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UUD, attack with everything. Blocks/responses?

No one expects the Spanish Inquisition! Mere months after Mirage introduced Infernal Contract, WotC released Portal (my first set!), which contained a functional reprint of the card: Cruel Bargain. That's quite the oddity. They had no problem with reprinting cards in the set, including such...

Tendrils of Agony in Legacy, 2004–2008 Tendrils of Agony in competitive Legacy has been defined by the full legal usage of Lion's Eye Diamond. I don't want to merely rehash the LED Memories thread, which covered much of this. And really, having followed Legacy since the format's inception and...

Meandeck Tendrils With TPS filling the role of a flexible, robust combo deck that was still fast, most other combo decks focused on maximizing cheesy, more consistently fast wins. Dedicating card slots to protecting itself meant that first-turn kills were rare and even second-turn kills were...

Take it.

Thragtusk, done. Spidey: 16 Hand: 2 Library: 48 Battlefield: (U,U) Mt x2 (T,U) Plains x2 (U) Boros Guildgate (~ ETB tapped.; T: Add R or W to my mana pool) (U) Clifftop Retreat (~ ETB tapped unless I control a Mt or Plains.; T: Add R or W to my mana pool) (U) Truefire Paladin (2/2...

Soldier token dies?

Nope.

UUD, attack with the 6/5 Strangleroot Geist. Blocks/responses?

The Power Phase is 3, which might be relevant to the healers in the party. Huh, that's mostly just Melkor. There's also Rokapoke, but I'm currently pretending to be Rokapoke in this thread until Rokapoke returns triumphantly. Also, Jekaena will try to heal anyone who asks for it.

As I noted in the Memories thread for Dark Ritual, the card used to be associated most strongly with aggro decks, although it also appeared in control and combo decks. Vintage TPS was probably the deck that really started to turn that around, as Dark Ritual disappeared from most competitive...

We may not know the exact identities of the people responsible for this, how many of them there are, and their exact methods, but it seems clear that the broken market for Modern tournament cards exists for profit, not as an accident or a mistake. I am convinced that the same forces are behind...

Take it.

A few times, I talked about "pillars." This is a vague term that has shifted in meaning over the years. I should probably have spelled it out in the Dark Ritual memories thread. Originally, the term applied to Vintage and came about largely due to the rise of TPS. Well, it'd also be fair to say...

Nope.

UUD, Mist Raven bouncing your Champion of the Parish, done. Spidey: 16 Hand: 4 Library: 49 Battlefield: (U,U) Mt x2 (U,U) Plains x2 (U) Boros Guildgate (~ ETB tapped.; T: Add R or W to my mana pool) (U) Truefire Paladin (2/2; Vigilance; RW: ~ gets +2/+0 ueot.; RW: ~ gains first strike...

Updated map...

Broadside Assault Event Deal 2 damage to each opponent. Melkor: 20 Command Zone: Cannons to Port (The next time you deal combat damage to the player on your left, draw a card.) Hand: 7 Library: 52 Battlefield: (T) Swamp x1 Graveyard: Exile...

Dorgath detects no signs of any secret doors and all exits are sealed off. However, once Throg decapitates Utronicus, the floor sinks and the portcullis back to Bysshan's shrine reopens.

WotC is doing away with the two-set block system. Every Standard set moving forward after Rivals of Ixalan will be built as a large set meant to be drafted alone. They've gotten a lot of feedback, which I think is correct, that the draft experience when a first set in a block comes out is better...