u/borealis126

I've been playing an Arwen-Haldir-Aragorn deck and I swapped out Aragorn(leadership) with Amarthiul with nice results. Two less threat, one more defense, and it let me run feint. With proper defense boosting and health management the lower health never mattered. And I found myself rarely using Aragorn's response because early on the leadership resources were critical for getting out Steward and Celebrian's Stone, and later on I had better ways of getting questing power. Amarthiul's Warrior keyword also let me run Coney in a Trap, so I had plenty of combat control. And of course Tale of Tinuviel was still on the table (even though I'm not personally a huge fan).

Thoughts? I'm not playing a Dunedain archetype so it was interesting seeing Amarthiul shine in this context, especially since tier lists I've run across often have him as fairly middling.

Edit: I'm playing solo, so Aragon's sentinel is also unused (although I acknowledge Desperate Defense).

Decklist: https://ringsdb.com/decklist/view/67688/arwensolo-1.0

I love engine builders but the problem I have is they all seem to end when your erection is "getting good".

I want my cake and eat it to

In Fire in the Night I had A Growing Threat set aside The Dragon's Fury. The text on the card seems pretty specific to this scenario, unless Dagnir shows up again. Should I keep it in my burden pool or just randomly take another card?

Anyone else have the experience of *feeling* smart due to a mixture of obsession and perfectionism ... but not actually *being* all that smart? Shit sucks lol

Hey folks, looking for a quiet apartment and I'm finding that a hard thing to reliably look for myself. Willing to hire a broker who can help if anyone knows one! Thx

Interested in an apartment next to the white plains station. Anyone know how loud the trains are when they blow their horn in the morning? I'm fairly sensitive to noise and have been surprised by this before. Thanks!

Edit: Thank you all for the replies!

I hate to be that guy, but I have a significantly easier time winning with fast powers than slow. I've had many games where I win only using fast powers, but I've tried to challenge myself to only use slow powers and things go off rails quickly.

And like, I get that slow powers are stronger to compensate etc. But did the designers actually hit the mark on making them strong enough to compensate for timing?

I play most L6 and it feels like the added unknowns introduced by the invader card after the fast phase serve to generally decrease slow power efficacy to a point where their ability to solve a problem just seems like a gamble.

If skill issue f me up I need to hear the truth

I've been struggling to get good use out of powerstorm on major-power starlight. With only two card plays powerstorm + one other card just doesn't usually feel that strong. Two cards solving two different kinds of problems usually goes further for me than duplicating one card. If the powerstorm elements are useful for hitting the threshold on a duplicated major then it feels fine but that's much less likely than getting the threshold from a drafted minor. And duplicating a single minor tempts to take elements to hit innate thresholds, but then those element slots can't be used for other major thresholds. I inevitably end up getting silo'd into the powerstorm elements and have significantly reduced drafting flexibility in the important early round of the game.

Once I hit three card plays it gets stronger but by that point the game has usually been decided. And so drafting it early rather than something else feels like an opportunity cost. If I do should I just pivot into minor powers and card plays and go for hitting innates rather than majors?

Definitely my favorite power card for starlight. Hitting the threshold, combined with starlight's innates, is just busted. Blows away L6s at least.

And few things are more satisfying than repeatedly nuking a map full of badlands.

Holy sh*t I've never seen a zero cost minor power do so much work

Struggling with this one. With optimal play should it be reliably doable?

I'm maximizing actions, sacrificing blight for tempo, spreading out animal tokens for event triggers, managing explorer clusters, etc. But it still spins out of control or comes down to a high-stakes major draft.

Anyone else feel this way? Like you know your first instincts are usually problematic - impulsivity, oversharing, plain weirdness, etc. - so every text or email or word you speak feels like trying to solve a puzzle.

Maybe this is just one aspect of masking? Whatever it is, it's exhausting. Hoping with practice it becomes less so.

Hi, I'm on a Lenovo ThinkPad L15 Gen 1 dual boot of Ubuntu and every day or so my keyboard locks up and acts as if a key is being held down. So far I have experienced down arrow, right arrow, and backspace (which was exciting since I was writing a paper at the time, thank god for vc). Keyboard becomes unusable and only way out is a hard reboot.

Any ideas what's going on? Haven't found much by way of google. Sticky keys is off and I never have this problem on my Windows boot so I don't think it's a hardware issue. Thanks!

I hit rock bottom recently, and had my eyes opened to how many struggles I have (suspecting some combination of autism+bpd).

Before this I was able to just keep telling myself the problem was with everyone else, but that's clearly not the case.

Without that delusion I'm struggling to motivate myself to do much of anything, expecting that most efforts will eventually result in failure and trauma. Essentially feeling cursed.

Has anyone here, after diagnosis, felt like with focused work on their issues they were able to eventually get themselves to a better place?

Bpd is primarily characterized by heightened emotions, and a telltale sign is the words we choose to describe things. If I find myself using charged words like "amazing", "extremely", "devastated", etc. more often than not I'm coming across strong, and may be unhealthily invested in whatever it is I'm talking about.

Much of dbt is focused on identifying big feelings before they spiral out of control, and the earlier you can catch yourself the easier it is to navigate a soft landing. Listening to the words you choose, even when just talking to yourself, can be a good early warning sign.

One way that I know that I have serious emotional regulation struggles is how often I have felt grey-rocked in life. Stretching as far back as I can remember I've been feeling tested, and inevitably crashing out, from deafening silence. It has cost me friends, relationships, jobs, and most importantly, my self-respect.

I think well-adjusted people are capable of accepting potential rejection without having to hack their brains with dbt techniques to avoid painfully melting down. It's a terrible thing to live with.