I actually have gravitated towards Goblins (both in legacy and modern) but it plays more as a control/toolbox. I usually win through sacrifice/damage combos. I don't mind playing with creatures but winning through combat makes modern feel like very expensive Hearthstone. Even then I still enjoy myse...

We need a mana chains for planeswalkers.

In a more balanced world all planeswalkers would have cumulative upkeep costs. Loyalty is never free!

I don't want ****ing combat in every match of Mtg. I just don't. It is called variety, and variety is Mtg's strength, gradually being whittled away. Everything should have a predator. That is why Legacy is great, you can hit everything. Lands, hands, spells, Enchantments, critters. The whole lot. T...

After play testing and some local events I've made a few changes which has made the deck a lot more consistent and flexible. Note: My local meta includes lots of Jund and I primarily play test against Whirza and ETron. Creatures: 1 Knucklebone Witch 4 Skirk Prospector 1 Goblin Cratermaker 2 Goblin P...

Thinking about PW issues. Why ffs did solemnity not nerf PWs? I mean for story garbage they could have said 'non bolas walkers'. It seems they went out of their way to make a card to spank on counters going onto everything apart from the one thing that screws the game up by having counters. How muc...

Those first two cards would be utterly broken. Probably. The sad thing is white and blue don't have any good responses currently. For fixes: What about w w for the first one? That would restrict its use to dedicated control decks. Mono white is super weak on its own. Maybe add u u to the flashback ...

I had a couple buddies who were convinced mistcaller was the blue answer to decks that cheated creatures into play without paying their mana costs. We're they ever wrong When that card came out I WISHED that it was better than it was because putting merfolk back on the board would be cool. Too bad :/

Leaders to legends (a play on swords to plowshares) w Instant Exile target creature or planeswalker. It's controller gains life equal to its converted mana cost. Counterspell 2.0 u u Instant Counter target spell Flashback—Discard a land(or exile a blue card?) Make red elemental blast and blue elemen...

The solution to fast combo and linear decks is not to bring more. It's to create better answers and better sideboard cards. Or weaken them a bit with some bans. TBH, I'm not of the opinion that things are as bad as many claim. GP Colombus was imperfect but not a disaster. I think we are closer to a...

We all get all opinions of same peoples here again and again since several years now. We talk 1 page of actually decks and then 5 about this old combo. Then 1 page versus 5 again and again. WE GET IT!!! First let me say that I completely agree with you that the constant Twin discussions can be a bi...

That's why Twin should somewhat help Modern. Twin's presence could be a safety valve for Urza or similar decks to stay legal. The alternative, is what Wizards is used to doing. Bans. I was on my Modern hiatus when Twin was dominant/banned so I have no personal experience with the deck. However, I t...

Were Legacy and Vintage defined by the players or by WotC? I'm not being facetious, I don't know the answer. Did Legacy players really reach a consensus? Or, did the unhappy players just stop playing? It seems to me that trying to reach a consensus about modern is a pretty lofty goal. Unless there ...

The faerie tribal land from Lorwyn, Secluded Glen , went from $5 to $15 overnight when Eldraine was confirmed to contain faeries. I noticed the same thing happened with most of the other faeries that are remotely playable. I was trying to make a throwback faerie deck at the time and it ended up gett...

Are you OK with someone telling you to ban Amulet or Cryptic or Terminus or Goyf or Liliana or Shadow or whatever random cards from T1, just because you don't like their playstyle or lines that they have? Where's your call for bans on Infect or Storm? This is how I feel about most ban talk. Would i...

@Tomatotime Yes to all of that. I tried to express a similar sentiment earlier in this thread about whether or not Modern was becoming a sort of "new Legacy." In that case Modern would be a format where there are massively powerful decks that many average players would consider unfun/unfa...

@Tomatotime Yes to all of that. I tried to express a similar sentiment earlier in this thread about whether or not Modern was becoming a sort of "new Legacy." In that case Modern would be a format where there are massively powerful decks that many average players would consider unfun/unfai...

I've seen some people drop a Port to accommodate Volraths Stronghold. My logic for dropping the second was that Once Upon a Time gives me pretty good filtering so I can dig more to find what I want. I will keep that in mind though. I already own 4 so I will probably start there. Thanks for the advic...

People are pretty bad at predicting the future and also love giving themselves credit for things in hindsight. This clearly applies to speculations about which new card will be "broken" in or even just playable, often in amusing and sometimes interesting ways. Reading through old forum pos...

I think it really depends on the local meta. No one plays Urza at FNM at my LGS despite everyone knowing it is the best deck. Self-policing when the fun:money ratio is low or favors fun > money. Big tournaments are obviously a different story.

Here is my current list. It's completely untested and also my first legacy deck. I am splashing r/g for a couple of obvious black card (Stronghold) as well as a couple of less obvious green cards ( Once Upon a Time , Veil of Summer and Grumgully). I enjoy the Grumgully/Redcap combo in modern but I c...

Thanks! I have all of the cards for mono-red so that is my default mode. I also have a full set of Khans fetches so all I'm missing is Duals, I just don't want to waste cash in cards I won't use. I want to splash b/g for Volrath's Stronghold and Once Upon a Time along with Sling-gang, Murderous Redc...

Not sure, I'm hoping it comes down. I want to pick up some extended art foils. I've got a regular set already (got them really low before he had any tournament success), kicking myself for buying local rather than going online to get the edition I actually wanted. But I didn't think the card would ...

I am new to Legacy and trying to figure out what my land base should look like. I am playing Jund Goblins (Rbg). I understand that in Legacy lands work a little differently from Modern but I'm not super clear on how to incorporate this into my deck building. One thing I've noticed is that Legacy dec...

I could be very wrong but I think Counterspell would have a meaningful impact on Modern. Not a complete game changer but meaningful (also a realistic request). I'm trying to think of ways to balance the format without going ban crazy. Alternatively, what about another "Force" card? Same as...

Counterspell lacks a close replacement in modern and as a result Control is significantly weaker than other archetypes. I understand that this may have been a conscious decision by game designers to keep threats and responses on par with each other. This made sense when modern first started. People ...