I feel like if you reduce an opponent to simply existing in the game to provide you resources beyond like, a single turn, you should expect them to scoop. Nobody wants to exist in the game solely to be a gilded lotus for someone else. You shouldn't spitefully scoop, sure, but you also should respect...

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8 months ago

Ravenloft Adventurer secret commander to one shot a player a turn after a bit of mill? Shuffle clause at the very end ruins it. Pretty worthless card.

Days, days late, but I'm still going to gloat: I've done this, it was incredibly stupid and absolutely worth every hoop jumped through.

I run fervor dragon in new kaalia still. I think he's pretty fine! I'm kind of suspicious of the rest but I'm probably wildly underestimating Silumgur.

I love this guy, he clears boards. There's probably better cards but in aristocrats/reanimator decks I've cleaned house with him, and trying to get maximum lethality out of it is a fun minigame.

I'd disagree with the ultimatum assessment, in that it's really pretty easy to hit WUBRG with a budget 5 color landbase and much, much harder to hit 2-3 different ultimatum mana costs. I don't even like 2 of the same pip in a 5 color deck, to be honest. But mostly I just like the card because it fee...

I love Harvester of Souls but often find it better in theory than in practice; I think you need to be pretty deep on the aristrocrat sort of train to get value out of it but in that realm it is facing increasing competition from cards like Morbid Opportunist , Midnight Reaper , Undead Augur , etc. ...

I ran slobad for a few years as essentially a highly unreliable combo deck, and eventually took the deck apart when I sort of put the deck onto the battlefield with a Kuldotha Forgemaster loop. Being two mana and an instant speed sac outlet is pretty good, with a lot of interactions ranging from str...

I think calling the concession a problem is a red herring--it sounds like the Sheoldred player was consistently being a poor sport. Like, of course you stop gray merchant from killing you. How is letting Sheoldred eliminating you not kingmaking but gambling with a Rafiq turn is? They were trying to ...

I ain't reading all that. Give me more static abilities. Magic card rules are way too long now, and I wish they would start to really prioritize condensing rules text instead of seeing 12 of cards like these at uncommon every set. "For each opponent, repeat this" seems to work out to be i...

a Dungeon Delver + Rasaad yn Bashir Oh, hey, I built this! Just in archidekt and not in actuality, but still: https://www.archidekt.com/decks/2894029#Tough_Gumball I feel like Rasaad's ability to switch toughness gets a lot of punch per penny, and it's good enough that building around it provides a...

As soon as it hit the table, everyone started focusing me until I quit lol. Haven't played it since. I had designed a deck, that I never actually realized, that played all the cards people didn't know they hated. Teferi's Puzzle Box might be ok. But when you're also running Storm Cauldron .... >_< ...

Sporegorger_Dragon wrote: ↑

1 year ago

brainface wrote: ↑

1 year ago

bant panorama turns into rishadan port. That is not bad.

Hmmm, Tiller Engine can't tap lands, so no Rishadan Port sadly. Still pretty good though.

Oh, dang, nonlands, not only lands. So... Rishadan... starboard? \o/

Archelos, Lagoon Mystic ]] is in there too.

Tiller Engine is... is a thing. I'd been focusing on it as amulet-of-vigor-myr, but the other mode weaponizes trash lands! Elfhame palace clears a blocker, bant panorama turns into rishadan port. That is not bad.

I'm going to fight but not very hard in congregate 's defense: if you have some strategy that wants a big chunk of life at instant speed, it does that well? I've definitely won with it and test of endurance, wincat et al. It's cheaper than beacon of double life and probably yields more life than Ang...

I mean, in all fairness I guess I bought a ravaging horde in the past few years but ogre is not a great card when obsidian charmaw is right there.

Black might not have many anti-ramp options, but red certainly does. What about ankh of mishra and ankh of mishra goblin? Opposition Agent is a black option too I guess. There's a decent amount of cards like Elturel Survivors that might also work out? a Yuriko player that no one identified as a prob...

On a lark, recently I did a fifty cent limit for this with Halsin, Emerald Archdruid and Feywild Visitor https://www.archidekt.com/decks/2869501#Bear_Proxies I don't know how well it plays, I'm waiting for card delivery but it's pretty funny spending half the deck cost on shipping. I love the price ...

A lot of the etched and showcase foils look great. I'm not a big fan of the foiled normal arts anymore, as there's almost always a 'more special' version so it's like having the normal art but prinklier and harder to guarantee you're not playing with marked cards. I can often tell exactly where a ba...

Feels like it'd still have a (jank) use in monored. Recoup and two other things, three cards with flashback/unearth, increasing vengeance, etc. anger!

@hyalopterouslemur I'll point to my post from last week for my actual opinion of Fracturing Gust. :P I only called it out because it came up only a week or two ago... and I would vastly prefer an opponent to be playing it instead of Aura Shards. But, Fracturing Gust is, like, strictly better in eve...

Oh, man, Tomik! I play him as a commander of a dumb white ramp deck and I think he's great--you can play a lot of utility lands or karoos and they're very hard to get rid of, he's cheap and flies so he's a decent voltron target, if he's removed he costs 4 to replay. A bit of manlands/awaken cards al...

Yeaaah I just placed an order for one. It'd be better if I had more sac outlets in the deck beyond "attack with 3/3 vigilant until they're tired of it" but that still just looks like a great payoff. Thanks, random card of the day thread!

Might have a home in Kaalia, Zenith Seeker. More cute than good, but pretty cute.

Why you gonna call something swift warkite and not give it haste though, I don't know. It's clearly a recursive hellkite.

Objectively you're making your decks much weaker by playing a manabase like that. Play in whatever way makes you happy, but that's a fact. There's a reason high-tier decklists in every format run a ton of nonbasics. I don't think it really does. At certain tiers of play where every card in your dec...

Absolutely. The list of useful ones isn't very long though, it's pretty much just crib swap and maybe Nameless Inversion.