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I'll see if there's a list online somewhere. Failing that I'll just transcribe them from my set in the box.

Oops, TappedOut link added. While I've had a been of a drought of consistently getting to sit down against real-life players, that changed earlier this year. There's an old LGS fairly close to where I live (place has been around since the 1980's I think and branched out from sports cards to...

Sounds good. Even if we do start up some sort of tribal games again, we might not want to mix in other variants right away (although Explorers seems like a pretty mild change from normal multiplayer).

http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/colored-spells-are-for-nerds/ I've been working on Canadian Highlander and other than my crude attempt at a monoblack control deck, which I disassembled after one day, I'll probably post my decks here. Right now I've got two exact netdecks (Goblins and Jeskai...

Not exactly. The decks in the box set do use a lot of cards from Ixalan, but they include some reprints from Magic's history that aren't in the regular set. Yeah, you mentioned that at some point. I was going to type the longest, most roundabout way of agreeing with you ever, because I do...

Ah, good to know. Well, I submitted it via the PM system. It wound up being too long to put into one message, but a lot of that was just because of a list of cards. I don't think this one actually conforms to Melkor's Law of Bite-Size Articles, but it's not my worst episode of garrulity ever. I...

Well yes, I've been thinking about that, but not specifically for Rivals of Ixalan, although I'm not convinced adding that aspect matters so much when it comes to "ground rules." This was actually material I was thinking of putting in an article, but I'd already started a different article...

So I wrote a new article. Should I try to email it or try to PM it, Spidey? I wasn't sure if you ever got the email last time, although I don't know why it wouldn't go through...

A subtle point, perhaps the crux of this issue, is that WotC inconsistently apply two irreconcilable standards when it comes to targeting cards for bans/restrictions. This is not mere speculation on my part: they have explicitly laid out justifications using both standards at different times...

I need to emphasize this point. Sure, the specific example is dated, but the concept is important and is one of the most frustrating topics for me when it comes to discussions of casual play. A list of cards banned or restricted for a tournament environment doesn't necessarily provide the best...

Reviewing Oscar Tan's opinion piece immediately following the restriction of Necropotence, I'm seeing some points of interest. I'm glad we have these old archives, as I think they provide key insights. It's a kind of time capsule. So while I don't usually do that, this card is important to me...

-Throg casts Lightning Bolt on the spider to his left (3 damage). -Carrow attempts to lunge into the spider attacking him, jamming his lit fire arrow into it... -Carrow's attempt succeeds spectacularly! The spider is wounded and driven back by the strange technique (4 damage). -Carrow's victim...

UUD, Island, attack with Sovereign, Lyev Skyknight, detaining Rakdos Shred-Freak, done. Spidey: 18 Hand: 4 Library: 51 Battlefield: (T,T,T) Swamp x3 (T) Rakdos Shred-Freak (Human Berserker; 2/1; Haste) (T) Xathrid Necromancer (Human Wizard; 2/2; Whenever ~ or another Human creature I...

Haven't met many people who tried this game out, but one person did mention adapting it by basically using other (unspecified) decks. Yeah, nothing about the tiles necessarily relies on using the decks that come in the box. We could totally do a variant with tribal decks or whatever. Offhand, I...

See, even in an environment like what I think you're describing, I'd rather have a two-drop counter. Perhaps on turn 4 I see an opportunity for Echoing Truth. I can't cast Countervailing Winds and Echoing Truth, but I could use a two-drop counter and then Echoing Truth. There are too many...

While I do like cycling, I'm not too keen on three-mana countermagic. Time has shown the two is kind of a sweet spot on that stuff. If a one-mana spell is reliably good enough at countering things, it tends to be overpowered (fortunately, this has mostly been confined to Circular Logic, Spell...

Necropotence in Type 1 was not, historically, my specialty. My general impression was that the Type 1 players were playing Necro in similar decks to what we had in Type 1.5, but better. And as a rule of thumb, that did seem to hold true. The rise of "Trix" was no exception. Behold, Type 1...

Yeah, of course there's always the caveat that those are prices online vendors are listing them at and not representative of what a player looking to liquidate a collection of cards could actually get. Also, I notice that while a median is the most practical way to avoid getting a skewed...

I don't know of a solution to that. I know I mentioned the format separation in Hearthstone and how dramatic the community response was. It didn't even really noticeable affect my own games, but it was still kind of disheartening. Granted Magic players aren't necessarily the same as Hearthstone...

With their powerful dragon guildmaster, Niv-Mizzet, Draconerd. What kind of a card has math in its flavor text? Mathematicians are not cool! The Golgari are biologists, though. And biologists get laid all the time, I am told. Sadly, I majored in chemistry. :p Also we get Life from the Loam...