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  1. Oversoul

    Magic Memories: Fastbond

    I said I'd talk about combos. Well, as far as I know, the original classic is with this weird little card... ...and of course, I used that combo myself. It was one of two decks I ever built using Storm Cauldron. The other was my beloved Land Tax + Land's Edge deck. Well, it's a tangent, but I...
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    Anyone up for Explorers of Ixalan?

    I'll post an updated version when I get home. I should have done that earlier but I've been a bit distracted. I can say, though, that it looks just like the one in post #80 except the tile on the far left that is shown awkwardly hanging partly off the table is gone and the tile on the bottom...
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    Magic Memories: Fastbond

    I can talk about combos. And I will. But part of the inherent craziness of Fastbond is that it is a one-drop. Even without planning for combos, this means that Fastbond is a potent form of mana acceleration. First turn, if you have three lands in your opening hand, Fastbond can dump them onto...
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    On Differing Interests for Casual Magic - Request for Help!

    Yes, yes, that's fair. It was wrong of me to do that. But really, it strangely made sense to me at the time. I wanted to switch to Legacy and got shot down, so I somehow thought that meant other people would change their deckbuilding patterns. I figured that even with Power 9 being...
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    Warhammer Quest: The Sylvan Epic

    Nah, the belt was running before and after I replaced the battery. It snapped two days after I replaced the battery, but it seems like it must have somehow snapped right as I started the car for my return trip from work. I drove it several miles after the belt must have already been completely...
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    On Differing Interests for Casual Magic - Request for Help!

    He lives! But I... ...find my word choice to be totally appropriate in context and not humorous in any way? :confused: Ah, well, glad you got a kick out of it anyway.
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    Magic Memories: Regrowth

    Regrowth is back for Masters 25! They'll be reusing the art that appeared in Duel Decks: Heroes vs. Monsters...
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    Magic Memories: Stone Rain

    I admit that my mind did immediately jump to "What tribe could exploit Oath of Druids?" I think I'd look for the creature type with the highest rate of creatures that can be sacrificed for very big effects that don't turn off Oath. The usual approaches that make Oath powerful aren't really...
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    Magic Memories: Fastbond

    Recently, some people (very few people, really) have advocated unrestricting Fastbond in Vintage. I doubt it'll happen, and I'm actually not sure either way. Unlike with Yawgmoth's Bargain, I don't really have anything to compare Fastbond to. Nothing else in the game is quite like it. So even...
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    Magic Memories: Stone Rain

    Well, we all have our perceptions of ourselves that might not line up with how others see us. I think that I can approach gameplay in a very competitive way and I find some of the really competitive "Spike" games to be interesting academically. But I'm more of a "Timmy" at heart and so much of...
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    SMIP Episode 77 (Doomsday, Arabian Nights Review)

    http://www.eternalcentral.com/so-many-insane-plays-podcast-episode-77-masters-25-preview-and-arabian-nights-review/ Listened to this one today and it impelled me to update my LED Memories thread to note the late 90's Doomsday decks. But I figured I might as well share it in a separate thread...
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    Archenemy: Nicol Bolas (Oversoul) vs Gatewatch (Spidey, Melkor, rokapoke)

    Well, this sucks. Slave of Bolas was on top of my graveyard, but the deck sat there on my desk for so long that at some point (definitely before we ever started the Explorers of Ixalan game) it was knocked off and I can no longer find it. Not going to tear the place apart looking for it right...
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    Anyone up for Explorers of Ixalan?

    I'll finally explore the tile hanging off the edge of my table in every picture... Jungle Bounty Event Create a Saproling token. Gain 2 life. Merfolk Sovereign, done. Melkor: 13 Command Zone: Cannons to Port (The next time you deal combat damage to the player on your left, draw a card.)...
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    Masters sets

    Funniest reaction I've seen to this set was over at TheSource message boards: "A silver set symbol on Lightning Bolt is hate speech."
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    Magic Memories: Lion's Eye Diamond

    As Stephen Menendian also noted in the podcast, that Doomsday archetype first showed up in late 1997 and was mostly active in 1998. It saw some refinement, but was superceded by newer combo decks. Then Doomsday itself was restricted in 1999 as part of the massive Type 1 restriction waves that...
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    Magic Memories: Stone Rain

    Yeah, land destruction as utility is probably the biggest space for it in tournament play. That's why Wasteland and Strip Mine are so good: they offer that utility when it becomes valuable, but work as normal lands the rest of the time. I do wish more of the stuff like Pox decks, Stax decks...
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    Event Decks Dragon's Maze vs Magic 2014: Spidey (Rush of the Wild) vs Oversoul (Strength of Selesyna

    Done. Spidey: 13 Hand: 4 Library: 49 Battlefield: (U,U,U) Forest x3 (U) Mountain (U) Burning-Tree Emissary (2/2; When ~ ETB, add RG to my mana pool) Graveyard: Flame of the Firebrand, Skaarg Guildmage Exile: ================================================================================...
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    Warhammer Quest: The Sylvan Epic

    I don't know how what happened with the battery could have anything to do with it. Might be a coincidence. What happened was that I realized I didn't have power steering when I went to do my drive home from the train station after work, but didn't closely investigate why not. Serpentine belt had...
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    Magic Memories: Lion's Eye Diamond

    I'm listening to the new episode of So Many Insane Plays, and there's a bunch of stuff about Doomsday, a fascinating card that I couldn't really do a Memories thread on because I hardly touched it myself. Stephen Menendian helpfully dug up the oldest Doomsday deck he could find. Even though I...
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