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pharmakos said:
Told you Rusko was the shit! 💙 I have NO idea why so many people are sleeping on him.

Duel sometime? My current list is Historic but I could probably make an Alchemy version.

Edit -- oh wait you're BO1ing. I haven't BO1ed in a long time. I might try your list for it tho, looks tasty.
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Rusko and Oracle were obvious, but I'm the only person I've run into that's using The Reality Chip. It's a good early blocker against the aggro decks and then it just lets you go off against the midrange and control decks if they don't have a way to get rid of it.
 
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Rusko and Oracle were obvious, but I'm the only person I've run into that's using The Reality Chip.
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I see The Reality Chip quite a bit in a Dimir shell but almost never anywhere else. I thought about it but I don't run enough creatures to really make it work.

You thought about a Thief of Sanity or two? If you expand to a BO3 list it's especially great out of the sideboard as a surprise against decks with light removal, sometimes even against control decks depending.
 
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Also you miiiiight be able to replace a removal spell or two with Murderous Rider. Dimir decks do really well with modal cards and that's one of the best ones.
 
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Murderous Rider is not in Standard and therefore not in Alchemy. I also don't think you understand what this deck does. The point of Reality Chip is to cast all your moxen+lotuses+cantrips off the top of your deck and just go off, particularly with a Rusko in play but even without, and keep drawing 7 cards over and over until your opponent is dead either to Rusko drains or timewalking a bunch of times. It's more a combo deck that is just forced to play some removal due to having to survive against mono-red and also be able to reliably remove enemy Sheoldreds.

The card I would most be interested in fitting in this deck is probably Lier. Untapping with Lier would be fucking lol. But a 5 mana card would fuck me against mono-red, and there's a ton of mono-red even at the top of the ladder.
 
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Murderous Rider is not in Standard and therefore not in Alchemy. I also don't think you understand what this deck does. The point of Reality Chip is to cast all your moxen+lotuses+cantrips off the top of your deck and just go off, particularly with a Rusko in play but even without, and keep drawing 7 cards over and over until your opponent is dead either to Rusko drains or timewalking a bunch of times. It's more a combo deck that is just forced to play some removal due to having to survive against mono-red and also be able to reliably remove enemy Sheoldreds.

The card I would most be interested in fitting in this deck is probably Lier. Untapping with Lier would be fucking lol. But a 5 mana card would fuck me against mono-red, and there's a ton of mono-red even at the top of the ladder.
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definitely enjoying this set so far
 
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Someone opened an Aftermath CB. You can really feel how small the set is, even with so few cards in a CB. A bunch of planeswalkers that were Legendary Creatures. Interesting. And some of those cards he opened 3 different versions of, which I suppose is one way to stretch the tiny set. Really curious how many different arts/treatment versions there are vs number of unique cards. Even had a retro foil thrown in for good measure.

On the low end booster boxes are going for $75, and CBs for $185. I just don't see how the price on these CBs is going to hold, but what do I know /shrug

 
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Someone opened an Aftermath CB. You can really feel how small the set is, even with so few cards in a CB. A bunch of planeswalkers that were Legendary Creatures. Interesting. And some of those cards he opened 3 different versions of, which I suppose is one way to stretch the tiny set. Really curious how many different arts/treatment versions there are vs number of unique cards. Even had a retro foil thrown in for good measure.

On the low end booster boxes are going for $75, and CBs for $185. I just don't see how the price on these CBs is going to hold, but what do I know /shrug

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I don't know who that person is in that video but it just comes off wrong. He should not be doing pack openings for Magic the Gathering. He should be doing videos on ways to place electrical sockets in your home or some other do it yourself kind of video. His enthusiasm is just so blase.
 
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Someone opened an Aftermath CB. You can really feel how small the set is, even with so few cards in a CB. A bunch of planeswalkers that were Legendary Creatures. Interesting. And some of those cards he opened 3 different versions of, which I suppose is one way to stretch the tiny set. Really curious how many different arts/treatment versions there are vs number of unique cards. Even had a retro foil thrown in for good measure.

On the low end booster boxes are going for $75, and CBs for $185. I just don't see how the price on these CBs is going to hold, but what do I know /shrug

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Getting the vibe that they are going to stop printing Planeswalkers, at least for a while, and replace them with Battles.
 
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Secret Lair Artist Series: Alayna Danner Statement

An update regarding an error in the printing of Seraph Sanctuary from the Secret Lair Artist Series: Alayna Danner drop.
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So get this. They fuck up and print an in-progress version of the art for one of her cards. If you want the actual art, you have to buy a completely different SL later for it as the secret card. Jesus Christ.
 
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Also, what the fuck happened to Rebecca Guay? Shit, this is disappointing.

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Artist Series: Rebecca Guay | Secret Lair

Rebecca Guay has been a fan-favorite artist ever since she first illustrated three cards for the Alliances expansion in 1996. Since then, Rebecca has contributed more than 150 pieces to Magic: The Gathering, including some of the most iconic and evocative art the game has seen. With this series...
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She's been doing adult work under Rebecca Leveille for some time. I guess she wanted to bring some of that weirdness to MTG.
 
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Also, what the fuck happened to Rebecca Guay? Shit, this is disappointing.

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Artist Series: Rebecca Guay | Secret Lair

Rebecca Guay has been a fan-favorite artist ever since she first illustrated three cards for the Alliances expansion in 1996. Since then, Rebecca has contributed more than 150 pieces to Magic: The Gathering, including some of the most iconic and evocative art the game has seen. With this series...
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Secret Lair: Stoneforge Mystic, plus some random trash. Please submit your weirdest/worst art Rebecca so we can use it on these throwaway cards no one even knows about.
 
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