With Dragon Rulers off the list, here's a point-budgeted version of Shin En Huang's 2013 World Championship-winning deck! How would you upgrade it?

Main Deck:
1 Light and Darkness Dragon
3 Blaster, Dragon Ruler of Infernos
3 Tidal, Dragon Ruler of Waterfalls
3 Tempest, Dragon Ruler of Storms
3 Redox, Dragon Ruler of Boulders
2 Reactan, Dragon Ruler of Pebbles
2 Stream, Dragon Ruler of Droplets
1 Eclipse Wyvern
3 Mulcharmy Fuwalos
2 Burner, Dragon Ruler of Sparks
2 Lightning, Dragon Ruler of Drafts
1 Dragunity Corsesca
2 Effect Veiler
1 Heavy Storm
3 Sacred Sword of Seven Stars
1 Dark Hole
1 Book of Moon
2 Forbidden Chalice
3 Super Rejuvenation
1 Dragon Ravine


Extra Deck:
1 Red Dragon Archfiend
1 Crimson Blader
1 Scrap Dragon
1 Colossal Fighter
1 Thought Ruler Archfiend
1 Karakuri Shogun mdl 00 "Burei"
1 Armory Arm
1 Mermail Abyssgaios
3 Mecha Phantom Beast Dracossack
1 Gaia Dragon, the Thunder Charger
3 Number 11: Big Eye


Side Deck:
3 Skull Meister
2 Tsukuyomi
2 Electric Virus
2 Swift Scarecrow
3 Mystical Space Typhoon
3 DNA Surgery

Behind the Scenes

The original deck clocked in at 475 points. To get things under control…

Main
– 100p Vanity’s Emptiness
– 100p Vanity’s Emptiness
– 50p Maxx “C”
– 50p Maxx “C”
– 50p Maxx “C”

Side
– 20p Droll & Lock Bird
– 20p Droll & Lock Bird
– 20p Droll & Lock Bird
– 33p Card Destruction

Now fill in with extra copies of previously included cards, like-kind cards, and a relevant staple:

Main
+ 8p Mulcharmy Fuwalos
+ 8p Mulcharmy Fuwalos
+ 8p Mulcharmy Fuwalos
+ 1p Dark Hole
+ 0p Sacred Sword of Seven Stars

Side
+ 1p Skull Meister
+ 1p Skull Meister
+ 1p Skull Meister
+ 0p DNA Surgery

And now the deck clocks in at 60 points, ready to upgrade!

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u/GimmeANameAlready — 10 days ago
▲ 115 r/comiccon

While you're in town for SDCC, visit Coronado Public Library across the bay bridge to get your non-CA-resident $10/year library card, then use it on the Libby app!

Call ahead before visiting to confirm eligibility and application details with library staff, including possible exceptions and workarounds. (If it turns out you somehow can't meet the requirements, don't spend precious time visiting the library.)

On Sunday, Coronado Public Library is only open 1pm-5pm.

If you get the card: input it into Libby immediately so that if there is an issue with your new account, you can troubleshoot it with library staff on site.

Libby • Read free with the Libby app. Borrow ebooks, audiobooks, magazines, and more for free from your local library with Libby, the library reading app. (Libby is free for you because libraries pay for it.)

Coronado Public Library Card Info

On Libby, CPL is part of Serra Cooperative Library System, which is a consortium with several member libraries in the San Diego and Imperial County areas. To my current knowledge, CPL is the only one that offers an out-of-state card.

If you're a California resident: not only is this card free to you, but San Diego County Library's card is also free and also works on Libby! (Find a branch anywhere!) (Yes, you can enter multiple cards in Libby and Libby auto-searches for the fastest book availability across all of them. You can enter up to 50 cards!)

San Diego County Library Card Info (for CA residents only)

You could also go to the nearby San Diego Central Library to pick up a San Diego Public Library card, but they're on Cloud Library instead of Libby (in this reporter's opinion, CL isn't nearly as slick as Libby).

Get reading!

u/GimmeANameAlready — 3 months ago

Lost in Curiosity by Roberta Kwok (non-fiction) launches tomorrow. Anyone waiting for it?

Tales of discovery are almost never as tidy as they seem.

>For outsiders who are unfamiliar with the scientific process, Kwok reveals its true nature: Doing science is hard. It’s also a team effort, far from the stereotype of the hyper-efficient lone genius (think Einstein, Darwin, Mendel). Though the book’s title evokes the whimsy of passionate nerds losing themselves in the joy of their curiosity-driven pursuits, often they are simply lost, trying to make sense of data or formulate a plan B for the next experiment. That’s just how science is — nature doesn’t give up its secrets easily.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/review-lost-in-curiosity

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u/GimmeANameAlready — 3 months ago

If you like Pacific Drive, you might like The Hive by Ronald Malfi

After a storm, a collective obsession develops among the people of Mariner's Cove. Random, everyday items left scattered about all seem to call out to them. There is an item for almost everyone, and each item has a certain hold over the person who finds it, that soon turns into unwavering infatuation. A young boy discovers he now possesses a strange power, and it may be tied to the townspeople’s unsettling behavior. Is he meant to stop what’s coming, or is his ability part of something darker? The residents move with a single purpose, watching him as one organism. They will do anything to achieve their goal, and they will not be stopped.

