Seconding Smart Launcher. Automatic categorization beats pretty much every other feature I can think of in a launcher.

I try to treat my devices as commitments as far as spending but disposable as far as usage habits and not having invent my own categories helps me just USE my phone instead of playing with it.

I use it for everything that doesn’t explicitly need to be shared or anything that is going to be printed. I needed to print a document as a booklet and LibreOffice had that feature and Drive didn’t.

I also keep a baseline suite of apps installed on every machine and that includes LibreOffice.

Seconding the basic rules. You can get pretty much the entire vibe of the game from this. You can even create characters!

That sounds great. I care about the new player experience as well and it’s cool to see such a “what you see is what you get” commander get some love. I need to pick one up, actually.

Same here. I think people put undue meaning on the idea of having one single canonical correct place for a topic. Classic FOMO.

Ah but you see now instead of tanking on three cards in hand they’re all tanking on 30 cards in hand. The monkey’s paw curls!

Reminds me of a character in The Expanse who gets illegal hormone gland implants that can be activated for a burst of heightened awareness. The drawback is twofold. When the activation wears off the user experiences debilitating nausea for several minutes. Over the long term the illegal part comes into play because you know those things aren’t rated for health and safety. This character requires regular blood transfusions/dialysis due to toxin buildup from shoddy workmanship.

Anyway, that’s an entire tangent. I’m excited to see if there are interesting complications from a doctor who’s strapped with combat drugs of questionable ethics.

Long may she reign! I can see the enduring appeal of those commanders. They both get everyone in on the action.

It’s always good to be able to choose to be the bad guy. I like the honesty that kind of deck lets you have.

The fact that it’s an instant is wonderful. “But what about…Second Breakfast!”

I"m the first one to agree with you but I also know people that wouldn’t play otherwise. I suppose that LTR is modern legal so there should be great opportunity for fun and easy 60 card decks as well. Although I find that it’s often logistically difficult to capture someone’s interest in doing a one on one activity as opposed to a group activity.

I teach new players as A Thing I do and even have a gauntlet of decks built for exactly that so I’m confident in my ability to construct games that avoid the major pitfalls. Obviously that’s not the same thing as a regular game night but eh.

There was a lot of hype when Kenrith was spoiled that “he’s perfect for politics”. I’m just saying that hype was misplaced when you’re probably going to only target sometime else with his activations on average twice per game if you’re not comboing out.

I think LOTR is the perfect set for playing Wizard’s Tower, haha. I think one of the in universe wizard’s towers is called Orthanc.

That does seem like a go hard or go home deck. You’re going flat out to commit to casting three spells on as many turns as possible. It’s like the opposite of a [[Birgi]] deck where you have the payoff in the command zone instead of the enabler. I like it! I’m also a sucker for any commander that actually wants you to buff your creatures. It’s something I think is less prevalent than I would like in my experience.

Jodah seems very fair to me especially compared to the new Jodah. “[[Fist of Suns]] on legs” seems like a fun and fair proposition. Like, it’s just ramp. You have to commit to having Big Expensive Commander Cards in your deck to make the juice worth the squeeze. I’d rater get smacked in the face with a splashy 10 mana spell from deep in Magic’s history than see [[The Great Henge]] go off again.

Jodah also seems like it’s fun because you can kind of put whatever you want in it, more or less, as long as the cards are splashy enough.

Those are exceptions that prove the rule, I think. That you aren’t just going to randomly hand out counters, cards, and reanimates because without that infinite mana you won’t be able to defend yourself against the gifts you gave out.

I’m just saying it’s lame that it’s not worth targeting other people without having those specific synergy pieces in play.

That’s awesome! I love the “spin the wheel” aspect of Atla Palani. You can cheese it by stacking the deck with whatever you want but ultimately it’s still random what you get each time.

Have you heard of modular decks? The idea that some part of the deck is randomized each time. For example with Atla Palani you would have a stack of cards kept separate from the deck and before each game randomly deal a number of them into your deck before you shuffle.

That’s great! I was wary of the functionality of PWAs the first time I used them (fearing a lack of functionality) but it’s been a breeze with every one so far.

Firefox for Android also has the “Install” feature although I don’t know if that’s technically a PWA or just a sandboxed browser window.

Love that card. I don’t have it in any decks but it’s worth at least half an [[Ancestral Recall]] in decks that want it.

I like [[Kenrith, the Returned King]] conceptually as a political commander but it irks me that aside from the red ability it’s basically not worth it at all to activate the other abilities targeting anyone but yourself. I love the black reanimate ability, though!

Test: [[Torgaar]]