Lurker > masterplum
LurkerFAQs, Active DB, DB1, DB2, DB3, DB4, DB5, DB6, DB7, Database 8 ( 02.18.2021-09-28-2021 ), DB9, DB10, DB11, DB12, Clear
| Board List | |
|---|---|
| Topic | so Pokemon Unite comes out tomrrow |
| masterplum 07/31/21 3:21:11 PM #428 | KamikazePotato posted... Mimey is legit. He does stupid amounts of damage and the wall is great. Am I actually supposed to be taking the snorlax wall? It feels like snore does basically the same thing without you needing to be at the right angle --- |
| Topic | Plums 52 favorite Magic cards |
| masterplum 07/31/21 3:18:34 PM #192 | 1. Ephemerate  I think if there was a running theme in my list of cards it would be
And ephemerate is one of the only card that really checks all 3 boxes. I recently bought back into modern just because of how incredibly disgusting the Ephemerate +  Combo is. Like is it the best deck in modern? No. Is it competitive? Yes. When you turn 1 Evoke Grief play Ephemerate does your opponent just hate life? Absolutely It's hard to build a good ephemerate deck, and honestly thats one of the charms of it. It's a card that on its own does practically nothing and is solely reliant on the cards around it. And that's what makes the card interesting and exciting. --- |
| Topic | so Pokemon Unite comes out tomrrow |
| masterplum 07/31/21 2:10:21 PM #426 | Snorlax is a support. The reason he is so good is he for some reason can also brawl --- |
| Topic | Plums 52 favorite Magic cards |
| masterplum 07/31/21 10:25:05 AM #187 | |
| Topic | I wish I hadn't looked into why Chris Chan is trending today. |
| masterplum 07/31/21 10:24:14 AM #36 | DeepsPraw posted... Okay but what if you're autistic and someone you trust tells you its okay and good to rape and they'll give you something nice if you do it? Because that's almost certainly what happened here. Being Autistic =/= being an idiot --- |
| Topic | Plums 52 favorite Magic cards |
| masterplum 07/31/21 9:52:34 AM #184 | The last card is a white non angel. I think Ive given enough hints in the rest of my write ups to guess! --- |
| Topic | Plums 52 favorite Magic cards |
| masterplum 07/31/21 9:50:23 AM #183 | 2. Electrolyze  You havent lived as a magic player until you kill 2 mana elves on turn 3 for the turn 3 three for one with electrolyze. How are you losing that game? (You arent) Electrolyze is that sneaky sort of card that is pretty much always good. Worst case scenario is it cycles for 3 doing 2 damage to your opponent which is still totally reasonable. If you are in a control deck this sweeps up pesky 2 drops before you are able to play your wraths or planes walkers and in an izzet tempo deck this can just cantrip while taking away 10% of your opponents life points. This card being good in both situations is why I always slam it in cube (or Strixhaven draft amusingly enough) --- |
| Topic | I wish I hadn't looked into why Chris Chan is trending today. |
| masterplum 07/31/21 9:41:25 AM #32 | Rango posted... I am autistic. Also on the spectrum. When people die I dont get sad. In a universe where I had no morals I would probably be a pretty good assassin. Emphasis on the no morals part. Being autistic doesnt make you a rapist any more than cigarettes being advertised to you makes you a chain smoker. Its just removes a barrier. Its still your choice. --- |
| Topic | Plums 52 favorite Magic cards |
| masterplum 07/30/21 8:21:42 PM #178 | 3. Vindicate  Referring back to my love of non-counter control cards. I love vindicate. I love the security of knowing no matter what your opponent possibly plays, it is going to die. Oh, and it can also randomly blow up lands if your opponent stumbles. Vindicate is another one of those cards that's just (unsurprisingly) been power creeped out over the last 20 years. At the end of the day Vindicate is never better than a 1 for 1, and how many cards just in this list are 2 for 1's? (Or better?) Still, I love shamelessly including it in my esper control cube deck as my 23rd card. --- |
| Topic | Plums 52 favorite Magic cards |
