Recent content by saprolingtoken

My memories of my time playing casually are pretty fuzzy since it was so long ago but I don't really remember seeing Ashond's Altar at all. My first memory is from EDH circa 2010. I had a friend with a Ghave deck. Currently, I play it in my Krenko deck and it's really good there.

In the video discussing the B&R announcement they she mentioned that they only wanted to unban cards when the format is stale and hasn't changed for awhile. Which, to me, is really strange. Since Innistrad, Legacy has been dominated by Delver. Miracles, Ancient Tomb nonsense and different combo...

I feel like this grows even more true over time. I was going to make a longer post but an alcohol-fueled rehash of the same stuff I've been saying forever was what you got. It's funny. The first time I played my Krenko deck in my new playgroup, after I moved, I combo-ed with Recruiter on turn...

We just need Recruiter in Legacy and Lackey and Muxus in Modern. Then we would have actual tribal decks and other options to play. It's unlikely to happen but its very appropriate power-level wise. Such a shame we will never get more diver, powerful metas in these formats because WotC is braindead.

It feels a bit like Boomers always telling younger generations to "pull themselves up by the bootstraps" in that trying to maintain a staus quo of 2012 Legacy is increasingly, comically, going to happen and make the format a disaster as a result. You see that in the cards that are banned and the...

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...