Some people are willing to tough it out and sacrifice their own wants once the magic is gone and your bored of the other person. Others are not. Marriage isn't the 50 year commitment it used to be.
I was raised catholic. Over the years, it disgusted me how many bad people go to church and pretend to be honest, wholesome people. Alcoholics, wife beaters, cheaters and evil people all putting on an act of decency once a week.
As I progressed in school, I got deeper involved in math and science, slowly realizing that god didn't fit in any of this and I've never seen any hard evidence otherwise.
The history channel and the science channel proves the idea of god wrong every day. As we learn more, we learn that all the things we attributed to god can be naturally explained. Unfortunately, given how amazing and vast this universe is, they'll always have SOMETHING to fall back on, and acredit to god. Ugh.
I learned that catholicism started as nothing more than a small cult, which grew in popularity and became mainstream. But really, its no different than david koresh or other fanatical cults, except that it won the popularity contest.
I recognize that every single civilization that ever existed put faith into some deity which does carry some significance, but given that every single one believes in something completely different, we can't really say that any of them is correct.
I do believe religion teaches people how to be good people as they grow, and gives them a moral foundation on how to live your life. But I think this could be done without lies and this big facade of BS.
Nowadays, in my older age I firmly believe that religion is simply how people cope with the idea that life is miserable, and by believing in something it brings them comfort and peace. My life is miserable and nobody loves me. Oh wait, I can make up a divine being who loves me. Now somebody loves me and my life has meaning.
I wish deeply, that if there is a higher power, and that power was loving at all of us humans, it would enter my life. Because frankly, lately I've been feeling like putting my head down on some train tracks. I have been struggling with finances, with life, finding work, keeping the bills paid, and all I see is this neverending grind of eating, ****ting, sleeping, and working, for no grander reason than to just keep grinding and die anyways of old age. I have a wife and a son, I love them, I still have thoughts of suicide.
I was in this boat a couple years ago. I worked rediculous hours, I was in stupid amounts of debt, and I was never happy. I bought a house. Then I totalled my acura and bought another, adding a new monthly payment to the list of bills. Then my company cut the profit sharing program. Then due to new federal laws restricting how the banks can rip people off, my bank kicked all my cards up to 30% apr. Then my ac/furnace died. And then... and then... and then....
I lived life every day (unhappily) for the sole purpose of paying off debts. I never had any money to myself, and every month it just got worse. At 30 something I'm still not married and have no children, so I feel like I haven't accomplished anything in life. After doing this for several years, I was honestly thinking about selling everything, packing up and moving on to try a completely different life.
Things are much better now. Work has improved and I make a lot more money lately. Debts have been payed off and I'm almost in the clear. I have no credit card debt at the moment. I've learned that I'd rather have less and owe nothing, than have everything and owe collectors my soul. I quit smoking too so I feel WAY healther all the time. I'm not tired any more, and don't feel like laying on the couch doing nothing all day like in the past.
So... maybe theres light at the end of the tunnel for you too. Just gotta keep your head above water and continue the grind
Ah very nice. I had greatly considered going UB for the mill deck. But since I failed to acquire the 4x Glimpse the Unthinkableand lost every auction on 4x Drowned Catacomb I really couldn't justify adding the black.
Good card for future build if I ever do acquire enough B. That other creature too.
OMG Twin Cast is a great idea. Not only could I double a Sanity Grinding or traumatize, but counter a counterspell. And I have 4 in inventory.
Given my experience at the group games last weekend I'm gonna keep the witchbane orbs. I dont like being forced to discard every turn, being hit with haunting echos, having an aura on me that forces all my creatures to attack every turn, being forced to sacrafice ~5 creatures in one game
I do very much like Into the Roil and plan to utilize that in the revamped build. I might combine that and counterspell with Isochron Scepter
I think I am also leaning to heavily on creatures to do my milling. Thinking about rolling 4 Sanity Grinding since its a solid blue deck.
Also considering adding control magics and Dominating Licid. Not only do these remove a threat from the board, but puts it into my hands.
