Huh, I don't recall seeing Forger's Foundry . It looks reasonable - ramps early, and it also gives you some lategame value. Looking at my Mizzix deck, I have around 14 cards it can recast for value (since X spells and countermagic don't really count), and a similar number for Kess. It does have some...

Good artists copy, great artists steal. That's why Steal Enchantment > Copy Enchantment . More seriously, I am generally hesitant to run cards that rely on my opponents running enchantments - I've been burned enough times by Decimate to know that they're relatively rare. There certainly are high-imp...

Chthonian Nightmare is coming in MH3, which I'm sure will prompt new discussion around Recurring Nightmare. I'll call out that its ETB trigger is arguably a downside, because it gives a window for opponents to respond before it gets returned to hand. Not quite as oppressive (because it's harder to ...

Isildur's Fateful Strike looks... pretty underwhelming. Murder is a mana less and doesn't have any casting restriction. You get the upside of cutting down an opponent's hand to four fingers cards, but that sounds more annoying than game-winning. It's more impressive if you're playing against an opp...

Huh. I'm familiar with Omen Machine , but I didn't know it was a Phyrexianized Gate to the Aether . Neat! It looks pretty questionable in a vacuum - your opponents get the first card off it, and giving opponents free stuff is usually a recipe for disaster. It can be good if your opponents are heavy ...

re: Fires of Yavimaya - I think Rising of the Day and Rhythm of the Wild are generally better these days, but it still has its place in some decks. It seems most relevant for decks where Rhythm doesn't quite work. I actually looked into Hermit Druid combo for Samut a while ago, and one route I inves...

Urza's Cave does seem like a solid inclusion, but I will note that using it costs an effective four mana, plus your land drop. Worth it? Probably, but I wouldn't consider it to be free - that's a pretty hefty tempo cost. It does seem more interesting if you're running Blossoming Tortoise or Sunken ...

Black has a lot of card advantage engines available, and Kothophed, Soul Hoarder ... is one of them. Harvester of Souls seems like the most natural comparison - both of them trigger whenever a thing dies. Kothophed counts all of your opponents' stuff, while Harvester of Souls includes your stuff but...

thoughts on Winter Moon ? It's a mix of Blood Moon and Winter Orb , but I think the closest parallel is actually Back to Basics . It's a stax piece, which makes me somewhat hesitant to consider it for more casual metas... but I do appreciate it as a strong hate piece for monocolor / basic-heavy dec...

Most goblin decks are mono-red, but I could see running Wort, Boggart Auntie if you specifically want to do br goblins - she's the only legendary goblin in those colors that actually cares about goblins. Murderous Redcap , Munitions Expert , Sling-Gang Lieutenant ... there are plenty of good black g...

MH3 previews (and/or leaks) have started, and these is a 'nonbasic land type matters' theme in one of the precons, plus various cards in the main set. Urza's Cave is another Urza land... but more interestingly, it's a powerful new Cave. Fetching it with Cosmium Confluence and using it to fetch anoth...

New stuff! Looks like MH3 has a very high power level (which isn't surprising). I, for one, look forward to Snow-Covered Wastes representing the return of Eldrazi Winter. Nulldrifter looks like a nice upgrade to Mulldrifter . I've found myself cutting the latter from decks over time - there are so m...

Draugr Necromancer seems okay, but there are several other versions of this effect that I would say are better. Gisa, Glorious Resurrector is one, but I think Dauthi Voidwalker and Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet are the strongest if you don't care about the theft effect (to say nothing of more dedicated ...

Silversmote Ghoul looks reasonable - it's a free recursive body that can be easily converted into card advantage. It requires more work than, say, Tenacious Underdog , but you get something better if you have the appropriate synergies. It's not hard to loop it with something like Ayli, Eternal Pilg...

Initial analysis of Ulamog 3.0, assuming the above text is accurate: The cast trigger exiling half of one opponent's library seems very obnoxious. I don't think it's actually good though - people freaked out about Lord Xander, the Collector too, but Traumatize just isn't useful outside mill decks. ...

Of these, only Anguished Unmaking exiles. The rest are all destroy effects. Resculpt and Return to Dust are in the top 20, and Utter End is in the top 30. Either way, the vast majority of removal spells that are in decks don't hit indestructible artifacts - most people aren't willing to pay a premi...

Indestructible artifacts are also pretty tricky to deal with - while creature exile is pretty common, it is less common for people to go out of their way to exile artifacts and enchantments. This means you are likely to have the opportunity to protect your commander a second time if it is removed. ...

I remember when everyone ran Lightning Greaves in their deck to protect their commander, and Darksteel Plate was also a popular inclusion. Mithril Coat seems like a nice upgrade if you're interested in the latter, but I'm not sure if it still makes the cut. They're both fine if you're specifically i...

Koma is a strong, self-contained win condition for lower-power metas. It quickly creates an army of 3/3 tokens that can invalidate what many other decks are doing, and it effectively has indestructible to shrug off any board wipes people cast to get rid of the tokens. It's seven mana and dies to rem...

Swapping in some new stuff I want to test out. The most notable changes are that I am cutting two of the more iconic combo cards in the deck, Ancestral Statue and Cloudstone Curio . I think they're a bit too much for my meta, which isn't really prepared to deal with combo (people tend to get pretty ...

I did some analysis for Samut a while ago, which apparently has around 17 repeatable targeting abilities (including Samut herself and Stone-Seeder Hierophant). Most of them are positive effects intended to target my own creatures... but I'm not entirely opposed to targeting my opponents. Unfortunate...

Testing out some new stuff! Reverberate → Display of Power Invasion of Fiora // Marchesa, Resolute Monarch → Black Sun's Zenith Brainstealer Dragon → Mizzix's Mastery Talisman of Indulgence → Case of the Ransacked Lab Night's Whisper → Intrude on the Mind Not sure about some of these swaps, especial...

There are also Lairs but very few and unsupported yet. Yeah, I excluded Lairs because there is currently no payoff to running them. I suppose I'll note that Mine, Power-Plant, and Tower are also land types, but those are only relevant for Urzatron. ...on that note, time for Gate analysis! Lands : B...

The original duals are almost never worth it, IMO - the monetary cost to upgrade your weakest land into one will pretty much always be better spent on upgrading something else unless you're getting into actual cEDH territory. I'm willing to give a pass to people that have been playing for ages and b...

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