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One recurring theme I've touched on with my Comboist Manifesto articles, and probably here in these threads too, is the narrative that the Storm mechanic is heavily maligned as inherently broken and dangerous, something that ruins tournament gameplay by making egregious, uninteractive decks able...

Oh, gotcha. Two replacement effects and he could arrange them in whichever order he wanted, but obviously +1 and then x2 is better than x2 and then +1.

I know this is a bit technical, but just because I want to make sure I get it right when similar situations come up in my games... That ability on Corpsejack Menace doesn't actually need to be arranged to stack last because it's a replacement effect and not a triggered ability, correct?

I didn't pay a lot of attention to Rite of Flame when it first came out, although I did notice that it had some real potential. However, as a combo accelerant in tournament decks, Rite of Flame was conveniently placed in Coldsnap, the set that came out right before Time Spiral. Storm combo in...

Highlander formats have been around since the early 2000's, and the strength of some cards and mechanics has had a pronounced and perfectly understandable departure from traditional 60-card constructed formats. My own introduction to Highlander was the Seattle 150-card version. I noticed that...

Like most other "Magic Memories" I've started here, Rite of Flame is a card I don't see too much anymore. I've speculated on the circumstances behind that for some of the others, but for Rite of Flame I think it's pretty obvious. Two format that are especially popular in my area are Modern and...

By now, my enthusiasm for mana acceleration spells is no secret. Before Rite of Flame existed, I'd already used several other "ritual" cards in my casual decks, including Dark Ritual, High Tide, Dark Ritual, Songs of the Damned, Dark Ritual, Culling the Weak, Dark Ritual, Burnt Offering, Dark...

While there are certainly lots of major difference between then and now that affect the position of Library of Alexandria, it remains a very strong card. The decklist you mention existed in an environment where players could (and frequently did) run multiple copies of Strip Mine (Zak Dolan used...

Cascade is an on-cast trigger, so Consuming Abberation's ability wouldn't trigger for the Signet because Consuming Abberation is still on the stack when Simic Signet resolves.

Library of Alexandria is a very strange card. In Vintage, it sometimes just acts like a Wastes that can optionally be hit by Wasteland, which is really lackluster. So it kinda-sorta looks just barely worth inclusion in some slower control decks or in combo decks with lots of of other options for...

Jekaena finishes restoring Carrow with her healing magic... "Dorgath is probably right. If that dark elf is working with Coril, he could be targeting you specifically because of your connection to the Sylvan Epic. My cousin would want you dead and me taken alive so that he can, ah, cut my...

Good game. I thought I was in big trouble and then I drew a second Spellheart Chimera and it actually connected. I think the is a matchup that can really go either way, although obviously Evolutionary Leap helps a lot. I believe we passed over the two Tarkir Block event decks with the...

UUD, Mountain, attack with Spellheart Chimera. Blocks/responses/game?

UUD, Plains Explore S... Event: Scrolls of Azcanta Each player draws two cards, then each of your opponents discards two cards. Imperial Aerosaur, done. Spiderman: 19 Sites: Hand: 3 Library: 44 Battlefield: (T) Swamp (T,T) Plains x2 (T) Tainted Field (T: Add C to my mana pool.; T: Add W...

Done. Spidey: 5 Hand: 1 Library: 37 Battlefield: (U,U) Forest x2 (U,U,U) Swamp x3 (U) Jungle Hollow (~ ETB tapped.; When ~ ETB, I gain 1 life.; T: Add B or G to my mana pool) (U) Llanowar Wastes (T: Add C to my mana pool.; T: Add B or G to my mana pool. ~ deals 1 dmg to me) (U) Rogue's...

UUD, Attack with Spellheart Chimera. Blocks/responses?

We are now in the 729th consecutive week of Earthcraft being blatantly unnecessarily banned in Legacy. :p

I often used Hypnotic Specter in Necropotence decks. Looking back, there was kind of a categorical difference between the roles of Hypnotic Specter in black aggro decks and in Necro decks. It's subtle and there are bound to be exceptions, but I do think there's a noticeable gap. The...

Spellheart Chimera (again), done. Spidey: 11 Hand: 1 Library: 38 Battlefield: (U,U) Forest x2 (T,U) Swamp x2 (U) Jungle Hollow (~ ETB tapped.; When ~ ETB, I gain 1 life.; T: Add B or G to my mana pool) (U) Llanowar Wastes (T: Add C to my mana pool.; T: Add B or G to my mana pool. ~ deals 1...

-The Power Phase is 1! An Unexpected Event occurs... -Gold coins rain down from the sky. Everyone gets 70 gold and sustains 6 damage from being pelted by the hail of metal. -Jekaena uses her magic to heal Carrow (+5). -So does Tomas (+5). -Kelgar fails to bless anything. -Jekaena also decides...