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UUD, Forest, done. Spiderman: 29 Hand: 1 Library: 39 Battlefield: (U,U,U,U,U,U,U,U) Plains x8 Honor of the Pure (White creatures I control get +1/+1) Oblivion Ring (When ~ ETB, exile another target nonland permanent.; When ~ leaves the battlefield, return the exiled card to the battlefield...

70. Edit: Ninja post by Turgy beat me to it.

I was pretty young at the time and living in an area that was more tech-focused than most of the rest of the U.S. at the time (although, to be fair, also the same area where Magic started too). I didn't actually come to the game until a few years later, but based on what I've heard from people...

-The Power Phase is 4 for this turn.

At Dorgath's encouragement, Tomas and Throg touch the green icons together. The barrier disappears, revealing a spacious chamber. In the center of the chamber, a large, vertical column of intense white light rises above an ornate stone fountain. Suspended in the air directly over the fountain...

UUD, done. Spiderman: 29 Hand: 1 Library: 40 Battlefield: (T,T,T,T,U,U,U) Plains x7 Honor of the Pure (White creatures I control get +1/+1) Oblivion Ring (When ~ ETB, exile another target nonland permanent.; When ~ leaves the battlefield, return the exiled card to the battlefield under its...

I suspect Goblin Tinkerer was the culprit, but unless BPC returns, we may never know for sure.

I just want to point out that Goblin Mechanic is not the name of a real Magic card and neither is Statis.

Interesting example. I do think there are some strong parallels. Although I will point out that while both MMA and M:tG did homogenize and that some of the homogenization was probably for the same reasons, there are important distinctions. I think that a lot of the evolution of MMA was less...

Hm, yeah, the pool of commanders in those colors isn't all that big, and none of them really scream, "Beatdown!"

There was another Rector-based deck that I had for a while, but this part takes me on some tangents. I think that's fitting for this sort of thread, so I'm not going to let it stop me... Firstly, one of my favorite decks, probably my very favorite deck, that I had in high school was a...

While I did get a lot of mileage out of Burnt Offering/Sacrifice/Culling the Weak on Academy Rector into the Yawgmoth's Bargain + Skirge Familiar combo, I think the stronger version would have been to ditch the Skirge Familiar in favor of another enchantment, also fetchable with Rector...

In 1999, a friend I used to trade with a lot took a fancy to my playset of Necropotence (I think he wanted to play Necro in Extended) and tried to sell me on Yawgmoth's Bargain as a better version, but I didn't go for it. Later Nick (Al0ysiusHWWW) got those copies of Bargain. From late 1999...

Even though Yawgmoth's Bargain was banned in Extended, Type 1.5 (later Legacy), and Vintage, the card actually survived in Standard, where Rector Bargain decks were allowed to run rampant. Here's a "Sabre Bargain" list... 4 Academy Rector 4 Grim Monolith 3 Voltaic Key 3 Tooth of Ramos 4 Soul...

Reviving this topic again, I'm not sure what to make of Gitaxian Probe. Most of my experience has been with Legacy. Based on that experience and just common sense, the card seems like a perfect card for Storm. It reveals what disruption the opponent has in-hand, ticks the storm count up by one...

I don't think I follow. Surely the pool of good black cards is deep enough that if you want to keep the beatdown deck WBG, you can do so. It's personal preference, so why would have to cut black from the deck if you do not wish to? :confused:

I have a lot more that I'll probably share about Yawgmoth's Bargain. Over the years, I had multiple decks that used Academy Rector to fetch Bargain and then set up a combo finish. Yawgmoth's Bargain was a very important card to me for a variety of reasons, and some of that is really more of a...

Oh hey, totally forgot that I already wrote an entire article about Academy Rector, way back in 2008. It was for the "Type Fun" blog that Al0ysiusHWWW and I used to maintain. Later, when we were getting more serious in our focus on Legacy tournament decks, Nick (Al0ysiusHWWW) wanted to purge the...

To be clear, I wasn't so much trying to rebut what you said, but more pointing out that this whole thing is a mess and that there are a lot of ways to look at it. I do think that there is a sentiment I've seen elsewhere, which I don't really think you espoused even if you did remind me of it, a...

I think the better example of that specific point would be (the actually defunct) Magic Deck Vortex. Ten years ago if I'd been seeking out wacky casual decklists and off-the-wall formats, I'd have gone there. But they were probably already waning in relevance even then. While I obviously...