Maybe the arms race on EDH has flattened player expectations a little so everyone gets the merit of counterspells now? Arms race or no, some people just have an irrational dislike of counterspells. In my experience, these people also tend to dislike theft-effects, removal, discard, instant speed pr...

What a coincidence; I just started researching a 5C Enchantress list over the weekend and Solitary Confinement popped up many times. The player-shroud ability is a great upside over Spirit of Resistance , while the downside can be mitigated by cards like Honden of Seeing Winds|CHK or by being the Mo...

The Myojin don't get their divinity counter unless they are cast from hand, so they'd be poor fits for this deck; if the deck really wants a high-powered, high CMC spell, then Tooth and Nail|MRD is probably the way to go. Other than that, I have to agree with pokken that you don't need any 9 CMC cre...

I really enjoyed the article; thank you [mention]Sheldon[/mention] for a really well-written and thought-provoking piece. I'll give some quick thoughts on each item but I'm in a bit of a rush, so I hope it all makes sense. Unified Commander Damage: I think this could have merit, but if it were incor...

For my money, "Partners with" already perfected (and solved) the Partner mechanic. I think the Battlebond partners being monocoloured is their greatest improvement over the original partner commanders, as opposed to their partner mechanics being restricted to only one other legend. (Also ...

Also, it's annoying how each time a new legend of any relevance gets spoiled choice cards for it get bought up. Note the two separate spikes in quick succession on Monastery Mentor , correlating with Feather and Kykar being spoiled. This gets me as well. There's too much scarcity and price memory a...

This is an interesting piece to nullify Seedborn Muse. Can't untap during other players' untap steps if they don't have one.

E: Also Unwinding Clock and similar effects. It's not a great card itself, but it is a way to help force people back into only having one effective turn per cycle.

Chulane's ceiling will likely be lower than Derevi's , but his floor will be higher; he's a value machine that will be the new head for any generic goodstuff Bant deck. Giving a Growth Spiral per creature cast is already powerful enough, allowing you to get value despite counterspells or Torpor Orb ...

I've seen Astral Slide Zur in action before. It was... interesting, but also looked awkward if Astral Slide was removed (or if people just didn't let them fetch it with Zur). How effective would Drake Haven and Faith of the Devoted be as secondary pieces; maybe alongside New Perspectives and Shadow...

Seems easier to just take one out of the deck, though. Got to agree with this. From a play perspective, there's the question of how fun/effective the card is when removed from its combo partner; Felidar Guardian and Peregrine Drake can be fantastic combo pieces, but aren't very impressive outside t...

making me wanna put together derevi, just to play more pod. Birthing pod decks are some of my favorite decks. I try and draft pod if i can in cube, and just build chains all the way up if i can. It's pretty fun putting these chains together; forces you to be creative and think ahead to get around t...

Sway of the Flames
Sorcery
Return all nonland permanents to their owners' hands. Each player discards their hand, then draws seven cards. Each player takes 1 damage for each card they discarded this way.

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Fireshrieker's one of only two equipment that grant double strike, which is rarely seen outside of white or red; this makes it a great voltron piece for commanders that don't run those colours and already have some sort of evasion built in. I've had a lot of fun with it in Kefnet personally, stacki...

I'm sure there are about a hundred pod chains with Derevi into Reveillark combo type stuff. Derevi definitely seems a super easy Pod-chain commander. One I was considering running when I first picked up a Birthing Pod was, 1. Pod Derevi, Empyrial Tactician into Felidar Guardian . Felidar untaps Pod...

There’s been some speculation over in the Preview forum already, so I’ll copy what I said there. Might have more thoughts later. Give us a break from the 3-5 colors... Given the number of 5C legends in Modern Horizons and the Wedge cycle in M20 I wouldn't be surprised if they did just this. With RTR...

The adult part of me would like heavy reprinting because it feels really weird to look at a masterpiece Mana Crypt|MPS and realise that single card costs significantly more than my entire deck. The Timmy part of me would love it because I can't help but feel joy at the mental image of four commander...

Oh wow; all through writing up my last post, I completely forgot that there's other haste-granting equipment! You'd think that would have occurred to me when I was looking up extra colourless artifact tutors (which I definitely agree are super sketchy once you move past the ones already in the list)...

Hey man, thanks for the reminiscing. The thread's always been a bit ghost town'y, you're my first visitor since 2017, and your tales brought a smile to my face. You're welcome mate! I'm glad you enjoyed it. I guarantee I will always be much slower in responding, so no worries about any delays. I th...

Feed from Contagion
Sorcery
Remove all -1/-1 counters from all creatures, then distribute an equal number of +1/+1 counters among one or more target creatures.

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I've changed three of my commanders over the last year, whenever it became apparent that the current commander was no longer an effective choice for how I wanted the deck to run. Roon of the Hidden Realm began as a flicker-oriented deck that morphed into a more control and toolbox-oriented build ove...

I'm hoping that Phyrexia is around the corner. I'm hoping for this too, but in the form of the cleansing of Mirrodin. If this was the route they went, it would probably mean either delaying the set a while so as to not off the Phyrexians so soon, or have the Phyrexians develop technology to move be...

Kinda. The biggest problem with Prophet was that you effectively got to take a turn on each of your opponents turns, which could set you up to Archenemy the table (or, if not win, at least hog up all the play time until your friends murdered you). Thanks for the explanations. I was more wondering w...

Whoops. Forgot scryfall's images are way larger than Gatherer's -_- Seems good to me; I like my fireballs BIG . (Even if only because they're flying at my face; I'll have a red deck one day). I try to play a couple of burn cards in any of my red or red'ish edh decks, just in case. Never know when 6...

I like me some introductions! Hey everyone! My name's Morgan and I'm a Structural Engineer from Australia currently finishing my PhD in the same. I've lurked over at MTGSal for a couple of years and thought the move to the new site would be a good time to finally become active! I started Magic shor...

Viridian Vigil [sym=g][sym=g] Enchantment Whenever an artifact enters the battlefield under an opponent's control, you may pay [sym=x], where X is that artifact's converted mana cost. If you do, destroy that artifact. "You will know our lands by the earth under your feet." Next: [sym=3][s...