Septian

What a wild ride of a read that was. Reminds me a bit of when I first got to college. Glad things started going well for you.

Much appreciated.

Those were a hard 11 years for Derplander. In another 11 years he’s going to look just like Yoshi-P.

I primarily play cEDH, so be aware I have some biases during deck building and take my advice with a grain of salt.

In my experience, the rule of thumb is the more consistency you want in a deck the more tutors you should be running. I know you mentioned wanting to preserve the power level of your deck and that means to me that your deck will always be inconsistent – some games you’ll draw a god hand, some games you won’t.

As an alternative to more filtering or protection, have you considered adding in disruption to your opponent’s setups? Again, power level considerations might be a problem here but things like Massacre Girl or wheel effects might help you into a more stable position early.

I also always favor free interaction in blue to defend your key pieces, but that has the power problem and the consistency problem – running one or two pieces of free interaction (E.g. Force of Will, etc.) won’t help too much on average if you don’t have ways to find them.

At the end of the day, I think I’d lean into disruption in any spellslinger type deck like Kess in order to reach a position where you can leverage your yard to outmaneuver your opponents.

Been just thinking about one of my favorite SNES era games – Illusion of Gaia. If you’re doing emulation, highly recommend. I’m in the process of picking up a SNES and functioning cart to play it myself for the first time in a decade.

Recovering fat guy here. Was 335 last year, down to 188 now. This is exactly it. I don’t have that feeling at all. When I eat the only thing that tells me to stop is when I’m physically incapable of eating any more. Realizing that some people have that switch was a big part of what helped me figure out what I needed to do to lose weight. I have to count the calories of every single thing I eat and make sure it doesn’t add up to more than I need in energy for the day. If I don’t, I’ll end up right back where I started.

16 years in Karate, Judo, Jujitsu, and Kenpo here. My absolute favorite sparring partner I’ve had was a traditional boxer. He hit like a freight train and getting through his guard required some serious creativity. Boxers are nuts and I really miss that dude.

Nice. Thanks for sharing this. Nothing too exciting in this list, looks like. I’ll probably try to snag it at some point for the sliver staples though.