wickeddarkman

In my opinion the problem is simpler.

Communities talk.

I've underlined it several times, and thee is no talk here, even during spoiler season which is sort of where magic communities talk the most, so sure, this place is dead, cause noones are talking.

I'm mostly monologuing, but I do reach out from time to time.

There's a comment about once a week from someone saying "looks cool" but after a thanx the conversation sort of ends.

I entered a pauper deck and got a power 4 rating.
It suggested a bunch of cards and because my deck was burn I immediately looked at how many 1 managed spells it suggested, and there was only 1.

It would be fun to feed it some other pauper decks to see if I can score a 10 somehow :)

Hmm, second deck, based on affinity also scored a 4, it suggests lots of duals, but doesn't suggest any artifact lands at all

Third deck scored a 5 due to draw and combo potential.

I also made a deck of 99 grizzly bears, and it only suggested taplands to support it...

Ofcourse, I'm not really giving it commander decks to work with, 33 cards are missing from most of them, so I might get more points with more cards.

That actually makes it interesting.

You could open some boosterpacks, type in the stuff you get and see if it scores 1
Anything build this way shouldn't get a score higher than 1 or the calculator is a lie.

That said, it would be fun to use it to measure new sets compared to old.

I wonder what a random unlimited deck would score :)

A power level calculator ?
Sounds like a new way to get people to play what you want if you made the calculator ;)

I can believe that people are gullible enough to accept such a golden nose ring :)

As an example, if you build a deck on respectively mtgvault and mug goldfish and use the "draw a new hand" feature there is an odd bug on mtggoldfish that causes decks with 17 lands to give better draws.

As a result most decks on mtggoldfish have 17 lands, even the tournament results which is odd because humans always have idiot outliers that try to defy common wisdom.

The engine on mtgvault reflects real life hands closely, so by drawing a 100 hands on each engine you can explore what cards the mtggoldfish engine seems to highlight.

So power level calculators, that is a thing I can believe in.

That does explain why most of these are high end numbers, because who would ever post a power level 1 except for a few noob suporters.

Well there's one oddity about the combined "version numbers" if that's what they are.
They almost never go above 10.

Chatbots are definitely getting better.
Did you know you can get chatgtp to write in different styles ?

You can have it write an analysis of a magic deck wired as if it was a pirate, and orc, an angst filled teenager, or as if it was David attenborough talking about wildlife.

It can even imitate your favourite comedian...
(Provided that he is well known and has enough material)

And 99% of the accounts are just fakes.
I've provided plenty of examples.

A growing part of this community seems to throw random numbers at the end of their decks, and considering that speedy only has 23 decks, but have plenty of decks ending with a "high" number at their end it can't be because he is nummerating them, and sometimes I get curios at all the stupid new trends in here that I just have to ask.

I might as well ask why so many are using the new "letter is the new card picture" trend, but the answer is likely to be secret messages anyways.

I also keep a secret archive of usernames and deck names which is how I knew you were doing a "rerun"

If you use the mtgvault search engine to search for the usernames Matt cher and rie you might be in for a surprise. Or try usernames with bear, or Jan or Ian or yan.

Just look at the oldest of them to see how large a percentage is trolling this place.

I used to look at the oldest deck of user accounts because the first think trolls do with a new account name is trolling.

Could be that each country has a Tolkien myth of their own.

The French "gris" for grey does remind me of an old voodoo item, the "grisgris" and French and voodoo does have some old roots in language. Perhaps the grisgris were also grey...

In Tolkien's work, orcs were both grey and black in skin colour and some were more articulated than others.

How they all turned green and dumb in ad&d is a bit of a mystery to me :)

Tolkien was inspired by other languages while writing his own, and a lot of Danish words made up parts of the orcish language. Coincidentally ork is a Danish word, and is often used in two sentences one as an added confirmation of yes or no (ork ja, ork nej) and the other occasion involves being tired (jeg orker ikke mere) basically translating into "I can't do anymore" but directly "I don't ork anymore.

He also used "gris" the Danish word for pig as the orcish word for pink.

Flood & betrayal :)
And if you can somehow give your opponent a channeling, you can "tap that ass"

Turning the tables in real life, not just in games, can be fun.
I do have a table that if turned 90° would create a passage into an area otherwise not passable.
You post coincide with a time where I am experimenting with furniture setups, so in a way it becomes relevant to that project as turning something as simple as a table creates an entirely different apartment. The table in question is almost triangular, so placed in certain positions it creates passage room depending on other nearby pieces of furniture. In this case I'm more interested in keeping that table as it is, because it forms my apartment in a way that appeals more to me, and the concept of turning furniture constellations is one I've covered in a recent post of mine.
Named "project crawlspace"

No probelem

There's also a black blue hybrid faerie with death touch costing one hybrid mana, it could be used alongside alela.

Cloudseeder needs you to draw stuff, so perhaps something like curiosity is of use to it.

Faerie bladecrafter could also abuse fate transfer, and would be a force of you can make a few fairies unblockable each turn (or just by having a lot)

I think obyra is actually one of the few legendary creatures that won't degrade by being a 4 of, it's never a dead card as you can play it just for the 1 lifeless, depending on how the legendary death effect stacks when you play a duplicate, there might be a loophole for flash faeries to explore two obyra or more at the same time though I'm not certain.

Sleepcursed faerie is like a fast paced delver with shroud if you can get rid of it's stun tokens. Use [[fate transfer]] to do that.

One way could be to use stream of thought to keep playing proliferate spells.
Cards like echoing truth and other spells that bounces multiple of your own creatures could be another way.

You might want to seek out a few cards creating excursion to loop the same stun spells over and over, or you might want to investigate cards that create additional counters, there is a number of cards that can proliferate each turn.
A blend of both of these might work a lot faster as a creature lockdown engine.

Considering that you only have 23 decks, I do wonder about your "deck numerations"
If they were design numbers you'd have a lot more decks on this site, so what's up with that ?

I've seen this deck name before, and so I performed a search for it.
Only this one was public, so, did you do a total rewrite for some reason ?

Caustic Caterpillar.

I'm certain that it was written right the first time around.
I get some odd typos myself, even after I've corrected the auto correct.
This place...

Odd...
I was sure that the "how to play" section had "flight or fight" right, but now it's flight or flight ???