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u/GimmeANameAlready — 3 months ago

Which June 2026 OMP was the most difficult to sell? (And what did you do to sell it?)

  • Murder Takes a Vacation by Laura Lippman
  • Field Guide for the Formerly Villainous by Autumn K England
  • The School for Thieves by Peter Burns
  • Every Exquisite Thing by Laura Steven
  • Mailman by Stephen Starring Grant
  • Bug Hollow by Michelle Huneven
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u/GimmeANameAlready — 4 months ago
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If you're trying to get children into reading, I just found out that reading aloud to therapy dogs is a thing.

Is there a program like this in your area?

https://barkdogs.org/

>BARK is an all-volunteer program that encourages children to increase their reading skills and self-confidence by reading aloud to certified therapy dogs.  Students find it intimidating to read in front of classmates, but love to read to the non-judgmental, calming dogs. BARK now has teams listening to kids in more than 60 schools and libraries. 

>When available, BARK teams visit nursing homes, senior living facilities, hospice, veterans centers, and even college students during finals week. 

u/GimmeANameAlready — 4 months ago

How well has Libby’s [ similar ≈ ] search worked for you?

Do you normally seek read-alikes, or do you usually prefer significantly different books?

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u/GimmeANameAlready — 5 months ago
▲ 229 r/LibbyApp

Pulitzer Prize Winners for 2026 were announced on Monday. Which titles interest you…and how long are your holds?

https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year

Fiction

Angel Down, by Daniel Kraus (Atria Books)

A breathless novel of World War I, a stylistic tour-de-force that blends such genres as allegory, magical realism and science fiction into a cohesive whole, told in a single sentence.

Audition, by Katie Kitamura (Riverhead Books)

Stag Dance: A Quartet, by Torrey Peters (Random House)

Drama

Liberation, by Bess Wohl

A striking blend of comedy and sincerity that explores the legacy of the consciousness-raising feminist groups of the 1970s, using the story of the playwright’s mother to demonstrate how the movement grew out of conversation, and that anyone experiencing the play has joined the discussion.

Bowl EP, by Nazareth Hassan

Meet the Cartozians, by Talene Monahon

History

We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution, by Jill Lepore (Liveright)

A lively and engaging narrative that investigates why the Constitution is so difficult to amend, including a review of noteworthy failed amendments proposed by marginalized groups.

King of Kings: The Iranian Revolution: A Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic Miscalculation, by Scott Anderson (Doubleday)

Born in Flames: The Business of Arson and The Remaking of the American City, by Bench Ansfield (W.W. Norton & Company)

Biography

Pride and Pleasure: The Schuyler Sisters in an Age of Revolution, by Amanda Vaill (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

A lively and detailed biography of two daughters of wealthy and influential Dutch landowners who colored our nation’s history, using present tense to tell their story and past tense to chronicle the dramatic sweep of the American Revolution.

True Nature: The Pilgrimage of Peter Matthiessen, by Lance Richardson (Pantheon)

The Life and Poetry of Frank Stanford, by James McWilliams (University of Arkansas Press)

Memoir or Autobiography

Things in Nature Merely Grow, by Yiyun Li (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

A writer’s deeply moving and revelatory account of losing her younger son to suicide a little more than six years after her older son died in the same manner, an austere and defiant memoir of acceptance that focuses on facts, language and the persistence of life.

Clam Down: A Metamorphosis, by Anelise Chen (One World)

Bibliophobia: A Memoir, by Sarah Chihaya (Random House)

I'll Tell You When I'm Home: A Memoir, by Hala Alyan (Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster)

Poetry

Ars Poeticas, by Juliana Spahr (Wesleyan University Press)

A collection in which the poet takes stock of her personal disillusionment, which she uses to interrogate her relationship to her art form, community and politics.

I Imagine I Been Science Fiction Always, by Douglas Kearney (Wave Books)

The Intentions of Thunder: New and Selected Poems, by Patricia Smith (Scribner)

General Nonfiction

There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America, by Brian Goldstone (Crown)

A feat of reportage, analysis and storytelling focusing on the issues that have created a national crisis of family homelessness among the so-called working poor.

A Flower Traveled in My Blood: The Incredible True Story of the Grandmothers Who Fought to Find a Stolen Generation of Children, by Haley Cohen Gilliland (Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster)

Mother Emanuel: Two Centuries of Race, Resistance, and Forgiveness in One Charleston Church, by Kevin Sack (Crown)

u/GimmeANameAlready — 5 months ago
▲ 273 r/LibbyApp

https://ocls.org/using-library/types-cards/what-are-types-cards/

Fee cards are available to anyone residing outside of our service area.

