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...

I've now made most of the swaps from the previous post, I'm just being super lazy and not updating the list. Nobody has a Cryptic Gateway locally though, gonna have to MKM that I think. I'm pretty sure I don't want any of the stuff from Dominaria United. Shivan Devastator has the upside of coming ou...

Ok, Dominaria United time. From the last lot, I only found a foil Nature's Lore out of the possible stuff I wanted, and haven't felt the need to go out of my way to get anything else. I definitely have an 'If i get one' approach to upgrades for this nowadays. Main set first: Defiler of Vigor : Hits ...

Does Baru, Wurmspeaker go in any of your decks? I feel like trample to the teams after a Mirror Entity activation is pretty cool.

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Dismiss into Dream. My wife runs it in their Hanna, Ship's Navigator pillowfort deck and while it is undeniably effective, dear god is it supremely aggravating. Pretty much anything else I'm fine with, but that thing makes me die a little inside every time it gets played.

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Eruth, Tormented Prophet for me. Wanted a sort of prowess-tribal type thing, turned into yet another spellslinger deck who's turns would take forever and you'd have to track a bunch of different cast triggers.

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hmm interesting but more than likely won't have an impact Ramses, Assassin Lord https://preview.redd.it/pt634x914ii91.png?width=265&format=png&auto=webp&s=3711202b175d9d2be2481ca0249babaf786a09e3 I'm currently trying to work out how I use this in Golos. I know what I'm cutting, but man ...

Well, V&G doesn't animate its lands so I should be fine.

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Ok, I'll bite: what's the broken thing you can do with it?

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I keep meaning to put this in Virtus and Gorm and then forgetting it exists.

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Lord of the Void is my first offering. Beefy flier that triggers both our commanders and flips Runo if he ends up in here. Personally, if I was building this, I'd be looking for attacking/combat damage trigger stuff, since we want to be getting in the red zone anyway. Sadly my existing deck on that...

I'll make Dreadhorde Invasion my pick, I was gonna suggest Bitterblossom but hadn't for staple avoidance reasons, and I'd forgotten about the Invasion

Bitterblossom - yay
Solemn Simulacrum - yay
Efreet Flamepainter - yay

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Ok, been playing the deck a bit more over the last few weeks, time to give it a much needed overhaul. I am taking out the following cards: Tyrant of Valakut Skyline Despot Knollspine Dragon Scourge of Kher Ridges Kilnmouth Dragon Ancient Hellkite Dream Pillager Drakuseth, Maw of Flames Spawn of Thra...