SpammyV

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Mecha nerd. Infrequently creative writer. I live under a rock.

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Crash Fist is one of the Duan Xuan sect's plans in Yi Xian. They all cost HP to play and add some kind of boost to the next Crash Fist you play, and some put their boost on their own play as well. What's amusing to me is that their build mostly tops out with their Tier 4 cards, Inch Force and Continue. Blink is nice, but Shocked (You get it? You get it.) just sort of... doesn't do what you want.

Force is a sect-specific mechanic. Each stack adds +10% to ATK damage, caps at 6, goes down by one stack when it's used. So you build Force, hopefully you get the card that allows you to break the cap, and then Inch Force->Continue->Continue hopefully haymakers your opponents out.

And they all cost HP, right? So each one is boosting the bonus attack from Shocked, right? It's still just... not really enough.

You need to be losing HP and losing a lot of HP, while trying not to die before you get to play a second Crash Fist card. If Shocked could get its bonus effect on its own play it might be better. It feels like its use is more for the poison-yourself-and-heal-through-it debuff builds where you can better lose loads of HP through your own debuffs and ride the line better. But even there, since that buff doesn't come on the first play, you're better off using the other cards on that plan.

Just funny to me how mechanics make the Big Deal Card not good enough compared to just upgrading the Tier 4 cards.



Really around the time of the lockdowns I started keeping some packs on hand just "in case" that turned into a nearly complete Chaos Draft pile. It's just another Limited item sitting on my shelves I don't have a group for right now, next boxes of OG Jumpstart, Commander Legends, Commander Legends 2: We Wish Baldur's Gate 3 Hadn't Been Delayed, and Mystery Booster Retail Edition.

So you can probably guess the temporal theme of this pile but I've tried to stretch some too. A mix of Standard sets and premium sets. Rules would be that we snake draft the packs first. Non-game pieces are removed, but the basic land stays in since these include sets where the basic can be a fixing land.

  • Gatecrash
  • Magic Origins
  • Rivals of Ixalan
  • Modern Horizons
  • Throne of Eldraine
  • Core Set 2021
  • Double Masters
  • Theros Beyond Death
  • Commander Legends
  • Ikoria
  • Zendikar Rising
  • Time Spiral Remastered
  • Kaldheim
  • Strixhaven (Set Booster)
  • Modern Horizons 2
  • D&D: Adventures in the Forgotten Realms
  • Innistrad: Crimson Vow
  • Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty
  • Streets of New Capenna
  • Commander Legends: Dungeons & Dragons: Battle for Baldur's Gate (r symbol)
  • Double Masters 2022
  • Ravnica Remastered

I'd like to finish this out with:

  • Modern Horizons 3, The Hat Trick
  • Two Assassin's Creed Boosters Taped Together


Now that my place finally has power again after eight days and I can be home in my own space I guess I should think about Next Time. Since surely there's going to be more extreme weather and extended outages and stuff. Gotta bottle up the pessimism and depression and look forward to future suffering.

So the little gas stove I bought to travel with worked well. The only downside is that while the butane fuel cylinders aren't expensive or impossible to find, they're not an on-shelves item. Like I can order a case through Home Depot for not a whole lot and ship it to a store for pickup. So... I should do that. Because it was very lucky for me that I wasn't under a boil water notice since I underestimated Beryl (like... a lot of people, apparently) and didn't fill up my camping jugs beforehand. And one canister probably would've run out trying to boil a gallon.

Also I could go ahead and expand my disaster pantry foods. Get some boil-in-a-bag stuff or like. Rice-a-roni packages I could slice some spam or chunk chicken or tinned fish into. Make sure I'm stocked up on instant noodles. One pot or pan meals that'll be easy to make on my porch.

Next note: power. There were some neighborhood cooling and charging centers I could've availed myself of. Might also finally go look at a little travelling solar panel and battery unit. Not super sure where I would set the panel up though, since I'm in an apartment that doesn't end up with a lot of direct sun. Beneath an open window? Hanging between the glass and my blinds? Try to hide it on top of my car? Just sit outside to watch it?

Related note: Comfort. I was just planning on overnight trips and my little recharge-your-phone packs can run a USB-powered fan until things even out. But maybe I should get one of those battery powered tent fans that run off AAs or D cells or something. One of the killer factors after Beryl was that there was no wind in the days after. No chance of setting up some kind of cross-breeze through my apartment and not worth opening a window in my bedroom until it was cooler outside (and we're talking 80 degrees outside vs 82 at my thermostat). So a battery fan to move air over me would've helped.

For things that did work I'm still a fan of combination flashlights and lanterns like this model I have. You get the best of both worlds with directed light and the ability to illuminate a room with the lantern mode. For that specific model the light's a little too blue to be comfortable in lamp mode but it's still wholly serviceable and convenient. Very lightweight too. And my two little popup tables made cooking outside easy. And my strategically large gunpla backlog gave me stuff to do.