Game Update
Stage 2 is completely broken and I’m working on repairing it. I think it has to do with some of the testing we were doing to make the all new event system work. It’s likely that we updated a prefab and that had unforeseen consequences. I scrambled to try and fix it but I had a hard time rolling back the level from a previous version. It won’t get repaired until I talk to my mentor on Tuesday most likely.
We did publish a new version of the game, and plan to start pushing out more updates soon. I still need to buckle down and build more content. I haven’t built up good habits to get that done however. I think I am allowing other things to take priority instead and I’m finally getting to a place where I need to really understand if this is what I want or not. I’m not acting like it is.
I have the breaks and the gas on at the same time, and that’s no way to get something done. We all have that issue in our lives. We want things, but we get in our own way. I’m in my own way to get this done.
Personal Update
I’m leaning heavily into playing the Magic the Gathering modern format. I played this years ago but it is completely different now. As such there is new life to explore within some older cards. It’s interesting to see the current trends, because it feels like people forgot about a lot of what was available that came before. Then again, maybe I just think some of the older cards I used to play with are better than they really are.
A long time ago I ran a show on YouTube called “Deck Building w/ Da Squire” and I really enjoyed what I was doing back then. I put a lot of work into the show each week and it never quite got the traction that I would have liked. Starting this week I am going to post my Modern Deck and give updates on some ideas I have about Magic in general. I tend to be someone that looks for ways to break the system, and I’m hoping that the deck this week will do that.
Magic the Gathering
“Glimpse of Tomorrow” is a very interesting card to me. It allows me to reset my entire board and play random permanent cards off the top of my deck. So I got to thinking about the best way to break this card and I don’t think that the current elementals shell is as good as my humans shell due to the creatures being weaker and the need for the elementals to combo off. I started by remembering the old Restoration Angel and Kiki-Jiki the Mirror Breaker combo that makes infinite angels. As a bonus we have placed some other creatures with come into play abilities in the deck as well in case we don’t see our angels with Kiki.
The new Modern Horizons 2 set has also opened up some interesting creatures with evoke like Subtlety, Fury, and Solitude. When you evoke these creatures you can place their come into play ability on the stack and then flash them with Ephemerate to keep them in play instead of sending them to the graveyard. This only costs 1 mana and 3 cards with one card being discarded. I am interested to see how often we can do the same thing but use Restoration Angel instead of Ephemerate.
We can also combo our Restoration Angels with Omnath, Locus of Creation after cascading into a Glimpse of Tomorrow. If we reset our Omnath we can do all of it’s triggers twice as long as we have the fetch lands to do them the second time. That means that we might be able to heal for 8, generate 8 mana, and deal 8 damage to our opponents entire field and life total. This won’t happen that often but even just healing for 8 can be devastating when our board fills with 5-10 creatures.
Deck List
4 Blade Splicer
1 Eternal Witness
1 Fury
3 Huntmaster of the Fells
2 Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker
4 Omnath , Locus of Creation
4 Restoration Angel
4 Shardless Agent
1 Subtlety
4 Wavesifter
3 Glimpse of Tomorrow
4 Violent Outburst
1 Ardent Plea
2 Arid Mesa
1 Breeding Pool
4 Cavern of Souls
1 Forest
1 Hallowed Fountain
1 Island
4 Khalni Garden
1 Plains
2 Misty Rainforest
1 Mountain
2 Scalding Tarn
1 Sacred Foundry
1 Spara’s Headquarters
1 Steam Vents
1 Stoping Ground