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Yeah, especially in hindsight, it seems weird to let Tinker run amok for so long. Even when it wasn't broken it was "just" very good. PT: New Orleans really demonstrated how nuts the card was. The card was always such a ridiculous design combining the most broken mechanics- cheating on mana AND...

Big fan of Food Chain Goblins. IIRC I think Josh Silvestri made a primer for Vintage FCG back in the day on The Mana Drain that I remember reading a lot. The deck was pretty good in Vintage at the time. Great against Stax or MUD because you could produce way more permanents than the brown decks...

Just a hunch but I'm almost certain that the card was just designed by Mons Johnson since he was at WotC at the time it would have been made. A huge Goblins fan, I think it's pretty likely he made it to play in his decks and it was probably viewed as a "joke" card (complete with silly art) by...

Masknought, I think, was my first encounter with Dreadnought. I still remember it because the deck was so cool. You got to play all the sweet disruptive black cards and a huge threat that closed out the game very quickly. Such a cool deck.

Yeah, I'm surprised because it seems like it should be pretty strong in EDH, fetching big, splashy enchantments and acting as a Moat or just a rattlesnake card in general.

Yeah, Expressive Iteration was the same for me too, exceeded my expectations. It's certainly better than I thought. But better than Cruise? I don't think so. And Dig isn't much worse because the first really problematic deck in Pioneer, UB Inverter, was a deck that played multiple Digs. They...

Yeah, I thought that comment was strange re: Pioneer as an Eternal format. Very weird. It's literally not by Wizard's own definition. Even more strange was the comment about the Delve spells ... that's just completely insane to me. The Delve (mostly TC but Dig too) draw spells are just...

Yeah, that makes sense!

Just a couple of things I don't see is Beetleback Chief, Brightstone Ritual, Fable of the Mirror-Breaker, Hobgoblin Bandit Lord, Legion Warboss, Battle Cry Goblin, Torbran, Goblin Moggcatcher, Imperial Recruiter, Mogg Infestation/Blasphemous Act... that's all I could think of off the top of my...

I totally forgot about all those decks! Good stuff! I wouldn't be surprised to see Karmic Guide pop again in Modern in the future, especially if Pod ever gets unbanned. It's a good combo card as well as just a decent midrange or value card.

Karmic Guide always seems to find itself overshadowed. I'm not sure why either. It was featured in the Flash lists in Legacy ...but that's the only thing I can think of off the top of my head. It's a sweet card in Commander too, one of the better reanimation cards for white. It's actually...

Not a fan of Companion in general but I think it's more or less fine Lurrus was legal, at least after the nerf. But it's fine it's gone too since it was ubiquitous but it wasn't really integral for a lot of decks it was just free to play like in Burn. I guess I'm a bit ambivalent. But I've seen...

But at that point there really isn't any reason to play Enduring Ideal and all that would need to enable it instead of Enchantress: it's faster and less burdened with awkward cards and easier to support Enlightened Tutor. Easier to support Confinement with Enchantress effects and lets you...

I really should have seen that coming lmao. That stinks. Because I really liked the snake cards from Kamigawa. Maybe more of the doubling effects (is there more?) or boosting stuff like Caged Sun/Extraplanar Lens. Not sure though! EDIT: maybe Pyre of Heroes too that's a nice card.

This looks sweet. Who doesn't like snakes?

Yeah, I never saw any Enduring Ideal decks in Legacy at that time either and I played with/against a lot of weird stuff. You might have been able to take games against Goblins but even then it was not consistent (hello Waste/Port and the uncommon turn 3 kill) but the other two decks that were...

100% agree. I think it would be interesting to see how these cards stack up against each other. Cards like Gush would be immensely exciting though I'd really like to get a bunch of the other, relatively weaker cards off the list first but if Gush comes off then stuff like Recruiter and Necro are...

Same shit different day. Not surprised by any of these changes. Standard will probably never go back to being a somewhat balanced format because of the way they just push cards these days, crowding out most other cards/decks. Esika's Chariot being a great example of this. Legacy still has all...

Firemane Angel's effect was still really novel at the time and still is in some respects. It's really cool. Felt really good gaining 2 life a turn after discarding two to a Compulsive Research. A nice bit of synchronicity, today PVDDR released on article on the best decks he's ever played and...

That Honden deck is really cool. I miss casting Firemane Angel, that card is sweet. I don't remember seeing the Honden deck at the time but leave it to the Japanese to brew up crazy decklists. There's gotta be something in the water. Ditto for the Battle of Wits deck but I do vaguely remember it...