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The Wildfire deck doesn't grind out long games the way a Pox deck would. It functions differently, but some of the same general principles are on display. The use of mana rocks means that this deck can empty its hand quickly, with Masticore partially helping in that role. Ancient Tomb and City...

There are two main categories of decks in which I've seen Cursed Scroll... Aggro decks taking advantage of the cheap initial mana cost and versatility of a repeatable damage source for helping close out games. Resource denial decks that play with low hand size for many turns in a row, using...

We've now had 838 consecutive weeks of Earthcraft being unnecessarily banned in Legacy.

https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/news/october-12-2020-banned-and-restricted-announcement Standard: Omnath, Locus of Creation is banned. Lucky Clover is banned. Escape to the Wilds is banned. Historic: Omnath, Locus of Creation is suspended. Teferi, Time Raveler is banned...

I mentioned Burn, but Burn decks have changed considerably since the first time I put Cursed Scroll in mine. While Burn isn't especially popular in the current Legacy format and Cursed Scroll is unusual in those Burn decks that do come up in search results, the card does exist and can be played...

I don't Cursed Scroll much these days, but there is a popular two-card combo with similar functionality that has overtaken Cursed Scroll in popularity... This combo is successful in tournaments because both cards are pretty good on their own and together they unlock a repeatable source of...

Some of them. But where would you have them go? The T-junction is two spaces wide. You and Carrow occupy two of those spaces and fresh wights have moved to attack whenever you killed the wights directly in front of you. Unless Carrow or Dorgath chooses to move back, no one else could get into...

-Dorgath takes a defensive stance, preparing to hold back the wights. -Throg charges a skeleton, but his helmet slips and blocks his vision. -Adjusting his helmet, Throg brings his axehead up and cracks it into a skeleton's pelvis (8/13). -Throg flips his axe into his other hand and brings it...

-Tomas look at Dorgath as the dwarf struggles to regain his footing. Tomas looks at the army of wights. Tomas turns and sees Ty, Throg, and Revaethan easily finishing off some skeletons. Tomas looks back at the wights. Annoyed, he casts Ogre Strength on Carrow. -Tomas casts Ogre Strength on...

To probably no one's surprise, we have official confirmation that these cards will be legal in Commander: https://mtgcommander.net/index.php/2020/10/02/rc-statement-on-secret-lair-the-walking-dead/

Well, this became controversial again, but we haven't been discussing Secret Lairs here for a while, so I might need to provide some background. We're on 27 of these so far, counting the April Fools one. I semi-accidentally skipped out on the Thalia one, but purchased all of the others except...

https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/news/september-28-2020-banned-and-restricted-announcement-2020-09-28 Standard: Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath is banned.

I'm pretty sure that hasn't happened in several years. So if anyone (especially Spiderman) is wondering, it's a built-in drawback of the Dwarf's starting ability: Great Axe Attack. The way the ability normally functions is that the Dwarf gets to roll an extra D6 for damage, then drop the lowest...

-Fueled by the battle frenzy awakened from his past in the fighting pits of Middenheim, Ty rushes the undead. He easily catches his first opponent with his morningstar (7/13). -Ty attempts to bring in his fist spike, but he was still charging and lost his balance as he arrived. -Ty tries again...

I have a record of at least one more Legacy Pox deck that I was testing in late 2004. 3x Chimeric Idol 4x Chrome Mox 3x Cursed Scroll 4x Dark Ritual 4x Diabolic Edict 4x Duress 4x Hymn to Tourach 4x Pox 4x Sinkhole 3x Spinning Darkness 19x Swamp 4x The Rack Sideboard: 3x Choking Sands 3x...

And we're back with another Tribal Update Report. We're leaving Ikoria, a wild land in which people must be resourceful in order to deal with an abundance of monsters. Now we're going to Zendikar, a wild land in which people must be resourceful in order to deal with an abundance of monsters. I...

Reading over my previous post, it occurs to me that Smallpox and the advent of Legacy "Pox" decks built around it has been dominating my perception of Pox in black decks for so long that I'd neglected to think about how things used to be. Sure, Smallpox is a great card. But Cursed Scroll was...

Most of my experience with Cursed Scroll has been in red-based aggressive decks, generally either monored or red/green. But perhaps the strongest niche for the card is in monoblack control decks, especially the "Pox" archetype. The card actually takes on a very different role in black control...

That was how I was doing it before, but it was adding an unnecessary step in combat. I don't know how this combat will go. I'm excited that you guys initiated two encounters at the same time. But as for whether you use your Luck point, that's up to you. They usually go unused anyway, although I...

Throg walks over and starts to check out the ooze. Simultaneously, Dorgath opens the door, revealing another root-encrusted chamber. It looks like it was once furnished to house someone. A derelict cell, but it's in extremely poor condition. All is quiet at first, then something stirs. The roots...