Sadly, I didn’t draw any of the nonbasic land destruction cards and had to tutor for card draw in the beginning :/

TL;DR: Went well

I kept a 4 land hand and got punished for it by drawing only lands for a while afterwards. However, Entomb into Triarch Praetorian helped out a little, but still it was a really slow start. This made others not see me as a threat, which largely helped me win this match. An early Blasphemus gave me enough time to get back in the game.

In the late game I dropped Gray Merchant for devotion 3 out of desperation as I had nothing else, but had a lucky Jaxis next turn which allowed me to copy Gray for another 5 damage - heal was very welcome. Then some stuff happened and I was able to capitalize Etali and got a Skullclamp and from there I just exploded. Table turned against me but Big Game Hunter killed the worst threats allowing me to bring out Terror of the Peaks and copy him with a brought back blitzed Jaxis. That basically allowed me to finish all players.

I was quite lucky because earlier two players started a feud which also gave me more time to build up my board.

Anyway, I feel a bit bad that the deck won so quickly after doing nothing in the early game due to missing ramp and value pieces, but the quick finish showed that it definitely works. Have to go another round with it soon, but wanted to give the table something easier to deal with for the second game as one player started to feel bad about not getting into the game (Merfolk with a sol ring, arcane signet opening, overextended into my Blasphemus wipe).

I have set up a good hand full of dual booted Windows/ Linux machines. Never had any major issues. However, I also noticed that I only use Linux except for games and that’s slowly changing, too, so I would suggest trying the dual boot if it makes you more comfortable to realize yourself that you don’t need it.

France in general does a lot of things right. Their whole open source movement is amazing! Just take a look at https://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome and their tools like https://cryptpad.fr/

And politically as well though I can’t pinpoint it to an exact article. Just the general vibe I got from them and the decisions I saw.

Cool image slides! For my use case it is a bit too usage focused. I would like to find something that focuses a bit more on the “Not controlled by one” part and covering Lemmy, Bluesky, Mastodon, Pixelfed, Peertube and such. I like your presentation style though!

The video is great and covers a lot of the information I would like to share, but it’s sadly not professional enough for the use case I am thinking of. Still a great share! Thank you!

Yes, it is absolutely valid that you decided to commercialise your project and keeping parts or all of the code closed. As I work in the public sector and we are encouraged to use open source and write open source software, my knowledge regarding closed software solutions is thin. Is there a “standard way” how closed software is able to guarantee private key safety? I could imagine solutions where there is a separate handler that is open source so that one can verify that only specific information is passed into the closed software area, but this doesn’t sound feasible when talking about full terminal support within the closed software.

Again, there is nothing wrong with going commercial! I am sure I will release closed software (side projects), too, at some point.

Good points!

• Tsabo was added when the deck was much more focused on lands and it doesn’t really fit anymore.
• Bola’s Citadel is a bad excuse for being able to play the top card (aka draw replacement). I will replace it. I am always quite low with my landbase, but no reason to keep that bad habit up
• Keen Duelist looks like such a fun card. I am not sure about the higher cmc draw cards you suggested, but the lower ones
• I feel like the Necromancer’s are awesome because they do not cost that much and my commander allows me to recast them. Getting any creature temporary for 3 or permanent for 4 is just insane. Invader Parasite is the one card that is a bit more aggressive on land destruction as it hits general lands. I kinda still want to include it, because nuking a forest really makes recovering with land ramp very difficult - I know it is a bit off theme. Instead of removing dread return, I removed beacon of unrest. I feel like the 1 mana less really can be beneficial and casting form the graveyard for sac 3 while costly is sometimes playable - especially when sacrificing copies that only last till end of turn.
• I always feel like Final Parting is a bit slow, but at the same time: yea the value is insane. Coiling Rebirth could replace dread return… alright let’s try that.
• I also added buried alive for goblin ruinblaster, but I don’t feel very good about that one given that this thins my nonbasic hate - however, it also enables getting the good haters out

Hey, I had my struggles with app icons as well when I wrote a small app for myself so I am not really equipped to create the PR (also due to current time limitations). If no one is found for that, I can give it a shot at the end of the year, but I am sure you will find someone sooner than that.

However, I know of a free icon website and have looked through their icons to suggest a few to you:

• Simple Eye https://uxwing.com/view-icon/
• Thin line art eye https://uxwing.com/see-icon/
• Eye in “scanning square” (corners of a square are hinted, the eye is inside; typical “scanning square” for qr code scanners) https://uxwing.com/eye-scanning-icon/
• Binoculars https://uxwing.com/binoculars-icon/
• Spectacles https://uxwing.com/spectacles-icon/
• Happy man with VR glasses https://uxwing.com/virtual-reality-vr-icon/
• Old video recorder https://uxwing.com/video-camera-icon/
• Square with red dot insids and text record https://uxwing.com/screen-recorder-icon/

Uxwings license is amazing: https://uxwing.com/license/ you can use the icons for basically anything and can even alter them.

Personally, I like “Eye in “scanning square”” the most as it symbolizes the technical aspect of scanning/capturing the surroundings.

While I haven’t used it yetis, there is also https://icon.kitchen/ for icon generation.

Giving it a quick scan, it does look interesting. I am not sure whether I will try it as I don’t see the need to visualise beyond what I can do with a shell and the openstack dashboard, but there can definitely be use cases for it.

Not being FOSS is the deal-breaker though. Not sure if I am too much of a sceptic but I prefer open source when having software that accesses my private key/servers.

Good point. That player plays like 80% nonbasic. Others play less. The deck I linked above has some nonbasic land destruction but it’s not the sole focus and it has plenty of other cards to assist with winning. I feel like in a game against a 3-5 colored commander, this deck might shoot one of the lands you need to get him out. Against others it might just slow your ramp.

I have ultimately decided against green to stay within two colors - even though it was the card I initially thought of when thinking about this deck.

So to answer the question: that nonbasic land destruction cards can be used in a deck in such a way that you don’t think “that card kinda sucks… I should remove it”