Varina player here!

Wilhelt lends himself more to a more aristocrats-y build, but besides that he's pretty open ended.

Scarab-God screams Zombies with its triggered ability, but I honestly ser it better in the 99 for that. I can see him work better as a commander when built around its activated ability.

Varina is another story. She tells you to attack, and attack quick and a lot. She's an aggro commander. She wants you to turn sideways and sift through your deck. You don't have anything to turn sideways? No problem, that mana you held up for interactions can now be used to get you some units in your army. Otherwise, any 1 or 2 mana Zombie with some upside will do.

Let's be clear: it's a deck in which you most often won't be able to get back any noncreature card from your graveyard. Those are just fodder to exile for more Zombies.

You need to learn to discard what you don't need RIGHT NOW. Treat those cards as you just didn't draw them this game.

[[Rooftop Storm]]? Awesome, but you got only four mana available right now. Discard.

[[Tombstone Stairwell]]? Love it, but you got only a couple creatures in your graveyard because you just got it exiled. Discard.

[[Mystic Remora]]? Love having my hand filled, but now I really need [[Ratadabrik]] to give my board vigilance or I will die from the crackback of my attacks. Discard.

[[Living Death]]? Time to start discarding creatures instead. Some good recursion spells will help you get back stuff continuously.

About combos, if you include [[Gravecrawler]] it will combo out with a ham sandwich. Any sac outlet and [[Rooftop Storm]] will give you infinite ETB and death triggers. Or [[Phyrexian Altar]] or [[Warren Soultrader]] (pair this one with something like [[Wayward Servant]]).

[[Gray Merchant of Asphodel]] is always fair game, also considering the deck ends up being mostly black.

I don't have my list ready at the moment (it's lacking few upgrades I made) but let me know if you're interested and I'll fix it asap!

E' normale che il cliente voglio pagare il meno possibile per il massimo della qualità e l'imprenditore voglia guadagnare il più possibile al costo minimo.

Non è normale che ciò venga raggiunto al costo di pagare stipendi da fame.

Se il piatto di pasta costa 16 euro, ma ne vale la pena, ben venga.
Se il piatto di pasta costa 16 euro, ma è mediocre, il locale deve alzare la qualità, abbassare i prezzi o fallire perché non sta offrendo un servizio all'altezza della clientela.

Il problema è che al solito davanti a queste possibilità si sceglie la quarta via: non pagare le persone decentemente per non abbassare il prezzo né impegnarsi a migliorare il servizio e seguire la via della (propria) crescita ad oltranza.

Quindi, sì, se la pasta costa 16 euro, è mediocre e la gente è sottopagata, quel profitto è sparito da qualche parte e allora sì che grido al ladro.

...which year you do not get a birthday?

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I'm in another country, so maybe the same won't apply. Also this is based on my personal experience with people I interact with.

It's priorities, in the end. Some people prioritize financial stability, other prioritize the here and now.

I'm not the richest guy in the world, but I save a lot, pay attention to how much and when I spend, I am a home owner and I got a stable job. When I want something and I really want it, I can afford to just get it. Yet I still proxy a lot, buy singles mostly and almost never buy really expensive cards.

I know people with fully blinged out decks with really expensive staples, who continuously buy sealed products, spend a lot of money also on other expensive hobbies, then they say they can't really dine out tonight because they're left with a few euros in their bank account this month till next paycheck and they also need to pay rent and all.

I would hate getting to that point, because I prioritize financial stability and the peace of mind of not having to decide whether I want to dine out or buy some singles if I also want to be able to buy groceries.

They don't have my same priorities and that's fine.

Then of course there's people who just have a shitload of money to funnel into their hobby without any worry, but that's another thing.

And that's basically why I'm for "All in or all out. No middle ground".

Yes, not even Middle-Earth.

^{Sorry LOTR fans, I hate LOTR and I couldn't help it}

With the usual arms race to go faster than your opponents, I would like to try and go the other way slowing people down, so I thought I could try building something a little more stax-y. I am considering [[Ellivere]] as she provides a clear beatdown path and card draw, but I'm open to other suggestions. What are your favorite non-winconless stax commanders? Bonus points if it is not in Azorius.

Provided our cat also had stress issues due to which he was peeing around the house, which we addressed and he is now an happy cat living his best life at my mother's place, without stress, in a much bigger home and with outdoor access where he can run free.

At some point he also had some crystals and we also had to switch to Hills s/d and c/d (because the vet told us to go for s/d, but s/d wet food wasn't available anywhere, so we went for dry s/d and wet c/d). He really disliked the wet food, he ended up eating some because we didn't give him any other. He enjoyed the dry food instead.

We also gave him a supplement called Vettys here (not sure if you have it and/or it has the same name there).

In the end, after a few months the crystals dissolved (checked by the vet via urine analysis by cystocentesis) and we switched back to his normal diet, we just changed the dry food brand as we suspected that was what caused the crystals.

