I want to play an unsleeved deck that donates cards to people so they have to touch my heavily, heavily played cards. Who should I build?

Wasn't this another card that was going to destroy the format?

I love that black is getting more board wipes at less than six mana. Especially ones that allow for regeneration.

Incidentally, the first thing that came to mind when I saw Undergrowth Recon was Thawing Glaciers, an oldie but a goodie. I think it's perfectly playable in the right decks but not grossly imbalanced or a format staple. Great card, though its placement at mythic is questionable.

duducrash wrote: ↑

4 months ago

Undergrowth Recon - i wish it was a creature!

Now this is pod racing.

You haven't lived until you've resolved Nicol Bolas with a Dragon Tempest in play.

It depends. I have different budgets for different decks. $1DH, $50, and $100. No real rhyme or reason, but each price point has its challenges. As for shipping, I never calculate that for price, considering you can get most of the cards from a FLGS bulk bin. You do tend to lean into your commander ...

I don't see a lot lists playing Shigeki, Jukai Visionary. Channeled Shigeki seems real, real good to recur with Samwise, even in a deck playing a higher density of legendaries than normal.

I know it's a minuscule sample size but of the 35 games I've been tracking 27 of them have been won by one of the first two players in turn order. There's an obvious advantage in going earlier, but dang, I didn't expect it to be this pronounced. We'll see how the data levels out over time.

I'm disappointed people aren't as frustrated about the arbitrary spaces in mtg names. I always hoped there was some underlying rule that I just hadn't picked up on, kind of like how I just learned last week why the colors on dual lands are placed left to right in the order that they are (it's incon...

RowanKeltizar wrote: ↑

4 months ago

That cmc though....

Firemind foresaw high mana value matters in Prismari years down the road. Duh.

I'm disappointed people aren't as frustrated about the arbitrary spaces in mtg names. I always hoped there was some underlying rule that I just hadn't picked up on, kind of like how I just learned last week why the colors on dual lands are placed left to right in the order that they are (it's incon...

I used it as a cheap mainland to mutate Brokkos, Apex of Forever onto so I didn't have to run creatures. Completely fair Magic card.

Orchard is good tech, nice thinking.

Have you considered Volrath's Stronghold (if you own one) or Unholy Grotto? Those lands are sweet for Voltronish decks.

Hell yeah. I am pro-stax, to be sure, but at least this one is one of the less egregious pieces.

Cash rules everything around me C.R.E.A.M. get the money Dollar, dollar bill, y'all - Method Man, C.R.E.A.M. Treasures have taken over the format. Tacking a Lotus Petal or two onto spells of any size, as it turns out, is pretty good. I've seen many instances where people have more treasure than the...

If you're spending turns not casting spells because all you're holding are reactive spells you don't need, you're not being very efficient with your mana, and will likely run into having to discard to hand size. Not the worst thing in the world, but also not ideal. Having proactive early plays (lik...

Dunadain wrote: ↑

4 months ago

TheGildedGoose wrote: ↑

4 months ago

Ugh. Looking for volunteers...

Honestly, why not, has more merit than most of the words I vomit out on this forum.

I was joking, but if you're serious, I'll try to come up with some specific criteria to track.

Commander: 1 Karador, Ghost Chieftain Lands: 40 1 Agadeem, the Undercrypt 1 Arid Mesa 1 Bloodstained Mire 1 Bojuka Bog 1 Boseiju, Who Endures 1 Command Tower 1 Deathcap Glade 1 Flooded Strand 1 Godless Shrine 1 Horizon Canopy 1 Indatha Triome 1 Llanowar Wastes 1 Marsh Flats 1 Misty Rainforest 1 Mur...

I feel like you want to be focused, spending mana just to spend mana will get you nowhere. We all have seen folks vomit 4 rocks and have no CA going on. they spent a ton of mana, and arent in a good position. I mostly play Karador, Ghost Chieftain and many games I win are games I lay low and domina...

Viashino Heretic is a cool throwback. Both are pretty playable, though Shivan Harvest is uncouth land destruction.

I'd be interested to see the results of this "study" just don't present your findings as objective fact. Really not sure what my "hypothesis" is. I suspect ramping will be very good, board presence will be very bad, and doing nothing will be pretty good. Not enough data for scul...

Any science or math heads in the house? Or smart people in general? Dunadain got me thinking about the early game in their Liesa thread . My own experience has been that simply ramping isn't always the best option. Sometimes you can just sculpt your hand/tutor/self-mill or generally expand your opti...

Right but the games where playing a wipe on t4 is a bad idea are the kind of games I'm already favored in. I would think you're soft to noncreature decks, actually, even with a punisher commander. I mean, Phelddagrif is probably the slowest deck I've ever played, but it's not the only deck that can...