Jaces Erasure - well my thinking was, in a draw 2 down 2 game, if you had even two of these in play, thats 40 cards milled over 10 turns. It really does add up. The other choice could be Memory Erosion but this one seems to get the attention of the entire table, since all opponents are affected. Its swiftly dealt with. Unless I plan on that and use it as an OB ring/Naturalize dampener
I'm deciding between arcanis, and Recurring Insight . Both expensive mana. Arcanis has U additional blue in his casting cost which might help the Sanity Grinding. Another option is dropping the cloaks + scalpelexis and ditch that idea... both which are bad for sanity grinding... but really really fun to play. Go with a couple Redirect or something else instead, which I could also imprint onto a scepter
Hello all. I've been struggling to put together a solid blue milling deck and would like any comments or opinions. This is for a casual format, often 2HG or 3HG and usually up 2 down 2.
A good draw for me is at least 1 crab and one of the nonbasic lands to repeatedly bounce back to my hand. If I get some luck with the crabs and Jace's erasure I can mill a 60 card library in no time. The Archivist combined with multiple Jace's erasure in play tears through a library too. Not only is a player drawing a new hand from their library, they are getting milled for every card I drew. Every turn that I can use the Archivist =) Other cards in the deck are for some defense while milling, and card draw.
Well, it does alright against 1-2 players but in team games it gets utterly destroyed, repeatedly. From OB rings, chainers, vindicates, disenchants, naturalize, terror and countless other cards. And if nothing else, it gets ran over by swarms of creatures. Basically, I'm just playing cards for other people to blow up every turn.
I think I tried 5 games straight in a group setting and failed miserably at all of them. I've never had the Archivist survive more than 1 turn. People identify what hes going to do to them with the Erasures out and he is swiftly taken care of, even with the cloaks. The cloak seams nothing more than a 'small hinderance' in a group setting; OB ring and naturalize will take care of that shortly, or something that forces me to sacrafice him.
In dry runs it takes what.... a handful of turns to kill a player. Yet in practice, that has NEVER happened. So fustrated at this point I'm thinking of dropping the whole idea.
As I progressed in school, I got deeper involved in math and science, slowly realizing that god didn't fit in any of this and I've never seen any hard evidence otherwise.
The history channel and the science channel proves the idea of god wrong every day. As we learn more, we learn that all the things we attributed to god can be naturally explained. Unfortunately, given how amazing and vast this universe is, they'll always have SOMETHING to fall back on, and acredit to god. Ugh.
I learned that catholicism started as nothing more than a small cult, which grew in popularity and became mainstream. But really, its no different than david koresh or other fanatical cults, except that it won the popularity contest.
I recognize that every single civilization that ever existed put faith into some deity which does carry some significance, but given that every single one believes in something completely different, we can't really say that any of them is correct.
I do believe religion teaches people how to be good people as they grow, and gives them a moral foundation on how to live your life. But I think this could be done without lies and this big facade of BS.
Nowadays, in my older age I firmly believe that religion is simply how people cope with the idea that life is miserable, and by believing in something it brings them comfort and peace. My life is miserable and nobody loves me. Oh wait, I can make up a divine being who loves me. Now somebody loves me and my life has meaning.
I was in this boat a couple years ago. I worked rediculous hours, I was in stupid amounts of debt, and I was never happy. I bought a house. Then I totalled my acura and bought another, adding a new monthly payment to the list of bills. Then my company cut the profit sharing program. Then due to new federal laws restricting how the banks can rip people off, my bank kicked all my cards up to 30% apr. Then my ac/furnace died. And then... and then... and then....
I lived life every day (unhappily) for the sole purpose of paying off debts. I never had any money to myself, and every month it just got worse. At 30 something I'm still not married and have no children, so I feel like I haven't accomplished anything in life. After doing this for several years, I was honestly thinking about selling everything, packing up and moving on to try a completely different life.
Things are much better now. Work has improved and I make a lot more money lately. Debts have been payed off and I'm almost in the clear. I have no credit card debt at the moment. I've learned that I'd rather have less and owe nothing, than have everything and owe collectors my soul. I quit smoking too so I feel WAY healther all the time. I'm not tired any more, and don't feel like laying on the couch doing nothing all day like in the past.
