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-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.

Kept a lousy hand and got stuck in a rut, but the whole table kind of stalled. I used Force of Will to stop the player running Kagha, Shadow Archdruid from comboing off with Necrotic Ooze. Eventually, I set up Shepherd of the Cosmos + Angelic Renewal + Martyr's Cause + Tobias, Doomed Conqueror...

This deck isn't particularly fast or powerful, but it's hilarious. I run obsolete stuff like Pearled Unicorn and Ironroot Treefolk, but I'm seen as a big threat because everything is, to most opponents, unblockable. So I tend to get killed first, but I go out swinging.

Do I just keep posting in this same thread? I don't even know if alleged racism is even supposed to be the issue anymore. Anyway, it would seem that the tacit version of the Naughty List has grown by two more cards. WotC are releasing some kind of horrid cash grab product next year that is like...

I already did Shadowborn Apostles with the original Lady Orca back in May of this year (2022). Now that there's a new Lady Orca out with an ability that has an obvious Shadowborn Apostle synergy, I'm returning to this concept. There's a lot of overlap with the older deck, with the chief...

A minor, but important, correction... I found some archived posts on TheManaDrain referring to the Mask + Dreadnought combo in mid-2002. Illusionary Mask had already been changed in a way that enabled the combo to work essentially as it does now. What changed in October was that it was changed...

In an increasingly consistent high-power environment, this deck has been my only recourse a lot of the time. It keeps winning. It's very good.

Only piloted this one once so far. I nearly won, but kept getting hit by enchantments specifically, and I didn't slot that much enchantment removal into this. The guy who kept disrupting me paid a price for it, though, and we basically stopped each other from winning and handed the game to a...