| masterplum 07/30/21 7:06:24 PM #172 | 4. Polar Kraken  LOOK HOW INSANELY HUGE THIS THING IS THIS THING IS SO BIG 8 (9?) year old me thought Polar Kraken was my best card. The thing was massive. I had no idea what cumulative upkeep meant. Costs didn't matter when games took days because everyone played out 25 lands out of their 200 card decks and never attacked. THIS THING WAS SO BIG I didn't realize the card was complete and utter garbage until I got back into magic decades later. But for my entire childhood this was my favorite card. --- |
| Topic | Plums 52 favorite Magic cards |
| masterplum 07/30/21 1:51:39 PM #171 | banananor posted... True! It is powerful, and you can sometimes luck into wins if you hit a combo piece with it. I honestly think hostage taker kind of sucks --- |
| Topic | Plums 52 favorite Magic cards |
| masterplum 07/30/21 11:11:15 AM #168 | Sceptilesolar posted... Thief of Sanity dominates games in a way that Gonti simply can't. Yeah, Thief of Sanity is a better card powerwise because if you can protect it the game is pretty much over. Just not as fun of a card to have around. --- |
| Topic | Plums 52 favorite Magic cards |
| masterplum 07/30/21 10:50:29 AM #165 | |
| Topic | Plums 52 favorite Magic cards |
| masterplum 07/30/21 10:47:20 AM #164 | 5. Kolaghan's Command  I opened a foil K command from a dragons of tarkhir booster pack and at the time it was one of the cheapest commands. Then people realized it was great and it spiked. At this point do I even need to mention when a cube card is great? Hint: If it messes with your opponents artifacts its probably good in cube. K command is great because it's extremely versatile. Instant speed discard is no joke, and 2 damage picks off mana elves. It's actually pretty hard not to get a 2 for 1 with it, and at 3 mana instant speed thats a damn good deal. It gets bonus points for being a color combination that usually doesn't get card advantage. Really great cube cards that are non-blue are always fun given blue is so far and away the best cube color in high powered cubes. --- |
| Topic | Stock Topic 31 |
| masterplum 07/30/21 8:43:42 AM #387 | Sunroof posted... Id feel sick if I owned them Which is more an indictment on you to be honest --- |
| Topic | Plums 52 favorite Magic cards |
| masterplum 07/30/21 12:20:08 AM #162 | Yeah rules lawyer dies to removal. It was just nearly unbeatable because we were playing sealed unstable --- |
| Topic | Plums 52 favorite Magic cards |
| masterplum 07/29/21 10:34:03 PM #159 | 6. Arcane Subtraction  I rode this damn draft common to #400 in the world in limited rankings before other people realized how to draft Strixhaven. Unfortunately after people figured out that the Temur Colleges were the best and U/R Tempo was no longer always open I eventually fell down. Still, being ranked in top few hundred of the worlds best magic players if only for a month was pretty awesome. Random Aside: The decay on MTG Arena is completely insane. Its pretty stupid you are matching actual silver level players against people who have been top 500 mythic just because they haven't played in a couple months. I mean, its the reason I have over a hundred rare and mythic wild cards each, but that's really not a fair system for people who aren't as good at the game. --- |
| Topic | so Pokemon Unite comes out tomrrow |
| masterplum 07/29/21 9:41:02 PM #390 | Waluigi1 posted... Yeah but even the basic boots in league give at least 7-8% boost of speed. Like, I get it, I know movement speed is very important for mobas but I just wonder how often it's actually going to lead to a life or death situation vs something like raw stats or a shield or whatever else. Not saying it's unviable at all, just I definitely see now how it's being overrated. I haven't played league in years, do people still buy boots 100% of the time? Because if buying anything besides boots is objectively wrong your item is too strong --- |
| Topic | Plums 52 favorite Magic cards |
| masterplum 07/29/21 6:50:33 PM #157 | 7. Ashiok, Nightmare Weaver  Ashiok was both the first planeswalker I ever opened in a booster pack, and one of the few planeswalkers which is better in higher powered cubes than lower powered cubes. Why? Because higher powered cubes have fewer random ass creatures that can attack ashiok. In a control mirror this card is a nightmare, and if you can ramp into it with a mox on turn 2 you probably aren't losing because nobody is running cheap planeswalker removal (And sometimes not running removal at all. Ashiok is certainly not as good as it was a few years ago now that other scary 3 mana planeswalkers are running around in cube (Dack, Oko, Narset) but still a great card with a lot of good memories. --- |
