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UUD, Desolate Lighthouse, Rolling Temblor in attempt to blow up your guys, responses? Spiderman: 20 Hand: 5 Library: 51 Battlefield: (T) Plains (T) Forest (T) Razorverge Thicket (~ ETB tapped unless I control two or fewer other lands.; T: Add W or G to my mana pool) (S) Attended Knight...

Yeah, I don't know why I didn't settle on that in the first place. I suppose so. They definitely focused heavily on the magic/technology fusion concept and I'm a little unclear as to how steeped in Indian lore it actually is, both because I'm not as familiar with Indian lore and because some...

Doomsday With three cards banned from the top combo deck in Vintage, other fast decks rushed in to fill its place. A blue-heavy, disruptive storm deck that was fast enough but also slightly more resilient in the face of the format's devastating Workshop decks became the most successful of the...

Yeah, this one ended up running even longer than I thought it would, so I think you're right. One thing that's been bugging me is that I have been veering a bit toward more longform stuff in forum posts and I don't know where the cutoff should be for whether some thing is an article or whether...

The ground here is covered in tall grass. It is impossible to see the forest floor. -The Power Phase is 3 for this turn. -12 Snotlings ambush the party.

I find it hilarious that after over a year of frontpage inactivity, I go and officially announce my intention to use the forums as a better space for articles (for now anyway), and then it turns out that someone had beaten me to article publication by a matter of hours and I hadn't yet noticed...

Ichorid Dredge, Dredge, Dredge, Dredge, wonderful Dredge. The name "Dredge" these days is synonymous with highly specialized decks that rely on explosive graveyard interactions, but at first, it was just the mechanic associated with the Golgari in Ravnica. As I mentioned in that "Storm Count"...

UUD, Mountain, Fetttergeist, done. Spiderman: 20 Hand: 6 Library: 52 Battlefield: (U) Plains (U) Razorverge Thicket (~ ETB tapped unless I control two or fewer other lands.; T: Add W or G to my mana pool) Graveyard: Exile...

Nicol Bolas started out in the surreal, convoluted setting of Legends, where he was one survivors of the Elder Dragon Wars. The lore established that although the elder dragons were very powerful, they were often forced into servitude by powerful planeswalkers. Uniquely among the elder dragon...

Those are some things that don't belong. But what's missing. That's trickier, because there are so many things about ancient Egypt that could, at least hypothetically, be used in a Magic set. Not all of them are what I'd call good ideas to fit into a Magic set, though. Still, there are some...

One of the most important issues to note, right off, is that while Greek mythology is chock full of iconic characters and stories about them, older mythology (including Egyptian) doesn't have so much of that. The reasons for this difference are interesting and important, but go beyond the scope...

A while back, I tentatively decided not to write more front-page articles, and instead to focus on forum-based content. This was something that I was, and still am, a bit torn on. On the one hand... Writing forum posts is easier than preparing and submitting articles. If I see a typographical...

IGGy Pop Now, here's a bit of an obscure one. IGGy Pop was a Legacy deck that mostly used older cards, but didn't really become established until after LED had already risen to prominence in decks like Bomberman and Belcher. Even though Ritual-fueled decks using Tendrils of Agony had established...

Belcher There have been a lot of different Belcher decks. The first ones I remember seeing were Vintage decks with one Bayou and one Tropical Island, both of which could be fetched with Land Grant. When the Legacy format was created, I devised a version with one Bayou and one Taiga. Soon Belcher...

Next turn... -The Power Phase is 4. Searching the hobgoblin corpses turns up nothing worth looting. However, you do find a package on the ground... Jekaena: "Well, these are cooking herbs. Someone must have dropped them while fleeing from the Pine Crags after the goblins invaded. Hm, these...

Madness While it would have been possible to pair LED with the Madness mechanic well before its breakthrough with Storm, I never saw that happen and it certainly wasn't popular. In the early years of Legacy, one of the most explosive aggro archetypes was a blue, green, and often red Madness deck...

I wonder if Spike Hatcher is disappointed in its offspring's career choice. :p

Nicol Bolas, God Emperor of Dune: 36 Hand: 5 Library: 34 Command Zone: *Ongoing Scheme* Bow to My Command: Rokapoke's creatures cannot attack me or planeswalkers I control. At the beginning of my opponents' end step, they may tap any number of creatures with power 8 or greater. If they do...

Bomberman I can't remember where and when I first saw Bomberman decks emerge, and records from back then are sporadic. Bomberman has primarily been a Vintage deck, but it has also existed in Legacy, and I think it might have originated in the old Type 1.5. The idea was to use hand-sculpting...

Darkslick Shores, done. Spiderman: 20 Hand: 6 Library: 53 Battlefield: (U) Plains Graveyard: Exile: ==================================================================================================== Oversoul: 20 Hand: 6 Library: 52 Battlefield: (U) Island (U) Darkslick Shores (~...