typh - norah

the five horsemen of the ablockalypse

i've been trying to offload my ripple aways for like a month and a half and they just sneak in a lil "hey we might ban this btw" i can't believe LSS would steal so much money away from me /s

pq number 2! on boltyn again r1 L v marlynn, had a terrible opening hand because they didn’t attack me to filter at all. had a couple good hands in the middle, but then they chained turns with favorable, conqueror, 3oak, catch of the day, etc. and i couldn’t do anything the rest of the game lol

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r5 W v boltyn! i’m p sure i got there precisely because i was on tunic and they were on soulbond resolve, they kept charging cards for 1-2 value and never cashed out his soul. the soulbond resolve hate continues 😈 on the bubble, waiting to hear if i’m top 8 (prob not but oh well)

ended 10th! not too happy with the results but i think my deck was solid at least. at least boltyn isn’t so cracked in half that he’s LLing soon, so i’ll still get to play him some more. might be rocking ira for a bit tho

r3 W v huntsman! i was pretty close to fatigue, but i got there with a strong v + ccat + lumina turn alongside my secret weapon, poison the well, earlier in the game. turns out if half the room is bringing sigil + fiddler’s, poison the well is goated

r4 L v fatigue dori! this was fairly close but i drew my poison the well and then he didn’t gain life for like 6 turns in a row so i lost value from an IP or two. and then he drew all of it very quickly lol. and he had ripple on my very pivotal final turn. prob not top 8 but maybe!

r2 W v malice, they were doing a weird blocking/fatigue plan with drag downs and stuff but ultimately i just ran them over with a couple good V turns

i will say, i am not a market researcher and i don't really have a great grasp of the market dynamics. but if someone at LSS DOES have a good grasp of it, i would LOVE to see a dev talk or like a writeup about their findings in the market for making boxes more "exciting" to open, value or otherwise

typh - norah@typhy.bsky.social

there is def a problem here, but idk, making rares rarer doesn't really feel like a reasonable answer. the majority of rares will still be sub $1, there's just now gonna be a few that are worth $5 because they're actually good. i feel like i would rather they add more bling to up overall pull rates?

if there's some well-reasoned, especially evidence-based arguments that cutting mid-rarity cards to less than half their pull rate makes things better, that would be fascinating to read about at the very least

mixed feelings on fab 3.0 i like the seasonal schedule stuff, standardization here is welcome 1 rare per pack sounds. scary. idk, i'm not excited for $5 rares alongside the $30+ majestics and $100 legendaries we'll still have mid-season gem pack makes sense to bolster armory participation

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gold foils leaving is sad imo, but i get it, leaves room for EA legendaries in packs and such love day 2 promos less callings is kinda sad. just means i'm less likely to be able to go to one since they're less likely to appear close enough to me. REALLY hope they give battlegrounds to more stores

also, on the 1 rare per pack thing, saying this makes packs more exciting? that feels so backwards. it makes me want to open less product tbh. we already didn't really get rare playsets in a case, cutting that down to less than half sounds so rough. might finally just be ordering singles, no boxes

new cards in gem packs are scary too. if they're rare, that sucks ass. if they replace the awful, super common draft chaff cards, then i can see it being a net positive at least. excited about the idea of common/rare level support for old heroes though, expansion slots always being majestics is meh

watched you can see everything tonight. fantastic movie, gonna be thinking about it for a while, highly recommend if you liked nathan fielder's the rehearsal

heard a guy playing a different tcg say he used claude to come up with strategies for his deck into the meta. he is a casual player we are losing our souls

i have a feeling this card is not going to be that good because it's a little clunky, requiring both setup/a condition before you play it, and you need to hit, which is not guaranteed. it's a very "Potential Man" card but oh my god this card rules. i'm going to force it in every azalea deck ever

outbreak's draft shape: Neatly Intersecting Triforce With Inner Triangle, or the NITWIT shape

outbreak looks sick as hell azalea with double xbow is basically fixed lexi, i can work with this

i hate how so many remote work positions require certain timezones. i totally understand working at the same time as other people, but i don't have to be in your timezone to do that. i promise you can i work outside my local hours of 9 to 5

3 decks i play have LLed today, and all i can say is that i'm excited for what comes next in fab definitely gonna send counterburn oscilio one last time on wednesday, the most wizardy wizard the game has ever seen

boltyn pq time! r1 W v pleiades, i had a very awkward drawn mid-game but i stayed ahead the whole time for the win, despite crush the weak happening a million times

