French vanilla mythic reminds me of Ol' Walletslayer Angel. My money is on the efficient flying 5/5s. Although, protection from deomns and dragons does jack in standard, so maybe not.

This is what DMs are for. @Sheldon is his account.

Good riddance to bad rubbish. I haven't gotten any games in since lockdown, but I was dreading playing against virtual 9 card openers, what with partners and now this balderdash. I'm glad that Zirda exists now though. I feel I'll enjoy seeing it much more totally unattached to every other activated ...

I'm not a huge fan of effects that require a lot of hand-holding to be useful. If you've got doubling season out already, O.G. Tamiyo or Jace, Architect are where you want to be. This card has a really low floor and a popcorn ceiling IMHO, and so for that, back to the bin with thee!

Cool. Thanks for the heads up, always a pleasure to have you.

Fires is a weird animal; it cuts costs while limiting output, which frees up mana with which to do... whatever? Usually when I want my spells for free, I also want a lot of them. Putting yourself under a weakened rule of law and your opponents in a city of solitude is a wicked nasty drawback too. No...

I've found that monogreen is basically everything you need to properly enjoy EDH. Literally pick a general, slam together a pile of ramp, draw, staples, and fatties and you're there. It's never been easier or more satisfying.

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Yep.

Gotta make Papa Hasbro happy.

Papa Hasbro is like a stepfather who drinks too much. It scares me, man.

It's more art than science in my opinion, but it ultimately boils down to "Did you build the deck to facilitate the general or vice-versa?" Bottom-up design differs radically from top-down design, and a given deck's reliance on its commander will lean one way or another (regardless of any ...

I love my LGS and its community therein, so I try to put 10-30 bucks in their pocket whenever I go. I buy 90% of my product from them (the 10% exception being when my impatience overtakes my perspective) and I do my best to give them first crack at my money out of earned loyalty. Sure, I pay a littl...

Black sun's zenith

Hurricane + big mana + glacial chasm is my go-to alternate route in monogreen. Dealing 22-30 to each opponent late game is very doable.

Really brutal in Shirei decks, never seen it elsewhere ever.

Gadwick, the wizened

I'd personally like to see the data and analysis expanded to encompass removal towards all permanent types as opposed to only creatures. Doing so allows us to see which niche removal spells have hit rates well above their EV and should therefore see more play despite their ostensible limitations. Al...

It affects all opponents, which means it doesn't just die to removal; it dies three times as quickly to it. That being said, I prefer this to being mindalavered into putting my general up my nose or in some other inaccessible zone.9

DirkGently I play in a few metas (few different lgs's) regularly, and I've never seen a meta where people were so antisocial and cloistered as to force a table into CEDH regularly before. Honestly, we've been using Rule 0 a lot this year and it's vastly improved my games at least. But hey, if you'r...

I love me a good thought experiment, but this thread strikes me as a somewhat putrid display of gamesmanship. You're going to deliberately try to permanently disable a fundamental, defining aspect of the format and gameplay experience for what exactly? To prove you can? To show that Korvold player ...

I love me a good thought experiment, but this thread strikes me as a somewhat putrid display of gamesmanship. You're going to deliberately try to permanently disable a fundamental, defining aspect of the format and gameplay experience for what exactly? To prove you can? To show that Korvold player w...

I think hitting all one's land drops is oft underrated. Sphere is acceptable in that it is colorless card advantage that (more or less) sets your next two turns straight in terms of achieving basic resource parity. Is it busted? No. Is it worse in a world where Ash Barrens exists? Absolutely. Is it ...

Friends, I was cool with Song Of Creation's design until I saw Whirlwind of Thought. Now I'm wondering why the RUG got the shortest end of the drawback stick while Jeskai once again floats away on clouds of unfettered value. I admit, I'm salty as hell.

I dunno about the ultimatums. I'm entrenched enough to remember many moons of spoiler season doomsaying and I've seen Time Spiral do dirtier things than most men can imagine. Their power may be being overblown. The flip side is that 7+ cmc spells should win you the game, right? Or at least get you d...

I think Footfall Crater is quietly very good. Cycling when you don't need it, evasion and haste when you do, very affordable either way. This feels like one of those things where the only true opportunity cost is the volume of the slot it takes up. Most rxvoltron decks could use this.

I'm just here to represent those among us who don't give two tiddly %$#% about this otter and its implications. As far as I'm concerned, it never existed and hell, I prefer this kind of ban over letting something wreak havoc for two years, getting emotionally attached to it, bonding with it, only to...

As someone who spent his childhood watching old monster movies and listening to MF Doom, I must have a copy of that King Ghidorah card. Don't really care how much $$$ it runs for, doesn't matter if it's good or not, and if I have to buy it in a secret lair from Lucifer himself in exchange for 200 fo...