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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...

This site is focused on casual play. One of the things I think is great about this is that there's a wide variety of approaches to most aspects of the game, with different players focused on their own environments and interests. Sure, there aren't that many of us, but when these topics do come...

Recently, some people (very few people, really) have advocated unrestricting Fastbond in Vintage. I doubt it'll happen, and I'm actually not sure either way. Unlike with Yawgmoth's Bargain, I don't really have anything to compare Fastbond to. Nothing else in the game is quite like it. So even...

http://www.eternalcentral.com/so-many-insane-plays-podcast-episode-77-masters-25-preview-and-arabian-nights-review/ Listened to this one today and it impelled me to update my LED Memories thread to note the late 90's Doomsday decks. But I figured I might as well share it in a separate thread...

Spoilers are here for Masters 25. As I've noticed tends to be the case early on with set spoilers, first glances at set composition can be deceptively mundane. Even well into "spoiler season" for a new set, I am left thinking, "There's nothing good here." It takes a while for the dust to settle...

While looking for some cards for a deck, I realized that I do not currently own a single copy of Ice Storm. A technicality that will shortly be remedied! So yeah, buying some copies post-haste. Not sure what happened. I used to have Ice Storm at some point. Must have been one of those things...

https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/news/february-12-2018-banned-and-restricted-announcement-2018-02-12 Jace, the Mind Sculptor is unbanned in Modern. Bloodbraid Elf is unbanned in Modern. No changes to other formats. Spidey usually posts these, but he didn't this time. So now I...

When it comes to card recursion, Regrowth is simply the greatest of all time. It's nothing fancy. It harkens back to the beginning of the game, when some spells were as simple and straightforward as they come. That's about as clean and clear as they come. Even the Alpha printing, in a set...

Ha, didn't expect that one, did you? Or perhaps you did. I don't know. Homelands is almost universally panned as the worst Magic set. And on that topic, I'm not really interested in swaying from public opinion. There are other contenders, and it really all depends on how you weigh different...

Even though a few cards caused some problems, I've always liked Urza's Saga and I think the set has some real gems. It's got to be one of my favorite sets. It was the latest expansion set at the time when I finally both owned enough cards and understood the rules and strategy well enough to...

This could easily have been Magic Memories: Fireball. Maybe it should have been Magic Memories: Fireball. Arguably, Fireball is the better card. Although really, there are several options with their own unique features... Historically, some of those weren't around yet for many of the decks...

https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/news/january-15-2018-banned-and-restricted-announcement-2018-01-15 Standard: Attune with Aether is banned, Rogue Refiner is banned, Rampaging Ferocidon is banned, Ramunap Ruins is banned. No changes to any other formats.

One of the topics that's been on my mind, but which I haven't gone into at great length (yet), is the tendency in "new" sets to sacrifice potential gameplay elements on the altar of fine-tuning the booster draft experience. I have some trepidation on this matter because I don't want to hate on...

Hey, yet another thread inspired by "The Nayan Trial" mentioned by Psarketos in the Tendrils of Agony thread. But this doesn't fit the theme of exploring options for Storm combo decks or analyzing the Modern format, so yeah, I started another thread. I was reminded of this deck...

In the Tendrils of Agony thread, Psarketos posed an interesting question about decks reacting to an opponent who doesn't aim for a kill condition, but instead uses an infinite combo to gain enough life to stay out of lethal range, uses cards to make the player hexproof, and uses some form of...

Heh. https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/news/commitment-each-other-building-community-together-2017-12-19

I might as well do this now. As though The Storm Count wasn't enough. Oh, who am I kidding? If there is such a thing as too much power, I have not discovered it. But I'm getting ahead of myself. The proper lead to this, the starting point for what led me here, is an older article. Because...

Mrs. Turner's classroom. After school game club, circa 1999... Player 1: I cast Tsunami. Player 2: In response, Power Sink for 2. Al0ysiusHWWW: In response, Mist Dragon loses flying. Player 1: What? Al0ysiusHWWW: I pay 0 to make my Mist Dragon lose flying. Player 1: OK. Player 2: Oh no...

Here's the announcement: http://mtgcommander.net/Forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=18749&sid=045ba5500479905a9ce3f66985892339 Others will have their own reactions (or just disinterest) on this one, but here's mine... Firstly, I love silver-bordered cards. I own a complete set of Unglued. I was a bit...