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r4 L v hala, was solidly ahead until he found a good beckon steel turn. i took damage to try to resolve a lumina with another lumina for the following turn (respecting kabuto). then he kabutos vanilla damage that turn just to use it and accidentally got 12 more value than he thought warrior sucks

r5 L v boltyn, i purposefully forced a ponder turn for fun and it was super underwhelming lol. the game had no stakes and we taught each other some stuff so whatev o well, next pq in 2 weekends! hope it goes better next time

boltyn pq time! r1 W v pleiades, i had a very awkward drawn mid-game but i stayed ahead the whole time for the win, despite crush the weak happening a million times

r2 L v mario, did not see any lumina or beacon and i missed up a turn cycle thinking i had snapdragons rather than warpath. oopsie! wasn’t particularly close tho, they had the JUICE that game

r3 L v rko, my functional rival, my hands were rough a lot and he just has disruption for a billion years every time he needed it. even had spirit t1 but hard to beat multiple cnc pummels not a fan of the constant cycle of do well before event, die hard in the event

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John

@gnarlygnome.bsky.social

Uh oh, I can’t find my deck box from Calling Atlanta…. Uhhhhhh did anybody find a Fai deck last Saturday evening? #fabtcg #fleshandblood

there's a trend on twitter rn about some podcast making a democratically determined top 200 emo album list, and while there's plenty of "this isn't real emo" or "this should be much higher/not on the list" discourse, i appreciate everyone sharing their favorite albums so i can listen to new stuff

i really like surf maps in the source engine, but i keep running into "beginner" maps that throw something very difficult at you without any explanation. even the map explicitly designed to tell you what to do throws a difficult jump without telling you what to do at the start :( where's the t0 maps

guy who has only seen parkour civilization: woah, honest woodcutter is just like parkour civilization. you can do the one block jump for the silver axe or attempt the one block vertical jump for the golden axe. but the real answer is to break free from the system and choose your original axe

this tweet was finely crafted for a specific friend of mine but maybe y'all will like it too

my phone gets so hot when charging. i wish i could tell it like, hey lil buddy, you don’t have to eat so fast, you’re going to choke if you don’t chew your food

2/3 on marvel v of the vanguards after tonight! i have been undefeated in-person on boltyn since the set dropped, except for 1 game that i forced suraya combo to see what would happen. boltyn is ABSURD. who let this happen

it's fun how initial d's pacing for their races is pretty slow, but it feels so fast. the road that akina is based on only takes ~15 minutes to drive casually, but the anime stretches an individual high-speed race over two or three 23m episodes pretty regularly. and yet they feel so perfectly paced!

surely this has been done before

creamy garlic chicken for lunch i cut myself making this, but not with a knife like you might expect. i was messing with the butter in the wrapper and my fingers slipped and my (short) nail cut my thumb lmao

22 Sept

favorite aspect about a new set is just pulling cards out of my fresh bulk, slapping together a deck idea in paper before even looking up a single card on fabrary, and feeling how it plays i know ripple away will absolutely hose this vis deck i made but i simply will not care, it is too fun to care

21 Sept

it’s really cute when you can tell the tank that you’re healing in an mmo is really scared of dipping below 70% hp. it’s ok my child, let the healing over time spells do their magic, stop trying to hardcast heal yourself midpull

21 Sept

ended up being able to go to two of the three pre-releases this weekend. ended up pulling a soul of existence, cf danse, cf boneseer, and marvel shieldbearer across 2 boxes, 2 pre-release packs, and a handful of prize packs! hugely up this set, i really needed this win lmao

17 Sept

had a sore throat yesterday, thought i was getting over that cold this morning and now i have a fever and my nose is so runny ;-; if i miss pre-releases because of this i’m gonna be so sad

16 Sept

overall happy with the bnr and start of game procedure changes. now, time to spend my last days with boltyn, before he rides into the sunset on the back of a huge pile of cards in hand

i wasn't gonna vote for kavdaen this time, but i just realized we can't, even if we wanted to. that's so funny i have no idea who to vote for tbh. i think briar with press banned is totally fine but i know she's going. and i wanna see chane with goodies. and i like oscilio ;-;

tier list of wow forever class talent changes (so far) they went dummy hard on paladin lock and rogue have a lot of neat things to experiment with druid and hunter got solid changes but either not inventive or didn't cook enough priest and sham are meh, some nice changes and some weird ones

mages seem like they're just bad versions of their wotlk specs. very very unexciting, nothing new to experiment with, big L warriors are almost literally just vanilla. there's a few small things, like better slam/overpower for arms, spearing strike, bloodthirst movespeed. but like. that's it? aight

obv warriors didn't really need changes so i'm not too upset by that side in particular, i'm just looking for new experiences/designs but mage just looks so boring or even bad. even if you liked wotlk mage, you'll probably be disappointed! and the trees have so little interplay ;-;

wow forever hype! overall opinion is there's a lot of cool changes and additions, and i'm excited to play it i am not thrilled about some things, like removal of a lot of spec debuffs, some classes feel like were barely changed/too wotlk, only 10/20 man raids, but i'll live

11 Sept

just noticed calling portland is sage ;-; i was excited for a big cc event i could actually go to, esp with boltyn getting so powered up. bleh

11 Sept

there IS a cc 5k that friday, so there's still something to play for, but it's just a lil less fun than a calling, with day 2 to play for and generally more wiggle room on records and the like