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I'd like to share a list with you guys, that I brewed up immediately after RNA's release. I've been farming the constructed events on Arena since then, and I've been doing well enough that I think this is worth looking at.
In short, what we have here is a cousin of Mono-Blue Tempo (MUT), with burn. Playing MUT, I often got frustrated by a) being unable to deal with even the dorkiest of creatures after they resolve, and b) getting control decks to three life and running out of counterspells. It would be wonderful to have access to reach and removal. It's a shame that Ionize, a card designed for aggro-control decks like this one, is wasted on Jeskai Control.
Why now? Izzet is so 2018
There are two RNA cards that make the transition possible.
Pteramander: Tempest Djinn is the reason why MUT is mono-U. Until now, there has been no reliable finisher available for a tempo deck that plays non-basics.
You can typically expect about one spell to go to the graveyard per turn, on average. The most common play pattern is to evolve this guy on turn five or six, for two or three mana.
Quench: To find room for burn spells, we need to either cut creatures or good cards. RNA gave us a new universal counterspell for 2 mana, allowing us the flexibility to cut some dorky wizards.
Card Choices
- 4 Curious Obsession
- 4 Siren Stormtamer
- 4 Pteramander
- 2-4 Mist-Cloaked Herald
Pteramander fills two roles; a flying man to get Obsession, and a late-game finisher. It lets us increase consistency for a turn 2 Obsession while decreasing the total number of dorks in the deck. Nice.
- 4 Quench
- 4 Dive Down
- 2-4 Spell Pierce
- 0-2 Essence Capture
- 4 Opt
- 0-4 Chart a Course
This part of the list is the same as meta MUT, with Quench standing in for Wizard's Retort.
- 4 Shock
- 3-4 Lightning Strike
- 3-4 Ionize
This is the primary incentive to switch away from basic islands. Ionize provides a free Lava Axe over the course of the game while doing what we want to do anyway, and Shock + Lightning Strike allow us to stabilize against weenies or finish the game a turn earlier against control.
Decklist
4 Curious Obsession (RIX) 35
2 Mist-Cloaked Herald (RIX) 43
4 Pteramander (RNA) 47
4 Siren Stormtamer (XLN) 79
4 Opt (DAR) 60
3 Chart a Course (XLN) 48
4 Dive Down (XLN) 53
2 Spell Pierce (XLN) 81
3 Lightning Strike (XLN) 149
4 Shock (M19) 156
3 Ionize (GRN) 179
4 Quench (RNA) 48
4 Sulfur Falls (DAR) 247
4 Steam Vents (GRN) 257
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So guys for some reason I'm not able to record it properly to show you how this works but I'll try to explain here. I'm sure someone has found this out for sure but I'm not sure if someone shared it here on reddit or not. I've found a few tricks with Tiamat active and Flash for Sett that can be very very usefull.
The first trick is you can actually E>Flash not Flash>E that way you E animation is basically canceled by your Flash and is instant. If you press your Flash to late tho you end up Flashing right after you full E animation finishes and will look cringe and end up very sad so practice this for youself a little in Practice tool..
The sedond trick is actually a real "delay" cancel I'm sure everyone of you knows about the fact that after each 2nd attack of yours there is a delay between the 2nd and 3rd autoattack. You can just Q after 2nd normal autoattack to reset this delay but!(!!!) you can cancel this delay with Tiamat active and then start your Q after you 4th attack so it basically goes like this:
1st auto>2nd>Tiamat>1st>2nd>Q>1st>2nd.
This combo does proc your Conquerer almost instantly without your E or W going to waste and is very very powerful in lanes where you have the ability to proc Conquerer (vs some melee matchups basically who also goes for Conquereror rune)
The last trick i was able to find out goes like this. If you hop into practice tool and try this out you will be able to see that after you E an enemy you not able to R them right after this. There is a dumb delay again and if you pull only one enemy towards you they are knocked up (down!?) only for a little time (0.5s) and can Flash away right after your E finished... If you press Tiamat right before your E you can basically buffer your R to go instantly after your E while the enemy is till in the air and CCd. You can buffer you R without Tiamat aswell but R will go after E knockup is finished but with Tiamat you go like this:
Tiamat>E>R pressing this as fast as you can you end up canceling the delay between E>R. Just give it a try. Test it for yourself and tell me if you find this tricks as usefull as I do :D
P.S: I'm investing a LOT of time into Sett and might end up investing so much interest as I did for Kled a while ago. Because I've got bored playing Kled (after having over 2Mil Mastery on Kled in total atm) I've been looking for a new main and came across Sett and I do really enjoy playing him. So if you guys have othe
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My wedding invitations are coming together, and weddit has convinced me that I’d rather have them hand canceled. Has anyone here had invitations or announcements hand canceled at a San Francisco post office? I’d love recommendations of which post offices might offer this service.
