If anyone was worried they can rest assured nobody played this when it was released and probably hasn't ever tried to play it since. It's a 2/10 tops and that includes 2 points for the Foglio art. Mana fixing has never been bad enough to warrant such a thing.

It's times like this I feel blessed that the guys I play with have all moved past playing the best cards in favor of tinkering with weird %$#% for fun.

It's been a long time but I always enjoyed this guy in my battlecruiser Maelstrom Wanderer. He puts in work particularly with haste or repeat combat steps.

Well, this conversation has really gone up its own ass a few times, huh? Tangentially related, I suppose: I've been binging Star Trek Discovery and really like it. Then I got onto the internet and found out that I was supposed to hate it. The internet sucks. About 10 years ago I decided to stop loo...

Short answer there are no subjects where people aren't pretentious jerks because some people are just pretentious jerks.

I come from the generation that was just a bit too young to get in on the original trilogy and too old to be fooled into nostalgic feeling about the prequels. By the time I got into fantasy there were far more options than the 70's kids had who really got pulled into SW. From the little bit I know a...

I've never used him as a commander but in many ways he is my spirit animal. I love him deeply.

I'm surely over analyzing this but on principal I'm going to refuse to play a card that adds 4 sentences of text to all my other creatures.

Hangs out with Palinchron and jokes about who ruins the most games.

*Edit - I forgot to mention that Amonkhet masterpieces are still the worst looking Magic cards ever conceived IMO. To this day I have a unpleasant visceral reaction ever time I see them.

I think it's funny as hell that they are simplifying creature types in the same era where every card has 12 sentences of rules text. No way we can keep track of Efreets under these circumstances.

I can't say I've ever been seriously inclined to double sleeve but if I was I'd much rather just use proxies.

Classic "this guy is up to no good" cards IMO. Either you're and agent of chaos or you have a nefarious plan to take advantage of the bonus draws. Either way you get my most suspicious glance if you drop any of these.

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The power creep is turning me off this set big time.

I can only read strictly better X so many times before my eyes roll into the back of my head.

Yeah I'm all for letting people get their deck going and "do the thing" so to speak, but if their thing is comboing out on turn 3 or disk locking the board they're going to have to understand that they need to self-police or others are justified picking on them.

Every time a cracked proliferate card comes out and it's not green or an artifact it makes Fynn cry.

I really wanted to set aside my cynicism and like this UB for old time's sake, but they all seem like they're some combination of terrible and obnoxious. Just a big L all around. Minor points for being fiddly that's kind of funny considering they're fiddly toys.

I've seen a few cybertrucks in the wild around here and my first thought is always that maybe if you pay more they'll unlock the higher graphics settings.

I like this version because it really embraces the absurdity of the profile showcase style. Not to mention that it's a great card that does all the things by itself.

If anyone's curious my dream card is RW legend that has the abilities of both Stranglehold and Topor Orb.

Bonus points for how hard she goes "check out this %$#% dophin!" in the showcase art.

Can confirm it was cool to be buying cards in 1999 other than losing my ass on Sea Drakes.

I feel like this would be exceptional even if only had the top 2 or the bottom ability. Having them all is modern MTG design in a nutshell.

As an old grumpy MTG player a Saga has to blow me out of my seat to make the cut and this ain't it.

If I'm going to be thoroughly cynical their decision to drop silver border was another subtle deception intended to get people to buy more of the set who didn't exactly know what it was or how all this works. I don't think there's a technical reason why the silver borders couldn't stay.

Yeah silver border already hit the sweet spot for casual formats IMO. I don't think they needed to mess with the formula at all, other than to try and double dip to get sanctioned format players to buy the product.

The issue is Wizards constant attempts to have their cake and eat it too with the supplemental products (if you can even call them that anymore with the clip they are released). God forbid they release a draft set or casual set that doesn't also appeal to every other vertical. So we get sets like Ba...