It's worked very well for me. In the right decks it's easily draw 4-6 for 3. Lots of Bx tribal decks go wide and are fairly resilient.

Most infect is OK because it is either telegraphed in the command zone, requires a board state (Triumph of the Hordes), or is just a big fat spell that could just as easily be replaced with something really broken whether you cheat it out or not (Blightsteel). Inkmoth comes out of nowhere, as does a...

Green: Not actually useless, but you have to be in a meta where you are certain you'll see opponents run certain creatures you also run. Honestly would have been reasonable in 2020 when there were a lot of commonly run value creatures and this would probably fire off reliably. White: Can be cheap re...

Damn, two cards in a row from non mtg properties. UB just keeps getting worse.

I think it's wrong to run this and reckoning expecting to get them super cheap or have them win the game when hard cast, I think those should be looked at as corner cases. I haven't ran this, but I have ran hour of reckoning and my judgement for that is simply that if I can get it to cost 4 or 5 it'...

God I hope so. I really want to see UB trimmed back severely. I'm tired of Magic becoming the Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny.

Once upon a time this was actually a very serviceable anthem in Mardu, but there weren't many Mardu decks that wanted to go wide with little dudes (which would benefit the most). It got power creeped out by more effective anthems at the same cmc or slightly higher (no reason to run this over Dictate...

Not until right now did I think of MTG turning as a Ready Player One environment, but Anduril made it click. Now that I realize my Jurassic Park Hunting Velociraptor can dual-wield a Vorpal Sword and Sting, the Glinting Dagger then hop in Bessie, the Doctor's Roadster ........I am so put off from U...

Journal is a tutor every couple turns, or every turn, in the right decks. Not just in dedicated clue decks, it also can go nuts in token decks (which typically have multiple token doublers) and certain artifact decks. When it's worth playing, it's a powerful engine card that has a very mid, but stil...

Honestly, at this point I just don't know whether MTG:Frasier is a joke. Not in a world where I can cast Post Malone. What's worse is that the only better UB is D&D, since it might as well be just part of Magic already.

%$#% it, do an Always Sunny set you cowards.

There's plenty of permanent versions of this effect that are just better for decks that are committed to casting sorceries at instant speed. I feel like Quicken's niche is for decks with sorceries they'd like to be able to cast as instants if possible, because they already have a lot of instant spee...

I literally have never seen this card before. Desecrator demon doesn't do it for me anymore, it's too easy to keep tapped and too often opponents can take advantage of a free sac outlet. This kraken is better than the demon. Trample is weaker than flying but it's still evasion, and ward 2 provides s...

Nothing should change about the rules to cater to cEDH. The most that should be done is banning problem cards in cEDH that are either already problems in casual or which see no play in casual, Flash being that latter. Casual doesn't need lower life totals, especially not at 4 players or below. Sure,...

Looking at background commanders: Alora, Merry Thief is a rogue, and her ability makes something unlockable and returns it to your hand at the end step, which is a way to remove the counter from a creature so you can give it undying again. That works well with etb abilities (get the effect on the in...

She'd be fantastic in BG zombies alongside Doubling Season effects.

This is bad at being mld because it gives the lands back. If you're running mld, you're casting it to lock the game state so you win. You probably have a couple of sandbagged lands yourself so you can recover faster than anyone else just in case someone can recover and prevent you from just winning....

It really depends on how deep you want to get into counter spells, how comfortable you are holding up mana, and how much you might need to clear out a path to attack. If you can play draw go, Cryptic is nice. If you can leverage the tap down into killing a player, Cryptic is nice. If both of those t...

After two months I can say I absolutely hate this card. It's incredibly unfun to play against and immediately centralizes the game. Outside of cEDH the game just immediately becomes a quest for specific removal while everyone tries to kill the owner, and yet it's strong enough that it's still worth ...

Henry Wu, InGen Geneticist The best choice to exploit for his team are 3/3 non-humans, and if we go the token route within color, beast and dino would be the majority, with golem, eldrazi horror, and Dalek/Ring Wraiths (!) trailing behind. Koma, Cosmos Serpent can generate 3/3 each turn also. Thoug...

UB can %$#% right off. I hate that %$#% and it has made magic worse. I only give a pass to the DnD sets because they're owned by the same company, Garfield imagined Magic as 30 minute DnD, and if DnD wasn't already a game and the setting was introduced as just another plane it would fit in perfectly...

A great group hug and political card. You get to draw, they get a 4/4 which is more likely to help you than hurt you.

Never seen the card before, but it's seems clunky, if I have a large board presence, I want to win the game, not draw some cards. Well, it does only cost 2 mana and grants menace. You can't reasonably expect a 2 mana spell to just win with a board presence the same way an overloaded Rift or a Hoof ...

I actually don't run this in my Grixis group hug because people get irrationally salty about it. I have seen it "kill" players multiple times online (I rate people cry quitting as a kill). That says a lot more about people being little %$#%$# than the strength of this card. Regardless, I d...

I run it in Grixis Group Hug (Ludevic and Vial Smasher). It does good work there. I have a philosophy for Group Hug that ramping mana is terrible but handing out cards is fine if you break parity, and handing out creatures is good. The deck operates by giving opponents creatures and then reasons to ...

Very good card. Unlike a lot of similar spells with niche uses, it has almost cycling so if you don't need it then you can just pay 1U end of turn to essentially cycle it.