Ah, it uses that symbol I don't have on my PC keyboard, only mobile. Noted. And thanks. You don't have the pipe symbol? The | should be shift+\. Is it a non-English layout? THAT'S how you do that?! I thought it was a non-standard key. Wow, that's some fifteen years at least and I never knew this......

Whoa. Who needs a good morph angel when I can deploy any of them at instant speed for no mana and under countermagic? And then flip them that way as well?

Token copies of Pendant of Prosperity could be one way to break it, maybe. Otherwise give an opponent the original, then give another and then give another . I guess you could also copy it with Mirage Mirror , Mizzium Transreliquat , or make it a creature and copy it with Vesuvan Shapeshifter or so...

Ah, it uses that symbol I don't have on my PC keyboard, only mobile. Noted. And thanks.

pendant of prosperity looks phelddagrif-able. [...] Or you could regain control of it somehow. Then it's just busted. Kinda surprised they didn't word it to prevent such shenanigans. More like Zedruu -able but anyway - too much effort to break it I think. Yeah, it looks tailour made for Zedruu. Pre...

Oh. You're not supposed to paste a link in there. Wish cryogen had told me that, I was under the impression it was the same format as I'd been doing. Can you show a specific set or img size?

[mention]cryogen[/mention] ? Your cardimg thing doesn't work.

Monday, August 5th, 2019; Evil Twin

Thanks.

Feels like an easy justification to #FreeRecurringNightmare with attention made to this kind of strong grave hate.

Well link it here dang it. Daily mtg is worthless to try to find anything on.

Played some games tonight. Of note, I found I whiffed on Kaalia's trigger more than once, although I did hit all three types on two occasions, which feels like hitting the jackpot when it happens. I confused a player when I scooped up a Nameless Inversion off the flip (I have the textless promo), as...

Another thing to ponder: if I was planning to run 35 lands, but instead run 40 lands of which 5 are utility lands, have I "sacrificed consistency "? I typically count those lands as spell slots (maze of ith being a common example, but also tabernacle since they don't fix my mana without U...

Just for convenience's sake I tend to run slightly fewer than the max # of fetches, closer to 5-ish in 2-color decks and 6 in 3. But this is definitely the right way to go from a technical perspective. In 2-color decks you're required to play more of the crappy 2-color lands because you can run few...

The mana base in the OP is pretty legit to me. There are some slight changes I would make, but overall I think its a pretty good starting point for most 3 color decks. Normally people have too many utility lands in 2 color and mono color decks and not 3 color. Honestly, I think an example of a good...

Are all 10 fetches really needed? After a certain point, it seems just excessive. Like, I can understand the argument that playing off-color fetches in 2 and 3 color decks is necessary to some degree to optimize a mana base, but I don't see what 10 does other than provide a bunch of painful or usel...

Love the Astral Slide Deck. Going to take your build out for a play later this week. Will let you know how it goes. Just had one question though. Was curious as to how Exalted Angel fits in the category Greasing the wheel. Is there something I am missing? Because like back in the day, you play it f...

Yeah. It's not the kind of card you run on it's own, but it has a lot of strategic implementations you can take advantage of with it. Guess I just like the intricacies.

For organisational purposes, it'd probably be easier to lump 'em up into cycles for a quick overview. That said, I remember you did something similar on MTGS not too long ago, back then you were advocating filters, which have now vanished. Obsoleted by the canopies? Also, is Cavern of Souls an auto...

Plus, it's not like the land bounce is a cost. How do you mean? As in, it's not literally an additional cost to the spell? I guess that matters if it's countered (why would the happen?) or if you somehow play this with no lands out. But it's definitely a huge drawback most of the time. Fixing that ...

Doing some evaluating on my own decklists brought me to realize both just how powerful a ten fetch base is, and how tightly we're squeezing our mana base to get the requisite effects we want in a given list. I came up with a synopsis last night that I liked, and I felt it merited some discussion wit...

I just want wedge "lair" lands, honestly. Oros' lair, Teneb's lair, etc. Would be a pretty cool throwback.

I think I prefer Hedron Archive or Thran Dynamo for most decks. To prefer Khalni Gem , you really need to get value out of the land bouncing - either because you have care about landfall (ex: Omnath, Locus of Rage ), or have extra land drops (ex: Azusa, Lost but Seeking ). Alternatively, lands with...

Sunday. August 4th, 2019; Khalni Gem https://gatherer.wizards.com/Handlers/Image.ashx?multiverseid=198519&type=card I'm actually a big fan of this card. 2/3 of a gilded lotus, and two colours > ccc from Dynamo, plus it can cheat on your land tax and keep someabds in store for impending geddons....

Sunday. August 4th, 2019; Khalni Gem

I added the first draft of Astral Slide to the OP. Thoughts? What did I miss? Is it "too fair"? Convoluted?