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Every year has its share of developments in Magic: new products, format changes, rules adjustments, etc. I don’t know if backtracking to a decade ago is helpful here, but 2009 was a pretty big year for the game, finishing off the Alara Block with two sets that added a lot of useful tools for...

This is a long article. You’ve been warned. At the most abstract level, this one has been a long time coming. A very, very long time. But I don’t think I’d have made the effort to string these words together and come up with something coherent if not for the (relatively) recent article by Bryan...

Jungle Hollow, Doomwake Giant, done. Spidey: 13 Hand: 3 Library: 40 Battlefield: (T,T) Swamp x2 (T,T) Island x2 (T) Forest (S) Sultai Soothsayer (2/5; When ~ ETB, look at the top four cards of my library. Put one of them into my hand and the rest into my graveyard) Graveyard: Sultai...

EOT make a Pest. UUD, Island, roll the planar die, blank, roll the planar die, blank, roll the planar die, planeswalk to Goldmeadow, done. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Command Zone: ----------------------------------------------------------------------...

Oops. Thorn Mammoth fights Chulane. Chulane dies?

So obviously I've been late getting back to this. I already had notes for the stuff in the dungeon after this next part, but this part itself has some long exposition and I totally forgot to finish it. So when I realized that I thought, "That's OK, I'll find some time to finish writing that...

Spidey's polka obsession aside, I think it'll be fun to test this myself and it will give me an excuse to put off getting back to the Games Run board for a few minutes. Now, I am a couple years younger than most of the other regulars here, but I don't think it should matter too much either way...

Here's yet another wacky creation for the West Coast Commander League. Having at least nine elk and/or caribou over the course of the game wasn't worth enough points for how hard it is to pull off. But Caribou Range got me there. It's totally a legitimate Magic card. My favorite play of the...

Deck Name: The Epic Storm Version 8.5 Magic Format: Legacy Insight: This has proven to be my favorite competitive decklist for any tournament format in a long, long time. I've been avidly following Storm decks for the Legacy format ever since Legacy was first announced in 2004, and this is the...

Continuing this December silliness in the West Coast Commander League, I built a deck to best ensure that I'd have snow permanents, that I'd have cards with family relations in their names, that I'd tap Sensei's Divining Top and/or Candelabra of Tawnos, and that I'd trade cards with my...

It turns out that Thornbite Staff is a good Magic card. After four weeks in a row of playing Legends legends, I decided to change it up and do a combo deck. Well, what really happened was that the weekly rotator in the West Coast Commander League's point system was to activate abilities of...

EOT use Witch's Oven on my Zombie Army. I get a Food, I draw a card, Korvold gets a +1/+1 counter, I gain a life, and you each take 1 damage. UUD, Forest, Thorn Mammoth. Responses?

I'll scry a card to the bottom off the Fiend dying. UUD, attack with both of my creatures. Blocks/responses?

Yeah, it's a bit of a mess. There's now a rule in Commander making it so that effects grabbing cards from outside of the game just do nothing in the format. :confused:

Simultaneous Mulligan I almost forgot about this one, but I do remember the difference. It mostly affects tournament players and isn't as important in casual games, so I tend not to think about it as much. I'm on-board with this change. It was an improvement. Good call. Battlefield I was...

Thanks. I think I generally agree with you on the stack, except I think that, at least partially, I understand why they did what they did, even if I didn't like it. Mark Rosewater and Aaron Forsythe both elaborated on how the Magic 2010 Rules Changes were an attempt to make the game more...

I'm already working on my deck for the next West Coast Commander League meetup, so I'm ahead of schedule on that compared to my usual these days of "Don't start until the night before." But I've fallen behind on reporting my decks as they're played. So here's my deck from the 1st. But it's weird...

I don't do booster drafts often, but Plummet has been reprinted a billion times and has shown up in almost every draft pool whenever I've drafted a green deck. It has the obnoxious habit of never being the right card when I do maindeck it and always being the right card when I don't. Seriously...

Ty touches the torch to the image of the bucket. Ty gains a Potion of Curing: Eliminates one disabling effect (loss of a Characteristic from poison, loss of movement from petrification, etc.). Worth 200 gold. All of the glyphs light up at once. The light fades. There is an audible churning...

Dorgath remains vigilant, but the process works again without any problems. Tomas touches the torch to the board. Tomas gains a Firestorm Scroll. The lights form the image, once more, of a bucket.