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Psarketos beat me to the punch. This aspect is huge. One meme I've noticed is for players to sarcastically state, "Symmetrical effects are always fair." Wheel of Fortune can't be broken: everyone gets to draw cards! A sentiment that rings hollow when you see me cast all of the spells in my hand...

Anyone can eat waybread. I think most of the party is already carrying some, which was purchased at an encampment on the journey to Loren. Waybread functions like normal rations except it doesn't spoil quite as easily.

For a few years now, I've had my very own copy of Timetwister, a card that has a special place in my heart, despite being generally regarded as the worst out of the "Power 9" and not really in the same league as the other eight. I didn't make one of these threads for Timetwister and I probably...

"No, but judging from the contents, I'd guess that it was packed in a hurry when someone was fleeing from the goblin invaders. I doubt that the original owner is still alive."

UUD, Forest, Borderland Ranger revealing Forest, done. Spidey: 20 Hand: 5 Library: 45 Battlefield: (T,T) Mt x2 (T) Island (S) Armored Skaab (1/4; When ~ ETB, put the top four cards of my library into my graveyard) Graveyard: Evolving Wilds, Evolving Wilds, Island, Fettergeist, Think...

In one universe, Ty opens the backpack and the booby trap inside triggers an explosion, killing everyone in the party except Throg. In another, Ty raises the flap on the backpack to reveal a bizarre magic lock with a large slot in the shape of an axe-head; the party looks at the lock, looks at...

Ah, but I built that deck when I was in high school, which was before the Legacy format existed. :p Well, in the first place, I hinted at this before but don't think I spelled it out: I suspect that a clean "theory of everything" in Magic does not exist and isn't possible. I mean, in...

My feedback on MetaEsper is somewhere on a spectrum from aloof fascination to gushing enthusiasm, but I want to actually explore some specific nuances and options at some point. Like I said before (in a thread, but I forget which one), I'm into decks that approach the game from different and...

While I do like the story, I suspect that it is apocryphal. But even if it isn't, my reason for bringing it up was to illustrate the concept that giving humans more to work with sometimes blinds them to options that they would notice if they were actually given less, options which they might be...

UUD, Plains, Elvish Visionary, done. Spidey: 20 Hand: 6 Library: 50 Battlefield: (U,T) Mt x2 Graveyard: Evolving Wilds, Evolving Wilds Exile: ======================================================================================= Oversoul: 20 Hand: 7 Library: 50 Battlefield: (T) Plains...

-Dorgath's disappointment has no effect. -Throg hacks at the dead snotlings. This has the effect of making a mess. -Carrow points out the futility of Throg's action. This has no effect. -Ty finds a backpack.

Some of the most powerful tools to use with Lion's Eye Diamond were well-known before the card existed I mentioned this before. The most important examples are ones that would go on to be used with LED once people actually bothered with the card: Wheel of Fortune, Timetwister, and Demonic Tutor...

Draw, Forest, done. Spidey: 20 Hand: 6 Library: 52 Battlefield: (T) Mt Graveyard: Evolving Wilds Exile: ======================================================================================= Oversoul: 20 Hand: 7 Library: 52 Battlefield: (U) Forest Graveyard: Exile:

Although the note in the previous announcement was more intended for Vintage, I think Legacy players expected that "no changes" would apply to them too with the announcement scheduled right before Eternal Weekend. So really, that's no surprise. But they failed to even mention Legacy (again), and...

https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/news/october-17-2017-banned-and-restricted-announcement-2017-10-17 No changes to any formats. Once again, Spidey is slow on the draw. I thought about waiting but I want to whine about Legacy!

ProsBloom After initially deciding to start a Memories thread for LED, I was brainstorming and thought, "Well, it was in ProsBloom at one point." No, it wasn't. Not as far as I can tell, anyway. Not in tournaments. I was mistaken because I used it in ProsBloom in casual play, many years after...

Speaking very broadly, yes it's true that Magic is more complex than Poker or Bridge (I picked them because they're card games with extensive bodies of literature concerning strategy, but this goes for lots of other games as well), but there are a lot of things that we can shortcut. In your...

-Ty's Pit Training kicks in. He may move and attack before combat starts. -Ty slices through one snotling and move to takes its place. -Ty eliminates another snotling with his fist spike. -Ty dismembers a third snotling. -Ty leaps in with a knee strike and downs a fourth snotling. -Snotlings...

Heads it is.

Broken Jar I had intended to get to this earlier and then I forgot about it. The first tournament deck, as far as I know, to make use of LED was actually in Extended in the late 1990's, but it was an unusual case so I wanted to distinguish it from Burning Desire: there was a kind of late 90's...