By nature, I'm a methodical, organized person who likes to find loopholes and for progress, which would explain why years ago I took months to structure out 8 decks covering all color (pairing)s and archetypes I enjoyed, and why one of my favorite tools/flavor is reanimator, after all undeath is a l...

Path of Ancestry is an excellent budget fixing land. It taps for every color and scrys when you cast your general, with additional upside for any tribal decks. I'd consider it for pretty much any 3+ color deck. For 2-color decks, it's a bit harder to evaluate - I'm not a big fan of temples in those...

I've come to terms with it, just like when Arena was announced and launched I predicted a change in R&D designing the game to be more "flashy" with mechanics a decade ago would have been binned for being too "complicated" and now we've mutate, ability tokens, MFCs within a ye...

Probably the biggest thing that bothers me about this card is WoTC constantly printing niche cards only in commander decks that somehow never get foil treatments. :P It definitely makes me less likely to try this in Ephara. alms collector selfless squire faerie artisans scroll of fate cosmic interv...

I would consider Artisan of Kozilek the poster child of advertising the battlecruiser-aspect of the format during its early days. Sure, the titans (and probably It That Betrays ) are deadlier but the simple reanimate effect on-cast likely bringing back another bomb was just the *battlecruiser chef's...

Y'all have no idea how much I miss the golden years of EDH when we got a couple of new legendary creatures every set and you had to figure out how to build around them rather than the deck half building itself. kids these days..am i right? Technically we still have them now, Kaldheim makes it so ob...

I really love the special frame for the black M21 cards but I voted Eldraine cos they're more readable; M21 and CMR etched cards can be a bit tough on the eyes, I think. also the artists they had work on the ELD alt illustrations are some of my fave, lots of really distinct and vivid bits of art. I...

I'm sorry, how is foretell re-skinned morph? The pay upfront, then get a discount later part? Echo sort of does the same thing too, splitting up the cost. Foretell goes on anything, and you don't get anything until you pay the second part. Its more like taking the cost splitting and hidden info of ...

I'm okay with the gods feeling less impressive, especially with what it feels like a power-level drop swing in ages for a set. Like with almost every other set recently, there's almost always something for someone. In fact since the 1-set model, nothing has really fallen as flat as the 3rd-set issue...

Disclaimer: These are all personal opinions formed after over years of observation. Some may have observed things I missed out and vice versa and that's before it goes through my opinion bias translator. Something about the entirely of MTG has shifted and the same factors that affected MTG itself ar...

Quick personal review, warning: I've been distanced from the game for quite a while, my analysis skills might have gotten rusty. I'm only doing this review on a whim for fun and for select cards. My (dust-collecting) decks are mostly aged even before they collected dust, so I mostly look at the powe...

Akiri, Line-Slinger Bruse Tarl, Boorish Herder Armix, Filigree Thrasher Falthis, Shadowcat Familiar Ravos, Soultender Tymna the Weaver Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh Toggo, Goblin Weaponsmith I'm testing out a "Modular" (the term, not the mechanic) Commander deck with the following partners. Any...

Disliked the original partners, many of them were just too good given they were one of two commanders. Didn't like how they would sometimes be taken 'just for colors' and easily unlock 4c decks that were often not very interesting in design. The new partners have shifted me heavily in the other dir...

I tend to really dislike foils, but these do look pretty decent. I'm not about to get any I don't think, no point changing my act at this point. I still think it's more enjoyable to "gaze into the distance" at a non foil too. Maybe I want to look at artwork too intensely to get why you'd ...

I exclusively play Wedges when it comes to 3C (nothing against Shards, it just ended up like that when I considered Commanders I like / Color Balance across my decks when I planned it out and I daresay the first Commander precons had the most influence, considering Animar and Karador are still aroun...

As everyone already pointed out, the play-value of ABUR duals soars because of the fetches. If fetches themselves are out-of-budget/consideration, then the advantages of ABUR duals over all other CIP Untapped duals are minimal/niche. The price gap between fetches and ABUR duals is also larger (and e...

If this was mono-red it'd be amazing, but as a multicolor card (especially with black) it's got some pretty steep competition. Compare to perennial favourite Phyrexian Arena , which costs basically the same but doesn't require damage, doesn't reveal the card, doesn't have any timing restrictions, a...

This is very niche, but if you play lands.dec with the likes of extra land drops and playing/returning lands from the graveyard and already play Realms Uncharted , consider Fork in the Road . Yes, it's inferior in almost every way (sorcery, 2 lands only and basics of all things), but it turns out 2 ...

Well there is no doubt in my mind that the blame lays at the feet of WotC, and they are the ones who should be taking action to ban this card and take steps internally to make sure this doesn't happen again. That said, in the absence of action on their part, the question remains whether the RC shou...

No, he's right that black (and white) bordered doesn't indicate canon in story. That's not opinion, that's established fact, and has been for years because P3K has never been canon. But I think that simple argument doesn't really capture the gist of your opinion. Without getting hung up on black bo...

This will probably be my final thoughts of the entire situation and actually probably concerns more of my personal future outlook of the game than anything to do with the RC('s decision), but I need somewhere to compose my thoughts (and I'm no content creator with a channel of my own) and in recent ...

Worth pointing out that while a functional reprint is one possibility, they also can create an actual reprint with a Magic name and flavor, ala inverse Godzilla cards. If they print Gorthos, Tyrant King with a little bar under it that says Neegan, The Cold-Blooded , then that's still a Neegan for d...

I gave the topic some thought, since it asked for "most". I pointed out the the Unreleased/New cards thread that the most unnerving thing about the cards was how much they felt like celebrity vanity cards to people without knowledge of the franchise, but that's the cards themselves, not so...

I feel the real mechanical curveball is that these are essentially their own cards and it's hidden very well because of three factors 1) These are new cards, and there's nothing functionally similar to compare them to. 2) The Reserved List not allowing functional reprints making reverse comparison a...

I've never watched The Walking Dead and nor am I familiar with the acting circle either, but with the reveal of Daryl and me being slightly more familiar with Norman Reedus than the rest of the actors/actresses, I think I can state this, even if it's 1/5 of the cards - the most unnerving thing of th...