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-Ty's Pit Training kicks in. He may move and attack before the combat phase starts.

A bit annoyed with myself because I really wanted to get to this yesterday and didn't. But we're doing this now anyway. Let's see. First, by popular demand, a map of the "room" using Turgy's improved method... L L L _ L T D Y L O J _ L R K C T=Throg D= Dorgath Y= Tyresius O=Tomas J=Jekaena...

You proceed, arriving at the point Ty was going to scout out, but didn't. There are now trolls here. That's what was climbing up, apparently. Trolls. But take heart: you were going to have to pass through here anyway and fight them even if you'd known about them beforehand. Also, they're big and...

No mulligan here. Frontier Bivouac, done. Spidey: 20 Hand: ? Library: ?? Battlefield: Graveyard: Exile: ===================================================================================== Oversoul: 20 Hand: 6 Library: 53 Battlefield: (T) Frontier Bivouac (~ etb tapped. T: add G, U, or R to...

It's sitting three feet behind my decks at home but I still haven't sleeved it up! :oops: Haven't been home much. Soon, though. Oh, I guess I can at least flip a coin... Tails!

The Time Spiral era Standard Storm decks powered by Rite of Flame are interesting, and I think between the different combinations they showcase some great tools for how a Storm deck can function. There's a lot more I could touch on, and perhaps I should. It's almost certainly the case that these...

One of the most iconic moments in tournament history that I always see cited is Game 4 of the semifinals of the 2007 World Championships. Pat Chapin and Gabriel Nassif were both playing Dragonstorm decks. Nassif was behind and needed to win the game to get to Game 5, but he got off to a bad...

One recurring theme I've touched on with my Comboist Manifesto articles, and probably here in these threads too, is the narrative that the Storm mechanic is heavily maligned as inherently broken and dangerous, something that ruins tournament gameplay by making egregious, uninteractive decks able...

Oh, gotcha. Two replacement effects and he could arrange them in whichever order he wanted, but obviously +1 and then x2 is better than x2 and then +1.

I know this is a bit technical, but just because I want to make sure I get it right when similar situations come up in my games... That ability on Corpsejack Menace doesn't actually need to be arranged to stack last because it's a replacement effect and not a triggered ability, correct?

I didn't pay a lot of attention to Rite of Flame when it first came out, although I did notice that it had some real potential. However, as a combo accelerant in tournament decks, Rite of Flame was conveniently placed in Coldsnap, the set that came out right before Time Spiral. Storm combo in...

Highlander formats have been around since the early 2000's, and the strength of some cards and mechanics has had a pronounced and perfectly understandable departure from traditional 60-card constructed formats. My own introduction to Highlander was the Seattle 150-card version. I noticed that...

Like most other "Magic Memories" I've started here, Rite of Flame is a card I don't see too much anymore. I've speculated on the circumstances behind that for some of the others, but for Rite of Flame I think it's pretty obvious. Two format that are especially popular in my area are Modern and...

By now, my enthusiasm for mana acceleration spells is no secret. Before Rite of Flame existed, I'd already used several other "ritual" cards in my casual decks, including Dark Ritual, High Tide, Dark Ritual, Songs of the Damned, Dark Ritual, Culling the Weak, Dark Ritual, Burnt Offering, Dark...

While there are certainly lots of major difference between then and now that affect the position of Library of Alexandria, it remains a very strong card. The decklist you mention existed in an environment where players could (and frequently did) run multiple copies of Strip Mine (Zak Dolan used...

Cascade is an on-cast trigger, so Consuming Abberation's ability wouldn't trigger for the Signet because Consuming Abberation is still on the stack when Simic Signet resolves.

Library of Alexandria is a very strange card. In Vintage, it sometimes just acts like a Wastes that can optionally be hit by Wasteland, which is really lackluster. So it kinda-sorta looks just barely worth inclusion in some slower control decks or in combo decks with lots of of other options for...

Jekaena finishes restoring Carrow with her healing magic... "Dorgath is probably right. If that dark elf is working with Coril, he could be targeting you specifically because of your connection to the Sylvan Epic. My cousin would want you dead and me taken alive so that he can, ah, cut my...

Good game. I thought I was in big trouble and then I drew a second Spellheart Chimera and it actually connected. I think the is a matchup that can really go either way, although obviously Evolutionary Leap helps a lot. I believe we passed over the two Tarkir Block event decks with the...

UUD, Mountain, attack with Spellheart Chimera. Blocks/responses/game?