So... maybe theres light at the end of the tunnel for you too. Just gotta keep your head above water and continue the grind
Good card for future build if I ever do acquire enough B. That other creature too.
Given my experience at the group games last weekend I'm gonna keep the witchbane orbs. I dont like being forced to discard every turn, being hit with haunting echos, having an aura on me that forces all my creatures to attack every turn, being forced to sacrafice ~5 creatures in one game
Its almost unfair.
I use artifact lands like Seat of the Synod and usually sacrifice one for Tinker.
It is however, extremely disappointing when they OB ring or unsummon the creature you Tinkered out. =(
I do very much like Into the Roil and plan to utilize that in the revamped build. I might combine that and counterspell with Isochron Scepter
I think I am also leaning to heavily on creatures to do my milling. Thinking about rolling 4 Sanity Grinding since its a solid blue deck.
Also considering adding control magics and Dominating Licid. Not only do these remove a threat from the board, but puts it into my hands.
Jaces Erasure - well my thinking was, in a draw 2 down 2 game, if you had even two of these in play, thats 40 cards milled over 10 turns. It really does add up. The other choice could be Memory Erosion but this one seems to get the attention of the entire table, since all opponents are affected. Its swiftly dealt with. Unless I plan on that and use it as an OB ring/Naturalize dampener
I'm deciding between arcanis, and Recurring Insight . Both expensive mana. Arcanis has U additional blue in his casting cost which might help the Sanity Grinding. Another option is dropping the cloaks + scalpelexis and ditch that idea... both which are bad for sanity grinding... but really really fun to play. Go with a couple Redirect or something else instead, which I could also imprint onto a scepter
A redraft might look like this
4 Jace's Erasure
4 Sanity Grinding
3 Counterspell
3 Into the Roil
2 Traumatize
Creatures - 16
4 Hedron Crab
3 Control Magic
2 Jace's Archivist
2 Dominating Licid
2 Scalpelexis
1 Roil elemental
1 Arcanis the Omnipotent
1 Fate Spinner
2 Witchbane Orb
2 Whispersilk Cloak
2 Isochron Scepter
1 Keening Stone
1 Sol Ring
Lands
2 Undiscovered Paradise
2 Oboro, Palace in the Clouds
16 Island
2 SpellSkite
3 Whispersilk Cloak
1 Keening Stone
1 Sol Ring
Creatures
4 Hedron Crab
1 Arcanis the Omnipotent
2 Riddle Keeper
3 Jace's Archivist
2 Fate Spinner
4 Phyrexian Metamorph
2 Scalpelexis
2 Roil Elemental
4 Jace's Erasure
1 Jace Beleren
1 Mind Spring
2 Traumatize
3 Memory Erosion
2 Dissipation Field
Lands
16 Island
2 Undiscovered Paradise
2 Oboro, Palace in the Clouds
A good draw for me is at least 1 crab and one of the nonbasic lands to repeatedly bounce back to my hand. If I get some luck with the crabs and Jace's erasure I can mill a 60 card library in no time. The Archivist combined with multiple Jace's erasure in play tears through a library too. Not only is a player drawing a new hand from their library, they are getting milled for every card I drew. Every turn that I can use the Archivist =) Other cards in the deck are for some defense while milling, and card draw.
Well, it does alright against 1-2 players but in team games it gets utterly destroyed, repeatedly. From OB rings, chainers, vindicates, disenchants, naturalize, terror and countless other cards. And if nothing else, it gets ran over by swarms of creatures. Basically, I'm just playing cards for other people to blow up every turn.
I think I tried 5 games straight in a group setting and failed miserably at all of them. I've never had the Archivist survive more than 1 turn. People identify what hes going to do to them with the Erasures out and he is swiftly taken care of, even with the cloaks. The cloak seams nothing more than a 'small hinderance' in a group setting; OB ring and naturalize will take care of that shortly, or something that forces me to sacrafice him.
In dry runs it takes what.... a handful of turns to kill a player. Yet in practice, that has NEVER happened. So fustrated at this point I'm thinking of dropping the whole idea.
Any advice welcome