Dana Roach

Dana Roach

@danaroach.bsky.social

He/him | EDHRECast and CMDR Central | Writer @ http://EDHREC.com and http://commandersherald.com | Black/trans lives matter | His mom says he’s handsome.

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Everyone prepping their new busted cmdrs from Reality Fracture and Star Trek for #mcatlanta and I'm here putting together Radha, Coalition Warlord vehicles to beat y'alls asses.

"Trust me bro, it works." Every person asking for deck help running while 31 lands in their three color bracket 2 deck with an avg mana value of 3.86

Does it make me a bad person that I’m kinda excited to eventually see influencers livestream their first attempts to use a flying Tesla?

I accidentally got 9 hours of sleep last night and felt great all day. Obviously that kind of extreme lifestyle isn’t at all sustainable but still.

To be fair there are some variants, like "did you know about [super obvious combo]" or "I can't wait to build [strongest commander from the newest set]".

Fateful Discovery is not a may and if you cast Second Harvest with Academy Manufactor out you will deck yourself in spectacular fashion by drawing 377. 377 cards, for those doing the math, is more than you’d find in most commander decks.

RC wording often gets used as a permission structure. Say that B3 games shouldn't end before T6? That gives a bunch of players permission to try to end all their games exactly on T6. Remove the "few tutors" language from B2? That gives players permission to run 14 non-GC tutors, etc.

Dana Roach@danaroach.bsky.social

I say this constantly but the amount of people who think the Bracket system is something meant to be gamified is a giant problem the RC needs to address.

Not understanding why someone wouldn't like stax (or pretending to not understand) is soooooo much weirder than not liking stax. If you don't get that a lot of people might dislike not getting to play they game they sat to play, your brain is so smooth you could see your reflection in the surface.

I say this constantly but the amount of people who think the Bracket system is something meant to be gamified is a giant problem the RC needs to address.

I totally understand why folks love "if you do X, do X a second time" on a Cmdr. It's powerful and gives you a really clear build path. Oh boy do I hate seeing that on a card though. I realize that's prob a me thing but there's not much I like to see less on a card across the table from me.

Just people constantly telling on themselves. "If a card doesn't cost 1 mana and win the game when cast it doesn't do enough work to carry my subpar deck and mediocre playing to victory!"

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Me before the god pack announcement and booster change: Buy singles and don’t get caught up in influencer pack cracking hype. Me after the god pack announcement and booster change: Buy singles and don’t get caught up in influencer pack cracking hype.

Reminder: The Bracket system isn't like wrestling weight classes where you spit in a bottle to cut water weight so you can weigh in at 159.98 for the 160lbs and under division. If you're trying to push max power without technically going to the next Bracket you're doing it wrong and/or in bad faith.

1. 32 lands is not enough for your Bracket 3 deck to work and 2. If 32 to lands is in fact enough for your Bracket 3 deck to work, it's not really a Bracket 3 deck.

Peter Thiel is a school shooter with extra steps.

Techmeme@techmeme.com

US officials say overreliance on Palantir's Maven AI system was among the factors that contributed to a February missile strike in Iran that killed 123 children (Bloomberg) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

EDH hot take: A lot, if not most, Commander players don't actually like Commander; they just like winning, and they like winning as easily and effortlessly as possible. EDH is just the format they're currently using to facilitate getting those wins.

If WoTC printed a legend today called Winnar the Game-Winner that cost 1 and had haste and a tap: win target game ability, hundreds of content creators would be making posts about how excited they are to put together a Winnar list, because it just gets their brewing juices flowing.

None of that is to say winning isn't fun, because it absolutely is. I'm trying to win every single time I sit down. But how I get those wins matters a whole lot. And the reality is, how they get those wins doesn't matter at all to a bunch of players. Getting the win as the only end goal.

My current favorite type of EDH Insta post some variant on “If you play these commanders you have amazing taste!” followed by a list of legends so basic they should be stickers on an Owala water bottle.

I can answer that; because he's a stupid, cruel person engaged in toxic behavior for a stupid, cruel voting base that confuses toxic behavior for strength. Saved you the click.

There's no such thing as an anti-vaxxer; they're just dangerously stupid people with no concern for anyone around them and we should stop treating them otherwise.

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social

Two people have died in Pennsylvania from measles, the state health department said. Both were unvaccinated. These the first deaths related to measles within the state in 35 years, it reports

Fucking THIS.

This is what the growth of surveillance is going to bring. Not safety from crime, but new, non-criminal acts redefined as criminal so as to give the police an excuse to exercise power. local12.com/news/offbeat...

I've seen this before. Republicans destroy the economy, voters elect Democrats, Democrats don't fix it fast enough, so voters elect Republicans again. Rinse and repeat. The Slenderman is gonna run on the GOP ticket in 2032 and he'll win because the Dems didn't fix Trumps catastrophe fast enough.

Jesse Felder@jessefelder.com

‘The US Treasury is playing with fire. As Japan shows, once you go down this road, it can be hard - if not impossible - to stop your currency from falling.‘ robinjbrooks.substack.com/p/dollar-deb... by @robin-j-brooks.bsky.social

To be fair our sell-out bitch-ass corporate centrist Democratic Party actually doesn't fix things fast enough, but even those milquetoast spinless dorks are better than whatever Cenobite the GOP is gonna nominate.

Sub-Zero ripped out Jeffries' spine years ago.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Jeffries stop short of committing to holding a vote to abolish ICE is he's House Speaker next January, but says he's "committed to dramatically reforming ICE ... the masks should come off, body cameras should come on, judicial warrants should be required."

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Golden State Valkyries forward Gabby Williams: “There’s a lot of discourse around trans athletes and what they can compete in. I would welcome a trans athlete on my team or against my team. Anytime. I don’t think it’s a problem in the world, it’s just another way to kind of attack trans people.”

Listen, don't make a post titled What Do My Commanders Say About Me if you don't want me to tell you they say you think Olive Garden is a classy restaurant.

One thing I do with decks is make every creature in the list fit the deck's theme in some way. For one it gives a deck character so I'm not just jamming Esper Sentinel into every white deck, etc. But frankly at this point with so many set coming out it just makes it easy to ignore cards.