Crash Fist is one of the Duan Xuan sect's plans in Yi Xian. They all cost HP to play and add some kind of boost to the next Crash Fist you play, and some put their boost on their own play as well. What's amusing to me is that their build mostly tops out with their Tier 4 cards, Inch Force and Continue. Blink is nice, but Shocked (You get it? You get it.) just sort of... doesn't do what you want.

Force is a sect-specific mechanic. Each stack adds +10% to ATK damage, caps at 6, goes down by one stack when it's used. So you build Force, hopefully you get the card that allows you to break the cap, and then Inch Force->Continue->Continue hopefully haymakers your opponents out.

And they all cost HP, right? So each one is boosting the bonus attack from Shocked, right? It's still just... not really enough.

You need to be losing HP and losing a lot of HP, while trying not to die before you get to play a second Crash Fist card. If Shocked could get its bonus effect on its own play it might be better. It feels like its use is more for the poison-yourself-and-heal-through-it debuff builds where you can better lose loads of HP through your own debuffs and ride the line better. But even there, since that buff doesn't come on the first play, you're better off using the other cards on that plan.

Just funny to me how mechanics make the Big Deal Card not good enough compared to just upgrading the Tier 4 cards.

You would not believe your eyes
If ten million fireflies
Hotboxed your room as you fell asleep

Really around the time of the lockdowns I started keeping some packs on hand just "in case" that turned into a nearly complete Chaos Draft pile. It's just another Limited item sitting on my shelves I don't have a group for right now, next boxes of OG Jumpstart, Commander Legends, Commander Legends 2: We Wish Baldur's Gate 3 Hadn't Been Delayed, and Mystery Booster Retail Edition.

So you can probably guess the temporal theme of this pile but I've tried to stretch some too. A mix of Standard sets and premium sets. Rules would be that we snake draft the packs first. Non-game pieces are removed, but the basic land stays in since these include sets where the basic can be a fixing land.

• Gatecrash
• Magic Origins
• Rivals of Ixalan
• Modern Horizons
• Throne of Eldraine
• Core Set 2021
• Double Masters
• Theros Beyond Death
• Commander Legends
• Ikoria
• Zendikar Rising
• Time Spiral Remastered
• Kaldheim
• Strixhaven (Set Booster)
• Modern Horizons 2
• D&D: Adventures in the Forgotten Realms
• Innistrad: Crimson Vow
• Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty
• Streets of New Capenna
• Commander Legends: Dungeons & Dragons: Battle for Baldur's Gate (r symbol)
• Double Masters 2022
• Ravnica Remastered

I'd like to finish this out with:

• Modern Horizons 3, The Hat Trick
• Two Assassin's Creed Boosters Taped Together