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  1. Oversoul

    The Comboist Manifesto Discussion Thread

    New article submitted about Gitaxian Probe. I think I managed to keep it from running on too long, even! :D
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    Event Decks: Spidey (Wrath of the Mortals) vs Oversoul (Ultimate Sacrifice)

    I guess my Sultai Emissary got duplicated at some point. I have two in Exile, none on the Battlefield. Assuming that fact doesn't change anything... In response, I'll sac a targeted Scion to Evolutionary Leap (scry and leave the card on top), reveal Rot Shambler and put it into my hand, sac...
  3. Oversoul

    July 2, 2018 Banned/Restricted Announcement

    Phyrexian mana was definitely a mistake. But Legacy is a format full of mistakes. That's the point. The only mistakes I want banned from Legacy are the ones that are so over-the-top that they'd take over the format. And really, there are still some cards currently on the banned list, which have...
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    July 2, 2018 Banned/Restricted Announcement

    It's hard enough to predict what the shakeup will be when one card is banned, let alone two cards (unless you're psychic, like the people who make these decisions apparently think they are). So while I really don't know, my first instinct is that B/R Reanimator isn't in danger for now. It...
  5. Oversoul

    July 2, 2018 Banned/Restricted Announcement

    Well, there it is. These are garbage changes, poorly thought out, born of ignorance and illogical conflation. I hate these changes. They are stupid and bad. Annoyingly enough, these changes will probably improve the format.
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    Magic Memories: Tolarian Academy

    I'm currently running a copy of Tolarian Academy in my Canadian Highlander "Colored Spells are for Nerds" deck. The card does cost a point in that format, but it is legal. The point assignments in Canlander are somewhat arcane, with some cards being moved up or down in points based on the...
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    Pattern Rector [Canadian Highlander]

    Today, this deck finally broke its losing streak, albeit not in a very convincing fashion. I played against my friend's Grixis Time Vault deck and his Cradlehoof deck, losing 4 out of 5 games. I'm starting to become convinced to keep this deck around long-term as one of my default decks for this...
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    Magic Memories: Tolarian Academy

    Hey, I guess I said this... Better late than never? The list I remembered appeared in an article by Omeed Dariani, probably written in early 1999. The cover on the magazine itself indicated April, which leads me to the assumption that Scrye followed the example of many other magazines and...
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    Explorers of Ixalan Game 2

    UUD, Explore U... Quest: Study the Nine Rivers The next time you would draw a card, instead look at the top four cards of your library, then put one into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library. Forest, done. Spiderman: 16 Sites: Quest-Dusk's Embrace The next time a creature...
  10. Oversoul

    Magic Memories: Tolarian Academy

    Back then? Not sure. If I were to do something similar today in a sideboard-limited environment, I'd probably run a single copy of Spawnsire of Ulamog... And my sideboard would look like this...
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    Magic Memories: Tolarian Academy

    I occurs to me that I never posted a decklist for my own old Academy deck. I'm sure I could find one: I had some sort of Academy combo deck on hand for at least five years, starting in 2000. I was pretty actively involved in casual Magic back then, and I recorded decklists in a few places. So...
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    Magic Memories: Tolarian Academy

    I didn't put a ton of thought into that list of ten explanations for the circumstances surrounding the unbanning or unrestriction of cards. Like I said, the list is probably incomplete. And most individual cases are probably a mixture of two or more factors. But just for fun, I'll try to come up...
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    Pattern Rector [Canadian Highlander]

    I'm sure in the long run my idea of using both Rectors in the same deck won't be unique, but traditional Pattern Rector isn't a wildly popular archetype in any format right now and Arena Rector is still quite new. So far, I'm the only one I know of to take this approach, although I assume there...
  14. Oversoul

    Explorers of Ixalan Game 2

    What kind of response would you like? :p
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    Event Decks: Spidey (Wrath of the Mortals) vs Oversoul (Ultimate Sacrifice)

    I'll Scry a card to the bottom from my creature dying. Eyeless Watcher, done. Spidey: 6 Hand: 4 Library: 43 Battlefield: (T,T,U) Mt x3 (T,U) Island x2 (U) Izzet Guildgate (~ ETB tapped.; T: Add U or R to my mana pool) Graveyard: Divination, Lightning Strike, Magma Jet, Guttersnipe, Anger...
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    Event Decks: Spidey (Wrath of the Mortals) vs Oversoul (Ultimate Sacrifice)

    Pyromancer dies, face-down creature dies, and you take 6?
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    Magic Memories: Tolarian Academy

    Yeah, I'm with you there. I don't know that I really know any of this stuff any more than you do, but I seem to be coming to the same conclusions. Dingus Egg probably wouldn't be the only example I'd cite of a card that became unbanned or unrestricted because the philosophy of the tournament...
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