| Topic | Outer Wilds Expansion: September 28 |
| masterplum 07/29/21 6:37:58 PM #14 | ChaosTonyV4 posted... Id like Outer Wilds 900% more if you removed The end of the game would be so much less stressful if you did. Which would dramatically hurt the game. --- |
| Topic | Outer Wilds DLC HYPE |
| masterplum 07/29/21 6:07:38 PM #1 | |
| Topic | Plums 52 favorite Magic cards |
| masterplum 07/29/21 5:05:37 PM #152 | Team Rocket Elite posted... I had never heard of Companion until now. How bad could it be? Lurrus in vintage is a little extreme because in vintage it was more of an issue of vintage playable cards are all obscenely broken and Lurrus just let you replay obscenely broken cards for basically no cost. The bigger problem was that in other formats you could build decks around companions like  which played basically nothing but even costed clone effects to keep spinning the wheels over and over again. While with normal combos you could be screwed by never drawing your combo piece, companions were always virtually in your hand and completely immune to discard like thoughtseize which made the games look exactly the same every single time. --- |
| Topic | Plums 52 favorite Magic cards |
| masterplum 07/29/21 3:57:52 PM #148 | 8. Yorion, Sky Nomad  I want to start by acknowledging companion was kind of a debacle, but I think after the companion nerf Yorion is in a great spot. The cost of companioning Yorion makes deck building more interesting because it forces you to play more cards, but at the same time that isn't a big cost if you are playing a less streamlined (and generally more interesting) deck. Yorion itself is a sweet card that has interesting combo potentials. After the companion nerf there are probably only 3 or 4 playable companions, and Yorion is definitely the most interesting of them. --- |
| Topic | Plums 52 favorite Magic cards |
| masterplum 07/29/21 3:50:44 PM #147 | Lopen posted... I think that unglued card is too unglued for me. Too complicated to be funny which I realize is the point but it was a failed joke to begin with for me Yeah it's high up because of the play experience. I think unstable was a great set because it was actually a ton of fun to play, and this was the pinnacle of what the hell are we doing right now. --- |
| Topic | Plums 52 favorite Magic cards |
| masterplum 07/29/21 2:01:48 PM #145 | Emeraldegg posted... Did you actually look up rule 704 at any point during this No haha --- |
| Topic | Plums 52 favorite Magic cards |
| masterplum 07/29/21 12:58:23 PM #141 | 9. Rules Lawyer  As I mentioned previously, a coworker and I bought a box of unstable to play sealed together. This card led to one of the most memorable games of magic of all time for me. This card is dumb It is one of the dumbest most unbeatable cards I have ever seen. It was like a never ending journey of realizing one at a time all the things that couldn't happen. Oh, well you don't die.... Oh combat damage doesn't apply to any of your creatures huh... Evetually I think I top decked my one outer of  To win but it was hilarious. As a person who loves impending doom on sticks, this card was absolutely incredible. Best Unset card ever printed. --- |
| Topic | so Pokemon Unite comes out tomrrow |
| masterplum 07/29/21 11:34:02 AM #364 | Radix posted... poster from the unite boards did some testing/compiled infos on held item stats. worth a look I think float stone is being panned unnecessarily here. Absolute speed doesn't matter as much as relative speed and beating your opponent to the middle creep in lane is very valuable. Buddy barrier is interesting. I'll have to pump that one... Edit: Though while thinking about it is buddy barrier also win more? Are you getting to the point in the game where it does anything without losing already? --- |
| Topic | My top 52 favorite Yu-Gi-Oh cards [ygo] |
| masterplum 07/29/21 9:25:01 AM #398 | MZero posted... I've gone in a complete cycle from "come on mom just buy me cards" to "wow I made my mom spend a lot of money on cards" to "actually it probably wasn't that much money" I buy my son packs of magic cards because he likes opening them and yeah, probably wasnt worth that much --- |
