Recent content by saprolingtoken

It's a little funny to me now but I think Modern would be much better if Lackey, Muxus and Brightstone Ritual were all legal. And Legacy with Recruiter too. But they aren't and that's a shame.

I think it is extremely useful to audit your beliefs and fact-check yourself on previous statements because that kind of self-reflection is super valuable. I know too many Magic players that self-delude and don't think too critically about what they or others say.

What else can I say? Legacy is so mismanaged it would almost be better if it wasn't managed at all.

The Entomb ban is stupid. BR Reanimator is a deck for a decade, has done the same braindead plays since forever. But when it adopts the Blue shell it becomes a problem. So the solution is to ban Entomb? I feel like I'm taking crazy pills. Literally no one cares about Reanimator until it becomes...

Maybe it's just me but the cascading bans feel weird to me when MH3 is coming up so soon as well as the inevitable Sephiroth v Cactaur tribal meta coming up from the recent UB releases. I feel like now would be the best time for unbans, not bans. The Ponder unrestriction feels absolutely wild to...

Power 9 should just be banned due to being expensive + appearance. That includes Twister. I'm fine with everything else being legal regarding price. These cards can be a special exception. Special pleading, if you like Balance is way too broken and way too easy to abuse and way too cheap. You...

The reasoning from WotC feels contrived, always has. Keep popular cards unbanned because people like them even though they're better than many of the cards that are banned? Sure, why not? Keep those same weak cards banned? Yep, don't want to shake up the format. Also we have a bunch of direct to...

Glad to see Desire back. A sweet card but definitely not a problem because it is so expensive and random (at lower levels of Storm at least). But it is hard to counter as well as not being contingent upon your life total so that's a pretty nice option to have for Storm based decks. I can sort of...

Both Muxus and Snoop are awesome but in different ways, sorta. Both are good in doing the combo thing and also the fair thing. Snoop shines more in Modern but Muxus is much better in Legacy and Vintage where you have access to more ramp and Goblins like Lackey and Recruiter. Both are sweet cards...

New B&R coming up but I expect no consistency from WotC, no definitive/general understanding of what they want each format to look like, why certain cards have been banned, etc. Expect nothing IMHO. These are the people that gave us "gentleman's agreement" and " Yorion too big for Modern...

It's good to point out that Winstigator was a point of contention and something that Goblin players went back and forth on for awhile. I would personally contend it wasn't that good, ever. I remember lots of debates on MTGTheSource about it but it never really performed consistently. More or...

Krenko is certainly notable as a Commander. It is the 14th most popular on EDHRec as of writing. Krenko is pretty straight forward and can easily shift from a combo approach to more just play a lot of Goblins/tokens/swarm approach. It's easy to build around and very powerful. Certainly notable...

I was already sold on the art and I like the playing RW EDH decks because it feels like I have to be a bit more creative in deckbuilding, that it's a sort of "underdog" color combo and it will fly under the radar at the table a bit, no pun intended.

This deck is sweet. I just like that the commander is strong, you have to build around it, but it scales pretty well into the game and it has built in recursion. That you can run actual Rebels from Masque block is really sweet. Love it.

When I started getting into competitive Magic, circa 2003, Dream Halls was pretty bad. I liked the card in a conceptual sense but it was just so expensive when I could just Wish for Yawg's Win and, well, you know. That line didn't last too long but neither did Halls and I never got the option to...