Mika
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Mika@piefed.cato MTG@mtgzone.com•Why Magic is How it Is in 2025 and Why Everything ChangedEnglish7·20 days agoYet the company reinvests only 8% of it’s profit. So they are milking magic until it dies instead of building up it’s lore, competitive scene, make some films in mtg settings etc.
Mika@piefed.cato News@lemmy.world•Generals silent as Hegseth ends ‘warrior ethos’ rally speechEnglish7·21 days agoFr fr, gather everyone just to say “shave yur head” lol, what a clowns
Mika@piefed.cato World News@lemmy.world•Afghan women lose their 'last hope' as Taliban shuts down internetEnglish6·21 days agoThere is nothing wrong with insulting authoritarian shitholes without civil rights.
If the playerbase is in the same boat, have you tried to offer them to try to play something like in-universe standard?
If there would be a format where there would be 0 incentives to play UB, people would have no reason to buy UB.
Anyone still playing standard?
I feel like commander and pauper are the only 2 formats doing good.
Mika@piefed.cato News@lemmy.world•Ben & Jerry's co-founder Jerry Greenfield resigns, claiming parent company Unilever 'silenced' its campaigningEnglish1·1 month agoThere is nothing pacifist with letting russians genocide Ukrainians freely. We already saw what happens when USA stops military aid, russia goes on offensive emboldened by such actions.
Mika@piefed.cato News@lemmy.world•Ben & Jerry's co-founder Jerry Greenfield resigns, claiming parent company Unilever 'silenced' its campaigningEnglish5·1 month agoFuck Ben & Jerry. They were bankrolling campaign against supply of military equipment to Ukraine.
Mika@piefed.cato Programmer Humor@programming.dev•When people encounter Lisp syntax for the first timeEnglish2·1 month agoWhat does it have to do with lisp?
Mika@piefed.cato Programmer Humor@programming.dev•When people encounter Lisp syntax for the first timeEnglish32·1 month agoSure it’s not like it has no uses, but it’s something languages have built-in as syntax sugar or operators, and you rarely need to built your own macro for anything.
Mika@piefed.cato Programmer Humor@programming.dev•When people encounter Lisp syntax for the first timeEnglish131·1 month agoThe most interesting part about Lisp is homoiconicity:
(+ 1 1 2) is literally a list with symbol “+” and 3 numbers.
Which allows to build the most powerful macro possible, manipulating code (with data as a tree-like structures) and changing it into whatever else at compile time.
Now if only there was any good use for macros, this would be the best language 🙃
Love emacs, and have lots of ease-of-life functions and keybinds in it. But the UX of the base editor feels so dated. Like how pointer moves with scroll, how scrolling isn’t smooth etc etc
Mika@piefed.cato Privacy@programming.dev•Clearview AI scraped 30 billion images from Facebook and other social media sites and gave them to cops: it puts everyone into a 'perpetual police line-up'English7·2 months agoHonestly, we should just blow the companies that do this.
Removing the web won’t fix shit, haven’t you learn from cyberpunk, next web is gonna be corpo run and privacy world be worse than ever.
Mika@piefed.caOPto MTG@mtgzone.com•Sorted out my commander decks into archetypesEnglish3·2 months agoThat mostly depends on what other players do to counter you.
Kardur games go fast and you can expect them to end in ~7-9 turns. You even win some of them. Games where you lose are also speed up by a lot.
Jirina / Danitha, even if you can kill a single opponent fast you have to deal with 3. Most likely board wipe would happen, so add several turns per wipe for recovery, assuming you haven’t run out of steam. But even with 1 wipe, that could go over 10 turns easy.
Best thing here is that you can remove the most problematic players first. It’s often not the players with early creatures btw, but those who just silently ramp or set up otherwise.
Mika@piefed.caOPto MTG@mtgzone.com•Sorted out my commander decks into archetypesEnglish3·2 months agoI’m at bracket 2-3, I’d say if you can kill a single player at turn5 with a great starting hand and luck, that’s fast.
But it all depends on what your deck do, my most aggressive deck is doing damage to everyone (me too) each turn, stacking symmetric burn effects. It doesn’t kill at early turns but it lowers everyone’s HP low enough not to feel safe, denying them setup time and force to act, just to goad their whole board with my Kardur, and when only one opponent remains, do some fast finish, like Mob Rule.
Again, you might go slower if you have something nice to protect you from the most likely negative scenario. Say, Danitha theoretically could kill t4, but practically that’s gonna happen way slower with an average luck, BUT lifelink vigilance is gonna keep your hitpoints high enough to have time - just get enough protective gear so you don’t lose her too often.
You can see all the decks mentioned here.
Mika@piefed.caOPto MTG@mtgzone.com•Sorted out my commander decks into archetypesEnglish5·2 months agoUsually people recognize aggro-control-combo triad.
I don’t have infinite combos, but my Kess can do billions of damage from sorceries basically out of almost empty board. Hence, I’ve named that Uniniteractive. Essentially decks that don’t look like they do much but you are on a clock to kill them before they do that.
Midrange is generally a space between aggro and control, which I think makes sense in 1v1, but I think is incorrect for EDH.
Midrange in EDH have to be some absolute value houses so they could survive being interacted by 2-3 players, going exponential on resources.
Control decks feature increased amount of interaction and enough value engines to be able to cast interaction and not to run out of fuel. But the wincons aren’t as strong as in midrange variants, control relies on breaking opponents value engines first.
Aggro is what you can expect from the name, put a tight timeclock on their relaxed value piles.
I need to mention that it’s hardly a 2d space. Jodah, realistically, is in midrange/uninteractive. But the rest fits nicely into categories or into spaces directly between.
I’m gonna pretend those sets don’t exist.