I think Jumpstart is best played against other Jumpstarts. I see it as it’s own format. It might be cool to easily have standard decks, but they’d have a pretty low power level. I like that there’s so many themes and you can jam a bunch of quick games with different decks.

But a 60 card jumpstart deck you could play in an fnm standard event

I think even when Jumpstart was recently released, they weren’t standard legal. Pretty sure the upcoming Avatar Jumpstarts won’t be. But for some sets they did have Jumpstart packs that were standard legal, so it could have been a thing!

I think they could have done more with bigger packs, but at the same time limited players are used to 40 card decks (at least for draft and sealed).

I also have a jumpstart cube, which is fun sometimes. Especially great for new players.

My wife and I have been houseman drafting a cube and it’s really fun. We don’t try super hard and just have talking about the cards, or other things. Honestly, it’s faster than some commander games.

I LOVE draft, so it’s cool to have this option that doesn’t need fresh packs or 8 people.

We had zero this year. We even put out decorations and every year we give out full size bars and pokemon packs. Live in the center of town in a dense neighborhood. I do think part of the reason is none of the street lights ever are on anymore

Had the exact same conversation with my super Christian mom. In front of some siblings. It was amazing.

She was arguing that we need to stop normalizing LGBT stuff because anyone can swing both ways.

I told her straight people can’t swing both ways, if you can then you’re bisexual. She did not like this, so we all took a poll and she was the only bi person in the room.

She’s less homophobic now lol

Just don’t use your wife’s cutting board, like I did. It had a big crack and I figured I was upcycling. She didn’t notice it was the same and weeks later I got in trouble when she asked where the small cutting board was and I pointed at the butter dish 😅

I made myself a butter knife holder by using a magnet

I also wish they would call for protests over some of the heinous things. Break through with messaging. Make it clearer what the Republicans are doing. Some credit is due, though.

Wish Democrats in the House and Senate could also do something…

I guess this is specifically illegal according to the Hatch Act which is supposed to prevent using public service websites from being used to smear a political party.

I was gonna buy one of those Lite phones, but it was expensive so I just deleted time-wasting apps and now my smartphone respects my time. Hardest part was getting people to just text me instead of various social media messenger apps. In the end, I deleted my accounts and now everyone from school thinks I’m dead, but those close to me can reach me easily. Sometimes I still binge YouTube via Firefox on my phone though, so I installed “Unhook” which blocks recommended videos, so I can only see what I search for.

I guess just remember that your smartphone can be dumb too. And still a lot more convenient than a flip phone.

I agree 100%! Butt I’m joking about a façade of optimization. Making code confusing and hard to interface with by making up custom data types. And for more context, their main project is a UI that takes >10 seconds to load and uses 2+GB of RAM. But at least the UUIDs in the SQLite DB are stored as hex instead of strings 😅 (even though I think everything in SQLite is actually stored as a string under the hood?)

I do still admire the desire for optimization - but it might be some sort of coping mechanism to ignore the insanely unoptimized bits of the project

I have a coworker who does stuff like this and it’s always low-benefit optimizations that cost the team time to interface with - but I do still kind of love it

My LGS has a cEDH tournament this weekend where you’re allowed to have up to 10 proxies in your deck

On Arena I probably misread “you and 7 other players” as just “7 players” or something 🙃 But knowing they should be the same, I’ll commit the numbers to memory!

Gotcha. Weird to me that Arena is different - 7 players in Premier Draft, and packs are 15 cards

Nice! I still haven’t even figured out at what pick count a pack has wheeled :P I guess pick 8? Seems intense to remember an individual pack 8 packs later, but I guess you just know that all those cards wheeled so it gives an idea of what’s open.

I was imagining that the overlay would tell you what colors are open, and what a the best picks from each pack are, and maybe even what synergieses with your current picks

Yeah I’ve played a lot of constructed magic. Never have gone to a prerelease or draft event though so I had no experience with limited until recently. Makes sense to start with learning draft skills in general though, rather than only trying to learn a set!

I’m on Linux as well - would people consider tools like that cheating? Or more like “here’s some knowledge you might not know yet”