Growing Rites of Itlimoc is a poor substitute, because green has so many ways to tutor nonbasic lands ( Crop Rotation , Sylvan Scrying , Pir's Whim , Reap and Sow , Ulvenwald Hydra , etc) but no ways to tutor enchantments. The card has recently spiked, but it is not likely to lose a ton of value, ev...

Oh I do actually have a Crypt in here, I'm not sure how that got left off. I've effectively maxed out on 2-drop ramp effects, unless I start running Signet-type cards which I'm loathe to do in a green deck, or mana dorks, which also aren't great given the deck is a bit wrath-weak already. I have no ...

This maybe isn't a super helpful criticism, but that decklist is pretty unreadable. You should separate it out into sections - some people prefer by card type (those people are wrong though, organizing by function is clearly superior, don't @ me). No matter how you do it, though, it'll become way m...

Commander (2) 1 Kodama of the East Tree 1 Brinelin, the Moon Kraken Creatures (33) 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder 1 Fierce Empath 1 Krosan Drover 1 Thunderous Snapper 1 Imoti, Celebrant of Bounty 1 Keruga, the Macrosage 1 Thryx, the Sudden Storm 1 Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait 1 Ethereal Forager 1 Greenwarden ...

Skyclave is absurd, definitely one of the strongest new options out there for D&T. As Oko showed, turning something relevant into a stack of vanilla stats is hugely powerful. Yes, there is still room for Palace Jailer vs Marit Lage, Emrakul, etc, but Skyclave is so much better in "fair"...

Kaldheim's spoiler season is in full swing, and looking at the cards and the number crunch has led me to an interesting observation: Excluding the MDFCs in Zendikar Rising with a spell on the front and a land on the back, Kaldheim has more non-basic lands in it than any other set. (If we include ZNR...

How I want to make decks: Meticulously select the best cards using an online deckbuilder, then sort through my collection and pull just those cards, directly into a perfectly-crafted deck. How I actually make decks: Flip through my collection for the core cards I know I want, grabbing a bunch of oth...

Yeah, being a collector this year was exhausting. I tried multiple strategies and none of them were great. I mostly want one of everything so that I can build a Commander deck with whatever niche card strikes my fancy. So buying booster boxes gives me a bunch of chaff commons and uncommons to dispos...

I guess we'll see. Their current strategy seems to be: A) Print a ton of products to make people buy more things - but this runs into a ceiling eventually, we're basically at oversaturation already. B) Reprint everything that's a chase card that you can - but these are fast running out unless they c...

I'm not certain how much the pandemic is really affecting prices. Commander players are still finding ways to play Commander, many of them by webcam, so a lot of the demand is still there. Competitive paper formats may be dropping off a bit, but a lot of that has other explanations. Nobody is playin...

@wildfire393 sorry, was not able to elaborate. What I mean is despite everything that happened.. less people playing the game, because pandemic. A lot of modern cards going down in price. Tarn still manage to keep itself above 50 dollars. The card that destroyed my wallet is tarmogoyf.. by "de...

I'm actually surprised Tarn and Rainforest are *only* $55ish. They were still around $100 last year, and the reprints have all been sparse since then.

I was doing some interesting queries the other day, and figured it would be worth discussing: Using just the price of the cheapest available copy, the following statements hold true: In Standard, there is only a single card over $25: The Great Henge In Pioneer, there are zero cards over $50. There a...

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@wildfire393 thanks for the link and overview, super helpful info. are there any "must read" type articles for strategy and are there similar archetypes like control or aggro? The Pokemon community is definitely much less organized than the Magic one is. There's some articles and deck gui...

Well, we've had a week for prices to shift a little, so here's where we're at now: Most expensive to least expensive Force of Will Mana Crypt Avacyn, Angel of Hope Jace, the Mind Sculptor Sword of Feast and Famine Blightsteel Colossus Doubling Season Kaalia of the Vast Atraxa, Praetors' Voice Sword ...

When figuring out what replacement effects to apply as a permanent enters the battlefield, we first take into account any static abilities that would apply to that permanent when it's on the battlefield. The classic example of this is Blood Moon , which prevents lands from entering the battlefield w...

I got into it a bit last year. I mostly played on the online client, and mostly stopped playing because the online client kind of sucks hard. It's a cool game. There's some interesting approaches to resource management that set it apart from something like M:tG. Card draw in particular is much more...

Sometimes I just feel like it yes

That's fair. It might help to list the current prices in your opening post. What's interesting is that it appears at the moment that some non-foil versions of the box toppers are going for more than the foil versions. This makes some sense as the nonfoils are 2 per $300+ box, while the foils are 2 p...

I got into it a bit last year. I mostly played on the online client, and mostly stopped playing because the online client kind of sucks hard. It's a cool game. There's some interesting approaches to resource management that set it apart from something like M:tG. Card draw in particular is much more ...

Personally I'm much higher on the tron lands and Expedition Map than you are. Eldrazi tron is the most played Modern deck and green tron is like #4 or 5. The Tron lands only have a couple of foil printings, and those go for nearly $100 a pop. Map is also played a bit in Legacy in 12post decks and is...

I've heard in the past that you have over fifty decks, and that you foil out basically every deck to the fullest extent possible, which indicates a great degree of permanence. So I have some questions related to that: 1) How often do you update your decks, on average? With new cards coming out seemi...

The arguments I've heard against Astrolabe are this: it makes it too trivial to splash colors, without adding an appreciable weakness to cards that prey on decks that frivolously splash colors, like Wasteland and Blood Moon . You can play a Back to Basics Miracles list with Oko and still run Pyrobla...

Theros Beyond Death is on the horizon, and it has a few spicy cards in it. Most notably is Underworld Breach . This card is absolutely insane in Storm and will probably lead to something getting banned. Notably, you can go Lion's Eye Diamond , Brain Freeze yourself, get 9+ cards into your graveyard ...