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UUD, Plains, Wake the Reflections (copying my centaur token), attack with a Centaur token. Blocks/responses?

Expected Value. A statistics term often applied to situations involving games. i.e. the EV of placing a bet on red on a typical Roulette wheel is -$0.053 per dollar (of course you don't lose 5.3 cents in any transaction, but that's the average "value" you get over time). MTG finance nerds try to...

Likes for the like god! I did a full recap at some point, but I really do blame myself for most of it. There was a bit of a misunderstanding when I tried to propose switching the format from using Vintage as a template to using Legacy as a template. I did a poor job of explaining myself...

While I was typing the previous post, they spoiled Dark Ritual. I'm sold. :D

Spoilers are here for Masters 25. As I've noticed tends to be the case early on with set spoilers, first glances at set composition can be deceptively mundane. Even well into "spoiler season" for a new set, I am left thinking, "There's nothing good here." It takes a while for the dust to settle...

Pillage is getting reprinted in Masters 25. I approve, in principle. However, every Pillage reprint has been a bit of a letdown in that only one of them reused the original Richard Kane Ferguson artwork and zero of them reused my single favorite flavor text ever.

A lot of us were introduced to the game by essentially being thrown into it and allowed to explore. We weren't learning under the guidance of experienced players, so we learned the rules as we went. Our first decks didn't make much sense and might have been "the cards I own" or "the red cards I...

I do love me some Commandeer, but that trade would ultimately be a 3-for-2. Even so, he'd get to see my hand and I wouldn't get to see his. But it'd depend on what the Commandeer player was trying to protect. Could totally be the right play in some situations. We started that game around the...

UUD, Selesnya Guildgate, Vitu-Ghazi Guildmage, done. Spidey: 20 Hand: 5 Library: 51 Battlefield: (T,T) Forest x2 (S) Burning-Tree Emissary (2/2; When ~ ETB, add RG to my mana pool) (S) Skaarg Guildmage (2/2; RG: Creatures I control gain trample ueot.; 1RG: Target land I control becomes a...

Not at all. I touched on it in one of the first "Memories" threads I started, but the main reason I started them was because I changed jobs and found that my then-new job was leaving me with some awkward "wait in the office for a bit" moments. I was checking in a lot at the CPA, but the downtime...

When it comes to the appearance of Magic cards, we all have our preferences, but I like to think that I'm not a huge snob. I like good art, but if I don't care for the artwork on a card, it's only a minor consideration. I'm one of the 12 people in the world who actually preferred the white...

I am presently less enthusiastic about it than you might be. In fact, I contend that I am presently less excited about it than are those individuals who got free saproling tokens earlier in the game.

Placate the Raptors Event Each opponent sacrifices a creature.

That's a potent example, but it doesn't even need to be that extreme. Land destruction spells are a bit of a balancing act when it comes to actually winning games, and usually they're especially susceptible to several different types of opponents. And yet it seems like it's mostly new players...

I think that LD spells have either been balanced or have erred on the side of being too weak in most environments. It can become a problem when it's especially undercosted or when it is too easily repeatable. But those instances are very rare. Examples that come to mind are Balance and the...

I get where you're coming from. Or I think I do, anyway. But I'd contend that an important distinction isn't that land destruction is inherently unfun, but that it is an effect with a greater-than-average danger of potentially becoming unfun. Land destruction can be used in multiple ways. In...

Crack a treasure token and Unsummon the Aegiosaur. Block a saproling with Air Elemental.

UUD, attack Oversoul...oh wait, I can't do that even though it's what everyone else is doing. Play Island. Well, I'm still going to try to take my Tree back and also I'm still going to create those treasure tokens (or rather, they were already created). Also summoning an Air Elemental and using...

Much like Counterspell, WotC continued to use Stone Rain as a baseline card for the cost of providing its effect, with most other variants being a bit more expensive to do something extra and with the original card remaining in the core set and acting as a kind of default. And then, in the...

The Ring of Illusion covers it up. It's an illusion. The effects of that Atrophy attribute are real (and could hypothetically lower your characteristics, but you rolled the "it's just cosmetic and doesn't affect his profile" option when you picked up the attribute). Good question. I have...