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Oops. I had stuff come up and wasn't home as much as I'd planned, but I was still home way more than enough to update this. Got distracted by Zelda: Breath of the Wild, so it's practically not even my fault. :p Done. Spidey: 17 Hand: 4 Library: 50 Battlefield: (T,T,U) Plains x3...

OK. I'd initially waited to see if you were going to use the site, then I just sort of left that there and forgot to post anything further. I'll take my turn when I get home.

When I was in high school, I had a deck that I called "Fun With Swamps." I took it apart. I cannot fathom why, because the deck was awesome. It might be the case that I needed some parts from it to reassemble my Pestilence deck or something. I don't think I cared too much either way at the time...

I think that's a big part of my preference for the original. Tendrils of Corruption isn't bad. In most casual settings, you're probably getting decent value out of it. Sitting on it and building up swamps increases its potency, but wiping out an X/4 right away is generally worth it, especially...

That speaks more to the dearth of 2010's reprints than to the true functionality of the cards. Modern doesn't even get the hilarious Null Brooch + Ensnaring Bridge combo. I've long been torn on Soul Spike. It seems like they deliberately designed the perfect card for Necropotence in the retro...

I've sometimes thought that Corrupt should really only cost five mana and that'd still be fair. Probably true, but they did make Tendrils of Corruption, which is very similar and costs only four mana and gets instant speed, but cannot hit players. It's another fine card, but I prefer Corrupt...

I find it laughable that Ensnaring Bridge or Ancient Stirrings would be thought banworthy, but then again, I found the banning of Ramunap Ruins in Standard to be silly as well. We live in strange times. OK, maybe not. I mean, they did ban Thawing Glaciers and such, back in the old days...

Even though a few cards caused some problems, I've always liked Urza's Saga and I think the set has some real gems. It's got to be one of my favorite sets. It was the latest expansion set at the time when I finally both owned enough cards and understood the rules and strategy well enough to...

Huh. Sometimes the "proper judge answer" to a question is different from the answer I'd think should be right, and I don't know if this is one of these cases. I maintain that the true answer in this situation is that of course the game is a draw. Neither player has a way to win and both players...

I still don't have anything from Mooseman or Melkor...

Traveler dies, you take 3, and you get a 3/3 flying vigilant spirit token?

Other mana ramp Channel and mana-producing elves are green. The other color that gets the best mana ramp to exploit something like Kaervek's Torch is black, with things like Cabal Coffers, Songs of the Damned, Bubbling Muck, Skirge Familiar, etc. But if you're making a bunch of black mana...

ElfBall Because there are official records kept, reports published, etc., many of the deck archetypes I mention in these threads were competitive tournament decks at some point. At the risk of sounding like a broken record, my focus has been more on casual Magic and I've attended tournaments...

Channel It's one of the oldest and most famous combos in Magic. Channel + Fireball is the tradition, but I preferred Kaervek's Torch, like I said. I had a few ChannelTorch decks. I am a jerk. The longest-running incarnation was a red/green deck with Pandemonium + Saproling Burst. I must have...

Deck Name: 9-Land Stompy Magic Format: Type 1.5/Legacy (2004) Insight: We've seen that gimmicky no-lands lists are viable. In the early 00's, before such decks were prevalent, green mages found that they could drop as low as 9 lands (10 was more common), using a combination of alternate casting...

UUD, Mountain, attack with Rampager, blocks/responses?

I fell in love with Kaervek's Torch for the potential to set up big player-targeting burns that were resistant to countermagic. It wasn't foolproof: opponents could still use Counterspell on it if they had four mana open, or Force of Will if they had two mana open. But it made the job of playing...

Reserved List card selection at the time was some process along the lines of "When a new core set comes out, any rares from the older expansion sets that aren't getting reprinted and haven't already been reprinted go on the list by default." That's why Mirage has a whole bunch of bad rares that...

Sadly, Energy Bolt is on the Reserved List. I vaguely remember using it, once upon a time. But it couldn't have been very much and it must have been very early on. Ultimately, I don't think it's a practical card for most decks: if you're playing a red deck and have access to a Blaze-like spell...

In case anyone was wondering, I've leveled Tomas up. I don't know which spells Rokapoke would pick to learn, but that can't be helped right now.