Migloz is there for people that want an oil general, and personally, I'd rather they make mediocre generals and cover all the set's bases than leave a theme people were interested in out in the cold. With high-powered generals, I can see the argument against their existence, because even if you aren...

Make llanowar elves/BoP sad, but is the kind of hate piece that isn't particularly powerful, but still makes you look like an asshole. I got one in a box of old chaff and have been trying to trade it off to someone for years.

I've always been a fan of Phyrexia, and Vishgraz is everything I like about it: a steadily advancing toxic swarm. It also has a nice mix of swarm, voltron and attritive recursion, which should allow it to pivot strategies well. Let me know if there's anything I missed! General 1 Vishgraz, the Doomhi...

Is the art referencing Painful Quandary?

Yeah, that was a joke. Some people were getting really up in arms when she got spoiled, I think she's a totally fine card that will see a moderate amount of play. I think she's not *broken* but she is obnoxious. She's a value engine that can incidentally lock some strategies out, while at the same ...

Weird pseudo deathtouch effect. Maybe swarm decks like this, but it seems very black, in both effect and utility.

I think we're nearing the point, at least in W/B, where even two mana removal needs to hit more than one card type, or do something special. This just doesn't make the cut.

You also don't get absolutely %$#% by countermagic like Soulblast

I feel like Wakey Ancient 2RRR Creature-Giant Haste 7/7 Is probably not playable in EDH anyways. This isn't even a "beatdown is dead" complaint; even in combat-heavy metas, creatures coming down after turn 3/4 in combat metas are going to have to contend with board-clog. Pure beaters need ...

It's less than 5 years before Rootpath Purifier is on a legendary creature and I am here for it. Why? The counterpoint to most of AmericanSpirit's concerns is that Rootpath Purifier can't be drawn consistently enough for people to build around the bullcrap it enables. Purifier in the command zone l...

My vote is Syrix, Carrier of the Flame as well, just a bunch of those Reassembling Skeleton variants they've been printing recently and some voltron.

Sure, I'll vote Doran. He's a lovely and underrecognized counterpoint to valuebarf Arcades

Just drop a Mesmeric Orb and go to town.

Nope is real good.

Is this the first time one of these spam threads has been allowed to exist after the OP got deleted? I feel like this now a challenge for us to make a football-themed Abzan deck? Who'd be the general? Kethis, for Commentary?

Some people in my store also did the prerelease, they said it reminded them of the roborosewater cube but more fiddly and less fun.

Like all land animators, this seems bad conventionally in that it opens your lands up to common removal, but probably enables some combo somewhere.

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If I were to build Mishra, Claimed by Gix low curve. What is there to be done in regards to protection? Usually white in indestructible and blue in counters do that 🤔

Mass reanimation

the thing that gets Wx creatureswarm decks labeled "stax".

I'm with AmericanSpirit on combat decks, though I'll respect combat-based infect and Strixhaven Stadium as essentially "turning creatures sideways" wins. I generally end up playing go-wide-ish decks with some aristocrats/recursion elements to let them grind through wraths, but I respect al...

I think I prefer Atarka, for being a bigger and even more evasive dumb beater. Leaving 8 mana open is not subtle, even in dragons, and it's not like that deck is doing much else at instant speed.

https://twitter.com/UnarmedOracle/status/1572372086987042817 I generally like LRR, and I don't think they had a hand in the garbage mechanics of the set, just the names and flavortext, which are at replacement-levels of dumb for an un-set. I imagine they've gotten blasted by trolls over this who do...

The amount of houserules and hacks needed to make stickers not suck to use shows more than anything why they shouldn't be a mechanic. And they're not even the only thing that requires fiddly setup and preparation to use; attractions suffer from this issue as well. That the same set introduces two ga...

"Lifetime" Pass Holder might well go into aristo and zombie decks as a one drop recursive zombie that enables gravecrawler well. Thankfully, in my experience tribal pilots care more about thematic cohesion than most. Also, at this point both people who've said attraction decks aren't nece...

I think day/night is way worse than initiative, just because it doesn't actually do anything most of the game, and Celestus is pretty common ime as another manalith-with-upside. Day/night should end when all the cards that care about it leave the battlefield, I don't want to keep tracking crap from ...