u/Appropriate_King_732

Here I am sitting reminiscing about a top 3 series for me, truly fantastic and unique in its tone. That said, if someone asked me for a series to watch next, I don't think I could recommend the Leftovers point blank.

I once told a housemate, who had watched almost every series you can think of, that it was really good. He started watching the first episode and by the end of it he was like "dude, this is like really grim" and stopped watching. Him: "So do they then switch to studying the departure?..." Me: "Not really, the series is more about exploring grief."

I was gripped the second I started watching it, but I think it takes a specific type of person and/or moment to appreciate it.

Player A played his Sol Ring into Signet, hit his card draw, got the good cards, I want him to play them! Everyone should push for the win during the game!

It makes me furious when they proceed to not play their spells, pick purposefully suboptimal targets for their removal or straight up don't attack. Usually the only outcome of this behaviour is only delaying their eventual victory and make me wait for longer while their fantastic engine can just take over the game at any moment. It makes every action meaningless.

I do want to differentiate this to playing around board-wipes, what I am referring to is purposefully bad decisions made to try to make the other players not feel bad. I know it is a topic already discussed before in here, but it happened to me tonight and I felt toyed with.

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WotC printed a Commander [[Delver of Secrets]] and it has been a blast to build him and optimise him over time. 33 I initially looked to make a better [[Talrand Sky Summoner]] , but the deck has become a beast of its own. It flies under the water in the early game while everyone is figuring out the combo decks, interacts with them to stop them and the deck can become unstoppable in the mid-game. It will almost never play for the win first, but it doesn't need to.

A typical comment that I get from people that see the decklist but not the play is that the deck is not bracket 4, but this baddie has won over half of its bracket 4 games, good play is extremely rewarded with this deck. I initially also thought it would be bracket 3 but was surprised to see it take over games and win 1v3s in that bracket. It plays nothing like what one expects to see in higher power commander, but it delivers a classic Tempo play-style like no other commander.

Best part is that I do not even feel like I am missing out on higher price cards because the deck is so low to the ground. Another word in price, all of the more expensive cantrips can just be replaced for other cheaper cantrips in the considering pile, I just happen to already have Ponder. The one mana counter-magic is irreplaceable.

I think this is essentially the final decklist, [[Into the Floodmaw]] would be card 101, but everything else feels great. I really recommend it if you want to play a Delver deck in Commander.

The deck is €50 in Europe, make the appropriate changes for your budget.

https://moxfield.com/decks/0vKni-LZKkKsamqGO7xa0A

I found it really amusing that Broodscale is popping off in Modern given that I was personally against the ban.

The goal is to play as much competitive draft as possible while spending as little as possible. Discussing how to minmax wild cards is also great. So far playing in Arena I have reached the conclusion that playing draft is very expensive, even with a high winrate. What tips would you give me to make my experience as inexpensive as possible?

I recently came back to the game while simultaneously having changed city. Since coming back, I have received multiple comments against boardwipes and almost their general existence in bracket 2-3 pods; "I don't run boardwipes" is heard in a lot of midrangy decks. Once there were 2 boardwipes in three rounds, which used to be a fairly normal thing where I played a year ago, and the table was genuinely frustrated about it. In 15 Commander Night games I must have seen less than 4 boardwipes.

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It felt like a real cultural shift. Do you think there has been a general shift against playing multiple boardwipes in the past year?

I finally got to play the pre-release today, it proved my suspicions that this limited format is great.

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Every colour is viable, it is very reasonable to play either 3 or 2 colours. There are sinergyes, but they are generally fairly open-ended, lending a lot of wiggle room.

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There are threats, there is removal, the game leans towards a slow format, but the game will end. I love it. It feels like one of the best limited formats in recent times. I will play as many in-person drafts as possible.

Looking at the MSH pre-release. If a card destroys target creature with toughness 4 and then the creature changes its toughness with a combat trick to above 4, does the removal spell fizzle out?