Privileges:

  • Access to our circulating material on the shelf
  • Remote access to databases
  • Ability to take free technology classes in person or online
  • Access to computer use in any of our locations
  • Ability to place holds on ebooks
  • Ability to place holds on items
  • Reserve a meeting room or Main Library study room
  • Access to Melrose Center computers and resources (access credentials for Studios, Simulators, and Fab Lab equipment required)

Fee cards are non-refundable and are available for 3 months ($75) or for one year ($125).

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https://card.ocls.org/using-library/purchase-a-fee-card

Purchase a Fee Card

Once you submit this application a card and bill will be sent to you. You can pay online by creating a PIN for yourself or by stopping in any one of our locations. Please note that fee cards are non-refundable. Once the payment is received and processed your library card will be activated.

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u/GimmeANameAlready — 5 months ago
▲ 112 r/LibbyApp

https://cals.org/library-card-application/

Library Card Application

We make every effort to complete online card applications promptly. However, it may take up to 14 days for a physical card to arrive by mail. 

Non-Resident Fee

You are eligible for a non-resident CALS card. Non-resident applicants are required to pay an annual non-resident fee equal to the average property tax paid to CALS by those in our service area, which is currently $72 a year. Pro-rated options are available below. This fee will be manually added to your fines once your account has been processed, and you will be sent email instructions on how to pay. You will never be automatically charged.

u/GimmeANameAlready — 5 months ago

If you're a resident of California, you can get a free card from most library systems in the state if you visit in person to pick up a card. Physical cards almost always have better privileges than eCards; and last longer before requiring renewal.

It's possible to pick up a good number of cards by completing one of the following runs, which include as many different library systems with branches as close to the others in the run as possible.

Expect to be able to complete 1 run per day, about 4 hours each, spending about 10 minutes at each library to get the card. On Saturdays, libraries have limited hours. On weekdays on which libraries are open, you have to deal with directional rush hour traffic that can slow you down so badly that your day may as well be over.

Check in advance not only for hours but also for closures due to holidays, staff trainings, events, renovations, and other causes.

Pre-register online with as many library systems as possible. Saving librarian typing time adds up over the course of a run.

Bring your CA Driver's License and proof of address (the License alone works on most, but not all, library systems). Check each system or branch library's website for acceptable documents, which often include utility and credit card bills. If necessary, you may be able to use your vehicle registration for this purpose.

"The big one" that everyone talks about on Libby is the Los Angeles Public Library system, the city card.

‽ = This system is only available on this run.

405 Drive

  • OC Public Libraries › Los Alamitos/Rossmoor
  • Long Beach Public Library ‽ › Los Altos Neighborhood Library
  • Southern California Digital Library › Signal Hill Public Library
  • “SoCal Swarm” › Torrance Public Library - Southeast
  • Los Angeles Public Library › Harbor City - Harbor Gateway Library
  • Los Angeles County Library › Lomita Library
  • Palos Verdes Library District ‽ › Peninsula Center Library
  • Inglewood Public Library ‽ › Crenshaw-Imperial
  • Santa Monica Public Library ‽ › Pico Branch

Hillside Ride

  • Irvine Public Library ‽ › Katie Wheeler Branch
  • OC Public Libraries › Tustin Library
  • Santa Ana Public Library ‽ › Delhi Branch
  • "SoCal Swarm" › Buena Park Library District
  • Fullerton Public Library ‽ (self system)
  • Southern California Digital Library › Placentia Library District
  • Yorba Linda Public Library ‽ (self system)
  • Los Angeles County Library › Diamond Bar Library
  • San Bernardino County Library ‽ › James S. Thalman Chino Hills Branch
  • Riverside Public Library ‽ › La Sierra Branch

Valley Rally

  • Los Angeles Public Library › Woodland Hills Branch Library (start of run option)
  • City of Thousand Oaks Library ‽ › Newbury Park Branch Library
  • "SoCal Swarm" › Camarillo Public Library
  • Oxnard Library ‽ › Oxnard Main Library
  • (optional: Ventura County Library › Saticoy Branch, which is not on Libby but you pass right by it so you may as well get it)
  • Black Gold Cooperative Library System ‽ › Blanchard Community Library
  • City of Santa Clarita Public Library ‽ › Valencia Branch
  • Los Angeles County Library › Stevenson Ranch Library
  • Burbank Public Library ‽ › Burbank Central Library
  • Pasadena Public Library ‽ › San Rafael Branch
  • Los Angeles Public Library › Arroyo Seco Branch Library (end of run option)
  • Southern California Digital Library › South Pasadena Public Library
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u/GimmeANameAlready — 5 months ago