The only difference between the enter the battlefield wording on Deathcap Glade and Canopy Vista is that one of them requires you to have basics. They are not inverses of each other.

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okay because i'm dumb can someone explain the following terms: Fast lands Slow lands Tangos Triomes and any other references along those lines. Fast lands - Blackcleave Cliffs et al Triomes - Ketria Triome et al/ Spara's Headquarters et al Shocklands - Blood Crypt et al Checklands - Rootbound Crag ...

The whole set might leak at this point. I feel so bad for Wizard staff. I'm finding it intensely amusing that the original New Phyrexia leaked in its entirety, and we go back there and we have another significant leak. But yeah, it must suck for the people who job it is to co-ordinate all this offi...

Galea, Kindler of Hope curses; not sure if there's enough density to make it a real strategy in these colors Balmor, Battlemage Captain thopters; might work better with Magnus the Red at the helm Shigeki, Jukai Visionary : Green has many ways to dump cards from your library into your GY. I don't kn...

So, I was working on the 32 deck challenge, but have abandoned the idea as I just don't have the ability to keep 32 decks updated. That said, I had a few decks that I'd concepted that I'd like to throw out into the world in case they inspire someone, and figured I can't be the only one with ideas th...

Some kind of self imposed limit/starting from a point that has a lot of inertia to overcome. I also don't deliberately go infinite in terms of mana generation. So, looking at my decks from that perspective: Abaddon the Despoiler : All the cards in the deck apart from the colourless artifacts have to...

Bumping because I've done a huge overhaul. Practically everything is being done with combat damage triggers now, although I kept a few things because they just aren't replicable elsewhere (such as Meren of Clan Nel Toth ). I finally picked up a Sensei's Divining Top and a Dauthi Embrace , both cards...

The table took 18 in one swing from Yuriko triggers in a deck where she was just in the 99 last night. I can well believe that as a commander she's oppressive.

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Finally got my Abaddon deck up.

Abaddon the Despoiler - viewtopic.php?t=68438

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I've gone into super lurker mode around here lately, and I've realised why: my MtG experience is fundamentally different to a lot of posters, and I just can't relate. Pace of releases: I've played GW games for 20-odd years, they bring something new out every week, I already have the mindset of 'not ...

... in black and gold reborn! Welcome to what is likely to be the final deck I build. It takes me to six, which given I get about two games a week in, means I get to play each deck 3-4 times before a new set drops, which is both enough to keep the variety up but also not a huge amount of upkeep. I h...

How about global/repeatable unblockability effects? Sun Quan, Lord of Wu comes to mind, as well as Dauthi Embrace. Archetype of Imagination could work as well. That way you can tailor your combat damage with relative impunity.

Dragonlover

I have finally updated all my decklists with the changes made over the last few months. There's been a couple of big overhauls and I just hadn't had the mental energy to type up like, 30-odd changes across 5 decks. Should have my Abaddon the Despoiler deck up soon as well, and then that's it. No mor...

Yeah no I don't do that. I'll happily try a blag about threat levels a lot of the time, but eight Gates is a pretty empirical "deal with this now" board state.

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Also I will say that every opponent I've played against that used mazes end has been a manipulative scumbag that desperately tried to downplay the threat of their wincon. I will always have a clearly stated Gate count and will recheck if anyone asks. It's only fair, they're lands and they're consta...

Yeah if you rock up to mine brand new, you just get absorbed into the next pod that fires. We've really worked on making it as not cliquey as possible. It helps that we slowly weeded out all the arseholes.

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Can we run Phyrexian Dragon Engine in a mono-red deck, or is that one an 'unknown, wait for the rules article'?

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I think the deck would function better if you settle on a few less wincons that group logically rather than cram every wincon there is in the deck. Oh absolutely, but the genesis of the deck wasn't "How many wincons can I make work that all pull in the same direction?" it was "How ma...

So I'm making a thread cause based on previous discussion and experience, people don't read decklist threads. The context for my question is my 5c altwincon tribal deck, which is now sitting pretty at 22 wincons with the release of Ramses, Assassin Lord , and is outlined in extreme detail in my prim...

In any Magic set, S is the most common starting letter. I used to sell singles, and you'd need space for at least two if not three piles of S when sorting a new set compared to every other letter just having the one pile across six boxes.

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How does Nearby Planet work in EDH? Can I slot him into Hazezon, Shaper of Sand as an extra desert, or does the fact that it's all basic land types mean it can only be used in a five-color deck? I think you're good cause iirc the basic land rules go into reminder text now? I'm sure there's at least...

How does Nearby Planet work in EDH? Can I slot him into Hazezon, Shaper of Sand as an extra desert, or does the fact that it's all basic land types mean it can only be used in a five-color deck? I think you're good cause iirc the basic land rules go into reminder text now? I'm sure there's at least...

So, in wincons I only run like, one other thing that gets Gates ( Circuitous Route ), but the extra ones from Baldurs Gate have definitely made it easier to pull off, and I can see it being obnoxious if it's the sole alt wincon in someones deck that they're aiming for. I think I'd slightly complain ...

Every time I think I've got away with not tweaking the deck for a bit, they print another bloody wincon, and this time it needs me to head into the red zone. So, how do we make Ramses, Assassin Lord actually work in the deck? For starters, he gives another angle to the Arcane Adaptation . I could ju...

Once again, a set I was expecting to get a lot of options from is impressively low on them. Didn't foresee the heavy multicolour weighting, which in hindsight may have been a mistake. Main set: Danitha, Benalia's Hope : Relevant keywords, good stats for the cost and helps with equipment stuff. Likel...