At some point in perpetual hype season, I came across this image of what might have been an alternative art treatment of a brand spanking new UB secret lair card: https://i.imgur.com/AZLu3AX.png I realised I cannot organically differentiate this from a fake given the zany treatments and IP breaks th...

I love the old border, and am happy they're printing stuff in it again. That said, there's no confusing the new oversaturated take for the original. Nevertheless, the creation of this new form of bling has become more desirable than original new border printings for me. I'm only keeping one deck dec...

And third time's the charm, finishing up the trends started by the Brass Knuckles update. I had the swaps finalised about a month or two after the last post, but just never got around to writing here. As such, I have plenty of data to support that all of the new includes are a good idea. Out: 1 Gian...

The thing that annoys me about the set is that there are a ton of new Spark Double s, and I know for a fact that had Gimbal, Gremlin Prodigy not perished early in the brewing process I'd be grumbling and looking for cuts right now. While not necessarily the most pushed cards in history, they are red...

I floated the list by the loosely affiliated Discord, where it turned out that Wildfire and Morgane have related decks. Both have certain elements that I'm interested in exploring, for now I'm taking one piece of cool tech on board that's shared between the lists and was vouched for by both of them....

This card holds a special place in my heart. There's a guy in my group who builds cool decks, but has historically disliked running draw as he finds it boring. Pre-pandemic, he built a Tana + Ravos deck inspired by the enrage mechanic, and as usual it was sputtering out in games. I tried to suggest ...

I floated the list and my recent musings by Ebline, who encouraged both the curve trimming and triome removal. I floated the list and my recent musings by pokken, who reminded me Song of Freyalise exists. Onward! Out: 1 Catapult Master 1 Ketria Triome 1 Nullmage Shepherd 1 Raffine's Tower 1 Raugrin ...

Hey wait, isn't this a creature deck? Out: 1 Arcane Signet 1 Farseek 1 Fellwar Stone 1 Nature's Lore In: 1 Arbor Elf 1 Bloom Tender 1 Ignoble Hierarch 1 Noble Hierarch The ramp was operational but unexciting. Sticking in the creme de la creme of mana dorks as they can also be meeple, plus I don't ac...

De-clunk attempts continue! Out: 1 Conspiracy 1 Duergar Mine-Captain 1 Gavony Township 1 Hallowed Fountain 1 Harbin, Vanguard Aviator 1 Lethal Sheme 1 Pile On 1 Sea of Clouds 1 Universal Automaton In: 1 Birds of Paradise 1 Forest 1 Ketria Triome 1 Kyren Negotiations 1 Mothdust Changeling 1 Muddle th...

While I'd like to think that most of the incoherence stems from me taking the term "meeple" for granted, I figured I shouldn't chance it and rewrote the deck blurb just in case. Sorry :P I've been doing goldfishes and got some 1v1s in, and the deck sometimes performs. Landing a good ramp o...

In board games, it's pretty common to have a limit on the number of actions that you can do. In Carcassonne, a popular tile placement game that has you constructing a medieval town and its surroundings, this takes the form of little wooden humanoid figurines that you can place on the growing board t...

WOE Change Triplers are in a bit of a weird place right now. They only debuted two kinds, took a couple years off hinting at the general idea being abandoned, but are now returning to the same two effects they previously explored. There are other things that they could technically try multiplying -...

Same as always. In EDH, Hoof shines as an "oops I win" button on a wide board. Drop it with like 20 chumps present and it's all over. We don't swarm that hard. In a vacuum, there need to be seven Rhinos already present on the board for total P/T on the Hoof turn to go into triple digits. C...

Gruff Triplets is an interesting card, one that asks more questions than provides answers. The gameplay it seems to want involves single-target saccing (preferably with power-based payoff), populating, counter shenanigans. Ghired does one of those, and not as a focal point but rather as an amplifyi...

WOE's main Feather consideration is Plunge into Winter . Do you want to pay an extra mana for a Niveous Wisps to get a scry on top? Honestly not a bad deal, but situations where the spell's full potential will be realised will be few and far between. A one-drop cantrip will happily occupy spare mana...

WOE's {w/b} archetype is auras, so there's a very high number of vaguely relevant cards. The winner by a landslide is Slumbering Keepguard - the one mana cost makes him effortless to sequence in whenever, and the fact the scry triggers on constellation means the spirits help dig. As such, the card h...

CMM Change I was awaiting the CMM precons with a degree of apprehension. The product was a high profile one, and the precons were the only place where they'd get to make new cards, and the price point was increased, and one of the themes happened to be WBG enchantress. How many cards would be vying...

I think the list in the OP may be a bit outdated as I saw Lathiel as I was looking for stuff that makes tokens for Bennie Bracks. My initial reaction to the cut idea was slight confusion. But then I realised my perspective is biased as I set down Pippin, Warden of Isengard during my sole game with t...

Are you going to be surprised when I recommend enchantment ramp? ;) It feels that Utopia Sprawl and Wild Growth are exactly what you're after here. Mox Amber is perfect for you too, Heck, I'd even consider Jeweled Amulet ! I actually played the out-of-the-box precon when a playgroup friend surprise ...

I did some goldfishes with Cream of the Crop and the card is fantastic. It offers dig close to Greater Good while not sacrificing board presence. This is the most efficient way to mow through the deck in search of whatever piece is missing from the puzzle - a land drop to help ensure the plan works ...

Oh neat, they printed a new Zulaport. Out: 1 Krav, the Unredeemed In: 1 Mirkwood Bats The more Zulaports the merrier, so in you go. Krav leaving is a similar story to the last cut, I don't really struggle for cards here and Krav munching my swarms felt a little overkill. The Reprocess es are just si...

LTR's UG draft archetype is scry, which translates to some pretty neat "whenever you scry" designs... which this can't use because Eligeth is a replacement effect. Out: 1 Deliberate In: 1 Elven Farsight Oh look, another Ancestral Recall , and this one might even draw a fourth card. Without...

LTR Change If in doubt, goldfish it. Out: 1 Tribute to the World Tree In: 1 The One Ring Ghired is cool with trickle draw. The One Ring provides a steady stream of hands-off trickle draw, plus the aforementioned crackback shield. Elemental Bond s have always been welcome here, and this is like that...

LTR Changes I feel I need to see The One Ring in a real game - the deck wants to ramp early and massively draw late, and this does not sequence amazingly with that. In a goldfish scenario, the card felt like a contingency plan for things not coming together. It did fine when I ended up needing to c...

New set, surprising amount of considerations! Ghired is the second most desirable of my decks (after Daxos ) to park The One Ring in. The incremental draw will be appreciated whenever this shows up, the crackback shield will be appreciated if deployed late. I'm not a huge fan of how stupidly versati...