Alright, time to test my rules knowledge. Anyone correct me if I'm mistaken. Here both the Tidebinder and Guild Artisan effects should apply in the same layer:

613.1f Layer 6: Ability-adding effects, keyword counters, ability-removing effects, and effects that say an object can’t have an ability are applied.

Then according to 613.3:

613.3. Within layers 2–6, apply effects from characteristic-defining abilities first (see rule 604.3), then all other effects in timestamp order (see rule 613.7). Note that dependency may alter the order in which effects are applied within a layer. (See rule 613.8.)

Checking out 613.8, it doesn't seem like the two effects qualify as dependent on each other.

613.8. Within a layer or sublayer, determining which order effects are applied in is sometimes done using a dependency system. If a dependency exists, it will override the timestamp system. 613.8a An effect is said to “depend on” another if (a) it’s applied in the same layer (and, if applicable, sublayer) as the other effect; (b) applying the other would change the text or the existence of the first effect, what it applies to, or what it does to any of the things it applies to; and (c) neither effect is from a characteristic-defining ability or both effects are from characteristic-defining abilities. Otherwise, the effect is considered to be independent of the other effect

Since removing the abilities from the commander wouldn't change the ability-granting effect of Guild Artisan.

So, applying the timestamp rule, flickering Guild Artisan would remove all abilities from Jaheira except the one granted by Guild Artisan.

Ti rendi conto che questa tua risposta supporta più la mia tesi che la tua?

Ottiene che magari il 50% delle battaglie che ti stanno a cuore verranno combattute, contro lo 0%.

Quindi tu vuoi continuare così (ovvero non far nulla perché fa tutto schifo) o vuoi almeno provare a far qualcosa? Perché se non voti e nemmanco ti impegni politicamente per creare l'alternativa che desideri, il mondo stai tranquillo che non si fermerà ad aspettarti e non ti cadrà una soluzione dal cielo.

Ti turba la questione climatica davanti a tutto perché tra 20 anni non arriviamo? Vota chi più si allinea alla tua ansia che intanto allunghiamo il termine e pensiamo anche al resto. O non votare e ci rivediamo alle prossime elezioni a rifare lo stesso discorso.

Questi discorsi mi danno sempre sui nervi.

Al di là dell'infinita ripetizione (giustissima) nei commenti del fatto che non votare è votare per il vincitore chiunque esso sia, non votare perché niente rispecchia al 100% le proprie visioni è mancanza di lungimiranza alla pari di quella di cui accusiamo la classe politica che guarda solo al qui e adesso.

Potrai anche mentalmente vivere già nel 3024, ma, posto che i tuoi ideali siano quelli verso cui stiamo andando, ci vorrà del tempo prima che qualcuno abbracci al 100% quello che pensi tu, in uno scenario geopolitico e globalizzato complesso come quello in cui viviamo.

Magari adesso troverai quello che abbraccia i tuoi ideali all'80%, o magari al 50%. Parti da lì. Alle prossime elezioni, magari, ci sarà qualcuno che li abbraccerà al 60%. Poi a quelle dopo al 75%. Magari tra 20 anni arriverai al 100%, ma non ci arriverai dall'oggi al domani. Fermati un attimo e metti in prospettiva le battaglie che si combattono oggi con quelle si combattevano anni fa.

Tu non devi andare a votare pensando alla prossima settimana. Devi andare a votare pensando di star piantando i semi per un lento cambiamento di cui vedrai i frutti nei prossimi decenni. Perché le alternative sono questo o resta tutto una merda a prescindere.

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My cat is also named Basil! We also have a void too, she's named Salvia (Sage in Italian).

My experience with the Tenth Doctor (with any pairing) is that it is extremely Tenth Doctor dependent if you build it around suspend.

Suspend is a slow mechanic, sprinkling some time travel here and there can help, but the real meat is doing it three times with the Tenth Doctor. It's one of those decks in which people will either learn or know already that keeping your commander off the board will greatly hose your gameplan, which in turn can become an easy win for you if unanswered.

It doesn't help that suspended cards are face up, clearly showing what is coming if your opponent don't deal with you right now.

So, there are three paths you can take:

1. Fully invest in your Tenth Doctor gameplan: focus on few impactful spells that will win you the game or some combo, then fill the deck with clones and protection to get there ASAP all while keeping your opponents in check or going faster than them;

2. Keep the Doctor there, but let him take the backseat: don't lean too much on suspend, let it be another way of casting big stuff from exile in the command zone (since the Doctor could even be your only suspend-supporting card in the game, by suspending stuff and accelerating it himself).

Buy the look of it, it seems to me that you are in between these two paths. You couls try focusing on either of the two and see how you find yourself.

