u/MrTheWaffleKing

Scryfall has an otag:leyline which is a term many people understand: gets cheated onto the battlefield if it's in your opening hand.

I've found these 5 cards that do the same thing, was hoping to add the leyline tag to them:
otag:cycle-nph-chancellor

Does anyone know if anyone can contribute tags, or if the people updating tags have a recommendation forum or anything like that?

I haven't found any great guides to bringing a player up to speed- beginner box was great, jumpstarts were a good step up but have poor repeatability without splitting the decks back apart and reshuffling...

And then there's a massive gap.

Even draft boosters have complex commander level cards that aren't easy to understand for a noobie just trying to read them without going into a giant rabbit hole, or reading their deck alongside them and playing on their team.

I'm not opposed to that second point- playing their hand with them, but it's a bit cumbersome jumping back and forth between both decks/playmats.

I find the hardest mechanic for them to understand is the distinct phases of combat (combat start, define attackers, 'attack triggers', define defenders, getting any sort of assumption of how the defender will block, and even that's all before combat tricks get involved), as well as the stack and instant/flash style effects.

If anyone has a good 'regiment' so to speak for teaching a beginner in this way, I'd love the help. Something to get someone up to speed enough that they can pick up a card and understand MOSTLY what it does such that they can use the card at a decent time, no need to detail current meta or anything.

(P.S. I don't really have an active pod currently that could help along the way, just trying to play the 1v1 gamemodes under they're up to speed to play in a starter pod)

It says 'attack damage'. I can't tell if that's all attacks or just basic attacks.

When I go to edit my existing build, I can add, move, replace, remove items in all columns except the top. The only thing I can do to the top row is swap them with eachother, but if I try to move one of those items to a secondary row, it copies. moving a secondary item over a top row item deletes the second.

Am I just being dumb about something?

I guess I haven't played her in a (long) time... but I remember her always being called a midlane character since she's magic/ability damage focused with long range low cooldown poke that can splash quite well. Midgame she starts to clear waves in seconds.

Has something changed with her design or meta? She still feels good to play in middle

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I've had great success with this deck using lightning... very hard for opponents to avoid a giant hit and counterpush, plus crazy cycle. Bats or dart behind the giant is a meaningful threat and super cheap.

I figured the new void could replace lightning as it deletes fireballies or buildings, but I've gone on a crazy loss streak with this change... was lightning really doing that much for me, or am I bad with void? Sometimes I need lightning to bailout from lumberloon or witch/dragon beatdown etc pushes... unsure if void can do the same job.

Looking for any tips to using void or otherwise

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Cast Tifa's Limit Break on any 1/1 creature, spending 6G mana to make it a 3/3.

Looks to me like a splash defender and splash support… should he be in golem/egolem stuff? Behind pekkas to carry a ram rider to the tower like gobstein once did? Behind a giant for cheap pushes?

I would love to add the scryfall plugin to make populating MTG cards simple. I worry that I've done a bunch of manual work and that the instant I install it, it will replace the notes I currently have, including personal thoughts. Partially because scryfall uses the same [[identifier]] as obsidian [[linking]] does.

Has anyone installed something that can automate note generation/writing and knows if it may screw me over? or even a possibility that I could make a new vault and install the plugin to that vault ONLY without affecting existing ones?

I want to do a series through all the clash royale cards if people like it enough, this was just a tangent I've started on today and thought I'd share.

I'm starting with elixir golem decks because their cards are highly unique and gimmicky, plus i was struggling to find rakdos as obvious as it should be in a chaotic game like clash.

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Starting with the big boy:
Elixir golem is rakdos. Just like paying life and pushing the consequence off till later, this card encourages highly aggressive and reckless play and using it puts you into elixir debt, granting your opponent resources later... if they live that long. I could see his splitting mechanic introduce a hint of green or blue, and his elixir (ahem mana) manipulation also contributing blue, but I'm happy keeping him rakdos for the playstyle he promotes. We'll see more gruul bodies later on.

I think for those less familiar with clash or at least this deck, I should explain how this deck is often played. I believe this is a Jund deck. Like I mentioned, rakdos aggression, but it's also like a heavy stompy gruul deck. You basically avoid defending (rakdos), build and build and build your push, ramp, green, until you get a giant unstoppable force rolling down the lane (gruul). Not a lot of golgari, but not many clash cards can fit that bill anyways.
There is an argument to be had that it's swarmy (ahem wide) and protected, which would probably fit more within selesnya aka naya... really depends on the variant and if you ever give the elixir golem the chance to die.

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Onto primary support cards seen in this archetype.

The first is night witch. She's a build up spawner troop that creates bats, tiny flying bodies. That's evasive go-wide with blockers so selesnya and blue for bant. Notably, these blockers are useful as chump blockers for inferno towers and retargeting princess tower onto the golem blobs once the main one splits.

