Moooooore stuffffff Primal Prayers is a new Aluren . You'll need some source of energy if you want to use it more than two times, but at least MH3 is bringing some strong energy producers. Guide of Souls is a Soul Warden with extra energy upside... like fueling Primal Prayers. Roil Cartographer is a...

Eh, I think Tayam, Luminous Enigma is still the most interesting Abzan landfall commander. Not the strongest - The Necrobloom will probably take that crown - but I do think the counter synergies give Tayam some more depth. Skoa, Embermage is a common legend with grandeur. Not good, but I wouldn't be...

MH3 spoilers finally formally start! I, for one, welcome our new tentacled overlords. I am a bit sad that Snow-Covered Wastes seems to be a one-off thing though, and no snow synergies appear to be in MH3 - I wanted to see a literal Eldrazi winter. D: Trickster's Elk is probably going in my cube. I'v...

Broadly speaking, most deck tuning takes the form of hill climbing optimization - you do some testing, then you make minor tweaks based on those tests. If you have too little of some effect, you add more. If you have too much of something else, you cut some. Eventually, you'll converge at some sort ...

Mycosynth Golem is cool. It needs a very specific deck though - 11 mana is a lot, even with affinity. Granting your other artifact creatures affinity is powerful, but you're likely to already have enough mana to cast them normally by the time you can play it. It also only applies to artifact creatu...

In general, I would say that the Kaldheim MDFC gods are designed as an answer to the legend rule. Most legends are poor to draw in multiples - if you play a second one, it will just die. But these cards have a second side, which usually works well with the front side. Halvar, God of Battle // Sword ...

Freestrider Lookout felt absurd. The miss rate was a little higher than I would like, but I got a ton of triggers off it from Armored Scrapgorger. I'm not sure if it would have been as good without a free crime trigger every turn, but I also had other crime enablers. I mean...samut can do crime in ...

Got in a few more games. Won one off Glimpse of Tomorrow for 16. My heuristic for Genesis Wave is that it's like Blackjack - 21 means you win. I have a hunch that Glimpse and Warp World probably have similar math. I did find myself having a few awkward hands - I definitely want 2-3 more lands for my...

Got in a game with my recent changes, and they generally felt good. Freestrider Lookout felt absurd. The miss rate was a little higher than I would like, but I got a ton of triggers off it from Armored Scrapgorger . I'm not sure if it would have been as good without a free crime trigger every turn, ...

Yuck, a ubiquitous combo piece. May it die in a fire. Amusingly, this is the other reason why I cut it from Teysa. When people see Ashnod's Altar , they kill it with fire. When they see other, less notorious (but still free-to-activate) sac outlets like Cartel Aristocrat or Bartolomé del Presidio ,...

I have mixed feelings about Ashnod's Altar . On one hand, yes, it's clearly a powerful sac outlet - turning expendable bodies into mana lets you cast big spells way ahead of curve. It's not hard to cast Secure the Wastes or another token producer and use it as a ritual to have more mana than you ini...

104. Ending the Game 104.1. A game ends immediately when a player wins, when the game is a draw, or when the game is restarted. 104.2a A player still in the game wins the game if that player's opponents have all left the game. This happens immediately and overrides all effects that would preclude t...

Happy to finally get a Titan in Samut colors. It does look weaker than the other ones, at least in EDH. Not sure if I would run it in my list, but 'half-price Inferno Titan ' is certainly worth consideration. I will note that I don't see Kroxa, Titan of Death's Hunger or Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrat...

Black Market Connections is a strong card in the right deck. It's not that impressive if you're only getting a card or treasure each turn, in which case it is outclassed by Phyrexian Arena or any mana rock... but it's pretty sweet if you are using multiple modes each turn. The life cost does add up...

Dreadhorde Arcanist is a sweet card. It's a bit tricky to make work in EDH because most decks don't run a large number of one mana spells. It is possible to pack your deck with Ponder / Brainstorm / Preordain / Lightning Bolt ... but you're never going to reach the density you can in Legacy (and th...

Holy….cow! https://preview.redd.it/how-about-a-leak-photo-of-a-leak-photo-v0-smbtknrl3o0d1.jpeg?auto=webp&s=9cf003e124b6df6f806d4aece44d6631179b41ed Eldamari 2.0…HES NUTS!!! (The second part is spell " korvecdal " before you think the "c" is a "e" Looks strong. It ...

Vault 101: Birthday Party looks fine but underwhelming. The floor is pretty bad - a 1/1 and a food token for four mana. The ceiling is pretty high though - recurring two expensive auras or equipments from your graveyard for free is pretty good, and getting a discount on something from hand isn't ba...

Got my OTJ cards, and two things inspired me to make some more significant changes: Loyal Retainers was recently reprinted and is now budget-friendly, plus OTJ brought We Ride at Dawn as an interesting option for legend-heavy decks. Lots of sweet legends have come out recently, and I had five new on...

Kozilek's Unsealing looks like a sweet callback to Sarkhan's Unsealing . I'm not sure what decks want it though. In 60-card formats, it looks absurd with Myr Enforcer , Sojourner's Companion , and Thought Monitor (and at least one more looks to be coming in MH3). In EDH, it's a bit harder to run th...

My default response to Rhystic Study is 'kill it with fire'. It doesn't matter what else is on the board or who is the furthest ahead - I will target the person controlling it. More broadly, the two baselines for Rhystic Study are 'whenever your opponents cast a spell, draw a card' and 'spells your ...

Thaumatic Compass // Spires of Orazca makes it look pretty bad, and then like actual cards make Thaumatic Compass // Spires of Orazca look pretty bad. :D The game is so, so, so, so far past where you can spend 5 mana to draw a card. I'm a fan of Thaumatic Compass - three mana for a card isn't somet...

Perilous Forays may be worth inclusion - it doesn't actually require basic lands, just lands with basic land types. Throw in The Necrobloom and Lotus Cobra / Tireless Provisioner / Nissa, Resurgent Animist and you can immediately grab all the fetchables out of your deck. Knight of the Reliquary and...

Bigger slate of changes this time around - I'm looking to test out a bunch of new stuff. There are a few cuts I'm not sure about, and a few other cards I'm on the fence about but need more testing. Adds: Yes Man, Personal Securiton - I've been consistently impressed by Humble Defector , so trying ou...

This is the kind of stuff that causes my interest in Magic to fluctuate so wildly. I hope this set tanks...but it won't. Yeah, it's at the point where almost every new set completely obsoletes a variety of old playstyles and strategies, so if you're playing out in the wild like I often do, you're b...

Finally got all the cascade stuff, plus stuff from OTJ. So, time to make some major changes! Running nothing under 3 mana is obviously a pretty questionable choice, but this isn't exactly intended as a serious deck. May trim down my curve if it ends up being too clunky, but at least I'm adding a few...