I've played all of them other than Ayli and play against an Ayli deck on a regular basis. I had the most fun with Athreos, looping lots of relatively inconsequential creatures. I completely agree that it's easier to give a good recommendation if you can elaborate on what you want to do with the deck...

If anyone is very interested in twitter follower numbers I'll follow you, but I just checked and my last tweet was in 2012 so it's unlikely I'd ever actually interact.

cryogen wrote: ↑

4 years ago

You can now go into the User Control Panel and give yourself a custom title!

Not long enough for "Turtles all the way down" so it looks like I have to think of a new title.

I finished the formatting updates needed to move the primer text over from MTGS, so the first post is back in all its "glory". I also rewrote the card options section from the ground up. It previously was new stuff patched on to the original text from 2011/2012, most of which hadn't been t...

Esper also gets the logic and investigation part of a PI in there better than the other colors. I'm guessing there's some actual investigative ability, not just brooding snark.

I don't think about it.

I'm happy to make otherwise useless posts expressing agreement or to just not respond to things too.

Any time where I feel that my decisions or actions cannot have a meaningful effect on the state of the game. This is exactly it for me. I'm equally happy to lose an interesting game or to play through all sorts of nasty as long as I feel like I'm actually playing the game. Games that end or where I...

Arcane Signet is a great card and I'll run it in many, many decks going forward but I'm not really a fan of the design. I appreciate WotC making good mana fixing more accessible (depending on how budget friendly this actually is). I'm not a big fan of having more cards that are almost always best i...

DrSeaMonster wrote: ↑

4 years ago

Also, bold to use gary in a three-color deck.

If you can bring it back enough, even the minimum devotion count of 2 adds up.

Oh that does not look right, I think I typed up the decklist thing wrong... Could anyone tell me the proper way to format it? You don't need card tags in the deck tag, and you do need numbers in front of the cards. You can quote this post to get your list in the spoiler formatted right. I also alph...

It's common enough that I'd be suspicious of an otherwise unknown deck running it if I saw either piece. Each individual piece is decent in a deck that supports them. My experience has been that Exquisite Blood draws a lot of attention your way, even if you're not running much or any lifegain synerg...

I have fond memories of this card for sure. The art is great, I like the design, and it was a grindy card advantage engine in several of my early mono-W lists. It has not aged particularly well. White has several much more mana efficient ways of doing almost the same thing and more general card adva...

Continuing to put a few more decks up here. This is a largely reanimation focused Olivia, Mobilized for War list. Vampire tribal and madness both feel a little too restrictive, so I'm trying to take advantage of both the discard and the haste on the general here to cheat big demons and dragons into ...

I think, most of my nostalgia for old characters comes from flavour text. When I came back to the game in 2009, I was thrilled to bits that when I discovered they had printed Jaya as a legend. When she was hinted at in Origins (on Pyromancer's Goggles ) and appeared again in Dominaria, I did my bes...

To be perfectly fair, I think that the ban list announcement, my poll, and Sheldon's subsequent involvement on here helped as well. But everything you all are saying is absolutely true also. Those have definitely helped with forum growth. The commander sub accounts for almost half of the posts on t...

I'd be more sad about it if there had been any public facing communication from the new owner in the last month since that announcement. Their actions are not really inspiring confidence that they'll be good stewards of the site.

I used to have a Samut Beatdown deck (link) and I see a lot of similar cards here. What I would say is that although you have a nice mix of big enablers for Samut, some of your creatures seem a little bit small to pack enough punch (like Swiftblade Vindicator or Markov Blademaster.) I ran a few mor...

Most of the Samut decks I see posted are trying to do cute things with the untap ability. To me, that's not giving nearly enough credit to the fact that she's a very efficient beatdown creature. Unassisted, she's a 4 turn general damage clock. Any power boost takes that to a 3 turn clock and a 3 pow...

Of course there's where synergy falls in line and it's all good. Righteous Aura|VIS is utterly disgusting in my Kambal, Consul of Allocation build and would be problematic for x -spell slinging r decks. That's good because Kambal would otherwise suffer against spell slinging r decks. On color hate,...

I'm not suggesting creating a cEDH Rules Committee here, just that I'm perfectly willing to help anyone that wants to develop the cEDH community here in a positive way. That seems like the right approach. I was commenting on the fact that the thread title includes "a cEDH Committee on MTGNexus...

My last move, we spent the month leading up to it doing work on the new place (replaced the floors, took popcorn off the ceilings, and painted), so we didn't really organize or pack much before the day of. We finished moving everything around 4:30 AM the day we had to be out of the apartment and did...

Wanting cEDH to be considered in banlist discussions is not the same as wanting a separate banlist and that's definitely a common sentiment right now. I'm primarily basing my observation about format splitting on things like the announcement pinned to the cEDH subreddit explicitly saying that the mo...

On board rattlesnakes typically work better than instant rattlesnakes in my experience. The exception to this would be if you've played with a group long enough that they'll respect you having 2w up in the combat phase.

From an outsider's perspective, I'm not sure there's any desire in the cEDH crowd for a separate banlist. The sentiment that I've seen a lot in a couple threads on this site and on various Reddit threads is that they're interested in optimizing decks within the constraints of the EDH banlist, not cr...

About 30min away. I bought a townhouse. Kinda near where WF used to live. We discussed this before. I was trying to see if things would be done in time to host ECMMU possibly. (spoiler: they're not. Though, tbf, I'm taking my time). I've been moving like 6-10 boxes at a time every time I go over th...