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There have been several other Oath payloads. I won't attempt to cover them all: some of the ones I have discovered appear to only show up in Vintage tournament results a couple of times, and that wouldn't capture all the other fringe options I never even found records of. So, I'll try to capture...

The Burning Tendrils Oath deck fell by the wayside in 2015, and that's too bad. But Oath decks remained a major archetype in the Vintage metagame. Griselbrand was and is the most popular Oath payload ever since, with Emrakul, the Aeons Torn and Blightsteel Colossus both maintaining some presence...

In 2012, Burning Tendrils represented a striking fusion between tech that was old and had been gone from Vintage and tech that was brand-new. Early Vintage storm combo lists known as "Burning Desire" and "Death Storm" put Yawgmoth's Will in the sideboard and used Burning Wish or Death Wish...

It occurs to me that the 2014 Vintage Championship decklist from the link in that thread Spiderman posted could be kind of instructive. It's a particularly control-heavy version of the archetype, even going so far as to run Mana Drain. Now, it could still be a pretty fast deck. This was Vintage...

Griselbrand probably warrants its own Magic Memories thread, and I know that I spent some time in the Yawgmoth's Bargain thread reminiscing about Griselbrand. There's a lot of overlap in functionality between the two cards, but Griselbrand is a creature, so it's easier to cheat onto the...

Blightsteel Colossus isn't quite as popular as an Oath payload as Emrakul is, but comes with one major advantage: you can Tinker it in. For this reason, it's often seen alongside Emrakul as a kind of backup. Even if you never get Oath of Druids + Forbidden Orchard online, you can Tinker away a...

Of the three big Oath payloads that emerged in the early 2010's, Emrakul was the first one on the scene. I just mentioned that cast trigger, which is a pretty big deal. And of course, cheating Emrakul out with Oath of Druids means you don't get the cast trigger. This card is much deadlier if you...

Yeah, once I get back to building EDH decks, this is going to be one of the first commanders I focus on. The naysayers are nuts.

The thing about goblins since last year is that the Goblin Recruiter + Conspicuous Snoop engine is so powerful that almost nothing else of a tribal nature can compete with it. All the tools are already there, and it's possible that no new goblins will break into the optimal list. A new goblin...

Peasant: One new card. Um, it makes squirrels. Cool? Peasant Tribal remains virtually unplayable. Pegasus: One new card. I don’t like it. Pirate: Three new cards. The monkey is so potent that it makes the cut in any red-heavy Pirate Tribal deck. The other two are questionable. Plant: One new...

Before the cards in Modern Horizons 2 were revealed, there was a looming question. The first Modern Horizons was the first experiment at releasing cards directly into the Modern format, circumventing Standard power level concerns. And in hindsight, we now know that the first set in this series...

The release date for Modern Horizons 2 is fast approaching. I should be able to get my Tribal Update Report ready by then. If you haven't noticed, the set is pretty crazy. Amidst all the craziness, one thing I noticed was that EDH players who are also Enchantress enthusiasts finally got the...

-Dorgath's Great Axe restores 1 Wound. -Dorgath's Lifestone of Ashraz heals 1 Wound (15/25). -Throg breaks wind and casts Cause Animosity, insisting to the wights that it was the crypt keepers who broke wind, then telling the crypt keepers that it was actually the wights. His magic succeeds on...

Definitely a valid approach. Tribal Game 15 was played all the way back in 2013, so I forget if Blood Moon was in my maybe pile for this one, but it might have been. I could easily build a stronger Goblins deck these days, and could probably have done so even back then. It came up in discussion...

Thread necromancy time! While writing my Tribal report for the fast-approaching release of Modern Horizons 2, I was trying to jog my memory about some deck that someone else had played in a CPA game, and I happened across this thread. I was immediately distracted by the fact that the decklists I...

What happened on Arena, though?

You're not wrong. I haven't seen anyone try Tibalt's Trickery with Griselbrand, but Legacy players have used it to cast Emrakul. Since they're casting Emrakul instead of just cheating it onto the battlefield, they get the cast trigger too. So that's pretty brutal.

Although some of the core features, such as the adoption of Forbidden Orchard as an Oath enabler and the split between graveyard-based combo vs. planeswalker-based control, were already well-established by late 2000's, big changes were on the way. The early 2010's saw the introduction of...

Saprolings are fun. In my own decks, generally this has been either from Saproling Burst, Saproling Cluster, or Night Soil. But I've been toying with bringing back some of the other classic saproling generators. Elvish Farmer is (or will soon be) a $10 card. Is it all just Reserved List crap, or...

That sucks. I've been pretty fortunate so far in that I never had too much of my collection lost or stolen, and I think I've since replaced just about everything that did go missing. I know that there are cards that, were I to lose possession of them now, I'd likely never be able to replace them...