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-1 Body Snatcher +1 Activated Sleeper Body Snatcher is a classic backup option used in Protean Hulk loops. If a key creature is stuck in your hand and you don't have a discard outlet, just grab Body Snatcher instead, then sacrifice it and get the creature from your hand. I believe that this...

-1 Flayed One +1 Pili-Pala Another upgrade because I picked up a card I had wanted to run, but didn't previously own a copy of. This should be the last one. Probably. Deck is done for real now.

Yikes, this commander is kind of scary. I mean, I built the deck because attractions are wacky, but I knew that within the randomness, there was inherently some substantial power baked in. Well, if my one game is enough to go on, this deck is obnoxious and can easily take over the table if left...

Success! Kept and opening hand with Serra Ascendant, which gave me early board presence and some life. I had Command Tower as my only green source at first, but Life from the Loam turned that around. One opponent was building a deadly board state, and the rest of us had to work together to hold...

Back in 2003, Al0ysiusHWWW was able to spend a lot more money on Magic cards than I could. But Illusionary Mask was a bit much for his budget. He picked up three copies, but didn't have a fourth to complete his playset. So his first MaskNought decks all only had three copies of Illusionary Mask...

In this thread, there was a bit of discussion about MaskNought, both when the thread was new and last year, after I thread-necromancied it. That magazine was my first exposure to the idea of a MaskNought deck, and served the same purpose for a lot of others too. I believe that the price on...

Mostly, I just want to visit attractions. Commander: 1 Myra the Magnificent 1 Academy Ruins 1 Arcane Signet 1 Bamboozling Beeble 1 Barbarian Class 1 Birgi, God of Storytelling 1 Brainstorm 1 Capture of Jingzhou 1 Chaos Warp 1 Clock of Omens 1 Command Performance 1 Copy Artifact 1 Cyclonic Rift...

-1 Retrofitter Foundry +1 Voltaic Construct Definite upgrade. It's just because I didn't own this card before, but I picked up a copy today. I rule.

Maybe I should rename this deck "I'm a Loesser, Baby, So Why Don't You Kill Me?" or something. I don't know. Only got one game in so far with this deck, and it was a disaster. I had a Sol Ring and got stuck on 4 lands. Should be plenty of mana, but the lands were Desert, Scavenger Grounds, Strip...

Played this one for my first game of the evening and then for the final game, which was interrupted by the store closing up for the night. I'm mildly disappointed, but I do not think that the deck got a fair shake at all. So, in the first game, I kept an opening hand with four Swamps. Not ideal...

I thought that this deck was pretty hot stuff, but then I tried it again. Well, maybe the deck is. But today was just bad. I was excited because here I was showing up at the shop with not just one, but two brand new decks. Played both new decks first, then this one. Then this one again. Every...

I write all this not to bemoan some lost opportunity, but to set the stage for the real and idealized worlds into which Underworld Dreams and Nether Void emerged. That means showcasing how little the designers had to work with. Paradoxically, it also means pointing out the information that the...

I was recently playing an EDH game in which I had a Drannith Magistrate on the battlefield, and the creature’s presence complicated things for my opponents. In a format that revolves around commanders, locking your opponents out of being able to cast their commanders from the command zone is...

The deck name is a geology pun, and not even a very good one. Anyway, last year I built a deck helmed by the old Hazezon, but that one sacrificed its own sand warrior tokens to make big plays. This time around, I'll probably be attacking with them. Also, I have a few ways to give one of my...

Despite my misgivings, Warhammer 40,000 precons have arrived. Frustratingly, they're really quite good. The art direction is spectacular, the flavor is cogent, the reprints are decent, and the new cards are generally powerful. I was going to steer clear of this release entirely, but am...

https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/news/october-10-2022-banned-and-restricted-announcement Standard: The Meathook Massacre is banned. Modern: Yorion, Sky Nomad is banned.

To be clear, it's not so much that I have a gripe with them removing a particular card from this product that I wasn't going to purchase anyway, but more the general interest in which things they believe to be OK vs. not OK, since they've been tight-lipped about that ever since 2020. We get...

It's in there. Pagans are OK now. But the flavor text on Two-Headed Giant of Foriys is gone because of the reference to schizophrenia.

Yep. I mentioned it in the "Racist cards" thread, but didn't really bother to post about it anywhere else until now. Crusade was flagged as "racist" by WotC in 2020, so it won't be in this product. The ante cards are also being removed for some reason. The other two cards that were in the...

Only played this once so far. Used Diabolic Intent to find Thrumming Stone and Sol Ring to cast it early, then deployed 34 Shadowborn Apostles. Opponents couldn't kill them, so I won on my next turn.