u/RealisticMolasses

I was playing a game with randoms recently where I cast a [[Sylvan Awakening]] on turn 8 to knock two players out, but a player responded with [[Evacuation]]. I had already lost three extra land enablers to removal earlier in the game and had no ramp in hand.

The problem was that I was still at 38 life at this point, and because everyone's creatures were bounced, nobody was in a position to actually complete the process of eliminating me soon. So, with no creatures or lands on the board, I scooped during my second main phase.

Two of the other players got annoyed and said it was lame to scoop before you had clearly lost. I said that when everybody else has full mana bases, including rocks, and all of my source is mana is gone going into turn 9, that I have clearly lost.

I'm not denying that I got punished for overextending, but does that automatically mean it is bad etiquette to scoop?

I had stepped away from the game when the bracket system was introduced, and only came back a couple of months ago.

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Since coming back, I have run several times into sitting a table and someone is playing a voltron or aggro deck and, despite that, one of the players is just sitting there playing no creatures, only value pieces.

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When I've asked the defenseless player about it, they say they aren't allowed to be killed until turn 6 (or 8 if we are playing B2).

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Is this normal? Because even a low-B2 voltron deck could probably table 21 commander damage by turn 5 or 6, so it feels like some type of social expectation is being exploited here.

[[Lord Windgrace]] was my first commander deck, and he is still my favorite, but I've been in a weird spot with him ever since the brackets were introduced.

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Windgrace, at its most powerful usually relies on MLD, which is obviously banned below bracket 4. However, within bracket 4, Windgrace MLD is usually too weak to compete. So, the strongest form of Windgrace exists in a no man's land within the bracket system.

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So, I've been considering rebuilding the deck around [[Hearthull, the WorldSeed]] as a B3 lands deck, but I've had some hesitation trying to decide which is a better pilot of a lands deck.

I have a [[Lathril, Blade of the Elves]] deck that my desired power level is bracket 3. When goldfishing, it pretty consistently presents a win through [[Staff of Domination]] shenanigans by turn 5, sometimes turn 4 if the hand is right. I do have tutors to find the necessary pieces.

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However, in practice, usually my board gets interrupted in real games and wins are not presented until 2 or 3 turns later, if I am allowed to rebuild at all by other players.

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So, is the deck bracket 4 because it can consistently present wins when uninterrupted earlier than the bracket anticipates, or is it bracket 3 because it is not resilient enough to win through interaction?

A lot of people scream the importance of supporting local businesses, but I am not in the business of paying several dollars extra per item just to say I didn’t buy from Walmart.

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If you're offering a product that is unique to your shop or comparably priced items like produce, I can get behind supporting that. But I'm not buying Fruit Loops for $8, when the massive companies sell them for $4.

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Yes, I know that a lot of times the corporations are either selling at a loss on some items or only able to sell so low because they get massive bulk discount rates. I find neither of those to be convincing justifications for choosing the higher priced location.

I played commander for a long time with a group of friends, never playing at an LGS, but that group has since stopped playing together due to all moving.

I decided recently I wanted to try to get back into commander at a LGS. I have two decks that are entirely real cards, and seven decks that are fully proxied (all 100 cards, including lands lol). The proxies are full-art proxies from MPC. Since the entire deck is proxied, there is no disparity in how the cards feel.

I didn't go crazy with building outrageously expensive proxied decks. Most would cost $300-400 if built with real cards, and usually slot in around bracket 3 or really low bracket 4.

I just don't know if I am expected to volunteer that my decks are proxied before playing with people.

I'm just now getting back into EDH after a few years of not playing, and I've admittedly never been the best deckbuilder.

I've tried to build decks like [[Atla Palani, Nest Tender]] and [[Helga, Skittish Seer]] with the main theme being cheating out big creatures. However, the issues I have run into are that the decks do very little if the commander is not on the board, and the commanders are a magnet for removal. So, I basically just usually get stuck with a hand full of high CMC creatures that I am turns away from playing.

Is it possible to lessen the glass cannon-element of decks like these without abandoning the theme of slapping down huge creatures?

I started a job in the last year that happens to include a section on the commute where these convoys frequently connect from one highway to another, so I see oversize load convoys probably once or twice a week.

There are two behaviors that I am really wondering about. The first is that their trail cars will often cut drivers off. Like I will watch their trail car wait until drivers are 2-3 car lengths behind and then quickly swerve over to block them from attempting to pass. They sometimes do this when the oversized load is not currently blocking both lanes.

The other one is that these convoys run red lights all the time. An example of this that I saw the other day was the lead car went through on a yellow, stopped in the middle of the intersection so that the truck could go through on red, and then two trailing cars also ran the red light behind the truck.

I understand these loads might need to get creative on how to navigate the roads, but I am just curious if behaviors like these are technically legal?

I haven't played EDH in a while and am getting back into it. One of the decks I always wanted to build was Kodama/Sakashima that really just focuses on ramp, tons of card draw, and then dropping an entire handful of big cards at once. I don't intend on any combos or like Lab Man wincons.

I don't really think that power level wise that it would be too much for a casual table, I am moreso worried about getting hated off the table because they are (or at least were, idk current meta) a prominent cEDH deck.

I work in food service. It is very easy to be polite. This is true even on personally hard days, and at the end of a long shift. This is also true even when the customer in question is annoying or complaining. I am literally paid to be polite to annoying people. I don't know why a vocal opinion these days is that it's understandable for service workers to be so drained that they ignore basic human politeness.

Your primary role in a customer-facing position is to be polite and hospitable to customers. If that is not something you are committed to being at all times when on the clock, you probably should work in a different field.

I went into Gamestop the other day, and their entire selection of new games was like 15-20 games per console. Their used collection were basically all junk or sports titles. One of the employees also told me that with new releases these days, they only order enough stock for their pre-orders and none to put on the shelf.