Just imagine if that card were identical, but U instead of G. That tells you everything about the design space of card draw in the current WOTC philosophy. In most cases, you either want a land or literally any other card in your deck, and this helps you do that. I guess "smoothing draws" ...

It baffles me that green continues to get bonkers card selection for 1 mana, while blue gets stuck at 2 mana or trash like Opt and Serum Visions.

And you can bet your ass I will jam a card with art I like into a deck no matter how good or bad it is hehe. I'm not going to pretend I don't do this either. Especially if I have some special foil/promo version. :grin: :love: Especially at the paper FNM level, I will ALWAYS err on the side of what ...

Ironically, even as a huge lover of special treatment cards, I just can't get too excited about many of the TSR or Mystical Vault cards. Nearly everything I need or want, I already have some other special version. It puts me in a really weird spot since like, for example, I have foil Theros Beyond D...

I didn't know those cards got into the Historic card pool. Historic is so weird to me knowing that. I haven't played anything in Arena in so long. I can't remember when I played it last. I was really into standard when I got back into Magic, but I haven zero interest in it now. I'm all about modern...

@drmarkb It's all downhill from here and has been for a while, not just Magic, but life in general. %$#% sucks man. That being said, those Mystical Archive cards sure look cool, and it looks like there will be some nice reprints for Modern decks too. I'm definitely eyeing some stuff to pimp up some...

Sorry for ranting so much, it just struck a nerve with me I guess and I have no life anymore. I just get so annoyed with people who come in with that attitude and behaviour when we're all just nerds sitting in a stinky basement (buy %$#% deodorant guys... it's not expensive) playing a fantasy card ...

(e) Planeswalkers are actually quite hated by a lot of players, including commander players, but they have no other method to sell the game so they will continue to be the face of the game with little to discourage people putting them in their decks. It's not so much that they're "hated,"...

I'm EXTREMELY worried, considering the untold havoc MH1 gave us. Whether or not the tools and toys it gives us make the format better, I anticipate 100% that something from MH2 is either going to be banned or going to get something else banned as a result. Exciting times for sure, but between inevit...

Control is good, but the best build isn't 100% known. Esper is killing it when TSPJendrek pilots it, otherwise people seem to like UW? There's also the hybrid "Jund-like" value "4-color control" decks playing Omnath and Wrenn and Six have been great. It's basically "all the...

I then see Sanctuary is banned?! Then I see Teferi and Veil are NOT banned?!? Sanctuary was a universally busted card. Free, repeatable Snapcaster Mage that doesn't exile is just asking to be abused. As someone who cast the same Time Warp over and over again thanks to Sanctuary, I'm definitely OK w...

Control is good, but the best build isn't 100% known. Esper is killing it when TSPJendrek pilots it, otherwise people seem to like UW? There's also the hybrid "Jund-like" value "4-color control" decks playing Omnath and Wrenn and Six have been great. It's basically "all the...

I really liked some of the new expeditions, see Catacombs, Misty and Heath, but really hated the other blue fetches. For shocks I had the OG ravnica expeditions shocks, but nothing can really compare to Ravnica 1 and Ravnica 2 foils with the watermark imo - Rob Alexander ftw. Also, they're thematic...

Those colonnades look dope. I don't know if I should get them or the latest expedition version when I get around to buying them. I like both. Honestly, I don't really like the new expeditions. Which sounds super weird coming from me, who loves all kinds of weird promos and foils. Just something abo...

Wait, Skyclave, the 1WW, exile a perm, foil, for around $8? I saw a buyer on FB offering $12.50 each, so I assumed they were currently at $15 or more. I may try to get some myself. FYI, the rest of the mail came in. Skyclave 1: $8.88, Skyclave 2: $8.99, Colonnade (x2 same seller) : $8.95/ea. Total:...

Kaya's Guile is a great reason to do Esper. Could even force Esper Charm (even if it's kind of out-classed by Archmage's Charm these days, but could always run a split of both). I feel my personal qualms with going Esper is the opposed nature of discard vs counter and the downside of Push vs downsi...

nice, it's becoming cheaper. And very useful card. I think it's just a byproduct of non-existent paper play. I'm doing what I (foolishly) did after the Twin ban and picking up "staples" on the cheap, hoping they'll still be relevant (or be relevant again) "soon." (*cries in foil...

Unrelated to the new cards, the whole "Celestial Colonnade is back on the menu" train has me hyped. I sold my copies years ago for like $30ish a piece, and today the alt art foil FNM promos are like $8. Picked up two, along with (surprisingly cheap) Skyclaves, at around the same price for...

Unrelated to the new cards, the whole "Celestial Colonnade is back on the menu" train has me hyped. I sold my copies years ago for like $30ish a piece, and today the alt art foil FNM promos are like $8. Picked up two, along with (surprisingly cheap) Skyclaves, at around the same price for ...

" Umezawa's Jitte is too hostile to creature decks" *laughs in Lava Dart Plague Engineer Lightning Bolt Path to Exile Fatal Push Wrenn and Six Aether Gust Skyclave Apparition Walking Ballista Lurrus of the Dream-Den Abrade Engineered Explosives Anger of the Gods Supreme Verdict ...... What...

I would love nothing more than to see DRS as a nice Uro replacement for "value creature and self-contained engine," but I think that like Uro, it just does too much for too little. I would happily try to jam it in something like Sultai Control, or even pushing the remaining Omnath piles i...

I would love nothing more than to see DRS as a nice Uro replacement for "value creature and self-contained engine," but I think that like Uro, it just does too much for too little. I would happily try to jam it in something like Sultai Control, or even pushing the remaining Omnath piles in...

It's my understanding that they will hold the same legal status as The Walking Dead. AKA "All 'eternal' formats. It's ironic that these mess of cards finally draws a line in the sand for people (myself included) who frequently use "eternal" and "non-rotating" interchangeably...

There are numerous things that could, and should, come off the list. I hope that they would adopt their "experimental" desire on other formats, besides Vintage, but it's doubtful they will. Which is sad because A) other formats could DEFINITELY benefit from such experimentation, and B) Des...

Re: inevitable more bans... Modern fundamentally lacks the tools and answers needed to keep everything in check. It is almost always a "race to the bottom" every time some new busted thing comes out. And the few times "Control" or "Answers" decks are actually good, they...