wickeddarkman

Oh, yeah, kataki went up shortly after treasure tokens became popular, and neon dynasty and a few other artifact heavy sets kept it crawling :)

I remember when I started using it mainboard in 2018.
I was late at a tournament because of a friends lax attitude towards meeting early at tourneys. So the first game against an opponent was an auto loss, so my opponent looked rather confident. He played affinity, so when I dropped
Kataki on turn 2 he was pretty shocked.

When your opponent is forced uo spend mana on attacking you simply start dividing their attention with other costs...

Ghostly prison, kataki, war's wage and similar :)

After I made many of my own decks private to trim them for personal information I have encountered the situation of being certain that I've built a deck, but when searching for it I'd have to go through all deckpages to find it again.
The first times I had the problem it did create a "my deck is gone" feeling.

You got many decks, so if you for some reason didn't make the first yennett deck public, it's going to be hard to find again.
Otherwise you can just use the search engine.

Since search results doesn't reveal decks that are not public, even though you built them, there's a sort of pressure to make them public which might be one of the reasons why spam and upvote wars was more done in the past.

During most of my life I've paced my creativity to a high level. I can always create, and usually I cover several types of creation. It's a very useful skill to keep fine tuned. It's sort of how I can always conjure something new from toying with magic for example. My out of the box thinking is constant. It takes discipline to keep it going at dead periods, but it is a thing that can be trained:)

It's also the reason why I never settle with one solution. I force myself to revisit old concepts to renew them.

The overall activity dropped when I stopped linking to my theft article to see if that would make it drop, and it did.
But I also gained some extra views, likely by someone wanting to see if I doubled back on it.
(Which I did, but indirectly) but that's the usual boring old story.

I've always loved the way you rate the decks on different aspects, like overall speed, creature dependency and highlighting pros and cons.

It's also good to see that you've increased your output, because you are one of a few number of people who still holds on to a good description.

It's kinda odd, but there's a really huge drop in your viewers.
Have you altered in your writing recipe somehow ?
You don't seem to rile up your viewers anymore.

Theres been less troll activity, but it would be pretty odd if they were your biggest viewers, right?

My best guess is that you have somehow started naming your decks differently or are using different tags.

Take a look at your page two of decks to confirm the decrease.

An alternative explanation might be that the trolls are boosting their own viewerships as well as keeping an eye out on what I write because I frequently do something new and unexpected.

In the past I spent a lot of time with [[wall of blood]] and [[ragged veins]]

It's a similar concept, but the "lesson" I can give is to plan for what to do when the opponent has no creatures.

Yeah, soul warden is legal, fun thing that I haven't seen it played in arena yet, so that's a nice card pick.
Can't wait to see that oldie hit the meta.

Format confusion is a thing.
There are too many cards and too many formats and it changes all the time. I'd hate to play in alchemy.

He wants to know why you mark this as arena. Simple.

It could use some modal lands.

Oh, I just have to get me a set of phase dolphin, to put in any deck, and when someone asks about it, I'll say
"Oh, that, I put it in during my dolphin phase"

That will switch their eyes :)

I didn't know muktol was a minotaur name :)
What do you call a minotaur kid ???
Answer: a minor-taur :)

Balancing two decks to be equal is hard, so I don't think that I will try to balance my halfdeck

Here's a thrown together prototype
https://www.mtgvault.com/wickeddarkman/decks/the-end-pauper/

There's a 1/13 zombie for 4B :)

Mutt-tol (he he hee), plays pestilence a lot, and I've been experimenting with it myself against a 2018 merfolk which is so fucking fast. I believe pestilence does have the upper hand in the matchup.

I also believe that pestilence brews are totally uncreative in designs and I'm going to work on improving that aspect.
Cards like shambling stalker and a number of black creatures with super toughness could really beef up the concept.
There's a lot of 0/4 creatures for 1 mana, and for just a little more mana the toughness increases to sick proportions, enough that I'm planning to try out some switch power&toughness effects in the future, probably in grixis colors.

One of the more interesting cards I've added to my mill halfdeck is zulaport duelist.
In games against merfolk I have been lucky to take out an early cursecatcher whenever merfolk got manascrewed or wanted to play spreading seas or silvergil adept as the second card. In few cases I've had two zulaport to take out an attacking lord. Overall, merfolk just walks through my islands, but by bouncing the lords that provide islandwalk, I have played zulaport to reduce the smaller attacker and block the bigger attacker.

Among modern cards I've only found 1 permanent that can bounce zulaport, but if you can find one in pauper you will be able to have a small mill engine that produces miniature fog effects.

But I think that in pauper, zulaport duelist will shine at taking out the first 1/1 to cross the board.

I've been following the decks in pauper with monarch, because I expected to see a sort of cyclical monarch event where people would try to out-monarch the others until other designs without monarch crushed them and a reversal in the number would happen for a while before monarch creep would start up again.

So far I've seen decks with two monarch in the brews that have them.

Do you have any ideas why there's no monarch creep ?

People playing guardians often has a pestilence, and no bearer can help there as the damage of those is simply untargeted.

The guardians are there to keep pestilence alive, so having them tapped isn't a great bother either, you just keep sweeping with pestilence because most pestilence decks also have lifegain.

Painter's servant ?