#havenposting

Hollow Knight is a tough game, and it only got harder with the DLCs that released. The Path of Pain, Nightmare King, hell, the entirety of Godhome was extremely difficult. The Pantheon of Hallownest was one of the hardest things I've ever beaten in a game (something I did over a year of on and off trying) and the fact that you had to add difficulty modifiers on top of that to get lore bits was too much for me. Of course the people who made all of that are going to make the sequel harder.

I got your boy his fainting couch

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Oh god I am so late answering this ask oops my apologies @thewatcherandthewarden

It’s a very silly mid-power commander deck that has a roughly 50/50 rate of a) dying by turn 4 or b) going quietly and calculatedly unnoticed until I have ten mana of any red/blue/colorless combo on the board.

This is the commander:

Many times, when someone sees me put this guy down, they make a point after reading the card of telling me I’ll never see that last sentence do a single thing. Every single time they have been wrong. This is a big mana/X-spells deck where the literal entire point is to slide under the radar while everyone else kills each other until I build up enough mana to start taking wild cannon shots in any direction that a twister spinner sees fit to point me.

It is stacked with big stupid domino-effect antics on top of smaller stupid explosives on top of various distracting tripping hazards. It has one (1) counterspell, and not seeing more counterspells from a blue player makes the whole table more and more nervous as time goes on. It leans heavy on the psychological warfare of me being a pleasant, generally well-meaning, shy tiny trans man, while I load a cardboard-powered sawed-off shotgun under the table. It has maybe a single-digit number of creatures. It has spell-copying Crackle With Power as an obvious possible win condition, and more than one thing that count the mana of instants and sorceries in my grave/exile as even sillier possible win conditions.

It makes my friends genuinely belly laugh when I kill them, which is objectively my favorite part.

This deck has lost comedically fast to lower powered-decks and curbstomped at least one approaching-cEDH deck. I’ve killed multiple people in one turn. I am absolutely zero threat until suddenly I am all the threat and people are bargaining to have me executed. Friends think it’s funny as heck, so they multiple times have offered to trade me cards for it which I will immediately use to turn around and wallop them like a Looney Tunes character. It is my first and favorite commander deck I ever made. I ship of Theseus-ed it out of a Strixhaven precon.