Well, there's Strip Mine though...
...and Sinkhole is much more potent (in monoblack) than something like Pillage...
Really, I would rank Sinkhole as the #2 LD card behind Strip Mine...
Yep, sarcastic! That's what it is. Crystalline Sliver really sucks and I would trade it for a Snowfall. It's absolutely useless since it counteracts the totally awesome Magma Sliver, so why would anyone use it? :rolleyes:
It's in the rules somewhere to be sure, the exact number escapes me right now, and I'm way too lazy to look it up...
So I don't see why you would need to build some insane deck just to show your friend...
Although I did do that with proxy cards...
But then again the one guy still plays with...
Yeah, I mean, if there were no moxes of any sort, no Sol Rings, Mana Vaults, Grim Monoliths, Strokes, Braingeysers, MoMas, Candelabras, etc. Tolarian Academy wouldn't be so good...
Correctness? But Crystalline Sliver is easily the best sliver there is...
I guess Muscle Sliver or Wing are somewhat close, but Crystalline is still definitely the best.
Jokulhaups and a deck that can empty its hand, or maybe a deck that uses mainly lands as the only permanent, then casts Argmaggedon after the Cheese is out. And there's also Kaevek's Spite, but that is a bit of mana because you have to use both cards during the same main phase (cast Cheese and...
Okay, I guess I do believe it. I mean, it is possible to kill someone with a Walking Sponge. Although why you would pay two mana for a 1/1 with no abilities (okay, so it has an ability, but it's a very pathetic one) instead of the standard one is beyond my understanding.
What's your use for Balduvian Shaman, Train?
Anyway, the Hub thing is called Eon Hub and the bad Ice Age cards I was referring to were cumulative upkeep cards. Of course, there were cumulative upkeep cards in other sets too, but Ice Age comes to mind...