Some interesting includes! Of course there's people bemoaning that it didn't include $200+ cards or some nonsense, but a lot of them will be fun to draft and I'll be happy to have. With these foils and the old border cards we're often looking at 2-3 rares/pack. I haven't done a Mystery Draft yet whe...

Hey there Rowan! Thanks for posting! I'm going to talk about the cards you were asking about first, then I'll be taking a look at your list here in a bit :) Hey Kelzam , I enjoyed reading your last post. Some fun stuff. There are a few cards I was surprised to see weren't in your list and never talk...

Eat to Extinction isn't for everyone, but it has it's place. Exiling the removed target is a pretty big up side in Commander worth considering with how much recursion runs rampant in the format. A truism of Commander is that things have a habit of coming back to haunt you later when you destroy the...

Hey everyone - sorry for any posts I didn't reply to before dropping off the face of the Earth for a bit. I need to do a big update to the list here, but after playing my Elenda deck tonight and wanting somewhere to post about it, I figured there'd be no place better than my own threads here :) So w...

I've been mulling over how I want to build Kruphix since the Secret Lairs came in, and this is certainly a very interesting take! Have you thought about trying Hydroid Krasis ? The Krasis's devotion footprint is relatively low, and he double dips in the "Protect Your Neck" and "Draw&q...

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Oh my god how could I forget about Babylon Zoo! That takes me back to the 90s and a Mortal Kombat soundtrack.

The three Mortal Kombat CDs were the first CDs I ever had and I STILL listen to them all the time :laugh:

I'm creating a playlist of space/Futuristic/robotic/technological Dash in short, science fiction – themed songs to play during a rl draft of a space themed custom set. It could use a few more songs, the more the better. Thing is, I want "generic" songs that have lyrics, that is, no instru...

Most of the time I don't pay attention to 1-drops in my curve because the majority of the time they either 1.) won't have impact after the first few turns, or 2.) are cards I would rather play later in the game; that is, with the exception of the fast mana rocks, and mana dorks if I'm playing a big ...

I don't have any issue with the concept of the drops. So far they've been pretty even with current secondary market pricing, so people haven't necessarily been gaining massive value in the purchases, beyond the limited availability for the future. I know that I haven't felt the need to purchase the...

Q: Although you're rightly keeping open to dialogue and want everyone to feel like they're being heard, when looking at the format philosophy document, including: who/what you ban cards for (the core demographic rather than the extremes) ; and the dangerous precedent banning cards specifically for c...

It's not like most of them are actually interested in what the RC/CAG are discussing, anyway. The call for "transparency" is just faux concern/outrage that has nothing to do with transparency and everything to do with the RC not banning their boogieman they're going to crusade to get banne...

Kinda curious if other EDH players play other formats in store. I am getting the impression that my LGS has a few drafters, a lot of commander players, and no other formats that fire off weekly. Myself, I used to play Standard, Commander and Draft, but I stopped playing Standard a few years ago - l...

I think your observation is very accurate. CMC's are dropping across the board for Commander decks I see and optimization of decklists is the predominant thought when people are posting content it seems. It seems like everything is going to go to an optimized High-Powered list in some form or fashi...

People tend to vastly overrate the frequency at which alternate win cons are going to be a problem. I remember how Simic Ascendancy was supposedly going to need pre-emptively banned. Heh. This one is a little less unjustified a worry. Laboratory Maniac is the easiest alternate win con in the format...

People tend to vastly overrate the frequency at which alternate win cons are going to be a problem. I remember how Simic Ascendancy was supposedly going to need pre-emptively banned. Heh.

After a lot of thought and reflection, I'm ready to announce that Ayli is going to be receiving a major overhaul. While I have fun with this deck and have updated it for years, the truth is that the nature of Commander has changed in the many years since I put this together. The environment is becom...

So, not to be a downer but almost all upstart variant formats experience this. Remember Tiny Leaders? remember pauper commander? remember horde? The fact that commander stuck around is a lot of luck combined with the fact that it just ended up being different enough in a good way that people wanted...

Was anyone there when they did the Commander Roundtable at Commandfest DC? No posts on Reddit, here or anywhere that I can find. Sheldon mentioned that his article this week would include some points from it but I was pretty curious what they discussed or what was said.

Hi all. I have been reading and following since the MTGSalvation forum of this primer. I have been planning on what I have and don't, plus I have been outsourcing which online/LGS shops I would buy at the cheapest rate ($1 equals R15, Yawgmoth's Will cost R4435 :omg: ). I can only at the moment do ...

I pulled Soul Exchange from an old box a long time ago and it never ends up making the cut over other options. The big problem with it is that unless I have a Creature token, I don't want to exile something to use it. If reanimation is a strategy in my deck, I don't want to have to exile something t...

I haven't been able to give the thread too much attention due to being busy with getting married in the very near future and other things, but I thought I'd chip in on Sevinne's Reclamation and Argivian Find :) Daanzel has the right of it in that the reason I still run Argivian Find is because of gr...

I remember way back in 2010 when Sol Ring was only played in 14% of the decks. It's weird how reprinting the %$#% out of it made it accessible enough that everyone could run them in any deck they wanted to. Let's revisit this hypothetical when LGS' aren't rationing the brawl decks to one per custom...

Even in mono color decks, Arcane Signet is more often than not better than other options. Mono color decks tend to run many of the 2-CMC mana rocks including the diamonds , Star Compass and others. Of all the 2CMC mana rocks legal in a Mono Color deck, Fellwar Stone and Arcane Signet are the only tw...

Would it be worth it to jam Sun Quan, Lord of Wu as an umbrella unblockable forever sort of thing? You get a pretty good proxy of that via your Stupid Enchantments, but you also have a nontrivial amount of actual ninjas that only benefit from a few of those. I realise he's quite high CMC and probab...

When I saw [mention]Cow31337Killer[/mention]'s Modern Border challenge thread, it reminded me about a deck I built as part of a thought exercise on Magic Twitter a while back. With the nature of singleton it actually felt pretty easy to put together a deck, and I've been tempted to build this list i...