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Haven't met many people who tried this game out, but one person did mention adapting it by basically using other (unspecified) decks. Yeah, nothing about the tiles necessarily relies on using the decks that come in the box. We could totally do a variant with tribal decks or whatever. Offhand, I...

See, even in an environment like what I think you're describing, I'd rather have a two-drop counter. Perhaps on turn 4 I see an opportunity for Echoing Truth. I can't cast Countervailing Winds and Echoing Truth, but I could use a two-drop counter and then Echoing Truth. There are too many...

While I do like cycling, I'm not too keen on three-mana countermagic. Time has shown the two is kind of a sweet spot on that stuff. If a one-mana spell is reliably good enough at countering things, it tends to be overpowered (fortunately, this has mostly been confined to Circular Logic, Spell...

Necropotence in Type 1 was not, historically, my specialty. My general impression was that the Type 1 players were playing Necro in similar decks to what we had in Type 1.5, but better. And as a rule of thumb, that did seem to hold true. The rise of "Trix" was no exception. Behold, Type 1...

Yeah, of course there's always the caveat that those are prices online vendors are listing them at and not representative of what a player looking to liquidate a collection of cards could actually get. Also, I notice that while a median is the most practical way to avoid getting a skewed...

I don't know of a solution to that. I know I mentioned the format separation in Hearthstone and how dramatic the community response was. It didn't even really noticeable affect my own games, but it was still kind of disheartening. Granted Magic players aren't necessarily the same as Hearthstone...

With their powerful dragon guildmaster, Niv-Mizzet, Draconerd. What kind of a card has math in its flavor text? Mathematicians are not cool! The Golgari are biologists, though. And biologists get laid all the time, I am told. Sadly, I majored in chemistry. :p Also we get Life from the Loam...

You know, I don't have any documents with dimensions, but I'll assume that "gigantic" spiders are bigger than "giant" spiders. I'm not sure what the details are. I assume that the game designers wanted a higher-level option with better stats. Uh, giant spiders are depicted with goblins riding...

Take it.

UUD... Swamp, attack TomB with the Horror token that must attack him and attack Spidey with everything else. Blocks/responses?

UUD, Plains, Imposing Sovereign, done. Spidey: 20 Hand: 5 Library: 52 Battlefield: (T,T) Swamp x2 (U) Rakdos Shred-Freak (2/1; Haste) Graveyard: Exile: ================================================================================ Oversoul: 18 Hand: 6 Library: 51 Battlefield: (T)...

Also, I bring this up about the Dimir because they like it when you forget about them, Psarketos. Getting you to try to de-emphasize them is all part of their master plan. I offer this warning as a loyal denizen of the best guild of all.

I'm confused. You mention an environment without counter/discard elements, and then describe gameplay with counter/discard elements. Presumably the green uncounterable stuff worked because it circumvented countermagic. And Draw-Go usually means countermagic. Torment of Hailfire is discard. So...

That "Affinity" list looks amazing.

At some point I'll do my rant on Mark Rosewater's "psychographic profiles." The topic can be frustrating because people at WotC will employ the concept in a very oversimplified hand-wavey manner and players see that, but then when they complain about something related to the concept, Mark...

Now that you mention it, although I didn't specifically cover the card, I've probably underrated Doomfall. Both effects are potent things along the lines of what I'm used to for one or two mana, and moving them up to a three-drop is, from a competitive standpoint, a big jump. So I wasn't...

I played Necro in Type 1.5, but I can assure you that my lists were suboptimal. I lacked experience and I lacked a strong collection of cards for deckbuilding. So my own scrubtastic Necro endeavors didn't really represent Necropotence in Type 1.5. Also, unfortunately, Type 1.5 was one of the...

They're probably big enough to ride. Whether one could move very well with Throg's weight remains to be seen, but the spider would be unlikely to cooperate. Yes, but these are gigantic spiders. Warhammer Quest has both. :p

Man, nothing comes to mind though. I'm a bit of a fan of Legacy Pox, which is very controlling, but it's all nonbos with Lich's Mastery. Definitely the wrong niche for this. Hm, maybe something resembling Nic Fit? Nah. Well, I'm stumped. But my problem is right now I'm thinking "Eternal" and not...

As far as countermagic and discard spells are concerned, I guess I'm not sure what your scope is. I mean, it's theoretically possible. We talked about the mana system and how it has been used in interesting ways despite some fundamental flaws that probably wouldn't be used in a game by a...