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This envelope is addressed to a gentleman with the surname of Sompayrac who operated a general store in Smith Hill, NC. The general store is still standing and appears to be historically preserved.
I bought this fan thinking it would still be a good white noise generator.
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We are Jax natives and love all types of food, but I’m wanting a cool food experience for our special night since we can’t do much else. What restaurants/parks/jax secrets have blown you away? All recommendations welcome, even if it’s not /that/ fancy or romantic
Edit: Thanks for all of the awesome suggestions, y’all! We made a reservation at Matthew’s for their tasting menu. We’ve never done a tasting menu before and we’re excited!
This is going back some time ago, when I was much younger. Looking back now, I think this was one of the few epiphany moments I've had in my life; a definitive moment I can fully realise in retrospect. At the time, I didn't understand the impact it had on me.
I was maybe 19 when I started tending bar at this fancy hotel. I'd worked before; the usual "no skills, all enthusiasm" gigs a young guy could pick up: door-to-door knives salesman, low-level construction jobs, product re-sale, etc. Anyway, it's not a fancy brand name chain hotel for the uber-rich and policital elite. Nah, this was a hotel-bar-restaurant combo in a historical building that was previously some old rich dudes mansion house back in 1608 or whatever. I got in right before the ownership changed and the new boss wanted to make it an expensive and exclusive experience.
It took time relaunching this old hole-in-the-wall bar into a "prestigious getaway opportunity" and "fine-dining cocktail bar" but I was commited to it. I worked my ass off chipping in with the redecoration, studying mixology in my spare time, and trying to have an input where possible. Young and optimistic, I believed this new boss's vision, and that I'd be the symmetrical-toothed Tom Cruise serving drinks.
The takeover was a family affair. The new owner had employed as much of his family as he could. Sons, daughters, in-laws, cousins. Only in "consultancy" roles, though.. None of the heavy lifting and shit flipping that I was doing. What's the harm in helping out though, right? I'll throw a couple laundry loads in, mop up some vomit, and clean a fryer or two, sure.
See, these little tasks were to be expected now: I'd been promoted!! That is, "promoted" (without any pay increase) to running bar and hiring my own choice of staff to tend it. Well, provided they were young women with big boobs. That was my boss's final word on anyone I put forward.
Sometimes, you can get so caught up in something that you don't even realise it. Sometimes the slope you're steadily sliding down gets a little steeper without you even seeing. That's how I'd describe those next couple years. Little things making their way in so slowly that I didn't even realise it at the time.
I was living at the hotel for up to 2 weeks at a time while the owner went on vacations. I guess I ran a hotel now? Even though I never got promoted... The 16 hour shifts were creeping up in frequency. At some point, I'd started smoking.
The clocking-in machine o
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I was reviewing my November Robinhood statement and saw some strange activity - buying, cancel buys (BCXL) and selling small amounts of GME and BB, landing me a whopping $0.27 profit. This definitely wasn't me and I don't even have BB in my portfolio at all. I have a very boring portfolio with standard stocks, no fancy options ever. This is the only month this has ever happened.
I figured it was some strange fraud attempt and did all the usual security stuff, but then noticed two even weirder things. 1) There is NO other indication that this activity ever happened. No notifications, no emails, nothing in my "history" and 2) my partner had the same weird micro transactions on his account in November, too.
Uhhh, what? Can other people check if there was random activity recently in their accounts that ONLY showed up on their statement? What is this?
EDIT: Waiting for confirmation from RH, but I’m pretty sure me and my partner’s issue was a trade correction from trades I made earlier in the year. I don’t hold the stock anymore but I did in the past and so did he. I suspect this is the case for most folks who had a similar issue, though some say they NEVER held the stock so… good luck with that.
All that said, it’s incredible that RH wouldn’t inform users that they would be doing this, because as a lot of other commenters thought, it looks a lot like fraudulent trading! I’m a very casual, low stakes investor so RH worked for me. I’ll definitely be changing brokerages now. Better late than never.
