test their cards because literally every nonland card is bad.

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@pickin_pines @wildstwawberry @MillThat Are we playing the same game? Because the power level is so far in the toilet that I don't know how people still praise it.

Standard is just glorified draft decks and has been that way since brothers war.

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@xoskiyiaa Glad to see you're back again~

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@WillErker They just don't print the actually good cards anymore. #BoltForStandard

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@Djmoyer23 @adamwasmo I'm not talking about UB, I'm talking about magic in general. Card power has been slipping since Ikoria and every time I think that a set can't get any worse the next spoiler season starts and I'm appalled at the things they're printing.

I genuinely miss Oko and Lurrus.

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@Djmoyer23 @adamwasmo I just miss the days when cards were naturally good and archetypes were open.

"There's so much diversity now!" Yes but it's more of a question of what flavor of control you want to play since aggro has been dead since Theros/Ikoria and was executed by the printing of Sheoldred.

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@tirentu I wish we saw the same formats, since Standard and Pioneer are so simple. Play the cards that say "Discard" or "Destroy" or "Exile" and you just fucking win.

There is no variation to what I experience, and it's infuriating to know others are seeing wildly different metas.

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@MnnMouse_RL @SaffronOlive Not ragebait, 100% honesty.

Jund is the most unfair magic you could ever play, and is the poster child for degenerate control you could find next to UW "Land-Go", except Jund gets to do everything UW does for a *third* of the mana cost.

Also Thoughtseize was a mistake of a card

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@SaffronOlive Here's a better solution to the companion thing in commander: you just don't.

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@Funk_fu749 @SaffronOlive @Theasianavenger I wish I had whatever metagame you have because my metagame across every format has been "If it moves it fucking dies" since Neon Dynasty.

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@Funk_fu749 @SaffronOlive @Theasianavenger I mean in a format ruled by control you just had to eke value whenever you could. Aggro hasn't been viable in years.

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@Funk_fu749 @SaffronOlive @Theasianavenger Nor was playing hearse or soul-guide lantern, but people apparently think that's not what the sideboard is for.