I don’t know how I feel about Wizards simply taking real Norse mythology and just painting it over, but I guess that’s what’s largely expected from them, so they can’t really avoid it.
EDH Deck Time: Sarulf
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Aki Vs. Evil: Krampus – The Unlikely Christmas Classic
If you have an interest in movies in general, you should see this movie. Sure, it’s easy to see as pop culture trash, but it’s also masterful in it’s execution. Just the sound alone is an excellent example of how you really need to take that part of the movie into account, as so much of the mood is just purely built on that.
Now, I am not a big fan of Christmas. In fact, I do try to avoid family gatherings in general, but the importance put on Christmas just feels so awkward and unnecessary.
Aki Vs. Evil: Introduction, part 2
I’ve been mulling this over for the last two days and during that time I’ve felt the need to explain what I’m going for in some more detail.
Aki Vs. Evil: Introduction
I’ve been wanting to write a book for a very long time. I do have some drafts ready, but I never seem to find the motivation to do the necessary editing and rewrites to finish them. I like writing, but everything else is boring.
While I’ve been planning on writing fiction and books on games, for a few years now I’ve been thinking about writing a book on movies. The problem is that I lack the academic background to write the kind of book I would like to write. So, I decided to instead use this existing blog to write a series on a specific topic instead: horror comedies.
EDH Deck Time: Thrasios + Eligeth
Eligeth seems like a commander I would enjoy, but where to find a good partner? There’s two other potential partners that have the word scry printed on them, so that does limit certain aspects quite a bit. Thrasios seems like the better one simply due to the extra color, although the activated ability of Thrasios has limited utilty with Eligeth, as the ramping aspect is more random than usual if you draw the first card instead of scry.
Should You Be Worried About Spoilers?
Short answer: No.
Little bit longer: No in general, but it’s complicated.
But I guess you are going to want some explanation.
EDH Deck Time: Tormod + Ghost of Ramirez DePietro
Tormod seems interesting, if underpowered, but than again, all partners should be underpowered, because you do get two. Looking at the various potential partners, the only one I found fun enough is Ghost of Ramirez DePietro, another underpowered commander. I do also like how Ghost enables a certain amount of diplomacy, even if that is kind of hard to utilize.
WHat to do with this pair? Madness? I guess it doesn’t actually work due to the new rules. Delve? That’s are handily largely in blue and black. Both also have plenty of self-mill and cycling, which are helpful.
EDH Deck Time: Breeches and Kediss
So, hear me out: If you have both of these on the table, each time you deal combat damage to a player, that damage gets copied to other opponents as well by Kediss. But Breeches doesn’t require combat damage, any damage is enough. Also, Kediss states that the original source is also the source of the new damage. So, you can get three cards exiled in a three player game. Not that you can count that as three card advantage, since there is no way you can play all of them, but it will give you plenty of options.
EDH Deck Time: Araumi of the Dead Tide
Feels weird that this is uncommon as it seems very powerful and interesting to build around. I could easily see this as a mythic. I guess the requirement for three cards to exile makes this somewhat clunky, but potential is definitely there.
My Favorite Movies I Can’t Really Recommend
Say what?
There are movies I enjoy, but it’s just hard for me to really recommend them for anyone else. It’s not that they aren’t good, it’s just that I know that for various reasons not that many people will like them.