If "create a clue token" gets shortened to "investigate", why hasn't "create a food token" gotten shortened to "cook"? Or "create a treasure" to "ransack"? Or blood tokens to "slice" or map tokens to "scout"? Or saproli...

Ah, one of my distraction wincons! I play it, people freak out about how many cards I have in hand (or potentially have), use removal on it then lose to a Biovisionary a few turns later if I'm lucky. If not, then hey I'm 1/20 of the way closer to Mortal Combat . I imagine people building a deck just...

tstorm823 wrote: ↑

2 months ago

If I remember my morph rules correctly, people shouldn't be able to kill it in response either.

Correct. Or at least, to get specific, the first time they can respond is when the donate ability is on the stack, so it doesn't matter if they kill it then because it's happening anyway.

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While I dod like the retro look, I'm going to second using leonin over it. Double Masters had a reprint with more modern framing, and alternate artwork. um okay? Your typo can be read as you disliking the retro frame, so I think Yeti was just pointing out that you can get newer framed versions. Dra...

I'm really tempted to put Doppelgang in wincons. Gives me Biovisionary copies, can protect wincons by making copies so I'm less vulnerable to spot removal, extra Sphinx of the Second Sun is always a laugh...

Yeah, if I open one it's definitely worth a punt.

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Cyberium wrote: ↑

3 months ago

I'm a fan of Etrata, Deadly Fugitive. Manifesting (cloaking) regularly is a fun enough effect, what's better is you can cast non-creature spells from morphs.

Yeah I'm really looking forward to running this in my Ikra/Ludevic face down deck. Does the cast ignore timing restrictions?

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Yeah I could spend an hour or so noodling away at that with my decks.

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materpillar wrote: ↑

3 months ago

Tyrants of the Underdark

Tyrants is a fantastic game.

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Molimo is all old-border foils, mostly from the OG few sets but the last six are from Dominaria United because a mate had them. Lathliss uses Unfinity Mountain 489 - the one with the big broken rock eggs. Everything else uses whatever came in it's respective precon or whatever I had in arms reach at...

One of my personal mantras is "friends don't let friends run Cathars Crusade". Just far too much faffing about for my liking, which is a shame cause it's an objectively cool card.

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Anyone remembers Magnus Magicus? I remember that he had built a decklist for nearly every commander available. Kind of like an Alpha EDHrec! As a lurker this was an interesting resource for odd and bad commanders. Edit: Another thing I liked about Sally: The decklist database. Could we do something...

Hermes_ wrote: ↑

3 months ago

Just found out a crazy combo

Rain of Riches and Glittering Stockpile

That's... actually genius. Huh. If the cascade wrath I put in Lathliss doesn't work out I might give that a punt.

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Drop me, my interest has disappeared completely, this is the first time I've been on the site in like a week.

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Whereas I knew it was on Ravnica, but have been calling it Markov Manor because it rolls off the tongue so much better.

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I'll yay the Altar, which looks like it gets taken to 3 votes now.

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I mean, it's only exploitable if the opponent with the Eternal Witness also has a sac outlet, otherwise they have to engineer it dying in some other way. I know a lot of people like to 'white room' design decks, so assume everything will work perfectly, but I've been playing decks with manifest for ...

Cool, in that case I nominate Lifeline to help us flip our manifests that aren't creatures.

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How closely wedded are we to RL avoidance? Is it a hard line or more like the budget one where it's flexible if if makes sense?

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Yay to Archaic, Ugin and the Altar.

I think I'm going to nay the Desecrate Reality. I played around with that wrath where you choose even or odd to wrath away and there was never a good choice, this just feels like a more expensive way to have the same feeling.

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I'll yay the keys, but I'm not able to be on the clock till Tuesday.

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Nay on Statuary, I don't think we'll have enough non artifacts to make it worth it. Yay to Dynamo.

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Dammit Moxnix that was gonna be my pick! Yay Mystic Forge, it's a lot of extra cards a lot of the time. Ok, how about Forsaken Monument ? Ramps, buffs our manifests and I'm never one to complain about incidental lifegain. Also shall we be sensible and chuck Sol Ring directly into the list so we don'...

I'll yay Crucible, we've got 9 lands that can actively take advantage of it and there will inevitably be some that get manifested and then die.

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Slap me on the list, this one looks fun.

Yay to Ozolith.

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I think something that gets overlooked is that Magic is the lead weight on the rubber sheet of the card game landscape - it is almost impossible to make a card game that is both mechanically unique from it, and compelling enough that enough people will play it to give it the required longevity. In t...