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Yeah, BBB is tough. The design of Legends is all over the place when it comes to power level and considerations like mana costs. I don't know if the triple-black cost was deliberately built in to constrain Underworld Dreams or if the cost was chosen for some other reason and things just worked...

I do love me some Winter Orb + Icy Manipulator. At some point, I want to look into this concept. It'd be a different sort of deck, because slotting in Winter Orb and Icy Manipulator and Relic Barrier would mean removing other cards and slowing the deck down. The version I've been running can...

Alright, I think I follow. Not every proposed idea necessarily works here. Throg and Carrow each have a Move score of 5. Jekaena's is only 3, which isn't a problem in this case. But the rest of you have 4. You definitely have enough movement to get the rows of two Warriors in C3 & C4 and in A5 &...

I think Winter Orb is a good card for Old School '94, but I don't think I could make it work in this deck because I want my own full mana open as much as possible. Waiting to untap my lands means passing more turns without doing as much, which is bad for me because most of my opponents can...

If my opponent has an empty hand, I might Winds of Change anyway to try to draw into Wheel of Fortune or Timetwister. Ideally, I want Winds of Change to be hitting for 7+, but it doesn't always happen. Wheel of Fortune and Timetwister are very much key cards for my deck and it's ideal to try to...

My interest in Underworld Dreams was rekindled about five years ago when I started testing decks for Old School '94 gameplay. I knew that I wanted to play a combo deck. At first, I was waffling between a Time Vault extra turns deck and a Power Artifact infinite mana deck. Eventually I went with...

Well, now I won't! But seriously, I did forget that Underworld Dreams is Standard-legal again. Haven't been paying attention to those newer formats. And I haven't logged onto Arena in almost a year. This does afford me the opportunity to awkwardly segue into the reprint history of Underworld...

LOL This discussion is great, but I'm not going to attempt to parse it and remark the dungeon tiles until I've got some time at home again (should be tonight). I was going to say that it would have gone a lot faster on a tabletop, but I wanted to make sure that everyone was clear about where...

In 2017, I started writing these reminiscent "Magic Memories" forum posts because it was more convenient than trying to write full-length articles for the front page, but still got me that good old Magic-writing fix. I wrote about a bunch of cards I'd used over the years and my memories of those...

While fighting is going on in some other room on the other side of the hallway, Throg resumes his investigation of the ooze. He notices that it appears to be highly caustic, but that some object does appear to be embedded in there.

I'm not really clear on what you guys mean. Other than Turgy. I know exactly what Turgy is talking about. Great job, Turgy. Seriously though, I'd better just post an updated map. Please let me know where your characters are trying to move.

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...