I played The Tenth Doctor for a bit, in the end I found that every time travel and time counter manipulation card wasn't worth it when I could protect the Doctor and pay for his ability; I didn't really love that build path, so I dismantled the deck. I'm always considering going back to it by building extra upkeeps with [[The Ninth Doctor]] instead.

Yeah, but I didn't find that really annoying. The selection Scion gives is already great by itself. Of course, if it was mill it would be icing on the cake.

I'd love to share my list, but the online one I have is wildly different from the paper one, as I recently switched from [[Haunted One]] to salvage a version of the deck I didn't really love by using only cards I owned.

I keep seeing this "Jund love letter" argument and I just don't get it.

You seem to want this to be a museum gallery of Modern Jund, but also a playable deck, but also hyper thematic. You can't get all of those, all at once.

I'm pretty sure Bolt and Liliana would be yeeted out of the deck pretty fast by those who want to upgrade it, because they don't synergize with anything the deck wants to do, yet you already lament the fact the deck doesn't function. Modern and commander are wildly different formats for many reasons, you can't expect this deck to be anything more than a vague reference to a Modern archetype, gameplay-wise at least.

Why would I want a Tarmogoyf in a format where I have to deal 120 damage instead of 20? Where my commander itself does make Tarmogoyf tokens, therefore being even more efficient than that at giving me the same result of casting one in a commander game context?

Yes, the deck doesn't have a well defined identity and that I can agree upon, it's more reminiscent of the 2018-2019 precons design to me. I really don't think forcing a tribal theme or trying to translate another format's archetype into commander by 1-to-1 including Modern cards would really have helped.

I must say though that if you play with a usual playgroup or your opponents know what Zellix can do, they might still focus on you because they know once you have Zellix out, you are 1-2 cards away from closing the game.

I personally went for Zellix + [[Scion of Halaster]] with a reanimator theme besides mill, which gives me an angle to grt back in the game even if I get too focused on early on.

I agree on this. There are some spicy lifegain shenanigans you can achieve with Trostani, specifically.

I used to play a similar list and more often than you'd expect I won by milling my opponents with [[Altar of Dementia]] and an encored [[Soul of Eternity]], for instance.

In general, people should learn to read beyond the boardstate. When you play a deck like Izzet spellslinger, they can't play just with what they can see.

I play [[Vadrik]] and my playgroup knows very well that they shouldn't ignore me just because I only have Vadrik with no counters on it on the battlefield. They can see I have some flashback spell in my graveyard; they can notice I have all my lands untapped and five cards in hand; they can see I could make it become Day during my turn, but I decided to let it stay Night and that's suspicious because I must be up to something if let go of an extra counter on Vadrik.

In your case, when you have your graveyard filled with instants and sorceries, they SHOULD see it coming and pay the price if they don't do anything about it - be it just removing you entirely from the game.

In other words, it's not unacceptable. If you want to word it that way, it's unacceptable that your opponents only look at the boards to get a feel of the game. I personally find a big stack much more interesting than a big board.

Moreover, as others said: at turn 12, whatever. Games have to end, if at that point your opponents didn't brace themselves for a big win from someone else, it's their problem, not yours.

I realized [[Octavia]] can turn my opponent's creatures into 8/8s. It opened a whole branch of politics I didn't expect. Totally gave me the push to build her.

I think it seems pretty cool. I'm currently rebuilding my old [[Aesi]] deck, now I'm tempted to get this one and do some mish-mashing. Only negative thing about that is that I already own a good chunk of the cards in the precon, so I'll see and eventually wait to get the singles I need.

I like some cards that care about creatures entering the battlefield, since Adeline by herself gives you 3 triggers.

[[Court Street Denizen]] will clear the way from blockers.

[[Goldnight Commander]] [[Valor in Akros]] will make your Humans 4/4s instead of 1/1s.

[[Rosie Cotton]] will make your 1/1s 2/2s permanently or let you go tall if needed.

[[Securitron Squadron]] won't let you go tall, but if the game drags more then expected you can dump some mana for some extra copies.

For some other cards:

[[Rabble Rousing]] is bonkers and can literally replace Adeline as a great token maker.

[[Makindi Stampede // Makindi Mesas]] is land that doubles up as a one-turn anthem in a pinch.

[[Kabira Takedown // Kabira Plateau]] is the same, but it's an interaction spell.

[[Case of the Gateway Express]] is a fine interaction at sorcery speed that doubles up as an anthem later on.

[[Brave the Elements]] can be used both defensively and aggressively.

Yes, that's the point. You can do it, but think of it as a potentially double-edged sword, because you risk to give back a stronger creature if you lose control of it.

It does copy them, but you must attach them to the same creature. Can be useful with any effect that can stack (like buffs), but you won't be able to steal something else with the copy and if the original Aura gets unattached, you will still lose control of the creature, since Eriette specifies that the object that lets you keep control of the permanent is the specific Aura that triggered her effect.