It was a favourite of mine from RTR. Trostani was a fun commander on release. I'm looking forward to seeing what people do with Ghired.

The greatest failing of these kinds of decks in my experience -- and I have built many of them -- is inexpensive control over the top of your deck while trying to leverage whatever we're trying to do with the top of our deck. Traditionally, they live in the Temur colours, starting with Intet, the Dr...

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4 years ago

Circular Logic is a playable card when Circular Logic is a playable card.

The first rule of tautology club is the first rule of tautology club.

FWIW, it's best off any kind of loot in my experiences. Tap JVP to draw, pitch this to counter then (most likely) flip your Jace. Thirst for Knowledge is another long time fave with it. Ew, discarding two cards to TFK (is it really discarding two, though?). I was considering it in Scarab God, becau...

Monday, August 5th, 2019; Evil Twin I missed this one, but am gonna post about it anyway; I really love Evil Twin. It's my favourite clone, bar none, and I play it in every deck possible. It's such great flavour from the gothic horror block, and yet it's adjacent to the zombie/vampire/werewolf/geis...

Kerrick isn't what I would call amazing. It looks really exciting on paper, but a simple search query will show that the number of free spells is not incredible. I think the real angle will be seeing what you can play for cheap, rather than free. I like to think of Kerrick as "very fair monobla...

I was going to be rather salty if it did increase the tax, which thankfully it doesn't. It does make you pay any previous tax though, so I'm still sprinkling some flake salt over my dish, so to speak. I think it does increase the tax. Commander tax is determined by the number of times you've cast y...

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4 years ago

Fruday, August 2nd, 2019; Bargaining Table

If it had only cost less than 5, it might be playable in a discard-oriented deck. As written, it's just dreadful.

Where do you think, say, Zendikar Resurgent was meant to weave its nest? Oh, I don't disagree. The number of legendary creatures across all sets has been increasing (I think Dominaria was the peak, with 'Legendary' being a mechanic). But when it actually uses the word Commander, or Command zone (li...

Oops. I didn't RTFC too well, there. Well, there are other problems, too. If you draw over 100, you won't have Lab Man or Jace in play to win (you just kind of lose, unless you played something like Angel's Grace pre-Aurora). Without Angel's Grace, you probably need to Great Aurora into 90+ (but un...

And further with Laboratory Maniac if enough cards were shuffled in. Since Plagiarize only affects one opponent, I think it'd be hard to actually draw out, unless you were halfway there. Though, now that we're thinking of it, The Great Aurora doesn't just reward tokens; if you drew a ton of cards w...

This may be an unpopular opinion, but I'm just not interested in the commander specific cards such as Arcane Signet, Commander's Sphere, etc. Naturally, they're good cards, but I just don't enjoy playing them for whatever reason. Part of me agrees with you. I find that they're just a little too on-...

Thursday, August 1st, 2019; The Great Aurora I bought a copy when Origins was released, but haven't ever played it. It was going to be in a Ulasht, the Hate Seed token deck I was designing (to be played with Warp World for most tokeny advantage). But, can we chuckle about how this interacts with Pl...

The only issue I have with counterspells is when they're ran by someone who clearly has no idea on what is the right thing to counter. When you see in one turn cycle your own Balefire Dragon and the next player's Wrath of God get countered, and then the third player lands Craterhoof Behemoth for gg...

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4 years ago

Wednesday, July 31st, 2019; Fatal Frenzy

I'd play it in anything that had Berserk in it and was in red.

I've had a good deal of fun with this; spellslinger decks with cards like Wee Dragonauts do okay when you double them up with this or something like Rush of Blood.

Black is my favorite color in Magic, and I generally have at least one mono-black deck built at any given time. I'm in the same boat (with black being my favourite colour). I've played Iname, Death Aspect , Anowon, the Ruin Sage , Ob Nixilis, the Fallen , Endrek Sahr, Mater Breeder , Horobi, Deaths...

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4 years ago

No need to be humble. Elspeth, Sun's Champion is propably my favorite walker in the whole format. Only very few ones work as well in a vacuum as she does.

She's no OG Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker. No prisoners, there.

It was a little while ago, so new Ugin wasn't even a card then. There's was definitely a heavy reliance on Elspeth. Particularly Suns champion was a stalwart in the deck. Great walker anyway. I bought some WAR Ugins today, haha I think Elspeth, Sun's Champion is the best mono-w walker, hands down. ...

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4 years ago

Friday, July 26th, 2019; Arcbound Crusher

This might be exciting in Saheeli, the Gifted, any deck running Storm the Vault, or Sai, Master Thopterist... that kind of thing.

I did not know this card existed, and I'm kind of excited.

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4 years ago

incoming spike on mental misstep

And Artifact Blast.

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4 years ago

Maybe it's just time we suck it up and put sol ring in the command zone where it belongs THAT IS A JOKE SHELDON!

no it's not, do it

if you don't, i'll say my voice isn't heard!

Maybe! Part of me also wants to try building Djeru. It's too bad there aren't more toolbox-ish planeswalkers in mono-white; White walkers almost entirely buff/create/remove creatures or gain life, and their functional interchangeability makes the tutoring aspect less entertaining. I think WAR reall...

For the most part, I don't usually care how much my decks are worth (though, I don't really feel comfortable carrying a full set of revised dual lands out of the house anymore). I most frequently get the budget feel-bads from Reserved List over a hundred dollars or so. Usually, it's newer players pr...

Are you the twin I never knew about? I have built all of those lol. Maybe! Part of me also wants to try building Djeru. It's too bad there aren't more toolbox-ish planeswalkers in mono-white; White walkers almost entirely buff/create/remove creatures or gain life, and their functional interchangeab...

Bruna is a lot of fun. ISB and I both have fairly comparable Bruna decks at present, feel free to have a nosy at the lists if you're interested (he says in a shameless self plug). I did see your list. I had Gisela, the Broken Blade on my shopping list for quite some time and picked one up from my L...