This kind of thing makes me mad. Unemployment benefits aren't supposed to be an alternative, they are supposed to be a stop-gap so you can survive for a short period of time without instantly bankrupting you or something else catastrophic if you lose your job. And I'm not actually mad that your cow...

I'm actually working harder than before during this. I work for a business that primarily supports other business. Our customers include things like food/hospitals/energy sector stuff, so we're pretty well justified in being essential. But half our customers aren't, and people can currently make bas...

I'm sorry that my late night random thoughts caused this Nah you're good. Bob actually contacted me in private messages to continue the debate without derailing here any more. Back on topic! The recent cards they've printed that are like big mana rocks but they come into play tapped, in this case M...

If that were true, there would be no reason for 903.5d, Yes, the lands have that intrinsic ability, but that's still in the rules, and not on the card - and CI looks at what's on the card. While the lands are granted that ability, that ability is not actually on the card, it's in the rules. Exactly...

so,tell me i'm wrong but since the mana symbols are in ( ) that mean it's reminder text and thus I could run Raugrin Triome in my UW daxos if i wanted to right? Not that I would run a tap land in a two color deck. You are right about (), but overall you are wrong. Lands with basic land types have n...

I don't know that the RC needs to review for Yorion, Sky Nomad - as you noted, it's probably going to make the 99 of Brago, King Eternal , Raff Capashen, Ship's Mage , Roon of the Hidden Realm , Aminatou, the Fateshifter , and many other UWx decks on the strength of its text as a sort of "supe...

Saturday, April 11th, 2020; sensei's divining top This should make for a lively discussion, ha. Me? I've moved away from this mana sink, despite always playing max fetches to make the most from it. Among other shuffles. I just am of the belief that the format has evolved and shaped up past the time...

Book Devourer says draw cards and has comedy flavor text. And you have two more graveyard recursion beasts in that post that would go well with hyperaggressive wheeling. I'd give that a whirl.

For number two, I'm inclined toward Highcliff or Shoreshark. Removal is nice.

Oh, wow, Mythos of Illuna can copy a land. Not sure if we've had land tokens before now. Another cheap way to get a Gaea's Cradle! And if you happen to animate that land, you can make the land fight another creature. XD Being animated isn't a copiable characteristic. You'd need one of the effects t...

MeowZeDung wrote: ↑

4 years ago

RIP Vanish Into Memory. :'(

We'll see. There is far from a guarantee all the new stuff works out.

Edit: then again, I have cut down pretty hard on the in-deck synergies with it as of late. It hit someone else's creature, Precursor Golem, or I'm not doing much drawing.

Mythos of Illuna is pretty solid. Clone target permanent, but optionally better, and only really sad because it's got that 3-color identity keeping it out of most cloning and token-centric decks.

With things settled down at least for the moment, I'm gonna summarize what I'm looking at to keep track of my own thoughts. 1) First test out other flash enablers, Electrodominance and Barracuda of the Tide . I'm going to test them individually in place of Raff to see how I like them. I expect to li...

pokken wrote: ↑

4 years ago

The difference between 3 mana to cycle and 2 is probably like 50 fold in terms of how rarely these will be cycled which is way out of line with the power difference.

Hot take: these would be more impactful than the bicycle lands without the cycling at all.

Hawk wrote: ↑

4 years ago

And the leak was right - rare tri-type cycling lands. Meet Savai Triome, Raugrin Triome, Zagoth Triome, Ketria Triome, and Indatha Triome.

Raugrin is an ugly name for a card I'm obligated to play.

I mean, you're looking to cut draw spells for other draw spells. That's not so bad.

I don't see a lot of people paying 7 mana to draw 5 cards at sorcery speed. The 5 life/5 damage really does not scale well. As an instant it sees fringe play as a sorcery it sees almost no play. Oh good call. I was rationalizing it as an instant and it really isn't. It's a spell with 3 effects that...

Myllior wrote: ↑

4 years ago

Simply, Settle the Wreckage is combat protection, not a board wipe, and should be treated as such in deck building, much as I do with Aetherize and Aetherspouts in Kefnet.

Which is great, because Fogs and combat tricks are both more interesting and neglected compared to board wipes.

I do not that both enchantments are not may triggers. Obviously there are ways for that to not be an issue, but it feels like a deliberate choice WotC has been doing with powerful permanent draw triggers to put at least a small limit that has to be worked around; for awhile they seemed to have just...

Comeuppance is better in most cases. It misses indestructible things and creatures attacking a different player, but it also counters direct damage and doesn't give anything in return. If you treat either as a board wipe, you're not gonna be happy because there will be things that need to die but d...

Hey I've been a long time lurker of your old primer on MtGSalvation so I just want to say first, I love this deck. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VL_5MX7z94 I first built Zedruu waaaaay back in the day as an Enchantress deck more in line with Dechs Kaison's "Pristaxcontrombmodruu" list....

You had me fooled! I was looking for Leave // Chance in the bounce section, and it was in the looting section. My only other comment was going to be Wheel of Fate, and that got covered.

To be fair, I'm pretty sure at this point we have the same magic brain.

Isn't already the Trilobite a combo with the usual synergy of Ascendancy, Resonator and March of the Machines? At the very least it substitutes a 1C mana rock, since it can continually spend 1 mana to create colourless to put it back on itself (the combo needs an extra 1C mana rock for the Resonato...

But the answer is no. To be fair, that's because it's probably not going to see a lot of play. It's not a card with a lot of middle ground. It's most often going to do nothing for people and get cut from decks, it's sometimes going to be a powerful combo piece enough to irritate people and hopefull...

Wait, there it is. cryptic trilobite + illusionist's bracers + voltaic construct . Pay 1 and tap equipped bug to add 2 counters. Remove 1 counter to untap bug with construct's ability. Rinse and repeat. Arbitrarily huge trilobite and infinite colorless mana for abilities, which means voltaic constr...

Another card worth considering popped up: Cryptic Trilobite Cryptic Trilobite . There are a few checkboxes I look for whenever new cards are released, and this hits a few of them: 1) Mana dorks in jeskai colors make for better Jeskai Ascendancy games. 2) Mana storage is great for Zedruu, I don't nee...