Quick Tips for Newbies: Road to Legend

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I’m not really the trolling type and I don’t go around recommending decks

My choice of decks is quite specific so I know not everyone can enjoy and play optimally any deck

It’s like with wands in Harry Potter, you don’t choose the deck, the deck chooses you

But, I would certainly recommend one of the meta decks because:

a) They passed the Legend test, and
b) I could instantly recognize them and know well enough to hit legend with it and to be able to help anyone else do it.

Well, I do agree with this part, partly. I agree that having someone tell you the moves over discord doesn’t count. It’s cheating and it teaches you nothing.

I was talking about literal teaching how to play and why.

But then again, streamers exist and you choose not to watch them to learn, even though you’ve said it was your “shoot for the moon” kind of goal. I don’t know about you, but I try to find and learn from anything and anyone I can get about my goals which I deem to be important.

Is it the fact they play with meta decks and you don’t want to? Is it because you don’t like to watch other people play? What’s stopping you?

Meta decks are meta for a reason.

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It is literally painful to watch someone play this game and not be the one playing. Just the same way it is painful to watch any sports and not be playing it instead. Its just a function of my brain finding the act of watching it and not actually doing it, when I could be. Like I dont have that issue when watching my tv shows as there is a narrative and Im not fighting the impulse to go act instead of watching actors… but gamers and gaming? it is my kryptonite or zero bank account balance (Superman and Batman’s biggest weaknesses)… the most surefire weakness that is so crippling it just a trope how OP the weakness is.

I always put it this way to others when discussing watching streamers and gamers or anyone playing a sport etc… I’d rather watch paint dry in MSPaint.exe as its less painful and more entertaining.

Also I have no ability to take control with my mouse and hover over a youtube video to learn what card they are using to keep up, or to hover over the play history to see what just happened in order via the tooltip popup over the history. So there is 0 ability to learn anything for me as I cannot find out what they are playing or what the card text says. It just requires me KNOWING the cards ahead of time and thats just not really something I can do even with the cards in my own deck let alone someone else’s. Its why I enjoy the whizbang deck thus far I suppose (Currently rocketing to Silver 7 now with i think a 3 or 4 star bonus still because Ive won like 3 or 4 matches in a row which never happens lol), since there’s no ability to predict what deck i’ll even get, aint no way to be able to memorize what they all contain either. and since each match is 100% new and authentic and unpredictable to me, its an even playing field to me as I dont know what they will play nor will i know what i will either.

and for personal reasons I dont Amazon anything, so twitch is a non starter as well. Ive heard they have something like what Id love to be able to do… but since its an Amazon thing, my values prevent me from going that path

But like I said Im down for a decklist of cards I dont need to craft… got burned on that other guy’s list and wasted 400 dust on an epic card… really regretting it because dust is hard to come by. and im down for some practice matches that arent game over by turn 4 or 6 or something dumb like that. lol

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It happens to me when I don’t play enough of what I’m watching. If you played enough of HS, you wouldn’t mind watching HS.

Same here, so I don’t watch people playing decks I don’t play. I only watch people playing my deck, problem solved, I recognize the cards by their image.

Which, usually, I don’t. I have to play A LOT of some deck to learn all its cards by the looks.

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I can see you don’t play Arena, to assume that’s easy. The “~40%:” win rate decks of standard are Tier S in Arena in most cases so if you get totally random cards from the game chances are you’d be getting ~20% win rate decks for Standard and good luck with that.

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Like there are SOME cards Ive become familiar with like that mage discover spell for 2 that if its the last 2 mana you can spend in a turn you get it back after your turn is over… I know what that is by its image and animations. But like anything less iconic than that , or like how its hard to miss or forget playing the Poof Reno that board clears if you playing a highlander deck, that sort of unmistakable uniqueness when played… Ive learned a few of those types but most cards that arent the OG cards like Chillwind Yeti or something from that era of cards… its all a blur and I must read them every time i encounter them. its a similar issue i encounter in BGs, I am constantly reading each minion as they all become a similar blur without any uniqueness to them so the high actions per minute isnt an option I can take

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Well, it looks like some sort of anterograde amnesia

Car crash? Sport injury?

