Dandan Secret Lair

Maybe someday they’ll get around to releasing it?

Oh, I’ve got a Q:

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Synechdoche, New York. Wikipedia tells me it’s a mere 123 minutes, but I could swear it was 4 hours. Manifestly brilliant, but once was enough.

I’d actually love a Bracket 1 episode of Extra Turns!

Further thoughts! When the pros are “sweet art” and the cons are “this is a conditional Phyrexian Arena”, maybe it’s time to build Bracket 1? Include all generations of Dragonclaws, cards that reference them, depict them, etc. Punch bears! I’m generally curious how you’d build bracket 1.

I feel like design has settled on “free value” as the overlap for those three colors. The only build I’ve been happy with is an Averna topdeck manipulation deck. Gaining some control over the randomness is fun!

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My group plays primarily in bracket two, bleeding over into three, and I still find myself focused primarily on 2- and 3-drops in the 99. Even sticking with budget cards, they can fill out a deck pretty easily.

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Receipts on Obliterator. Looking at the art, apparently an Obliterator is just a Negator without a chin spike?

I recently played an untrusted, ”bracket 2” game with a player who didn’t realize that his deck included at least four GC’s. We still played a second game and had a good time. If that guy had dropped a Vorinclex? Automatic scoop and ask him to find a different table.

I think the thing that got lost is that, if you’re deciding whether a card is banned in bracket two, there are two axes that matter: power, but also *misery*.

I regard these changes as pretty strong evidence that Gavin doesn’t realize that the second axis exists.

Vorinclex and Jin Gitaxias. Just what I was hoping for. They should make for some really delightful Bracket 2 games.

And Deflecting Swat? WTF is going on here?

Throwing Verilax the Havenskin in my Rigo W Denotion deck.

I dislike both proxies and this set, that’s the one design unique enough to make me fire up the printer.

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That’s why I keep them, many of them I don’t play because they’ve been rotated by power creep and I don’t care to retool them. There are a couple where I’m not excited about the play style any more. And of course there’s new stuff to build.

I have a decorative shelf with 14 decks, three of which I continue to update and play.

Pre-pandemic we had a big LGS with an awesome Commander night. They didn’t survive, but the decks are kind of a window back to that community.