Battle healer I feel is selesnya/abzan, for different reasons than I've called other cards seles. On attack, she generates a healing field. This gets significantly stronger when there's multiple targets, as they all gain the full benefit. This represents healing especially on a wide board, potentially drain if you want to bring orzhov into the picture.

I've debated electro dragon for a bit here. He's difficult because he's very rarely useful on his lonesome, he almost only gets use when he's supporting something else... which almost led me to call him equipment but this is colorpie, I better put some colors on him. His attack chains stun across multiple targets, and he's a flying unit; his primary use is forcing awkward defenses since the opponent must swap their answers in response. He can also force the tower to retarget if it's not locked on to the golem. I think the utility and the evasion make him blue, and his protective nature grants him white- at least azorius.

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Other popular but less mainstay supports in egolem include skeleton king, elite barbarians, inferno dragon, sometimes witch.

Skeleton king is easily the most golgari card in the game. Any death in the arena charges up his ability, which summons skeletons based on the charge amount. Bigger graveyards, more summons. That includes your own troops, so recycle like your strategy depends on it. Sac your own creatures into enemy fire to charge him up if you want to. He often goes other lane to benefit from your night witch bats dying in the first place so his strategy in this deck may be a bit more abzan with an orzhov aristocrat tilt.

Elite Barbarians are gruul. Beefy boys with heavy swings and high movement speed. They hit hard and fast (red) and cost a lot and are hard to kill (green). They're straightforward, and add aggression to the other lane when your focus is in another place. Just release a 2GG ghalta when your big push is already doing things.

Inferno Dragon is interesting. He builds up damage over time, flying tankbuster, a heavy hitter. I'm tempted to say izzet because it's almost storm-like or cascade mechanics, and given he's focused on evasion (blue) and direct damage (red burn), very well could fit even without the colors combined. He could also be interpreted as proliferating poison or target -1/-1 pump... which would put him more in sultai or dimir range. Provided cards like [[radstorm]] can proliferate and poison in blue alone, and the burn ramps significantly, I'm almost more convinced of grixis- keep both dimir and izzet. If we're considering evolutions, his evolved form builds up then shreds through everything, bring back gruul, keep izzet, we're in Temur territory.

Witch I feel is selesnya. No black involved? She's evil and skeletal and... we're colorpie. Not thematic, but functional. She goes wide with many small troops and accumulates over time. In this deck it's the same role as night witch, just a bit weaker without the evasion effects of bats. Until you get her evolution which brings us back into black territory, abzan is on the table. Now her skeleton deaths heal her up, we've got selesnya width AND orvhoz aristocrat lifedrain... your units give value you got golgari.

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That's the post, I hope you enjoyed. I have more plans in mind (ahem 3muskies pump, royal giant monk, fireball bait with mWitch, miner poison marcher), but if you really want to see something, please request it. I'm enjoying myself doing this. I do hope there's positive reception and I can go thru most the cards across maybe 15 decks

I don't really plan on going through basic spells in the core decks I go over, most of them are just enchantments and burns, izzets and azoriuses. I might dedicate a post to all at once if people want that.

I get a kill with sturm, 2 tap someone for 91 91 SOMETIMES. Other times I'll still get the 160ish damage shot, but it seems inconsistent.

For example, I said:

"Tell me about [XYZ] strategy and highlight a few key cards for each (linked so I can click)"

It replies:

"<u>Gravecrawler</u> — repeatable body that enables sacrifice engines

<u>Relentless Dead</u> — recursive value engine that scales with mana

etc........"

Clearly it THOUGHT the <u> stuff would be linked, but it's not the clickable links I'm used to, that would normally be underlined and bring up a sidebar with a summary and a few pictures.

It seems to get it right ~80% of the time, but isn't receptive to correction, and often is easier to just ask the same question in a new chat.

I used to define Jeskai as the sole color of discipline. Not only does it fit in game, monks and monasteries and all that, but you've got passion from izzet, and the self-control of white. You've got red's emotion over azorius' structure applied to the self.

I actually think boros and orzhov have equal claims to discipline, but viewed from different angles.

Boros is fairly obvious. Take Jeskai and remove the intelligence. You don't need to work towards a goal of improvement, no tracking values- simply determination to maintain your current build via working out might be boros. That's discipline.

Orzhov is something most people seek to demonize, they slap on the aristocrat title and leave it be. I believe there's saving to this 2-color. You have both the ambition and order to stay on track- this is the MOST 'self-control' color possible. You don't need drive or satisfaction from red: you know it's right. You don't need the perfection goal of blue: there's good to be had from sticking to 'it', whatever that may be.

Honestly I think any color combo involving white and avoiding green could define discipline- and even then there's cases to be had for green (green isn't a core tenant- but a druid enforcing tradition of upkeep could be disciplined). Discipline is about controlling ones self, and white is a requirement.