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I wish i could say it was something so simple. Ive ALWAYS had memorizing issues my entire life. I cannot commit more than like 3 digits of a phone number to my memory to be able to write it down, i tend to have issues when those last 4 come at me after someone gave me the the first 2 pairs of 3 digits. Multiplication tables was never an ability I could commit to memory. Like some yes, the 1s/2s/3s/5s/10s/11s… but any other digits? Nope. its just blank spaces on that table in my head. I have to count it out by taking the closest ones I do know to what is being asked of me. and then go from there for the remainder. So higher maths like formula memorization, knowing factors of a number, absolutely impossible to me. never could excel there at all. I didnt fail, but I certainly wasnt getting much beyond a C at best (thats like a 70 out of 100 type C).

Oddly enough I was a theater kid and did enjoy the acting… however I was never able to truly memorize the scripts and lines well so I was always given roles with like 1 or 2 lines total and I’d still mess them up usually. I was cast as Hawkeye in my senior year of High School for MASH and I completely improvised my lines off of my Trapper John counterpart who could memorize his lines no issue. It was only because I was genuinely good at improvising and actual character mimicry of Alan Alda’s Hawkeye that I got cast as him.

Also I fear its genetic as my mother suffered a stroke about 5 years back and now her memory is the classic television trope of having the same conversation with her every couple hours as there is no memory of the conversation for her but there is for all of us. I find myself feeling what she feels the more and more unreliable my ability to recall things becomes the older im getting myself.

It isnt a straight rule of my memory is just [redacted word for poopy] and i will forget a thing. I can eventually learn a thing and recognize it but high end recall like the name of that thing… dont bet on it. like how I dont normally give a card name by name unless its a really really old card… i just describe what it does or how it interacts. Im like that with a lot of things, such as learning a coworker’s name for me is usually a year long process. I can work side by side with someone for 5 days a week and for a year and the whole time Ill be struggling to not call them “hey, you,” or “hey whatsyername, hand me that tool by you please, idk what its called, its the thingy to your left, red handles.”

A lot of the time it isnt that I forget something, its just i never formed the memory at all to be able to forget it… so i end up in repeated scenarios a lot and Im unaware im in one. One of the big reasons some folk here label me a troll and arent able to treat me like a person. But I do forget things too. I just also have the issue of forming the memory as well as any recall abilities.

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Eh, it’s kinda confusing. I mean, I’m not an expert on brain, by any means, but I’m pretty good at biology, psychology is my hobby and I read alot about neuroscience, intelligence and memory.

This sounds very atypical, especially considering how memorization of images and memorization of numbers happen in different paths, and with you, both appear to be compromised.

Your short-term memory is intact, or else you wouldn’t be able to type long, coherent sentences.

Which leaves only anterograde amnesia.

My words:

Your words:

Definition of anterograde amnesia:

What is anterograde amnesia? Anterograde amnesia is a type of memory loss that occurs when you can’t form new memories .

Sounds like something you’ve just said xD I guess you forgot it :sweat_smile: :rofl: :joy:

Just kidding, I’m not an expert on brain, so maybe there’s an explanation which makes sense that I don’t know about. Another thing which could make sense is compromised communication between short-term and long-term memory - both might be working properly, but if short-term memory doesn’t deliver the memories to long-term memory, it looks like an issue of both.

I refuse to accept “bad genes” as the satisfying explanation - it’s only a summary of something we don’t know how to explain yet properly.

In any case, a lot of those examples look like my problems from childhood and when I’m under a lot of stress, which I think is related to ADHD, however, yours appear to be much more debilitating. In the end, I could motivate myself to learn the things of importance to me, and I always aced school. But apart from that, your examples are relatable.

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This is what I was replying directly to with the

Not the first part. lol. I stopped trying to make sense of my brain chemistry curse as I recently began to label it. I’m sure my early 20s and all the illicit substances I engaged in didnt help things once I was adulting about. But I know I was different after a certain birthday where 20+ units of [redacted word for Bliss] were taken. But not in a memory way, more like a how much of a longer fuse to become angry I got from before which used to be super short, and the Mr Rogers level of calmness and consideration/empathy I had taken on whereas before I was very much not that at all. Also all the pretty colors and kaleidoscope patterns I think i was seeing at the time lol. Im sure none of that helped in my memory issues. But it definately changed the chemistry going on ever since. lol.

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Ouch xD This hit me hard. My stepfather also did many such substances and now has similar problems, and I also like to enjoy those from time to time xD

Eh, just as I was afraid. It’s definitely an anterograde amnesia, substance caused. Lucy in the Sky of Diamonds? It’s the only substance I tried and didn’t like, lol. I had the feeling I was about to lose control. I was sitting in a comfortable chair, with trippy music and dark room, and I started to feel like I’m sitting in front of a tree that’s trying to root me until I become a tree myself. It was scary. I was scared so much that I “woke up”, barely stood up, and started drinking juice and water until it went away.

