Monday, MArch 4th, 2024; Brutal Expulsion



I like this effect, there's a lot to be said for bouncing hard to deal with spells back to hand. Even hits Cavern-Casted creatures.

Sunday, March 3rd, 2024; Voice of Resurgence

Saturday, March 2nd, 2024; Displacer Kitten

Friday, March 1st, 2024; Krosan Restorer Krosan Restorer I always thought that this was a really under rated mana dork. The ability to tap for three of any colours is really, really powerful. Even Lotus Field can only tap for one colour. But then that this thing can untap multiple sol lands (like t...

Friday, March 1st, 2024; Krosan Restorer Krosan Restorer I always thought that this was a really under rated mana dork. The ability to tap for three of any colours is really, really powerful. Even Lotus Field can only tap for one colour. But then that this thing can untap multiple sol lands (like th...

Generally not a fan of locks, but this one is pretty fair, while also having some fun with Stuffy Doll effects. It's also iconic. 👍 stack Stuffy Doll with this and Guilty Conscience then figure out a way to bounce them back to hand once someone is killed. :evil: That's why we play this with Brash T...

Was gonna ask "why not historic?" Then I remembered Fall of the Thran . At least we got [checks notes] four other legends that care about Sagas in 2023. But we already have instant speed 'geddon though. They could have used the historic term, tbh. Give people a reason to fear this deck. T...

Thursday, February 29th, 2024; Pariah



Good times. I remember building the entire ass Trynn/Silvar deck around this card on my indestructible nightmare kitty. Why is this card still $5 across as many prints as it has though, geez.

Nice to know Kaalia v2.0 still slaps. I've made 0 updates in months and this took over a game involving The One Ring.

Sorry if the quality is unreadable. Nexus has tiny image caps.

Okay, now the bad: I feel like it's a relic of an older time. Craw Wurm stats, upkeep trigger (rather than ETB or upkeep or combat). There's just more efficient ways of dealing with permanents red can't easily destroy (like Liquimetal Torque / Liquimetal Coating and ubiquitous artifact destruction)...

Wednesday, February 28th, 2024; Gandalf the White

For those that don't want a lot of thought or effort to go into upgrades, if you buy Hail, Caesar (do not pay markups), you could pick up the Ruthless Regiment pre-build deck at a discount (looks like $30 where I'm sitting) and there's an awful lot of overlap between the two, synergy-wise. There's a...

I do love mono-red enchantment destruction, but I'll pass on Capricious Efreet . I guess it will usually hit your opponents' stuff, and it's not difficult to feed it some spare tokens... but an otherwise vanilla 6/4 for 6 doesn't particularly excite me. I'll point to Chaos Defiler as a significantl...

Tuesday, February 27th, 2024; Capricious Efreet

Outside of a combo context where you are looping things for free, I'm not sure if Cloudstone Curio is worth it these days. I recall playing Curio and Crystal Shard to bounce ETB value creatures back to hand, but that feels too slow these days. It's usually preferable to do something more tempo-posi...

Monday, February 26th, 2024; Yarus, Roar of the Old Gods



This reads like the kind of card that's support rather than the helm because it does the thing, but has no way to enable the thing.

Idk, I used it pretty fairly in Kaalia, Zenith Seeker. Did what it said on the tin.

Edit: wait, they fixed the wording so you can't untap and re-activate yes man before the first ability resolves any more, boo! https://scryfall.com/card/pip/29/yes-man-personal-securitron Why can't you? Activate, ability on the stack, retain priority, key/screwdriver our friendly neighborhood robot...

Rankings are kinda pointless since it is very meta-dependent...flusterstorm is meh in normal commander but cEDH plays it. But as far as a generic list goes, I'd say it's definitely behind Arcane Denial and Mana Drain , usually behind Force of Will and Force of Negation depending on meta I never tho...

Sunday, February 25th, 2024; Cloudstone Curio



So now that everyone's fave combo piece isn't $45usd, what do we think of it?

Edit: wait, they fixed the wording so you can't untap and re-activate yes man before the first ability resolves any more, boo! https://scryfall.com/card/pip/29/yes-man-personal-securitron Why can't you? Activate, ability on the stack, retain priority, key/screwdriver our friendly neighborhood robot...

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1 month ago

Humble Defector + Homeward Path BABEEEE!

This, but in Yasova Dragonclaw. One of the last times I played g, and what an interaction that was.

I've seen Fumiko played in the 99 a few times, and it doesn't generally deter people attacking the Fumiko player, IME. I like that it doesn't just "goad everything." I think the card is playable to force other creature-oriented decks to make choices and progress the game without it being ...

Saturday, February 24th, 2024; Counterspell|plgm



Just how good is the OG? We're still playing counterspell in our decks, or it's gotten pushed out?

Oh man when 3drinks sees that Hail Caesar deck he's gonna fall in love all over again. 🥰😂 Meanwhile me: oh great, get ready for more 12min Salvaging Station turns. 🙄😐💀 Ah ha. Not just station, but trading post|brc too. And urza's saga , voltaic key|usg , dang for not knowing anything about Fallout,...