This card is great in legendary decks. Probably deserves only one 👎 not two for that reason? On the contrary, the fact that it's good in legendary decks just makes me hate it more and makes it firmly deserve the second 👎 I'm not actually providing a power ranking for these cards, just how much I li...

This card is great in legendary decks. Probably deserves only one 👎 not two for that reason?

The reality is you don't have to. In many cases, you only have to mop up against one opponent, or one opponent and an irrelevant future dead person. If you're successful in surviving and dictating the flow of the game, you can navigate the game towards a favorable position of inevitability. The pro...

Does Horizon of Progress really do the job as well as Exploration ? I know this is a draw-go deck and there will be turns where there is mana unspent, but the deck already puts quite a bit of emphasis on card advantage in the land slot, which typically requires 4-6 mana to draw a card. The land is t...

Ledger Shredder I just got one of these in a trade. I didn't think the ability was worth buying at my power level, but I did find a deck that would benefit from a flying body that grows over time and pays back with some card filtering. So I think it will be a good fit there. Fine for decks that hav...

Lazotep Quarry , no-mana sacrifice land with relevant upside and doesn't even cost you a mana to use it. I'll need a few of these :) . The only other colorless sac land that doesn't require mana and is attainable in price is High Market , So this is a notable land indeed. I didn't get my Sand Scout...

If you (we) are just going to "decide" which player is going to have a non-game by getting arch-enemied off the table by the other 3 players; just play a 3 player game and save that person the bother of shuffling up. If you want to expand on this pact to then 2v1 the next player to bring y...

Does Springheart Nantuko make a 1/1 even if I don't pay the [sym=1][sym=g] when a land enters? They put so much darn text on these cards the abilities get confusing just to read. Do I ALWAYS get a 1/1 by default regardless of Bestow status or cost paid for the copy ability? So the base line is a 2 m...

I think there probably is if you branch out into Ledger Shredder / Faerie Mastermind colors. Mangara, the Diplomat and Monologue Tax can alos synergize since when people have more cards they cast more spells. Another fun (for me) part for white/blue is that Rule of Law and Arcane Laboratory are fan...

I need another Temple Bell functional equivalent so I can force my opponents to draw cards outside of their turn. I am amazed with all the symmetrical draw and fixed wheels they have been printing that we haven't gotten another version of this. Howling Mine can help turn on white's catch-up stuff li...

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3 weeks ago

You'll take my disenchant|parl when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers.

Same with my Vindicate|26480

All this discussion about the mono-color MDFC's that have actually playable front sides lead me to realize that all 10 of the 2-color MDFC's are now some of the best ETB tapped fixing lands without land types. No matter how unplayable the front side is, having a front side at all is still better tha...

EDIT: I didn't even talk about the blue one, which is superior to Otawara, Soaring City in many respects. The extra U in the color requirements isn't great, but being able to Remand a problematic spell in a pinch in addition to being a Boomerang is incredible. Disciple of Freyalise is easily the be...

If this was a channel land, people would be ruining their tunics. You are not wrong here. There are definite benefits to being a channel land over an MDFC, even at the same mana cost. Mostly for green though. I suppose using a Mystical Tutor for an untapped land is relevant, but you just don't see ...

I'm not as high on Fell the Profane either. It is 2x the cost of typical creature removal these days, and while coming in untapped is a huge boon for play-ability, the 3 life is a cost that I don't lightly disregard in my midrangey meta. Hagra Mauling // Hagra Broodpit didn't become an auto-include ...

Elven Chorus gives even your non-changelings the mana ability, and provides some card advantage, but without the bodies. Elven Chorus doesn't allow me to say an additional creature type whenever I cast a Changeling / when a changeling is on the battlefield so it's unplayable here. Understandable :g...

Couple of changes of note out Solemn Simulacrum >> in Magebane Lizard . Sad Robot is too slow, I want to ramp on turn 1, not turn 4. And I think I have enough fast ramp for now, so adding a little punisher effect to see how it works out. out Sun-Crowned Hunters >> in Ojer Axonil, Deepest Might // Te...

Elven Chorus gives even your non-changelings the mana ability, and provides some card advantage, but without the bodies.

Collective resistance is amazing. Only 3 mana, you can chose 3 modes, or you can escalate it. We're at the point where the artifact/enchantment removal package for a green deck may be [card]collective resistance , Archdruid's Charm , and Boseiju, Who Endures [/card] and Nature's Claim gets cut. Fun...

This doesn't have that pesky word "another" so can it target itself with the death trigger to send it to the top of library?

It kinda reads more like a Mana Reflection + Phyrexian Arena since you get the mana on your turn for creatures and sorceries. Which sounds pretty good in that context. I almost think the complexity of "beginning phase" is turning some players away, where reading it like "Untap all pe...

Shadow of the Second Sun basically feels like an auto-include for a lot of blue decks. It essentially pays for itself with the extra untap step as long as you play it on Main Phase 1. I haven't seen Sphinx of the Second Sun much. This is cheaper and more resilient, but it's still a lot of mana for ...

Doesn't this apply to all sources of card draw? There're a ton of card draw options that either get you specific cards or get you a bunch of cards right now, or let you look at a lot of cards. Or convert at a much higher rate. Personally I'm far more on bomb draw these days just because I'd rather ...

Eventually if a deck gets worked on enough, it reaches a point of optimization that it will take a complete retool of the core synergy of the deck to make a dramatic difference in play style. Many of my decks are like that as well, and even those incremental upgrades can take several outings to reve...

That is what I expected. I however, am playing other cycling cards with little additional value besides a relevant body so if it's budget I might give it a try.