| Topic | Stock Topic 31 |
| masterplum 07/29/21 9:08:08 AM #380 | Would be amusing if it got crushed by short sellers --- |
| Topic | so Pokemon Unite comes out tomrrow |
| masterplum 07/29/21 8:52:37 AM #361 | The way I see it, P2W is only an issue if you really care about winning. My life has more meaning than being the world's best Pokemon united player so I don't really care --- |
| Topic | Plums 52 favorite Magic cards |
| masterplum 07/29/21 7:29:13 AM #139 | 10. Gonti, Lord of Luxury  Gonti is everything I want in a cube card. From a power level perspective the card is great. Its worst case a 4 mana 2/3 death touch with an ETB of draw 4 cards and keep one. From a psychological perspective however It strikes dread in your opponents soul as they think of all the possible cards you could have taken and that is really why this card made top 10. Ive countered Gonti before in cubes because I didnt want to deal with the fear of the unknown. Heaven forbid you cast this against a combo deck and snag their win con and you accidentally make them lose the game, I have definitely just left cards in exile before because it was safer than casting them and possibly letting them get them back. And of course like many of the other cards on this list, blink effects are a riot. If there is anything more demoralizing than having a gonti steal your time walk or ancestral recall I dont want to hear it. --- |
| Topic | Magic the Gathering: Adventures in the Forgotten Realms |
| masterplum 07/28/21 10:24:13 PM #282 | |
| Topic | Plums 52 favorite Magic cards |
| masterplum 07/28/21 5:42:29 PM #132 | TOP 10 PREDIX TIME Top 10 stats: 2 White Cards 1 Black Card 2 Blue Cards 5 Gold Cards 2 Nostalgia Cards 1 Un Card 1 Draft common gogogo --- |
| Topic | Plums 52 favorite Magic cards |
| masterplum 07/28/21 5:39:07 PM #131 | 11. Circle of Protection (Black)  When I was a kid I thought these cards were soooo busted. I was 100% sure that if I got every circle of protection out I could just never lose. How could you ever beat that? After googling this card for the first time the thing that made me smirk the most was the fact that it didn't even protect creatures. Man, this card was not very good. Middle school me was not good at card evaluation. I picked black because I remember this art from an iceage pack but no real reason to pick it over any other color --- |
| Topic | so Pokemon Unite comes out tomrrow |
| masterplum 07/28/21 3:34:42 PM #337 | Forceful_Dragon posted... I'm getting ready to play for a couple hours. I'll be in one of the voice rooms on the B8 discord if anyone wants to join me. I'll play after work --- |
| Topic | Plums 52 favorite Magic cards |
| masterplum 07/28/21 2:51:44 PM #127 | 12. Stone Forge Mystic  Honestly for a card this high up on the list, I don't have much to say about it. I just really like the design of the card, I like that it is both extremely powerful and has high deckbuilding cost, and I like that it has blink synergies. --- |
| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 376: Pigs in Space |
| masterplum 07/28/21 2:50:39 PM #117 | Not_an_Owl posted... https://i.imgur.com/ZqHKMT3.gif Because you spend political capital every time you do anything and this isn't a dictatorship --- |
| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 376: Pigs in Space |
| masterplum 07/28/21 2:40:53 PM #113 | Cancelling student debt is just a middle class tax break. I would rather funnel the money into helping the actual poor --- |
| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 376: Pigs in Space |
| masterplum 07/28/21 1:48:47 PM #105 | Yeah. Forgiving student loans is dumb. That was the worst explanation of why ever --- |
| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 376: Pigs in Space |
| masterplum 07/28/21 1:19:22 PM #92 | ChaosTonyV4 posted... The point isnt about the phrase, its that literally who is this for? Independents --- |
| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 376: Pigs in Space |
| masterplum 07/28/21 12:55:02 PM #88 | ChaosTonyV4 posted... I came here to post this exact tweet. Are any of the people that would be mad about this going to change their vote because of it? Maybe Minority enthusiasm? --- |
| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 376: Pigs in Space |
| masterplum 07/28/21 11:39:26 AM #84 | Dancedreamer posted... Did they really though? I'd say Mitch McConnell exacerbated the issue as much as Trump (and before Trump came along). Trump just brought out the worst in everyone. For once, they felt safe talking about their worst inhibitions because Trump always talked about his. That's why they always said he was a 'straight-talker'. What they really meant by that is that he wasn't afraid to say the worst things that were on their minds that they never felt they could say in public, but now they just don't care anymore. And Newt Gingrich exacerbated it before Mitch McConnell --- |
| Topic | Plums 52 favorite Magic cards |
| masterplum 07/28/21 11:37:48 AM #124 | 13. Elspeth Conquers Death  Sagas are sweet. While looking over my list I was surprised this was the only Saga that made the cut given how much I like dominaria. Going through the list though this is the only one that really stood out. Lets start with this card is insane in lower powered cubes. I actually think in the very first (fairly crappy) itteration of the arena cube this was the best card. Its at worst an absurd 2 for one that gets rid of permanently any of your opponents bombs before bringing back one of yours, and the 2nd level isn't nothing either. Add in any sweet flicker effects and you can keep just stocking up on value. U/W Control is my favorite arena cube deck, and this card is one of the reasons why I always tend to veer to white as opposed to one of the other colors. --- |
| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 376: Pigs in Space |
| masterplum 07/28/21 11:18:22 AM #81 | Mr Lasastryke posted... i mean, a lot of america's problems did suddenly appear with trump They really did not. You can tell based on how the sentiment of trump isn't exclusive to the US. Other countries are facing similar challenges (see Brexit as the most obvious) Trump just made them obvious to people living in bubbles --- |
| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 376: Pigs in Space |
| masterplum 07/28/21 9:42:41 AM #77 | LinkMarioSamus posted... Trump's America was basically a third-world country. This is such a dumb take. Americas problems didn't suddenly appear with Trump and they didn't just disappear with Biden. --- |
| Topic | Plums 52 favorite Magic cards |
| masterplum 07/28/21 8:15:33 AM #123 | 14. Temple of Malady (But really all the temples)  Temples have two things going for them
I think one of the problems dual lands have is they aren't interesting. Just making your mana better because they come into play untapped in certain circumstances isn't interesting. The temples are tapped dual lands that actually give you a game action which makes them exciting to play with. I kind of wish they had land subtypes so they could be fetchable becaue then I think they would show up in high powered cube lists. Oh well The reason I picked Malady specifically is famous magic pro Ben Stark honestly thought it was pronounced  Which is hilarious --- |
| Topic | Dr. Mario World shutting down |
| masterplum 07/27/21 11:13:46 PM #5 | JonThePenguin posted... You know, that mobile game youd completely forgotten about? Well that sums up my feelings well --- |
| Topic | Plums 52 favorite Magic cards |
| masterplum 07/27/21 10:01:24 PM #119 | 15. Shark Typhoon  This is another example of a card that isn't great at any point that somehow combines together to an excellent card. I think what really makes the card work is it does two things pretty well
This combination is why this card is great. Cards that aren't ever dead are always way better than they look. ... Oh you can also cast it for 6 mana. Outside of cheating it out by returing it from your graveyard or something I don't think I've ever had this happen in a game that wouldn't have just been won by cycling the card anyways. An added bonus I guess but I think I've actually cast it something like 2% of the time. --- |
| Topic | Plums 52 favorite Magic cards |
| masterplum 07/27/21 9:11:14 PM #118 | |
| Topic | so Pokemon Unite comes out tomrrow |
| masterplum 07/27/21 9:02:09 PM #317 | |
| Board List |
