MTG Salvation

Yep. If nothing else, this scrubby playgroup has spawned this thread, which does have me wondering if I can use Tainted Aether (a card I'd never even considered for token decks, TBH) in Ghave with some of the "when a creature dies, put a +1/+1 counter on CARDNAME" creatures to streamline the process of saprolings entering and dying while limiting their ability to make more creatures to counter Grave Pact, so some good has come out of it. But then I realized, meh, Ashnod's Altar does the first thing better, and each Grave Pact trigger costs a total of 2.

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Yep. If nothing else, this scrubby playgroup has spawned this thread, which does have me wondering if I can use Tainted Aether (a card I'd never even considered for token decks, TBH) in Ghave with some of the "when a creature dies, put a +1/+1 counter on CARDNAME" creatures to streamline the process of saprolings entering and dying while limiting their ability to make more creatures to counter Grave Pact, so some good has come out of it. But then I realized, meh, Ashnod's Altar does the first thing better, and each Grave Pact trigger costs a total of 2.

Interesting use of tainted AEther tbh. I should probably try one in Alesha to generate pressure and sac loops off my trigger. Huh.

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I agree with others that you need to change groups.

Until then maybe ask if you can come back in and not mention LD anymore. It seems this group are all happy with there own house rules and nothing you say will change their minds.

I messaged the person in charge of the chat right after I was kicked. No response. The only communication I have now is the guy at work. I talked to him and asked him to relay a message to the chat. Long story short, they voted and don't want me back in.

I then asked him if that one guy could at least reach out to me. Through the guy at work, I got a 'no'.

Funny thing is I have never played an unfun deck or strategy. Never have I skirted around the house rules. All this was because of me being pushy [in the facebook chat] on cards that both just came out and were ideas for a deck (never played).

That's really lame on their part, but you'll probably be better off.

I don't understand why suggesting a different POV is ever a bad thing. Even if you decide to not adopt the different POV, you can learn stuff by listening and thinking about it.

There is a subgroup of the local Commander crowd who build and play much more competitively-minded, combo-focused decks than I prefer, but I like watching their games now and then, and occasionally play a few games with them, just because I learn different things about card interactions and tight deck synergy by viewing and playing against their decks than I do by just playing against people who approach the game more the way I do. Some of them run the same tired combos we've been seeing for years, but some of them are really creative and occasionally one of those guys will find amazing uses for cards that I've had sitting around for years but never managed to really make work.

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Yep. If nothing else, this scrubby playgroup has spawned this thread, which does have me wondering if I can use Tainted Aether (a card I'd never even considered for token decks, TBH) in Ghave with some of the "when a creature dies, put a +1/+1 counter on CARDNAME" creatures to streamline the process of saprolings entering and dying while limiting their ability to make more creatures to counter Grave Pact, so some good has come out of it. But then I realized, meh, Ashnod's Altar does the first thing better, and each Grave Pact trigger costs a total of 2.

Interesting use of tainted AEther tbh. I should probably try one in Alesha to generate pressure and sac loops off my trigger. Huh.

The trick is to know when to either destroy it or use Hushwing Gryff.