Sophie Miller

I adore playing combo decks in card games. I wish there were a way to design a card game around combo matchups that makes any sense at all. Combo being so linear and trending towards having 80/20 or 20/80 matchups tends to lead towards it being unhealthy and leading to generally bad gameplay.

in Magic is really impactful I think. Maybe you can't get there without a sufficiently huge card pool, impossible for most new TCGs. But I do wonder how you would even go about trying to add hints of combo into modern TCGs. Or how you'd deal with organic combos that form as cardpools increase.

I adore playing combo decks in card games. I wish there were a way to design a card game around combo matchups that makes any sense at all. Combo being so linear and trending towards having 80/20 or 20/80 matchups tends to lead towards it being unhealthy and leading to generally bad gameplay.

And honestly it ruined the game completely how easy it was to infinite combo. STS2 started early access with a lot of combo ability, but they took most of that away, and now infinite comboing requires very specific setups or relics.

I adore playing combo decks in card games. I wish there were a way to design a card game around combo matchups that makes any sense at all. Combo being so linear and trending towards having 80/20 or 20/80 matchups tends to lead towards it being unhealthy and leading to generally bad gameplay.

of lockpieces and hate cards that exist make it so that combo can exist and be healthy in a lot of metagames. Yu-gi-Oh goes the other way where every deck is combo or prison (Yu-gi-Oh players please don't argue this you live in a different world than I). I think that kinda sucks personally.

I adore playing combo decks in card games. I wish there were a way to design a card game around combo matchups that makes any sense at all. Combo being so linear and trending towards having 80/20 or 20/80 matchups tends to lead towards it being unhealthy and leading to generally bad gameplay.

It’s wild how Weezer had 1 critically unsuccessful album and it broke rivers’ brain so hard that they became a horrendous hit-chasing pop group for like 25 years in a row. Literally the most “they used to be good” band ever. There’s some bangers in their post Pinkerton catalogue but it’s bleak af.

Feels like i'm kinda just withering away doing work and not much else of note lately. Certainly depression and anxiety. But also hard to find a new hobby or social outlet now that I am so turned off by Magic, which is where 99% of my friends came from the last 10 years.

I love my job, but it's also so draining. It's a lot. I feel too exhausted to do much of anything on weekends and evenings other than rot in bed and play video games or watch youtube. At least when the NBA was on that was something to follow, now even that feels empty.

We lost 3 win and ins in a row lol. Individually I went 0-5-1, neobrand felt completely unplayable. Was excited to top 8 with no round wins for a second tho lol