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By now, my enthusiasm for mana acceleration spells is no secret. Before Rite of Flame existed, I'd already used several other "ritual" cards in my casual decks, including Dark Ritual, High Tide, Dark Ritual, Songs of the Damned, Dark Ritual, Culling the Weak, Dark Ritual, Burnt Offering, Dark...

About twenty years ago, I heard talk in a local game story about a creature called a "hippie." I had no idea what it meant. It seemed like such a strange name for a creature. So I inquired. And some more experienced players showed me Hypnotic Specter. It wasn't long before I was using...

I look at the cards I've chosen lately for "Magic Memories" and see stuff like Tolarian Academy and Necropotence. Some might accuse me of mostly having fond memories of "broken" cards and being a "jerk." Surely this issue keeps me tossing and turning at nights, wracked with guilt. And yet I can...

Is it just me, or does this automatically trigger on its own bats? Did WotC screw up again the way they did with Hostage Taker? You know: creature leaves your graveyard somehow, bat comes out, sac bat to Altar of Dementia, bat disappears from your graveyard (because it's a token), Desecrated...

Let's do this. Who's up for some 2HG Limited play?

Humor my crass summation of some mid-00's cinema. It is my primitive attempt to emulate the human construct known as "metaphor." And in drawing this tenuous connection, I expend more exposition than I save. A futile gesture, but that's what I'm all about... In the movie Kill Bill, the...

So yesterday I read the last chapter of the Magic Story for Dominaria. I mean, I saw most of this coming since they spoiled the card In Bolas's Clutches long before they got to this chapter. Anyway, I don't think it's quite worth a full article, but some of this stuff is bugging me... First, I...

Yesterday I took apart my EDH deck. There's already a thread in the Decks forum stating this, but I used the parts to start a new Canadian Highlander deck, so it's not for nothing. But I do have some reservations about this and I started a new thread here in the General forum because my issue...

This is the fifth Canadian Highlander deck I've put together so far, but on the second one I'm posting in the decks forum because one abandoned the day after I built it and two were "netdecked." TappedOut link. Decklist (version 1.0) 1x Abyssal Gatekeeper 1x Academy Rector 1x Anafenza...

My latest Comboist Manifesto endeavor is probably going to show up on the front page at some point. But I've also written another new article, my first non-Comboist article in a long time. I wanted to keep it separate from those articles because they're about my ideas on Magic theory, combo...

http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/colored-spells-are-for-nerds/ I've been working on Canadian Highlander and other than my crude attempt at a monoblack control deck, which I disassembled after one day, I'll probably post my decks here. Right now I've got two exact netdecks (Goblins and Jeskai...

I've had my eye on this card for a while, but with Psarketos bringing it up in the Necropotence "Magic Memories" thread and posting a link to this Mike Flores article I think this one deserves a single card discussion thread. So here we are... Well, I really like this card. A lot. And while...

No changes to any format (of course).

In the Dominaria previews thread, the topic of Mark Rosewater's 2002 "When Cards to Bad" article came up. This topic has been revisited by Mark Rosewater in various media many times, and I can kind of see why. Our context was a bit muddled: I wasn't actually citing any cards as "bad cards."...

Oh yes, we're doing this. We're making this happen now. I finally decided that I'd put it off for long enough. But the time has come! Well now, where to begin? I don't know whether my favorite card ever is Dark Ritual or Necropotence. They go together anyway, so it's really just a matter of...

This site is focused on casual play. One of the things I think is great about this is that there's a wide variety of approaches to most aspects of the game, with different players focused on their own environments and interests. Sure, there aren't that many of us, but when these topics do come...

Recently, some people (very few people, really) have advocated unrestricting Fastbond in Vintage. I doubt it'll happen, and I'm actually not sure either way. Unlike with Yawgmoth's Bargain, I don't really have anything to compare Fastbond to. Nothing else in the game is quite like it. So even...

http://www.eternalcentral.com/so-many-insane-plays-podcast-episode-77-masters-25-preview-and-arabian-nights-review/ Listened to this one today and it impelled me to update my LED Memories thread to note the late 90's Doomsday decks. But I figured I might as well share it in a separate thread...

Spoilers are here for Masters 25. As I've noticed tends to be the case early on with set spoilers, first glances at set composition can be deceptively mundane. Even well into "spoiler season" for a new set, I am left thinking, "There's nothing good here." It takes a while for the dust to settle...

While looking for some cards for a deck, I realized that I do not currently own a single copy of Ice Storm. A technicality that will shortly be remedied! So yeah, buying some copies post-haste. Not sure what happened. I used to have Ice Storm at some point. Must have been one of those things...