posting goblins, huh?

Men, PLEASE take care of your physical health. I know gender norm bullshit says you don't go to the doctor unless it hurts bad, you can put stuff off, etc., etc. Putting off your health only makes your health worse. Don't end up with a brain tumor because going to the doctor "doesn't feel manly".

Discord wants to know how you feel about AI. Go tell them: discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

nothing treats depression like starfoil Caiuses

ok so I'm working on something. got some ideas, consulting with Alex.

it's so easy to make shiny decks in Edison, it's criminal (to my bank account, anyway)

There's gotta be some gas behind The Tricky somewhere.

every time I have an empty deck box, this little asshole sings its siren song

I wish Chaos End Master wasn't a one-print $30 card... that's why there's not more experimentation with it.

Starting to pull this one together. It feels like seeing an old friend, having not seen or talked to each other for years.

TOSS is the eternal format people should look at, that format was WIDE.

Grandsoil Psychic (2013) was the first deck I bubbled on. Survival's End Dino (2020) was my second Nats invite and possibly my favorite deck of all time. Danger! Gren Maju! (2022) is what I took to Nats. I played one round (SUPER nice opponent), then did side events and soaked up the experience.

Started stage one of sunsetting my modern (post-Edison through end of 2023) cards into bulk storage boxes. I'll do one last scavenge for everything Edison relevant, build a few decks for sentimental value — Grandsoil Psychics, Survival's End Dino, Danger! Gren Maju! — and store the rest.

ok there's gotta be a way to make beasts work. Beast Soul Swap helps Beast Striker and Firedog dodge chainables (and is also weirdly compatable with King and Baboon), both do well supported by stuff like Book and Kunai with Chain, and a Cat engine never hurt anyone. there's something here somewhere.

Yata being played more than (and costing numerous times the price of) Jar for the 0.025% chance that your opponent has a spirit on field

Updated Neos HERO, finished Relinquished, nine cards left on Aliens, and found 65% of Yusei.deck in my sleeved-but-unsorted pile. Good stuff.

people who send $20+ card orders without a tracking number 🙄

You will be visited by three spirits

got my decks ready for Edison day tomorrow. • Gemini — "pure", plus Knight of the Red Lotus and a small Arma engine for Cross Porter and Plague • KFC — Kuraz Field Control (Ancient Gears + Black Garden) • SHED — Simorgh HERO Equip Dragons (DDR + Hidden Armory) • Black Box — Dark good stuff pile

My Relinquished deck is now four cards from playable. KFC is also now playable. Good mail day. Beasts are close, but I think they need reworked some. There might be too many cooks in the kitchen, as it were – an engine has to go. Good Edison day.

always a little chuffed to place tcgplayer orders that are entirely starfoil, mosaic, shatterfoil, and/or duel terminal the glitter rares, if you will

I think I'm gonna try out a Firedog engine with the Moja engine. Since you can't search Beast Striker, might as well add another engine of whammy bois for a higher draw density of huge beasts. I know there's also a Skill Drain Moja variant that uses other big beasts.... may need to pick those up.

you can make any Edison water deck look *good* for cheap anymore. I feel like I paid too little for this deck to look this good.

I have a deck idea... and it's going to be bad... but I'm gonna build it.

I really appreciate Team Starlight's ability to take off-the-wall decks and build genuine viability into them.

My Battle Box build. I pulled almost nothing to support the deck core, and no full engines to supplement the redundancy. Gotta make due 🤷‍♂️

First Pokélocal! • Phantasmal Flames prerelease (Zacian precon) • Won my first ever Pokémon match! • Went 2-1 overall • Met cool people who were very chill and kind while I figure this game out IRL I see this as an absolute win!

Got my mat, an empty deck box, and baby's first Pokémon binder. I'm ready for the prerelease!

one Ancient Fairy Dragon away from KFC

I fear "just add Firedog" works a little too often

checked my collection to see what I had towards building some weird Machina Eltanin deck with Montage Dragon because why not missing six cards hoarding wins again?...

I don't know enough about Pokémon yet to know what synergies with Mega Lopunny ex but that card's my kind of goofy and I need to build something that uses it

gotta start a trade binder somewhere before the Phantasmal Flames prerelease, so I went with the general rule of all TCGs: it's shiny, put it in there.

the scary part about getting into a second tcg is the tcgplayer orders

gotta start somewhere!

I wish Neo-Spacians in Edison were just a bit better. They have some neat in-engine cards and work well with dark support, but that the best NS is an even trade bounce and the second-best one requires you to be cracking back for it to be good doesn't quite cut it. I will still play them, of course.

thinking about an Interdimensional Matter Transporter + Absolute Zero deck again...

Dragapult Charizard is looking -real- appealing to me right now. Deck feels super clean and packs a hell of a punch.

First real Pokémon purchase!

Pokemon only being truly expensive if going for the full arts is a dangerous thing for me, guy who likes playing paper and loves deck building.

I think I've got the startings of Mega Venusaur ex and Mega Lucario ex decks after today

"Politics don't belong in Yugioh. Just play car-" It would make Kazuki Takahashi sad to know you play his game.

ok so Pokemon is a CAKEWALK compared to Yugioh. really enjoying this!

Alright Pokémon TCG players, help me out: how do I build a (1) dinosaur deck (2) Gengar deck Brand new to Pokémon. Biggest TCG touchstone is Yugioh, if that helps. I've also downloaded Pokémon Live to learn the basics.

I played Gemini yesterday without any draw spells, and ngl, felt kinda bad. Featherizer is better with the Alien build, so either Legacy/Jar or Reckless is the move, I think. Just need to sort out what my real flex spots are.

Post-duel day adjustments. Codarus deck has been sent back to the drawing board. I think there's some exploring to do with Forgotten Temple of the Deep or Water Art or something, but idk. HERO is the low-hanging fruit. Ancient Gear engine is going towards Kuraz, and Machina towards Quickdraw.

✅️ Played five matches of Edison ✅️ 7M estimated turnout on No Kings ✅️ Pulled a $20 full-art Vulpix from a Mega Evolution pack Good day!

If I had my way, I'd have a complete paper builds of every Edison deck that sounds even remotely fun to me. Thinking about how many decks I have completely or partially built right now, PLUS what I still want, 40 feels like a rough minimum count. Edison is so cool.

I finally have everything to play Gemini! Build is probably a little all over the place, but I'll refine as I go. Trying out: • Arma Knight, Cross Porter, Plague – for easier Grand Mole access and synchro plays • Knight of the Red Lotus – good mid-game threat • Dark Simorgh – because I can