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Jumping back to the history of Academy itself for a bit, the card had been restricted in Type 1 to stop the dominance of the Academy deck, but combo decks with only one copy of Academy, commonly known as "Neo-Academy" were still possible. Type 1 records from back then are deplorably sparse, and...

Done. Spidey: 16 Hand: 7 Library: 46 Battlefield: (U,U) Mt x2 (U,U) Island x2 (T) Izzet Guildgate (~ ETB tapped.; T: Add U or R to my mana pool) Graveyard: Divination, Guttersnipe Exile: ================================================================================ Oversoul: 15 Hand: 3...

Turn Blisterpod face-up, Magma Jet kills it, you Scry 2, I scry 1 (put the top card on the bottom), I get an Eldrazi Scion from Blisterpod dying, delve away my graveyard to cast Murderous Cut on Guttersnipe. Anything else?

-Dorgath becomes terrified of wraiths (yes, his axe helps him resist it, but it wasn't enough this time). He gets -2 to hit them this combat. -Carrow becomes terrified of wraiths. He gets -2 to hit them this combat. -Kelgar becomes terrified of wraiths. He gets -2 to hit them this combat. -Tomas...

That's three. Just need one more...

Put the card on the bottom. Evolutionary Leap reveals... Forest Forest Nantuko Husk Put Husk into my hand, put lands on the bottom of my library. Proceed to combat damage?

Oops, forgot to confirm that I am indeed dead. Good game. That was some epic teamwork, so I guess you guys deserved to win. I guess. Maybe. Kicking myself for thinking it was like 2HG and that you could block for each other, but I don't think it mattered. I hit a land pocket and whiffed too...

UUD, Plains, explore H, reserving U... Event From the Mists: Put a permanent card with converted mana cost 3 or less from your hand onto the battlefield. Raptor Companion comes down and gets a +1/+1 counter from the Sales Unfurled quest, Nest Robber, done. Spiderman: 18 Sites: Quest-Dusk's...

Condolences to you and your family.

So, Crucible of Worlds at mythic instead of rare, huh? :yawn:

An unfortunate consequence of my doing these posts in bits and pieces instead of writing a longform article is that I am taking so damn long to get to important points that I'm caught rambling about support for those points without having made them, with Spidey rightly questioning what it is I'm...

I'll be sure to file away that bit of information for the inevitable event in which we both have access to the same jar of cookies. :p But more seriously, I guess the crux of my take on "leaving in droves" is that I really don't know one way or another how much impact Tolarian Academy or...

Bah, I had really wanted to get back to this on the weekend and had a few other things come up unexpectedly. Bumping to be sure I see it later today. I won't be posting here or on the other forum games until I get home tonight, but I'll be sure to check all of them then. :oops:

Wow, I never thought about if there was even a distinction between operator/organizer in that context. I want to say I heard them used interchangeably at some point, but I'm actually not even sure on that point. I guess I'm assuming they're interchangeable until someone comes along and points...

You quoted the exact phrase that was my reason for appending a "but" and then you ignored it. :confused: I said "they could see what was reported." Perhaps I should have said, "reported to them." Tournament organizers didn't always collect enough data for meaningful analysis. I'm not...

Probably true. Well, they couldn't see all of the data. They could see what was reported from sanctioned tournaments and anything else that was publicly available, but it's worth noting that it's only been in recent years that they mention, in announcements, considerations with respect to...

Yes, it looks like the word "Done" was eaten when I pasted in the text from the tile.

Ah, thanks for reminding me of that. I remember looking at that same document when I was writing posts in the Memories thread for Fluctuator. That announcement is the earliest example I've seen of multiple DCI bans with explanations that attempted to predict alternate futures. For example, on...

Recurring Nightmare Just a bit before Tolarian Academy showed up, a popular Standard deck was a creature toolbox/reanimation deck called "Rec-Sur" for Recurring Nightmare and Survival of the Fittest. That really put Recurring Nightmare on the map and it seems like most of us still strongly...

Whew, I thought you guys were going to attack with creatures! To kill me. But if you just want to declare and attack with nothing, that's fine... :rolleyes: