I feel like the inevitable future of MtG is like Legos: a platform for endless licensing of other IPs, with regular movie tie-ins and the like. I can't say I like it. I wouldn't quit Magic over it. That said, I could definitely see a time when MtG sort of passes me by, and I'm just an old curmudgeon...

I run it because it goes infinite with Grenzo, Dungeon Warden and Ashnod's Altar , which were both independently good cards. I figure, my goal is to kill my opponents off of Judith, the Scourge Diva 's triggered ability, and being able to loop apostles infinitely is a nice option to do so. Grenzo is...

Another card not in the list that I preordered and was shipped Friday was that Feed the Swarm - the ability to handle a problem enchantment is a demon's wet dream. For recursion in my own deck, creature recursion alone wasn't really going to cut it, so I went for Yawgmoth's Will and Underworld Breac...

I get what you're saying- by unintentionally, I meant that if I were versing a deck that was trying to combo and I disrupt it, and the guy gets salty and says he can't even play anymore, it would be unintentional as I explain that I gave him too much credit and thought he knew how to make a deck. Wh...

Making smart plays that unintentionally keep these sorts of decks from doing anything at all should be the only answer this problem requires. My deck, a Shadowborn Apostle combo deck, hedges pretty close to this sort of problem, but I would never expect anything less than smart plays from my opponen...

I like what you're going for here. I'm running Judith, the Scourge Diva , and we have a good handful of cards in common - namely, the big power plays like Razaketh, the Foulblooded and K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth that really let you do some cheating. Anyhow, in the vein of cards that really speed up you...

I used to insist on original printings only, but I would build decks with enough tangential artificial restrictions to forbid myself from using any cards that would become unaffordable. For example, I'd been a mono-colored only player for years so that no deck would need an ABUR land, because gettin...

Discovered Liliana's Standard Bearer and couldn't pass up what amounts to another Wheel of Fortune.

Thanks for the valuable advice. I immediately included four pieces of removal - Bedevil , Chaos Warp , Feed the Swarm and Strip Mine . I got rid of Cabal Stronghold because I don't have enough basics to support it, even with Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth in play. I added Magus of the Will and Magus of th...

The fastest way to make me scrap a deck is to make it popular. When I go on EDHRec, I try never to take a top row commander. The most fun in Commander comes from trying to turn Bs and Cs into As.

I've been working on a Judith, the Scourge Diva Shadowborn Apostle combo deck since Covid 19 shut the world down. Before that, it was an extremely casual and fairly budget Rakdos the Defiler deck. I've put all I can think of into this list, and I'm starting to feel confident, but I'm wavering on whe...

Partners aren't a problem in my meta either. I'd describe my meta as highly tuned casual - a handful of players who take casual ideas like slivers and that legendary Naya that deals with eggs - hardly cEDH - but builds them without financial constraint. The only thing holding the decks back is the c...

I owned a gameshop from 2012 to 2016. It all happened pretty organically and wasn't the plan. I opened The Steampunk Cafe as a different take on the usually dull Victorian coffee shop, and next thing I knew, all my customers were gamers. A friend fronted some initial Innistrad block boosters to test...

Alestorm and Gloryhammer are the only two bands I seek out with any sort of dedication.

Disregarding a yearlong stint attempting to be a casual player, the first thing I do is come up with a strategy that wouldn't want and/or couldn't use cards I can't afford. For example, if I decided to build wheels as my strategy, I wouldn't build Nekusar, because Timetwister is out of my reach. I w...

Both models presented here put my own deck at a solid 4 of 5, which was exactly what I was shooting for, without any feelings-based guesswork on my end, so I can't do anything offer thumbs up.

While some categories, like land, rocks, tutors, draw and answers, I just plop in by memory, particularly the tutors, draw, rocks and answers, whereas the lands I know by cycle name all the time if not card name most of the time. You give me any color combination in Magic and I'll return you a gener...

I refuse to run any of the mana crypts, mox etc because I think they're a hugely negative influence on the format. I don't even run sol ring except in one deck designed to play at the higher tables at a store. Typically my decks run every signet and talisman. After that I will go for the 2cmc colou...

My commander, Judith, the Scourge Diva , costs three, and my most common play, Shadowborn Apostle , costs one, so I only run zero and one cost rocks. I'm undergoing something of a paradigm shift in thinking away from the impressive, win-more, midrange ramp I used to love.

Grim Tutor's reprint should serve as a shot across the bow for Imperial Seal and other Portal cards not on the Reserve List with artificially high prices. It's about time.

When companions were released, I wasted an enormous amount of time on Archidekt trying against all odds to make my Judith Apostles deck fit Obosh's only odds requirements, because it was only eight cards off and I really wanted to shoe-horn a new gimmick into my deck. 101 cards and 24 of them are th...

The most effective decks, I would guess, either use their commander as one part of a combo and only cast when they're about to go off, or are just gigantic value engines. Neither are incredibly interesting, and mine is the former. As a three drop in a combo deck with an average cmc of 2.25, I'm not ...

I start from 40 and work down, because 40 in Commander is 36 in 60-card Magic, and a traditional standard to work from. My typical deck runs from 36-39. My current deck ran 39, but because the deck's average CMC is 2.25, a friend suggested I could trim the land down to 37 and I did.

Judith, the Scourge Diva brings the pain in my Shadowborn Apostle Aristocrats deck. She serves as removal and as a win condition. I've never thought about how many cards she counts as. If I'm lucky enough to solitaire over the top of my opponents, she's just one card, coming down before I begin loo...

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4 years ago

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4 years ago

I voted for the low hanging fruit of Mirror, Insight, Gifts and Secrets.

What's Insight?

Oops, meant Nightmare - Recurring Nightmare. Somehow I got Recurring Insight in my head.