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...

Vadrik, Astral Archmage is alright. Day / night is an awkward mechanic in the 99, but I'm more forgiving of it in the command zone. Beyond that... I suspect a lot of my opinions of Vadrik are tainted by Mizzix - whenever I see a Vadrik deck, I assume it's going to be storm / spellslinger nonsense. ...

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 ...