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Took Kynaois and Tiro out for a spin today. Running Astral Slide/Lightning Rift, Cycling Lands, and Land retrieval like Loam, alongside some good recursive ETB creatures to abuse with slide. Was pretty fun. Pulled off some pretty huge turns fueled by mountains of lands generated by Burgeoning...

Cobbled together a weird Yidris Reanimator/Fatty deck on Friday and gave it a whirl at the game shop. Only spells below 2 mana cost are Hypergenesis, Living End, and Ancestral Vision. The vision was likely a greedy mistake. Unlike other folks at the shop who were trying to use Yidris to...

Back of the Atraxa box says she "decimates" her foes. Proliferating a Poison counter brings your opponent 1/10th of the way closer to death. This makes me smile.

Time Stop Instant End the turn. Best foil, takes away the book of reminder text.

Nebraska down 3 to 62. Is this Football or Basketball?

I'm okay with $10 for a class when they also have to go through and design a full suite of Set items, legendaries, and a full rune system to go with their new class. Hopefully they've also overhauled pet AI.

Also, Tawnos's Coffin is the best magic card. I have an unnatural love for it. Every time I have it out in Hazezon Tamar I can't stop smiling.

I've got my Weatherlight Set Guide sitting in the other room, just to make sure I'm ready to draft weatherlight again some day.

Oh god, AEG's Black Box this year is Phase, a game they designed in 2006 and wanted to release in 2010. I am going to have to buy it out of morbid curiosity. The original idea was to sell it as a CCG, and create the "ultimate" collectible game. Make cards double-sided, but marry the sides...

The happiest magic players are the ones with no idea what their collection is worth.

I don't buy pre-made proxies, since that's just enabling people trying to sell counterfeits. When I need proxies, I just make a PDF of card images, add PROXY in red where the set symbol should be, then print them out on a sticker-sheet at FedEx and sticker them to some basic lands.

The decision by wizards to disallow IQ+PPTQ combo tourneys helped kill the IQ for any middling turnout area.

Sargeras can totally win this war, all he has to do is offer the PCs some reskinned Mounts for killing off the horde and the alliance.

Having to press Auto-Attack Off, Hide, Auto-Attack every time I had to evade on my rogue was huge APM increase. And then I became a leet haxxor and macro'd that shit.

No more SCG State Championships, that brings us down to what, 8 State Championship tournaments per state per year?

My one regret about going back to the 2 year legality cycle for standard is that it pushes Enemy Fetch Reprints even further back by lengthening the legality of the Battle Lands.

1) Representative Terms set to 6 years so that there's more time between election bullshit detracting from work. Limit of two Terms, does not preclude joining the senate or running for President. 2) Senator: 12 year term so that changes you are involved in have time to show their fruits before...

I try to have a variety of power-levels in the actual decks. We've got 11 shops in town, so I have decks I will or won't bust out based on what shop I'm at. I also keep a little "sideboard" of cards with some decks to adjust their power-level. Like, Hakim I sideboard the Treachery in or Out...

You only need 8 total of each Shockland for EDH. Example: Watery Grave is needed in: BU, BUR, BUG, BUW, BURG, BURW, BUGW, BURGW Fetchlands are the real "god damnit you need so many" point since they aren't restricted by commander color as much. But I uh, played a lot of Onslaught and...

I mean, I was buying all 5 anyway, gotta update the 27-decks to 32 :) Probably going to go budget on their manabases though, don't really feel like trying to get another playset of shocks.

Wizards full set spoiler is out: Commander (2016 Edition) Most of the decks look pretty decent for a commander product. Amused at there only being 1 Nephilim. Time to start working on a Decklist for Saskia. Probably just going to break down my Gisela deck and move the theme up. "Double...

The only sensible form of governance is singular direction backed by divine mandate, with citizenship benefits extended to anyone willing to produce wealth for the state via running a business, or willing to murder the state's enemies, either by main force, or by using their own resources to...

You don't sound very open-minded about polls.

Any political opinion developed after 1138 is rubbish.

Honestly, I just find the religion mechanics tedious.

Like, the ring would at least make sense if it functioned in PVP. You'd get to feel powerful *somewhere*. I think the shitty ring/neck artifacts also just feel way, way worse due to them removing primary stat from jewelry. If it was at least giving you a hyooj fuck chunk of primary stat you'd...

Commander 2016 | MythicSpoiler.com Probably going to build Enchantress out of the Bootykings, since I hate Group Hug.

All 15 Partners are spoiled now, so time to start the 105 Deck Lists Project. Ludevic is impressively disappointing. Buttlink Naga and Sidar Kondo are making their way directly into every Doran, the Siege Tower deck. Reyhan, the Last of the Abzan is an actually interesting general, with a...

Gross. The Grand Prix promo for 2017 is Progenitus, a <$10 card already available in multiple printings, including alt art foil, that only ever sees play as a 1-of anywhere (and it doesn't do that often, since Emrakul exists). And it's replacing Stoneforge in December, not January.

I mean, that's ideally where Crafting would fill in the blanks for those folks. Craft a raid level piece of gear... only requires 50 "Raid Boss Skulls" as material... If you're collecting dragon scales or something to make some raid-level mail it at least makes sense RPG-wise, vs magical...

Everquest Nexter.

Like I'm sharing my nanomachine cloud with you plebs.

Obviously Tempest ETBT Pain Lands :D The BU and UW filter are worth money on their own merits outside of commander, but that's entirely tied to Cryptic Command (And the UR and RG ones every once in a while when KikiJiki is a thing in modern). Would be 100% fine with them harpooning the Filters...

This commander product is looking lit. As long as the Partner commanders continue to be creatures I would be interested in having as a commander by themselves, this is going to be a sweet mountain of combinatrics :) Undaunted should be a hit at any shop where you have 4+ player tables, but the...

Had you lost your original capitol to another civ beforehand?

As far as I can tell murdering religious units doesn't consume movement allocation, so if your empire is roaded up from trade you should be able to declare war and mow down the whole bishopric with one or two units.

Your district "cap" is 1 district per 2 pop beyond the first pop, since your city center functions as a district. So at 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, etc you unlock the ability build an additional district. The Aqueduct and Neighborhood don't count towards this cap, and you can build multiple Neighborhoods...

Top 8 of Kuala Lampur: 31 Gideon, Ally of Zendikar 32 Smuggler's Copter And of course, the most broken card in the format: 32 Thraben Inspector. ;)

Districts also increase in production cost each time you build a copy of it in your Empire, which doesn't actually discourage wide-play so much as it just makes the later cities take longer to build up, if you even care about building them up. And yeah, excess copies of Luxuries are very nice...

If I remember right, Author quit the Manga, Artist took over, main reason for the sudden tonal and character shifts.