If you thought deck building advice was bad here, you should join random Facebook MTG groups. I post an Ugin Oathbreaker deck and it takes minutes for “AdD tRoN lAnDs.” to flood in. Okay, what do I cut? The answer is always “lands that are really useful at most stages of the game.” That’s cool and all but....”
Edit: Mod meetup right now at Wildfire's house. We're playing my cube, and bobthefunny just went infinite with Palinchron, E-Wit, and Rite of Replication, flipping Erayo in the process. He got there from Prophet of Kruphix and Primeval Titan (his Protean Hulk is currently nerfed by Anafenza). So Sheldon, what I'm saying is you guys are doing a good job.
So here I am, waiting to be able to spare the money to buy a drill so I can build a little something something; I need to get the holes in it to be bigger so I can thread through them to hold it together, right?
Well not 7 feet away from my computer is Fishing Line, which is easily able to thread through the thing and hold it together. So there goes three months of not doing a damn thing :/
"something something" sounds like a sex swing. Or something along those lines.
Hopefully that works. If not, my username there is JWK, you can find my profile and a list of my decks.
That looks pretty close to the deck I rough drafted last night. Also, that looks like what I think of as "an 80% deck" - not hyper aggressive but getting close to being optimized for casual play.
After not having an EDH deck in a while I built Meren for our weekly gathering a couple weeks ago. I was one of 5 people with Meren decks in a group of 11... Crap. Now I need to make another deck but this time I think I want to go with Karlov. Anyone have a fun 80% list?
The cyan ink in my printer ran out, so nothing will print now. So, I order ink on eBay thinking that will solve the problem. The new ink goes in fine, but doesn't let me print.
I somehow punch out the printer and destroy it - there's glass all over the place with a mangled LCD display.
I know have tons of new ink and it'll be cheaper to get a new printer.
Speaking of the mail.... today I go outside and our beat up pos community mail box has been replaced with a new plasticised deal with a place for packages and even an envelope drop. HUGE upgrade from what we had before.
Of course the 10 of us on the culdesac don't have keys because nobody gave them to us. Awesome.
...lets put things in perspective. If a woman in the 1700's can go from prostitute to taking charge in a man's world, accumulating the largest pirate fleet to ever sail under a single leader, write a code of laws preventing rape of other women by a group of the most lawless men to ever exist, and enforce it, and then subsequently defeat three of the strongest navies of the era, and then finally negotiate her own amnesty with the government, including placing her husband as a ranking officer in the navy (which he used to eliminate their old rivals), and retire wealthy and well respected - then I think it can be said that there is hope for even anyone of even the lowest starting blocks in life.
Let's put that in perspective.... you're talking about ONE person. One person who was at the right place at the right time with the right set of circumstances. I can almost guarantee you that she wasn't this rogue individual either used to propagate the "individual genius" myth surrounding her. The fact that centuries later she is used as an example of what you are talking about speaks more to how rare it is than how it's a way to treat life. Statistically, the stars align for people when there are millions/billions of people out looking for that super hero life, but those same odds also say that someone will win the lottery. On that note, my idiot relatives all say "You can't win in you don't play." And they are technically right. Butty odds of winning and losing are so statistically similar that it doesn't make sense to spend the money on losing a sure thing when I can spend that money on something small and tangible in my life.
If you haven't read Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers I highly recommend it. It talks about this stuff and why the numbers are stacked against us from every making it big and it's just a good easy read too.
Tonight, instead of EDH or EDH Cube I was able to talk the group into playing Pauper. Because I love Pauper and others should too.
It was a blast. Sometimes with juggernaut formats it's easy to get stuck in these slow moving molasses style games and forget that you can have fun whipping through 15-20 games in a night with 3-4 decks. So much fun.
We all have the ability to greatly improve the lives of a small number of people around us. Even if that's all we ever do its a huge accomplishment and something to be proud of.
More importantly (and my point of this all) is that you shouldn't treat that like some consolation prize for failing your 18 year old self's ideals. Most of us were brainwashed into believing we "can do anything if you work hard and put your mind to it" when I wish I had been taught "You have one life, you weren't born into a power family, and you need to figure out how to do your thing to enjoy this limited opportunity as much as you can before it's over with."
WUBRGPauper Battle BoxWUBRG ... and why I am not a fan of Wayne Reynolds' Illustrations.
I never left.
WUBRGPauper Battle BoxWUBRG ... and why I am not a fan of Wayne Reynolds' Illustrations.
"something something" sounds like a sex swing. Or something along those lines.
WUBRGPauper Battle BoxWUBRG ... and why I am not a fan of Wayne Reynolds' Illustrations.
WUBRGPauper Battle BoxWUBRG ... and why I am not a fan of Wayne Reynolds' Illustrations.
WUBRGPauper Battle BoxWUBRG ... and why I am not a fan of Wayne Reynolds' Illustrations.
WUBRGPauper Battle BoxWUBRG ... and why I am not a fan of Wayne Reynolds' Illustrations.
WUBRGPauper Battle BoxWUBRG ... and why I am not a fan of Wayne Reynolds' Illustrations.
I somehow punch out the printer and destroy it - there's glass all over the place with a mangled LCD display.
I know have tons of new ink and it'll be cheaper to get a new printer.
WUBRGPauper Battle BoxWUBRG ... and why I am not a fan of Wayne Reynolds' Illustrations.
Of course the 10 of us on the culdesac don't have keys because nobody gave them to us. Awesome.
WUBRGPauper Battle BoxWUBRG ... and why I am not a fan of Wayne Reynolds' Illustrations.
WUBRGPauper Battle BoxWUBRG ... and why I am not a fan of Wayne Reynolds' Illustrations.
WUBRGPauper Battle BoxWUBRG ... and why I am not a fan of Wayne Reynolds' Illustrations.
WUBRGPauper Battle BoxWUBRG ... and why I am not a fan of Wayne Reynolds' Illustrations.
Let's put that in perspective.... you're talking about ONE person. One person who was at the right place at the right time with the right set of circumstances. I can almost guarantee you that she wasn't this rogue individual either used to propagate the "individual genius" myth surrounding her. The fact that centuries later she is used as an example of what you are talking about speaks more to how rare it is than how it's a way to treat life. Statistically, the stars align for people when there are millions/billions of people out looking for that super hero life, but those same odds also say that someone will win the lottery. On that note, my idiot relatives all say "You can't win in you don't play." And they are technically right. Butty odds of winning and losing are so statistically similar that it doesn't make sense to spend the money on losing a sure thing when I can spend that money on something small and tangible in my life.
If you haven't read Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers I highly recommend it. It talks about this stuff and why the numbers are stacked against us from every making it big and it's just a good easy read too.
WUBRGPauper Battle BoxWUBRG ... and why I am not a fan of Wayne Reynolds' Illustrations.
It was a blast. Sometimes with juggernaut formats it's easy to get stuck in these slow moving molasses style games and forget that you can have fun whipping through 15-20 games in a night with 3-4 decks. So much fun.
WUBRGPauper Battle BoxWUBRG ... and why I am not a fan of Wayne Reynolds' Illustrations.
More importantly (and my point of this all) is that you shouldn't treat that like some consolation prize for failing your 18 year old self's ideals. Most of us were brainwashed into believing we "can do anything if you work hard and put your mind to it" when I wish I had been taught "You have one life, you weren't born into a power family, and you need to figure out how to do your thing to enjoy this limited opportunity as much as you can before it's over with."
WUBRGPauper Battle BoxWUBRG ... and why I am not a fan of Wayne Reynolds' Illustrations.