If he wants to make one of these silly things every few years, I'm okay with that price. We buy packs. That's his price. If he wants to make goofy sets on his own, that's his prerogative, same as anyone here. My issue is twofold, the more immediate is that his quirky side-projects have breached con...

Unfinity feels like the end result of Maro putting his head three feet up his own ass. Yeah, I'd agree. This absolutely feels like MaRo let loose without enough people to steer him or tell him no. I also felt that was the case for MHII, and this has only borne that out by sharing many of the same e...

Photo Op sure is everything I hate about un-sets. It's overpowered, it's a pain in the ass, it's a rules nightmare, it requires advance preparation… To me it just seems like an incredibly overt attempt to game social media algorithms. On the plus side, you might find out ahead of time who's willing...

I don't think Wizards gets to sell jokes about how overused and silly Jace is while they're still cramming into every plot and refusing to develop his character since Ixalan. I'm not sure what the other joke is, outside of a pun around his name, it seems like a custom card someone here would make to...

I still think with all the lhurgoyfs, 3 is about the cutoff for an arbitrarily large non-trampling beaters, especially in green. It's a cool design, but it's simple enough to be outclassed by things like the aforementioned Terravore, which is hardly a powercrept staple itself.

TheAmericanSpirit wrote: ↑

1 year ago

some of the CAG only represent their personal discord server

A lot of those discord servers are bigger than this whole site.

Decent trampling ground beater, though lands.dec generally has better things to do with its time. Still, the fact that it grows off opponent fetchlands is nice. Something like a 7/7 trample for three in the right deck and the right meta isn't nothing though.

Does Verrak let you double fetchlands?

Only saw this once, when a Zilortha rules problem tribal deck had a Raging River in play then cast this. I don't think he considered us his opponents, he was playing against the rules

I feel like this marked the end of old-school all-in Voltron with Rafiq of the Many or similar. This was their dream card a year or two prior, a combination of protection and evasion with decent stat increases in what was then the primary voltron color, and then it wasn't enough in the face of incre...

I reckon Millicent's an actual 7, it's a combat swarm deck that can get real out of hand, but doesn't explode the way Krenko or Elfball does. In exchange, she never really dies until she's dead; wraths'll slow her down, but she'll build back in 2-3 turns if the table lets her. Zabaz and Feather are ...

By "odd", I mean counterintuitive seeing as how PC they tend to be. Eh, they're PC in a don't-rock-the-boat, make-steady-returns sense. Maybe you think it's all theatrical, but as a predictive model, people who are just putting on act do behave different from them that really believe they...

Legend wrote: ↑

1 year ago

With whom could that possibly resonate, I wonder?

I mean, Harry Potter fans with surface level media analysis. I get that you're trying to do this like, just asking questions routine, but it's not that deep, man. Hanlon's razor and all that.

I feel like Venedrex hit it on the head here. All this stuff feels like a custom set, not any one in particular to me, but a custom set. I reckon the definitive quality of a custom set, compared to an official one, is that it's only been made with one set of hands. It's the same as fanfiction; there...

Don't love that one of standard elf-ball commanders ignores most wraths. IMO, commanders should stay creatures.

toctheyounger wrote: ↑

1 year ago

topdeck tutor

it goes to bottom.

The new free answers have enabled midrange to exist again at 7-9 games, so I like them, even though they are all overpriced and overpowered. I haven't seen them take over a game, or shut someone out of one, so they're alright in my book.

If you had a rule that once a turn you could return your commander to your command zone from anywhere, I would suggest a timing restriction, like End Step. Or a cost to return your commander to the command zone I feel like sorcery speed is sufficient to avoid most of the potential unintuitive trick...

I find this argument to be incredibly weak. I find obnoxious commanders like Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow or Yarok, the Desecrated to dramatically reduce my enjoyment of the format. Having tree/theft answers to commanders that untap and win or cheat commander tax greatly increases my enjoyment of the...

I'd say that not only is this a problem that needs fixing, it's not a problem at all. I mean, this is clearly reducing several people's enjoyment of the format. That alone makes it a problem. Now, not all such problems are solvable, or at least have ideal solutions currently (again, see the perenni...

I'd also note, for the next time someone comes along and says I'm just mad about these from personal experience, I like aristo-adjacent decks. Basically all my decks want to run sac outlets already, because I enjoy that kind of gameplay. Tree effects and theft are dead against me. That does mean, ev...

via a clunky rules change. I find the new rule, as I proposed, more elegant than the current rule 7. It's certainly shorter. So even if you do prefer an aesthetically pleasing ruleset to an enjoyable format, I fail to see how this is a point in favor of the status quo. I'd also add, as people have ...

I'm also with Pokken. Normalizing recasts to once per turn would both stop the dumber food chain/altar loops, and allow people to stay in the game more. If you want people to "suck it up" and deal with their general potentially falling out of the game, you shouldn't be surprised at the way...

materpillar wrote: ↑

1 year ago

Here's top 3 in highest conversions of thanks/posts on the first page as done by someone who was scrolling on their phone and might have missed someone. Drum roll please….

Tread carefully, broad is the road that leads to Reddit.

I do prefer asymmetric synergy wraths like Citywide Bust or Duneblast , both because if they're too crushing, they just end the game and because they're more unique to each deck and playstyle. I somewhat dislike the more brutal exile wraths ( Farewell ) for taking a player out of the game without ac...