Scary thing. I prefer stimulants xD

In your case, I think it’s treatable, but I don’t know how exactly. Neurologists should figure out what “burned out” that day - serotonin receptors? Sensivity to cortisol?

It sounds like you’re not aroused as much as you normally was before that day, and arousal (mediated by cortisol, adrenaline, includes noradrenaline, dopamine, serotonin…) helps with memory formation (actually, memory formation depends on it).

In other words, if you’re not stressed enough about something, you just don’t have the motivation/hormones/brainpower to learn it/recall it. Your treatment might actually be what kills other people - stress.

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Its the synonym of Bliss, Happiness, etc. Not the Opposite of a Base in terms of PH. but the Happy Fun Time thats got a 4 letter shorthand that has no vowels. lol

My visuals were more like how they showed the different layers of the glasses on the declaration of independence in National Treasure. How each additional lens would reveal another previously invisible pattern and info and imagery. In my mind i had the notion that our eyes normally see all that garbage and just filter it out due to necessity. Well my notion was that the 4 letter funtime turns those filters off/on and so the kaleidoscope of patterns and organic treelike patterns it would form into and out of from the fractal and geometric variations along with indescribable colors as I would say, watch Star Wars or Moulin Rouge! or while staring at the tree outside in the early morning light. Best I can describe it as, i was messing with all the settings for the way the visual filters are meant to operate and was experiencing it as if I was going thru each one and clicking different checkboxes to see their impacts on the image in front of me. Like it was a video game graphics options panel messing with anti aliasing, UV light or infrared light being visible, etc.

But back on topic, Im eager to see a metadeck I can run that i dont need to craft anything for lol. been enjoying whizbang this whole discussion lol.

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Just pick a meta deck which you lose to a lot but you think you’d like, and have someone make it budget version for you.

That’s how I do it anytime I come back from a break (although, to be fair, this time when I got back I disenchanted all the rares and better from previous expansions to accelerate the comeback) until with time (and a lot of playing), I get enough cards to always be able to craft any meta deck I like.

Oh, I see

One of my personal favorites xD If it was possible to get addicted to those, I would have been dead already xD

Couple of years ago, I took like 4 pills for breakfast (Heineken ones) and when I didn’t feel anything, I just threw the rest in the trash and closed that chapter in life.

I did take it once more, on a party, but it didn’t hit me as strong as before (reason unknown).

I probably didn’t take nearly as much as you did, and I’m not fearing any brain damage, but I’m 100% sure I would become addicted to it if the tolerance doesn’t build up as fast as it does.

2 times when I took it I’ve even had a “superpower” which affected my life intensely.

I literally “took” other people’s specific hormones from them when they caused them pain or discomfort enough to complain about it multiple times, and transfered them on myself to deal with them because I was better equipped to deal with them at that moment.

Like, a girl got nauseous (too much of both amphetamines, probably) and was about to puke, when I suddenly had the irresistible want, even need, that that person gets better because I liked the conversation and atmosphere we had before she got sick, and at that moment the person stood up and said it passed, and at that moment I felt sick and it lasted for like 15 seconds, and then i burped and it went away. I suspect the hormone I took away was gastrin, the one responsible for stomach acid production. Less gastrin, less stomach acid, less nausea.

2nd time it was hunger (hormone grelin). I just needed the guy to stop complaining because it was messing my high, and it did, and then I became hungry for a bit (which was weird, because I ate not long ago and because on stimulants you’re not really hungry for longer periods of time).

I think the drug stimulated my already hyperactive empathy* to the supernatural levels (or at least levels we consider to be supernatural). Of course, the explanation could be far more banal, such as autosuggestion, but it’s much less likely to be the case. It felt real, the timing was right, and if I can get aroused by other people’s arousal, if surrounding atmosphere impacts how I feel, why couldn’t it be that on drugs I can impact how others feel, by myself? Why can’t I BE the atmosphere?

Used sparingly, I might be able to reproduce it multiple times more during my life, and I probably will try, if I ever feel motivated enough to do it.

  • most of the people who read this probably think this is a total nonsense, since I don’t appear to be emphatetic at all, but that’s just appearance, and there are multiple types of emphaty - the one I’m talking about is what would be considered “affective empathy” or “emotional contagion” in psychological literature. It’s real. It exists. And I’m more than full of it. Unfortunately.