For blacksmithing I would love some shield recipes, if I remember correctly there are basically none while leveling. Also maybe a little int/spell power plate here and there for holy palas, kinda sucks that they are forced to wear cloth all the time.
You guys have any other ideas?
It has happened to me often enough to become noticeable. I often times spend hours making decks in EDHrec because doing so scratches a certain itch only for them to not be all that interesting on the table. Like Howler for example. Discard synergies are really cool to build decks around but when I was done it turned out to be pretty boring. Wheel, pump creature with evasion, connect and your done, unless you're taken out first that is. It's almost like once you've found out "the thing" that your deck does, you're kind of just going through the motions when it comes to actually playing it.
You don't get this with precons funnily enough - sure there's a theme but you often achieve victory in very different ways. They also tend to be surprisingly resilient sometimes, precons rarely ever become a prime target but they have enough stuff in there to actually win a game. But when I look at the actual decklist I just see the cards and think "man, I would have never thought to include this".
What do y'all think? Anyone else ran into the same issue and resolved it somehow?
First ofc it's going to be the new pivot rules since they are free now. So imagine a drukhari raider which is roughly 7'' long. Park it somewhere annoying, pivot and bam, 7'' wall. Engagement range is also 2" now, so it's going to be even more annoying.
Then combine this with new unit coherency rules and now basically small units of particularly long models (think bikers or cavalry) are going to be the king of moveblocking. You have to be within at least 2'' of one other model and within 9" of ALL other models. Not only will the longness make it so you can make a unit of only 3 models at least 9" wide, the models at either end can park themselves sideways to make it even wider. And again, pivoting is free, you can get all the models into position with a regular movement and then use free pivoting at the end to achieve coherency.
Mind you, all of this is annoying bullshit and only really meant for getting the very most out of your units, hence me posting it here :D. But still, is the era of long bois upon us, what do you guys think?