The 40k tyranid deck is swimming in perfect includes. Aberrant and Tervigon are trampling hydras that cantrip on entry and do meaningful stuff on hit, which is the set's token bit of product-shifting power creep. Bone Sabres makes me happy. Old One Eye offers incredible returns for the mana investme...

I pretty much ignored Unstable on impact, think my main exposure came in that draft video Game Knights did. I remember seeing a bunch of limited chaff with goofy arts/names and wondering what made them silver border. At first when I heard that Unfinity would be partly eternal legal, I largely suspec...

How does Nearby Planet work in EDH? Can I slot him into Hazezon, Shaper of Sand as an extra desert, or does the fact that it's all basic land types mean it can only be used in a five-color deck? You don't have to concern yourself with this as it's an acorn card. When they first revealed the acorn t...

Hello there, been a while :) If Relic of Legends speaks to you, go for it. We're already not optimal Feather by virtue of not being a pile of cantrips and dead combo pieces, so may as well have some fun if desired. Between the two, Deep Gnome Terramancer strikes me as a stronger card. It's also nice...

For the most part, I'm ok with the product. A lot of designs rhyming with what exists already, a bunch of cards are costed one mana more than where they would be if they tried to push them. There's a Loyal Warhound that costs three, there's a Reclamation Sage in white with squad that costs 4. There ...

I tend to gravitate toward legends with a transformative effect on the game. Feather turns various sub-chaff tier instants into repeated activated ability draw, which is awesome as hell in my opinion. However, there is a tradeoff between how transformative you are and how narrow your resulting card ...

Ah, opening a thread wise, you go into the primer subforum thing and make a thread there, pointing to the actual primer itself and disclosing some additional info (which I assume you are more than good on). You actually keep the primer in here. Post history is good for that sort of thing.

Why would you need to open up a new thread?

I've been keeping an eye on this thread as an active one with a popular commander, and encourage you to submit it for primer status once you're happy with the write-up. If you'd like your thread ported to the cEDH subforum, I'm pretty sure this should be doable by mods or admins. But at the same tim...

Hello and welcome :) glad to hear that you're also interested in the modular take on Ghired. Beatstick wise, the best options not already in the deck are Archangel of Thune and Terror of the Peaks , which are both even more expensive than the Kalonian Hydra you're missing :P What makes a truly outst...

I'm seeing some minor echoes of my original deck in here, e.g. Wrap in Vigor (which would be objectively better as a Heroic Intervention :P ), but it really came into its own with the commander swap. Think this direction of just flooding the board with value works better with your choice of creature...

Fiddling to try to find a sweet spot. Out: 1 Arcane Denial 1 Cathars' Crusade 1 Eldrazi Monument 1 Jazal Goldmane 1 Gilded Lotus 1 Midnight Haunting 1 Release the Dogs 1 Resolute Reinforcements 1 Soltari Champion 1 True Conviction In: 1 Basri's Solidarity 1 Candlekeep Inspiration 1 Collective Effort...

DMU is back to our regular scheduled inactivity show. Plaza of Heroes could technically protect Patron, but is not a forest. We lack the creature density to make good use of Silverback Elder , but I'm sure the card will find many a home anyway. Threats Undetected lacks precision, and Patron lacks th...

DMU has some cool stuff in it, but none of it is going to make it to my list. Cadric, Soul Kindler has a weird Flameshadow Conjuring lite going on for legends only, which could be used to get two perma-Ghireds if sequenced ahead of Ghired, or nothing if sequenced later :P The deck is not well equipp...

Thanks for consolidating your various talking points. While I may still currently remember them, future me or other readers may not necessarily :P Seeing how I run Sword of Feast and Famine to decent effect, I could actually see The Reaver Cleaver having a home in some Feathers, especially ones that...

Yeah, I saw that thing during spoiler season but forgot to take note of it as it costs six mana and "just" polymorphs stuff. Might still be worth in situations where you can catch a whole bunch of critical pieces with this. I'm sure you'll find something cool to do with this card :P Anothe...

DMU Changes Dear reader, if you've been considering keeping a primer of your own, may I wholeheartedly encourage you to do so. It's been very helpful to go back through the discussion and see various musings about weak points and possibilities. Put it all together with a little bit of a nudge from ...

DMU Changes Another set, another bunch of bespoke engineered semi-chase cards later. To be fair, given the choice between this sort of stuff and crazy power cards, or even Harmonic Prodigies , I'll take the current style. Out: 1 Plains 1 Tainted Field In: 1 Plaza of Heroes 1 Sunlit Marsh Plaza of H...

Interesting, I in turn think that DMU is a very nice set, and prefer it to DOM. A couple years back, R&D started consciously messing with some previously untouched terrain for strategic depth. However, you then end up with things like Elvish Warmaster or Midnight Arsonist which just suck all the...

I tuned into the DMU preview stream and saw Raff, Weatherlight Stalwart . The card turned out to be a signpost uncommon for the UW archetype, but it still read kinda cool - so I want to cast spells, but then I also want to have creatures, and then if I match the two up then I get to tack on a cantri...

As is often the case with things I'm not invested in, I think I'm a good village idiot to litmus test an outsider's perspective on certain happenings. Around WAR was the only time I gave anything resembling half a damn about Magic story. After years of having the Jacetus League crammed down our thro...

Alright folks, how are we feeling about Plaza of Heroes ? I'd say this is the most "goes everywhere" card they've printed since Arcane Signet , though there are some caveats as to what decks actually want this. The further away you are from a cheap utility commander in a shell that can pla...

not really that excited about another hundred legends, still got plenty of exploration with the Baldur's Gate crew to do and I find 'em more dynamic, more archetypal, less squeezed for valuuuuuuueeeeeeee Interesting, I'm feeling the reverse - CLB put me to sleep for the most part, and I find DMU qu...

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1 year ago

I can't imagine there's a deck that wants to play this.

I ran this in my super short-lived Perry build that wanted to collect all the various weird counters. It was functional there, pumped Perry up a notch like desired, and served as a form of creature removal.

I did not care much for Dominaria. In retrospect, the set felt a bit uncanny valley - it was trying to call back to an old era of Magic while reframing it through current artistic/design sensibilities. However, DMU is working for me. The cards shown on the preview are not wildly adventurous designs,...