My LGS has a cEDH tournament this weekend where you’re allowed to have up to 10 proxies in your deck

On Arena I probably misread “you and 7 other players” as just “7 players” or something 🙃 But knowing they should be the same, I’ll commit the numbers to memory!

Gotcha. Weird to me that Arena is different - 7 players in Premier Draft, and packs are 15 cards

Nice! I still haven’t even figured out at what pick count a pack has wheeled :P I guess pick 8? Seems intense to remember an individual pack 8 packs later, but I guess you just know that all those cards wheeled so it gives an idea of what’s open.

I was imagining that the overlay would tell you what colors are open, and what a the best picks from each pack are, and maybe even what synergieses with your current picks

Yeah I’ve played a lot of constructed magic. Never have gone to a prerelease or draft event though so I had no experience with limited until recently. Makes sense to start with learning draft skills in general though, rather than only trying to learn a set!

I’m on Linux as well - would people consider tools like that cheating? Or more like “here’s some knowledge you might not know yet”

Yeah I do think it’ll be fun to start drafting a set from its release and keep up with the meta. I wish I had more time with Dragonstorm since I like the flavor a bit more (but I did just pick up Final Fantasy 10 to try since I’ve never played any so maybe I’ll fall in love).

thanks for the channel recommendations! Hadn’t found them and they seem pretty top tier. Even a lot of info about FF already.

Awesome - yeah I definitely see the advantage of being familiar with a set. Helps you draft something with a plan and know how to play against different decks. What I was missing was figuring out how to study a set. Basically I was just playing and watching streamers play. But it felt like I needed to watch hours of gameplay, or play a bunch of drafts, before feeling like I understood just the basics of the set.

Draftsim is so cool!! Thanks! I think it’ll be huge for me seeing cards in a set and having a little fun as opposed to just reading cards for study. Gonna have to use a lot of self control to not mess around on the site while I’m at work…

I’m still so excited to be getting into draft. It feels like a pretty rewarding format to spend time getting good at. Skill and knowledge mixed with gambling, fantasy, and an actually fun game? And I feel like I experience way more of a set’s flavor than I would just seeing the cards mixed into various decks.

Martinez sounds cool!!

I made a Black Manhattan and yeah it’ll be my new Manhattan go-to for sure. Super good.

Tried Mezcal for the first time yesterday and am a big fan so I’ll have to try a Dead Lady soon, currently don’t own Falernum though

Sounds like really cool modifications! Sometimes I wish I wasn’t such a lightweight so I could experiment faster…

I really liked my Old Fashioned last night, I mentioned in the high-scores edit to my original post that next time I’ll try diluting more and I probably won’t use sugar cubes moving forward (simple syrup instead).

The Monkey Gland was good too! But see above for why I probably won’t make it again 😜 The history just makes my nethers tingle in a bad way.

The Teresa was a great suggestion for me! Crazy how close it is to a Negroni even though it kinda comes from a different direction

Alcohol destroys my sleep so I usually only drink Friday and Saturdays, but the fun of making drinks has made me want to get really good at mocktails. Sometimes I make a good one, but it’s kinda hard to not just end up with super sweet juice…

But I always drink my water without ice. No judgement on ice people, but to me water is for hydration and ice just slows you down. /s

I tried a basic recipe first and it was great! Super excited to riff on this drink. My wife loves St. Germaine so that’ll be fun to try. I put this drink pretty high on my high-scores list that I edited at the bottom of my original post

My friend, I loved this cocktail and will be enjoying them the rest of my life. Hadn’t had mezcal until today and I really liked it. Wife is a big fan too. Thanks!!

This is the recipe I tried and it was excellent!

Probably depends on local air quality and how recently the snow fell. But I and everyone I know eats snow so I hope so…

Thanks for the suggestions! Added to my to-try list. And yeah life’s been great leaving that church. I’m still trying to accept that Sundays are fun now and nothing to dread on Saturday evenings 😅

And my best 3x3 solve was 18.83 seconds. But my average is closer to 24 seconds, that solve was just kinda a lucky one!

Oooh, haven’t heard it called the Twice Up, but here in Montana the Whiskey Ditch is popular which is just whiskey and water. In winter we use snow and I definitely like snow/cold water with mine. I guess people here used to use actual ditch water which I kind of love and will never try

Looks like a great book for me, just ordered a copy!

Gonna be my first protest. Was gonna go for Canada but now it feels more like a protest for every country besides Russia and North Korea…