I do find it weird to hear that your inability to "go easy" turned away your wife and daughter. We didn't know it at the time, but what they wanted from Magic was Commander - a longish creature battlefield centric game with a good amount of give and take. I would cast the first seven ligh...

To those who've tapped to put any number of 1/1 human creature tokens into play, have you had much success turning them into Commander opponents? I botched Magic with my wife and step daughter nearly ten years ago - played budget Modern then, not Commander, but drove them out by not having it in me ...

[hr] Why Titania? When you're building mono green lands, there are, I think, three universal components that any of them will want: multiple lands per turn, play lands from the graveyard, and payoff for doing such. You get to pick one of the three to be your commander. Titania, Nature's Force lets y...

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Did you consider Bedlam ? I just love weird old red enchantments... I might have to, since I seem to be missing something and the creatures can't block effect is popular in the deck as others build it. The reason I hadn't is because I put all my effort into making sure my commander has a high enoug...

Today I replaced a variety of damage doublers, triplers, extra combats, etc, with cards that double or whatnot Bae's power, because it serves the same end (double damage or double power) and the latter further makes it unlikely that anything at all escapes the goad. I'm putting a whole lot of stock ...

Bothersome Quasit shows up in quite a few Baeloth Barrityl, Entertainer // Raised by Giants decks, and while not a strict nonbo by any means, I think it hurts more than it helps. What's particularly bothersome about this Quasit is that Baeloth rewards the death of goaded creatures in combat with tr...

"Baron! What is best in life?" "To abandon your newest deck idea, to see it deleted from your deck-builder, and to hear the lamentations of the friends you mentioned it to." I only have a single deck at a time - it's a personal foible of mine, and like Star Wars Sith, immortals f...

A 1st hand anecdote of marginal value-- Over time, my Baeloth//Giants deck, which began at 46 lands, trimmed and trimmed in favor of more ramp, more draw (mostly just those) and more answers. Rather than cut my so-called "win-more" cards - my double combats and damage multipliers - I cut m...

Attack of the dorks - added Birds, Llanowar Elves, etc, all the expected faces in said category. Didn't need so many closers.

EDIT: Double update. Lands dipped too low, up to 43. Dropped the extra combats.

Only thing I miss about yesteryear is building Commander decks from cards that weren't designed for Commander.

Up your land count to 42. Your grandma was right all along. https://articles.starcitygames.com/magic-the-gathering/why-magic-lands-are-like-getting-socks-at-christmas/?utm_content=232174710&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&hss_channel=fbp-174376972917 I generally agree that ~42 is ...

Up your land count to 42. Your grandma was right all along.

https://articles.starcitygames.com/magi ... 4376972917

In my forced combat list with Thantis, the Warweaver at the helm, Urabrask the Hidden was pretty great, it meant summoning sick creatures couldn't block (and of course, next turn they'll be forced to attack, so they still can't block. And it gives your stuff haste, which was nice with a giant vigi ...

Rock: Toggo, Goblin Weaponsmith & Ardenn, Intrepid Archaeologist Paper: Denry Klin, Editor in Chief Scissors: Triad of Fates (Stretching here, but believe me, I scoured EDHRec for a commander that more directly referenced scissors. At least one of the three fates cuts the cord in Greek mythology.)

Back in Magic Origins' timeframe, WotC did similar with little 30 card bundles in each of the five colors in white boxes with the Origins walker of that color on the cover, and the intent was to let brand new players choose any two colors for free and mash them together for a deck to get into Magic ...

It's a neat idea. My only commander deck is a background pairing from the recent Baldur's Gate set, and I wouldn't be surprised if I found out 20 or so cards in the 99 fell outside the rules, so I'd have to brew a deck from scratch, but I definitely feel a distinct difference when I select a card fo...

An EDHRecCast episode converted my thought process towards solving as many deck problems as possible with more draw. Historically, if I wasn't seeing enough mana, I added more mana - same with removal and anything else. Now I add more draw. It really has worked wonders. I think switching to resilien...

I've converted from rocks and dorks to land ramp like Cultivate , and I don't think I'm going back. The social construct is better than a Teferi's Protection when you're ramping basics. Let the unwashed masses devote resources to protecting their mana sources. Dealing with my ramp is frowned upon, ...

I've converted from rocks and dorks to land ramp like Cultivate , and I don't think I'm going back. The social construct is better than a Teferi's Protection when you're ramping basics. Let the unwashed masses devote resources to protecting their mana sources. Dealing with my ramp is frowned upon, a...

In a 1v1 years back, I had a hand with a swamp, a Reanimate and a Grave Titan , and I thought I might have a shot at winning out of nowhere if I could convincingly make no land drop turn 1, and discard my titan due to having eight cards at end of turn. Can't vouch for how the game would've gone if i...

I don't think I'd play a vanilla, or rather, on a case by case basis, it'd require a very commander-centric compelling argument. A commander like Ghalta, Primal Hunger might yield said arguments, and a commander like Ruxa, Patient Professor demands them. Similar situations aside, I can't.

Sir, this is a magic forum. Mark Rosewater hears you, and would like to take this moment to introduce the next Universe Beyond: Athletes. If Kareem Abdul-Jabbar isn't more broken than Korvold, my expectations will not have been met. Usain Bolt as a red 1/1 for 1 red phyrexian with flash, dash, hast...

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1 year ago

Sir, this is a magic forum.

Mark Rosewater hears you, and would like to take this moment to introduce the next Universe Beyond: Athletes.

I'm definitely looking into it.