With a few exceptions, I think you could treat them as two separate cards and just pick the one you want to play as your commander and ignore the other. Definitely true of Cosima. You could build around the front side and then you'd simply ignore the back side during play. Or you could build around...

I hate the design of basically all the Kaldheim gods. In theory they sound cool. In practice, they all feel like I have to read two books before the game even starts. Then, I have to guess which book is actually relevant. None of them feel worth the effort it takes to read them. I get exhausted just...

Saturday, May 18th 2024; Black Market Connections Black Market Connections Is this really the best? Sure getting a Carnival of Souls trigger is good and two life for a card is an okay rate but you can't just bolt yourself every turn for a lotus petal + cantrip. I'd argue a Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff +...

I have a friend who has an attractions deck. It's finicky because he's basically the only one who knows the rules behind it but it's otherwise extremely fine. They made all these cards the opposite of pushed. If they'd just said "acorns are only legal in commander and no other format" I'd ...

Finished cards so far. Anguished Unmaking Burning Wish Cruel Reality Desolation Angel Elder Deep Fiend Gilded Drake Gisela, Blade of Goldnight Liliana Vess Mass Manipulation Sol Ring Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre Wish I'm very much enjoying the process of making these and I'm super hyped to show them al...

Speaking of random meetups. Anyone going to GenCon this year? I'll probably be there some.

I feel like my internet credibility might have taken at hit from the absolute shlocking I got. Maybe not. No way, commander is just too big of a random factor to make any assumptions like that. :) I'm having a fun time going over the games in my head. I'm pretty sure The Ur-Dragon should statistica...

First of all @materpillar it was awesome hanging with you, thanks for makin the drive! I really enjoyed getting to see some decks I've followed for years in person. It was great! I'll try to swing by again sometime but I rarely have Fridays free. I feel like my internet credibility might have taken...

Just met up with pokken at his local LGS. It's the first time I've played at a LGS with randos in a long time. My first impression is holy %$#% cards released in the last 3-4 years are absurd. Games are hella fast now. Secondly, I'm now very much on team ban Sol Ring . We played 6 games (!) in 4.5 h...

I almost died last weekend. Had an experienced/rusty student getting back in the saddle. After a few passes, managed to get a good approach. Touched down fine. Told him to put the power back in for a touch and go...and he applied no rudder (or maybe the wrong rudder considering how quickly things w...

How budget are we going? "5c g " is typically the de facto response to this style of question. Top of my head, I might lean; Cmd Twr Exotic Orchard Path of Ancestry Grand Coliseum (city of brass is like $15 for...reasons) Reflecting Pool is pretty cheap pending version This is a pretty al...

I used to have Jaya Ballard, Task Mage and Lovisa Coldeyes decks that were completely different. Off the top of my head I could have easily had goblins and artifacts decks with minimal overlap.

Does your playgroup allow for "outside the game" concepts for Fae of Wishes // Granted , Wish , Burning Wish ? Have you thought about doing custom proxies for each card? So you can use an online website to make up the cards with your characters and they have the "alternative names&qu...

Even though you say the theme doesn't dictate your mana, the 99 still matters a lot. How many early plays are necessary and is that skewed to particular colors? My 5-color Niv-Mizzet Reborn deck doesn't have any plays until turn three so I can afford quite a few tapped lands. Most decks have some t...

3bb is a pretty solid rate to just win the game

I'm currently working on a 5c mana base. Every other time I've built 5c I've had some guidance on the lands that I put into it. A pile of typal lands for my Changeling deck. All the bounce lands for my dredge deck. All dual face cards for my esika. Once I have those slots taken up the rest of the la...

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2 weeks ago

Duel Decks Series: BRed Wort vs Tivadar of Thorn, when?

Sign me up. The winner might surprise you!

Seriously it might, Tivadar of Thorn can't beat a Goblin Chirurgeon.

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Wednesday, May 1st 2024; Wort, Boggart Auntie

I tried to run this in my Changeling deck for recursion but it was just too slow. I have a hard imagining running this as an actual goblin commander over some of the mono-R options.

@pokken
In your user control panel there's a "board preferences tab"
In there is a "Allow users to send you private messages:"

xD I can't respond at the moment

Some new cards just dropped. Urza's Cave looks just absurdly strong

Wonderful. Before I forget, what's the combo with Remembrance ? The idea was "trigger on the stack", shuffle the creature back into your library with Mistveil Plains . I'm not sure that I ever actually got to do that, so I cut it a while ago. Man that's just the best flavor of stupid thou...

@pokken You still living a few hours away from Cleveland? I still think it'd be cool to meet up sometime. Yep! Actually just rode the train through there :D I'm in Erie (although Chicago for work this week). Got some cool early dawn shots of what I believe to be the Sandusky lake shore I should try...

So yeah, Nxyborn Ancient is :poop: here, if that is taken as a personal attack and all the other suggestions therefore ignored, that is fine by me, but I disagree--> it is worth protecting newer players and being disingenious about that ala "netdecker playing vs cedh, their fault" is pret...

@pokken You still living a few hours away from Cleveland? I still think it'd be cool to meet up sometime.

Not sure what your problem is. I stand by my comments on some of the worst choises, would be rather pathetic to walk that back just to appease anyone. Like I said those comments were NOT to your benefit. Not sure why that concept is to hard to grasp or why making obvious noob traps clear is To your...