It's a group hug card, which is something I actively dislike, but it's there. And even when it comes to that, Tempting Wurm does this effect a lot better. The best use I can think of for Wumpus is to get people to overextend into a wrath effect, but even that seems pretty limited because you're also...

I may have overestimated how strong Bolas's Citadel is, because when it was released I was convinced it'd eat a ban fairly quickly. The card gets gross extremely quickly and is abusable as all get-out. That said, I haven't seen it played as much as I expected, and often people don't seem to be pairi...

Sounds like a fun project! I built a 5 color old-bordered list a long time ago, which you can still find here https://www.mtgsalvation.com/forums/the-game/commander-edh/multiplayer-commander-decklists/216829-sliver-queen-nostalgia : Survival of the Fittest , Genesis , and Squee, Goblin Nabob , and ...

I've used the black and red ones in Chainer, Dementia Master . Red gives looting to help get stuff into the graveyard and generate card advantage with Squee/Krovikan Horror, and black gives Yet Another Blood Artist effect. The cost reduction is pretty handy as well, since ideally the deck was activa...

Hm, maybe you could do something like including the most iconic (available) card in each set and fill out your nonlands that way? Ha. It'd be the only time a deck featured both High Tide and Autumn Willow 😂 I'd say more likely Hymn to Tourach and Memory Lapse , but I would make some level of allowa...

I've owned a Lotus for ages, but have had scant few opportunities to play it. Last time I can remember was in a cube where I turn one'd a Gideon, Ally of Zendikar , which is a pretty brutal clock. The card is obviously dummy good in Commander, as even neutered versions of it like Jeweled Lotus are q...

Hm, maybe you could do something like including the most iconic (available) card in each set and fill out your nonlands that way?

Looking at the EDHREC page, this assertion appears to pan out - most decks running Fireflux Squad are doing so as a sac outlet, and not for the polymorph payoff. Jirina Kudro and Trynn, Champion of Freedom like to cash in tokens for value, but that's probably also the precon effect in action. After...

Huh, not that often you see cards I don't recognize up here. Polymorph dude is kinda cool, esp with haste. I could see this being pretty fun in an attack steps deck. Yeah, non-hyped precon cards can go under the radar. It does show up occasionally in Legacy in Moon Stompy decks have run it alongsid...

A lot of good suggestions here. I'm still not really sure what commander to play. Marisi seems ok but I'm kinda worried that I will run out of gas really fast. Hands that are 2-3 pump spells, 2-3 creatures and 2-3 lands feel like they fizzle really fast. I could also run some sort partner mix like ...

I think the curious thing about Earthcraft is it has the same main issue as Paradox Engine . Supposedly, "it has no fair use" (to paraphrase). But unlike PE, it isn't colorless and it isn't as easily attained. I'd strongly disagree with that. Paradox Engine is pretty binary where you're e...

Gravecrawler and/or Nether Traitor + Phyrexian Altar both require at least another card to do something meaningful with the infinite ETBs though, right? An aristocrat effect, and in the case of traitor, some means of creating a tokens to continue to have something else to sac to bring back Traitor…...

Gravecrawler and/or Nether Traitor + Phyrexian Altar both require at least another card to do something meaningful with the infinite ETBs though, right? An aristocrat effect, and in the case of traitor, some means of creating a tokens to continue to have something else to sac to bring back Traitor…...

I would say Phyrexian Altar is a bigger problem than either of these, because it'll incidentally go infinite with stuff like Gravecrawler and Nether Traitor without trying too hard, which has lead me to remove it from several decks that have wanted a free-reusable sac outlet for value but didn't wan...

light-paws looks extremely cool. Hope it's not broken. Seems narrower than something like Oswald Fiddlebender , who is also a repeated tutor in the command zone. Auras just aren't all that strong, even if you're getting additional auras with tutoring out of it. I'm excited for the deer spirit with ...

My Crimson Vow set finally came in so I'm playing some cards from it for the first time tonight. My first move? Jamming like 8 Wastes into my new Wulfgar of Icewind Dale with zero colorless-mana matters cards just so I can ramp using Hiveheart Shaman . Tune in for our stream tonight to see how badly...

Random fun red tech but you can activate Thawing Glaciers on your turn and then hit it with Cleansing Wildfire / Geomancer's Gambit for some weird red ramp (Thawing doesn't bounce until end of turn). I hadn't seen the interaction before but its kinda cute. You can also use these spells on things li...

A card that's overperformed for me recently is Karn, the Great Creator . A lot of people get caught up on the fact that his biggest draw is that he Wishes and Wishes don't work in Commander, but I included him in a deck because I wanted some redundancy for using Guardian Beast to break the symmetry ...

Just noticed the "MTGNexus is streaming live" thing up the top - might be my new comp not having adblock installed yet lol. Kinda disappointed to not see familiar names playing - I recognize wildfire but he's more of a mod and posts pretty rarely. Who would you like to see play? Well I'm ...

There's nothing on the MTG Wiki about Dingus Egg, I don't believe it was ever mentioned in any story. It was a card from Alpha, and for the most part, Alpha cards were just whatever Richard Garfield felt like making them. In "A Collector's History of Magic the Gathering" by Ryan William Ro...

Yeah. I think the reason Delver has been grandfathered in with Brainstorm as an untouchable pillar of the format is that a format with Delver playing combo police is better than one without it. Combo decks have to try to play the longer game and devote slots to disruption and counter-disruption if t...

Ragavan likely needs to die for the same reason that Dreadhorde Arcanist needed to die. It just generates too much incremental value on its own for a cheap threat that slots right into the Delver shell. The problem is, between Dragon's Rage Channeller, Murktide Regent, and Expressive Iteration, UR i...

One thing to note is that Tarmogoyf has had a minor resurgence in Modern, being something you can include in Lurrus of the Dream-Den decks, while the various Delve fatties are not. Lurrus Jund is the second most popular Lurrus deck after Hammer Time, and consistently runs 4 copies of it. This somewh...

Consider this: A normal distribution of cards has 1 copy of each mythic to 2 copies of each rare to 4 copies of each uncommon and 8 of each rare. With Garbage Elemental having 6 variations, that means that each specific version is actually rarer than any specific mythic. Garbage Elemental C and D ar...

When will Hasbro sell stuff directly? They basically already are, though they use Amazon for fulfillment because why reinvent the wheel? But that's just for selling in-print sets. Secret Lairs are their first real crack at print to demand stuff, and I doubt they can get much more granular than that....