Elywood Good catch - it still fits because if an equipment is played on 3, urza can be played on 4 and then use the mana from the token and equipment to equip either himself or the token. That said, he doesn't have evasion, double strike, and he misses being able to attack on turn 4. Obviously the ...

Working on the equippable creature pile: 1 Puresteel Paladin 1 Stoneforge Mystic 1 Orcish Bowmasters 1 Thieving Skydiver 1 Yuan-Ti Malison 1 Student of Warfare 1 Twinblade Geist 1 Adorned Pouncer 1 Kor Duelist 1 Jawbone Duelist 1 Auriok Edgewright 1 Kor Blademaster 1 Illuminator Virtuoso 1 Fencing A...

I think it's in strong contention for the worst cards of all time. It costs an absurd amount of mana before you can do something with it, and by that point you shouldn't need it anyway. It has the chromatic lantern problem where you can't rely on it for your fixing, but if you aren't using it for fi...

Sigarda's Aid and any of the cards that let you attach equipment for free let you skip step 4, possibly replacing it with a second step 3, for an additional copied equipment in step 5. Puresteel Paladin is a (crappy) body that I see in lists less and less often, but it can also function as a Sigard...

I mean, yeah, I was trying to force Mishra's Workshop in order to t1 3sphere and earn all the free punches to the face from the table. Though I'm moving away from that in the redesign for 2024. Including two different manabases with more attention towards the more budget-conscious players that woul...

Wait, what's the combo? I don't think I've ever seen it (or at least not tutored by this card).

Most aura decks are fast voltron decks so 5 mana is kinda untenable. Maybe there's some Yenna, Redtooth Regent or Estrid, the Masked deck that would run it to find utility auras though.

Yes and no. Yeah I've been playing a very long time but just because of that doesn't mean I'll just buy every expensive card for every deck I start, so yeah I do a fair bit of budget brews as well. Famously from Kaalia but I'll entertain others. When I look at your sig, the only link I see is a kaa...

I know a lot of them aren't particularly stellar, but this commander does have a cool synergy with the Living Weapon/For Mirrodin equipments. Might be a few decent ones to round out the non-Sword equipment package though. Oh yeah, definitely a few of those I want in there. Nettlecyst , Kemba's Bann...

Sure. But, like, for a $24.50 differential, I'll make that concession lol. Needing 3x as many creatures in play, if not more? Especially if you're putting tutors in your deck for it and using it as a primary wincon, I can't think of very many better places to put your money. $25 isn't cheap, but un...

Think about what you'd realistically need to win the game off end-raze forerunners vs craterhoof. Even if we assume no blockers and everyone's lost 10 life to fetchlands and chip damage or whatever, that's still 90 power to find, which if we're going wide with 1/1 tokens, means 8 tokens + craterhoof...

I'm a big fan of equipment, so of course when Arna Kennerüd, Skycaptain got spoiled I skipped right past all that crap about auras and counters and went immediately to the part where I can use my Sword of Fire and Ice to make another Sword of Fire and Ice . The other part I dig about Arna is that, b...

Damn it here I am about to go to sleep and I just had to check this thread. I had to reread arena and damn if I'm not adding that to my shopping list. The way it can reliably come in untapped is a game changer.i wouldn't mind having it side by side with bandit lord honestly. The fact you can just h...

Honestly I think it's fallen off a bit in terms of just jamming it. It's too predictable if you just play it and pass. It's strong if you can cheat it and/or give it haste. I wouldn't expect it to lock people down, though, all they need is a removal spell or a chumper. The surprise factor is a bit a...

If someone shows up to EDH night at your store, and has no interest in playing or learning the rules , are you excluding them for not leaving your game to chat with them? If someone clearly looks down on your community, are you gatekeeping for not giving them the social authority they take for gran...

Yeah I mean, you can take what I wrote and realize that we're the obsessed nerds in the Magic subculture :D I try my best to be inclusive and not douse people with information but often fail. Personally I think it's fine to overenthusiastically infodump on initiates to the hobby. I mean, at worst i...

Yeah, sorry, BeneTleilax but I don't agree with that at all. I think the dynamic is pretty simple - people like having their ingroups and feeling superior to those outside of that group. Whether that's bullies picking on nerds in high school, or nerds picking on cazuls on reddit. It feels good to be...

I'm pretty sure she meant "a whole-ass" deck, as in "entire". Just goes to show how some phrases fail to function properly when profanity is removed. Down with congeniality! Up with vulgarity! That's what Lily suspected too xD honestly I just couldn't parse it. Adding the hyphen...

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One of these days I'm gonna put a whole butt deck inside of those top loaders that TCGPlayer sometimes sends me 💀. Just for the looks. Maybe do a pauper deck inside for extra eye rolls.

...what's a "butt deck"?

I won a recent game off a Perilous Vault , which was interesting. Another player was the biggest threat with a potentially huge army of elementals off Titania, Protector of Argoth and Zuran Orb , but a third player with a bunch of flying power killed him before I wiped. Then I wiped and won off CA. ...

People only like Star Wars because they watched it with their dads on a lazy Sunday afternoon when.they were 7 years old. It's pure nostalgia. Guilty as charged on that one. I mean, maybe I would have enjoyed it just as much on its own merits, but we'll never know now. I'm also convinced that's why...

Whoops, lol, too many artifact tokens running around. I think everyone did the same thing when they saw it, considering treasure is everywhere and blood hadn't been used since the last innistrad set afaik. My guess is they originally used treasures and decided to nerf it but who knows. Blood seems ...

Like obviously, if that's always the case it would still be worth it, but I still wouldn't be frothing at the mouth to use it, and I imagine there's plenty of times where it's just a really overcosted way to make a treasure a turn. Can't make treasures. If it could it'd be a lot better I think. As ...

As far as meta-narratives go, seeing two directors fight over the direction of a film series has some serious comedic potential. Given that the canon of post-80s Star Wars is already trash, I think Disney should keep alternating between Johnson and Abrams just to see how absurd they can get. Episode...

8 informed me there was no plan, no coherent vision, no interest in an actual story, I got a kick out of the way it blatantly disrespected the established cannon. Luke is super revered jedi knight? Nah he's a weird old coot who drinks fresh alien milk. Jedi training is cryptic monk riddles? Nah, it...

I'm bored, time to review the precon cards. Grade is power unless I think it's cool enough to give it points for being cool. Satya, Aetherflux Genius - decent commander but not that big of an energy payoff, more of just another 3c kiki commander. C Cayth, Famed Mechanist - kinda boring as a commande...