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I love Dream Halls. I don't know where to start. Well, there's a kind of story... Infamously, back when Stronghold came out, InQuest magazine dismissed Dream Halls as the worst card in the set. They reasoned that it was a liability. You pitch your Llanowar Elves to cast your Verdant Force...

https://www.leafscience.org/valery-novoselov-investigating-jeanne-calments-longevity-record/ I'm not really sure how well-known the background material here is, but it's a subject I've been following for as long as I can remember. When I was a kid, Jeanne Calment was still alive and appeared...

At some point last week, I watched this video. The things is rather long, but it's basically a discussion on things that the speakers believe EDH players should stop doing. Some of them are references to gameplay mistakes that they perceive as being common, and others are general etiquette...

So a group called "Magic of Browns Point"* has organized some local budget Commander events, and today they ran a Two-Headed Giant version. It was decided that each deck couldn't cost more than $150 and deck couldn't include any cards in common with its companion deck. My friend, Eric, and I...

Even though some of them have been fairly short, I've kinda enjoyed the "Memories" threads that were about cards I've mostly explored in recent years, rather than the ones I played with back when I was a kid. Stuff like Evolutionary Leap (a card that is only three years old) and Elephant Guide...

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...

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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...