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Usually when I come up with these threads, I pick a card that is among my favorites, was among my favorites, or one which had some special place in my own decks at some time. But there are a couple that strike me more for their presence across the table. Not many. And most of those are a weird...

Golgari Grave-Troll is in Ultimate Masters...

Skull Cultist#30649 I'm not on much and I have no immediate plans to actually build my own decks or invest seriously in the game. But if they make it better someday, then we'll see... Nice to see that TheOrgg is still alive (and possibly well). And yeah, I don't really want the game to be...

While I can't know exactly what the future holds, I think it's mostly the end of the line for Dream Halls. Not that the card is so permanently doomed as, say, Power Surge... But it's old, rare, and generally relegated. Dream Halls no longer makes the cut in Vintage and I suspect that its role...

Probably something about it being dangerous and exciting. Hey, I shamelessly stole this event from a Warhammer Quest dungeon events table! Find your own 101 incantations!

As Dorgath reads from the book, a stone statuette of Khorne, the Blood God, appears in the middle of the pentagram. Khorne Statue: May be carried by any Warrior. Whenever the bearer wishes, the statue's power can be used to modify a dice roll by +1 or -1. Each time the statue is used, roll a...

No, you'd be able to get past it without disturbing it if you're some sort of big party-pooper. :p

But seriously, the only non-wizard creature in that deck is Body Double, shapeshifter.

By that point, it would have felt awkward because you'd already waited too long! :p The stairs terminate, leading to a corridor made entirely of the same tranlucent crystal. The path widens enough for you to walk two-by-two. An Unexpected Event occurs! You spot a large pentagram chalked...

That's the idea!

Because I'm procrastinating, here's an alphabetized version of my proposed ban list from the article I wrote last year... All "ante" cards. All cards with the "conspiracy" type. Ancestral Recall Balance Bazaar of Baghdad Black Lotus Channel Chaos Orb Circle of Solace Dark Depths Demonic...

Reviving this thread yet again! For no particular reason, Lion's Eye Diamond is continuing to appeal to me as one of my favorite cards in the entire game. I find it fascinating because LED is a powerful mana accelerant that is essentially 100% locked in as a combo deck tool. Black Lotus could be...

Wow, it takes Throg six turns to re-light the lantern. He seems to be pretty bad at this! But nothing else happens anyway, so it doesn't really matter.

I was, like many people, wrong about Dream Halls being too overpowered for Vintage and Legacy. But the more general point about the usage of the card, well, I had that right. Dream Halls as a playset affords one the opportunity to try to build a dedicated combo deck based around and reliant upon...

The material of the walls and the steps shifts from dark, brown wood to a hard, translucent material. Pulses of light, too dim and too brief to fully illuminate your path, shoot through the strange substance. An Unexpected Event occurs! A sudden gust of wind blows out the lantern...

We're gonna build a wall and Turgy is gonna pay for it!

I've asserted that with the new tools in Alara Block approximately coinciding with the card's availability in Eternal formats, Dream Halls became more empowered than it had ever been. And, demonstrably, its performance wasn't really that impressive. In contrast, the card was the centerpiece...

Alara Block was probably the biggest-ever boon to the heavily multicolored approach to Dream Halls. The core for a five-color version of a Dream Halls deck, in any format, got far more to work with and certainly seemed to surpass the power available to older monoblue and blue/black concepts. In...

Thirdly, to honestly answer what's going through my head when I am piloting a broken deck, I'd like to think it's a kind of elegant, intricate probabilistic analysis of the conditions in the game. Maybe that's too self-aggrandizing, but it's probably not that far from the truth. Certainly when I...

Seems like there are a few different questions/issues involved here. Going to try to distinguish them... Firstly, I almost exclusively play paper Magic. I am on a bit of a hiatus from Arena (briefly returned to the game in December/January, but moving house caused me to drop it again for now)...