Cloaca

This series was a chance for them to experiment with the format, but they made it very clear that this was largely in the hands of the players. It was also transparently experimental, which they probably had to portray because they saw how much the players were both impacted.

There is the context that the challenge the week prior to the flea market ,Grant had opted to challenge Ally to be drunk for the full week. Ally would have been thinking about the next weeks challenge of the flea market when they would have been in a compromised state. I think that Ally took this a bridge too far, and when that was clear talked with people they trusted and took a step back.

That said I don't think Grant was focused on just trying to make good TV, and was getting frustrated when Ally had actually gone through with challenges that he thought they would opted out of. Grant also had the only challenge that resulted in a permanent body modification through the form of a tattoo of Ally's girlfriend's name, and had Ally read their childhood diaries as an event at a book store.

Ify's intro had me in stitches and I loved the agreement to get rid of steel hellkite.

100%

No deck list I've made survives contact with other players and a deck that works well in one play groups meta does not work as well in another group's.

Right on the money.

Prowess is an easy one to get lost in since all but two card types trigger it. You could play enchantress, affinity, storm, or some flavor of eggs and have your deck look different than someone running the same commander.

I get around this by working on a few projects. Right now I am working on getting a foiled out commander deck for each mono color and colorless. This is letting me focus on a commander deck for a while and circle back on the others every so often to see what I can revamp them with. Also this is a long term project I've been working on since the pandemic, so it is actually attainable with my current obligations. Also going for foils only limits my choices and slows me down by making me want to wait for rotation when cards cycle out of standard.

My current builds/intent are:

White: Reidane, God of the Worthy - Spirits/Stax. In progress

Blue: Saruman the White - Bird/Surveil. Recently updated with Bloomburrow

Black: Massacre Girl - Ninja/Attraction. Limited stuff worth considering since Murders at Karlov Manor. With theme options for upgrading are likely going to be slow and limited.

Red: TBD (potentially Goddric, Cloaked Reveler unless I see something better while working out my mono white deck)

Green: Grunn, the Lonely King - Warrior/Druid/Enchanted Lands. Last overhauled around 40k commander decks.

Colorless: Graaz, Unstoppable Juggernaut - Construct/Artifacts. Potentially up for revisions.

I'm allowing myself to play with making deck list as I feel inspired, but with how frequently cards get released and having other expenses to manage I might not get around to making everything I want to.

I will probably allow myself to work on Muerra, Trash Tactician by scrapping some of my old decks and using proxies. This is the deck list that I am considering, but working on this one is probably going to be more of a side project and dependent on how the next three months go. It is also an alpha build, so I might think of other directions I want to take the deck before acquiring cards.

Edit: updated formatting due to commenting from mobile.

Been a bit fucked.

My wife and I have had to drop about $2k in unexpected car maintenance bringing us to one car for a week and a half, we had a miscarriage Tuesday night, and then our toddler had a meltdown at a diner when we tried to take a night off from cooking.

Her obgyn told us to take a month off from trying for a kid and we have enough squirrelled away in savings, so we are going to get through this. Just a tough week, and I'm hoping next week goes smoother for us.

There are some legit sites out there that let you design proxies and ones that let you print them. They also let you make your own theme decks easily.

I'd go the route of archive and revisit if you feel you can some number of years from now. Most of my friend group growing up hated getting photographed, so I don't have a huge portfolio. That said now that I am married and have started to have kids it is nice to be able to look at photos with my partner.

One of my close friends I've known since grade school had started HRT within the last year or so. Every now and then she sends selfies of where she is at and how far she came from. For her the old pictures appear to be a point of pride, but I can't say how many she might have gotten rid privately. Not my place to pry.

I still hate a number of photos from when I had less exposure to the world, but a good number of photos are of a happy kid raising geese or playing with their cousins.

From my own experience I'd say I regret deleting/destroying some photos, and past me had been too critical of myself to the point that a lot of memories were never documented. That said some photos are just so opposed to who I am now that they did not justify being preserved any longer.

I have not gotten their token sets before, so I am not positive on how useful the tin will be.

They did a nice set for Eldrane, but I didn't end up getting that before it sold out.

I think the fish definitely got a glow up from le leaked mockup.

I love using this in my Massacre Girl deck.

Getting double her etb effect on an opponent's turn is such a great way to clear off the board.