I have a 5c tribal modular deck, with an old list on MTGsalvation. My only advice - the sleeves wear out at different rates depending on how often you play them, with the core cards getting more wear/tear than any one module. Depending on your group, this can cause concerns, as you might be able to ...

-snip- Tithe and Gift of Estates is a design space I wish was used a bit more. The ability to search for "Plains" is what once set white's land-search apart from green's "Basic Land." But now it seems like the trend is towards "Basic Plains" and stapling the ability on...

Isn't Gift of Estates a dead card in the same situations where Land Tax is dead card? Both do nothing unless you have an opponent that has more lands than you. They're both equally dead late game. That said, I still like Land Tax - Tithe - Gift of Estates, in that order, in most of my decks. The pos...

FYI, the first list doesn't indicate your general, had to scroll halfway through your comments to see a list you posted that mentioned General Tazri.

I've lost a number of times to Helix Pinnacle in my buddy's Omnath, Locus of Mana deck. Ew.

Cards I plan on using or testing: Esper Sentinel in Osgir, the Reconstructor Late to Dinner in Jodah, Archmage Eternal (flavor text tribal) Nykthos Paragon in Atraxa, Praetors' Voice (+1/+1 counters) Out of Time in Zur the Enchanter (cycling/enchantments) Resurgent Belief in Zur Timeless Dragon in Z...

Magus of the Bridge also curves well out of a Dauthi Voidwalker

Gishath, Sun's Avatar - plays very well with Maskwood Nexus.

& Dauthi Voidwalker may well be up there with Opposition Agent & Hullbreacher . The fact that you can cash it in to cast any nonpermanent spell anyone has cast since it's been on the battlefield (or before, in some cases) is huge. I agree with you that Voidwalker is exceedingly powerful. An...

I've been dunked a few times by Maskwood Nexus - if someone sacrifices The World Tree with Nexus out, they get to put all creatures from their library into play. That's happened to me twice. Edit: these others haven't happened to me yet, but: Sarkhan Unbroken ult with Nexus out also gets all your cr...

Is Breya, Etherium Shaper not your toast and jam? She's really strong, and if you're leery of the 4 colors, you can just ignore one of them and get your 4th color from rocks.

Out of Time in my Zur enchantments list is going to be very oppressive. Essentially a tutorable wrath, and in that deck, I can flicker/recast it at will.

Legendary isn't as bad here, and unlike Fleshbag, you get a choice of which you target. Could you flavor mavens remind me of which of the Ineffable's horrid acts this is? As I remember he was already a monster in his origin, engineering a plague and offering patients a placebo just to see the progr...

Gashnaw As the WOTC staff indicated above, under the current rules, Grist cannot be your commander, but they anticipate a new rule which will make it so. I suspect the rule could be something as simple as "if a card would be a legendary creature if it started a game in the command zone, then i...

I am confused about how Garth's "card name that hasn't been chosen" aspect is supposed to work. It's been a very long time since I read the "Arena" book where he was the protagonist, but I remember that he bounced from house of magic (color) to house, ultimately finding out that...

Yawgmoth's Vile Offering is a card that I don't even run in legendary creature tribal - the 5 mana value is rough, sorcery speed is rough, and then there's multiple hoops to jump through: need a legendary creature or walker on board, need a worthwhile target for recursion in a yard, and need a wort...

I missed Havengul Lich yesterday. Wow, I'm really surprised at the shade he received. He's a house in my Lord of Tresserhorn zombie deck. With Rooftop Storm he's really really good. But on to today's card, Expropriate . Two things that a lot of players don't like on one powerful card: extra turns an...

(snip) Another strategy though, why not just start every game with the Monarch? Roll for it, or maybe whoever goes last after rolling to see who goes first gets the Monarch. Then whoever wins gets Monarch the next game, throw a little blood in the water so to speak. Most of the games I've been in r...

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3 years ago

my general heuristic for figuring out who to attack is:

0. is it better for me to leave up a blocker?
1. who has Hullbreacher
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Yup, or Rhystic Study, Smothering Tithe.

I agree, it drives me nuts. Thankfully I have a regular playgroup, and since most of my games are with them, we don't do such things. But if I'm at my LGS and see it, like you, I'll probably explain that instead of leaving it to chance, you should probably attack the biggest threat or, if you cannot...

Path of Ancestry is probably an upgrade over Temple of Triumph : they both ETB tapped, tap for your colors, and give scry. Temple gives only 1 scry; path gives you one each time you cast your commander at least, and your list also has 3 other artificers in your list currently ( Audacious Reshapers ...

Would Scrap Mastery be too high mana value to include? seems like another way to just end games.

Scrap Mastery : a Living Death for artifacts. I don't have a deck that uses it, but I've been dunked by this card quite a few times. I have one and should probably use it somewhere. I just recently jammed the Strixhaven precons against each other (after my group not getting together for 6 months) a...

I never had push notifications turned on.

It happened to me again just now (3:30pm CST)