@materpillar's Yurlok of Scorch Thrash deck is a little bit closer, the idea is to feed everyone cards so that everyone has a bunch of resources, and no one can run away with the game, until it casts Insurrection and "takes back" all the cards it has been giving away. The idea here seems ...

I think we can look at what the card mechanically incentivizes as a separate question from how people tend to play it. Not to dismiss either question, they're both relevant. But I don't think Phelddagrif mechanically incentivizes group hug, even if people do often play him that way. I'm a little un...

2) It incentivizes bad deals 4) Deals are done for frivolous and arbitrary reasons I think those are my main reasons for hating it. But I welcome further insight into why the card does, or doesn't, suck. Humble Defector is great and is far from sucking. Let's start off with points 2&4. Phelddag...

My friends bought me a fat pack for my bachelor party a couple of years ago.

If I crack packs it's for a pack war where one person keeps both packs. If I'm gambling I'm gambling. None of this wishwashy might get value garbage.

Not saying that singles are cheap but you know exactly what its going to cost for a project or improvement. I used to be on the singles train when I could pick up a pile of EDH goodies for $1-3 each or so. If I want to pick up 4 cards for $12 each I'll just print them out and buy an entire new boar...

I'm so tired of WotC's labyrinthine booster pack nonsense. Remember when they'd just print sets and sell them in packs and precons? Remember when you didn't t need a flow chart and a degree in engineering to figure out what was in a booster? Pepperidge Farm remembers. The reception to MKM seems to ...

The sheer amount of card and mana advantage they're willing to put on cards these days is really confusing to me. I wonder how long it is before Primeval Titan is too slow. It depends a lot on the meta you are in. I honestly think the meta I regularly play in its already too slow. Posting here to n...

Overpowered design mistakes that make me shuffle every turn. No thanks. I'm fully with the Goose here. They're way too good, which isn't a problem in and of itself (I run Gaea's Cradle ). For example, if someone came up to me and was like "can I rule zero every land in my 5c deck to be Command...

DirkGently Sorry to read about that. I hope you're feeling better. I will not kinkshame. As matter of fact I'll tell you, you'll probably like Massacre Girl|SLD that SLD was pretty amazing imho Ah, that's the massacre girl that made me think of Yor not the new one. They're pretty interlinked in my ...

Is massacre girl a femme fatale? She looks more like a total psycho a la Harley Quinn. But I don't read the story. You're correct to the best of my knowledge, I was using femme fatale as shorthand for hot murder lady a la Harley Quinn. There's some overlap to the archetype that I'm trying reference...

I can see putting her into the 99 but why would anyone want to play her over Hapatra, Vizier of Poisons in the CZ? Or Yawgmoth, Thran Physician ? Massacre girl is such a boring payoff and doesn't really do anything except draw cards. Scorpion God has essentially the same text + more + red CI, but h...

I decided on The Eleventh Hour over An Unearthly Child . The first chapter is slightly better. The second chapter is probably a tiny bit worse. The third chapter is expect to usually be better. Glad to hear it's working out well for you though! It looks like a solid inclusion. I have a hard time cut...

Well then. Let's see what people think of the girl in 2024. The same thing I thought about her in 2012. Just Lightning Bolt her twice and move on with the game. Master of Cruelties means I assume she's lethal every swing. Don't tap out until she's priced out. She's suffering from power creep badly....

I once saw this on a Leviathan that was wielding a viridian claw and Loxodon Warhammer in a chaos draft. Nothing is ever going to top that use of this card in a game of magic ever.

Friends don't let friends cast this card in EDH. It's just an infinite mana outlet.

Got some bangers in this set for me. For Tivadar of Thorn : Delney, Streetwise Lookout is an absolute slam dunk. Not only to double up Tivadar of Thorn triggers but the deck is basically already a blink small creatures deck. Trouble in Pairs and Unexplained Absence will probably make it in as goodst...

You are remembering something that never was because Azure Mage has never been a decent card. Having a 1U do nothing that draws for 3U is just taking up space. That's probably why people don't bother with the card. I mean unless your going mono-wizards...which could use a closer like this. I used t...

Conspiracy Unraveler reads "exile 1, maybe 2 cards from your graveyard instead of paying a cards mana cost" in my high CMC deck. XD

Even Tivadar's Crusade thinks this is a little narrow. For the record, I play Tivadar's Crusade and it's definitely less narrow than Solemnity . Goblins is a fairly popular tribe and if theres a red deck at the table there's a good chance it'll have goblins in it. This is just if you're comboing or...

Delney, Streetwise Lookout is getting windmill slammed into Tivadar of Thorn. Really hyped about that.

I've never seen this before and I kinda doubt I will. You have to cast this with a bigger board than your opponents' stats wise and then have to dodge removal for it to get value and the entire table is incentivized to immediately murder him.

Maybe good if you've got a pile of sac outlets on hand?

I know it's a minuscule sample size but of the 35 games I've been tracking 27 of them have been won by one of the first two players in turn order. There's an obvious advantage in going earlier, but dang, I didn't expect it to be this pronounced. We'll see how the data levels out over time. That doe...

Lately I'm focusing less on attack or combat damage triggers (removing, among others, Mari, the Killing Quill , Captain N'ghathrod and Tovolar, Dire Overlord // Tovolar, the Midnight Scourge among others) and more on ETB effects. Voja might be a very good addition in a deck that wants to abuse atta...

Voja, Jaws of the Conclave continues in wotc's march to make changeling tribal the most busted tribe of all.

Today on "what random tribe did they print a busted legendary creature for" we have an elf/wolf hybrid with Voja, Jaws of the Conclave.

Card seems pretty good.

Any meta where this significantly wrecks a pile of decks by itself is not a meta I want to be a part of. Any deck that uses this plus a pile of other Thalia, Guardian of Thraben effects to make sure it wrecks the other decks is not a deck I want to play against. Pretty inoffensive card by itself, I ...