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Ah yes, and my spells need to be in my graveyard, of course. Nicol Bolas, God Emperor of Dune: 42 Command Zone: Bow to My Command (Melkor's creatures can't attack me or my planeswalkers. At the beginning of my opponents' end step, they may tap any number of untapped creatures they control with...

To everyone's surprise, twelve gigantic spiders swarm through the canopy to attack you!

Done. Nicol Bolas, God Emperor of Dune: 42 Command Zone: Bow to My Command (Melkor's creatures can't attack me or my planeswalkers. At the beginning of my opponents' end step, they may tap any number of untapped creatures they control with total power 8 or greater. If they do, abandon this...

UUD, Swamp, Ultimate Price on Banisher Priest. Responses?

Unwitting Accomplice Event Gain control of target creature until end of turn. Untap that creature. It gains haste until end of turn.

I assume that this is fake anyway. Not the part about a Black Lotus getting destroyed, because obviously that does happen. I just mean the part about "Ford Escape enthusiast" being a real thing. :p

Never! They shall stand forever as a testament to the glory that is the Modern format. Uh, where was I? Vintage? No? Oh wait, it wasn't Vintage yet because until 2004, the format was officially "Type 1" and was sometimes denoted in official media as "Classic." Same format, though. Ye olde...

No, it was in the thread Shabbaman started about the CPA getting a nod from Abe Sargent at the site Gathering Magic. As far as our Tribal Wars games went, I never felt like they got even close to having the problem of devolving into generic midrange grinds. People were always trying to do...

I knew at one point I'd said something kinda-sorta about this topic, but I couldn't remember where. Well, this morning it dawned on me. Here's what I was thinking about...

UUD, Concentrate, Island, Deeproot Warrior, done. Melkor: 12 Command Zone: Jade Reflection (Quest: When you cast your next instant or sorcery spell, copy that spell, and you may choose new targets for the copy) High and Dry, Pirate's Market (Site: At the beginning of your end step, you may...

UUD... Let's go with Melkor. Cinder Barrens, Dreadbore on Aerial Responder, Lightning Bolt on Battle-Rattle Shaman. Attack each opponent with respective horror tokens and attack Spiderman with Icefall Regent and Vampire Nighthawk. Blocks/responses?

Done. Spidey: 8 Hand: 5 Library: 49 Battlefield: (T) Plains (T) Island (T) Azorius Guildgate (~ ETB tapped.; T: Add U or W to my mana pool) (T) Azorius Guildgate (~ ETB tapped.; T: Add U or W to my mana pool) (U) Banisher Priest (2/2; When ~ ETB, exile target creature Oversoul controls...

Like every other card in Modern, Walking Ballista is perfectly legal in Legacy. :p

I didn't own anything close to the cards needed at the time to pull that off! And my methods for getting that many tokens also generally enabled me to cut out the middleman and not use Firestorm as a kill spell. But my card collection in 2000 was diminutive. I did go on to experiment with...

I do, I do! :p Well, there's some nuance to this. So I'll say that firstly, the mana system in Magic is a firmly entrenched part of the game's mechanic that has been abandoned in virtually every subsequent CCG/TCG for similar sensible reasons. That's not a coincidence. It has been said that...

In Oscar Tan's primer, there's a mention of another early combo-based Necropotence deck, apparently used by Adrian Sullivan in the 1999 Pro Tour... 4 Necropotence 4 Demonic Consultation 4 Pandemonium 4 Phyrexian Dreadnought 4 Reanimate 4 Mana Vault 4 Dark Ritual 4 Lotus Petal 3 Final Fortune 3...

I didn't note it at the time, but I found some of the stuff Psarketos was posting to be a bit reminiscent of Cocoa Pebbles, where the use of Necropotence isn't directly tied to a long-term control gameplan or to some combo relying on Necropotence itself (like my Necropotence + Zur's Weirding...

So, Necropotence started out as an engine that powered fast, proactive control decks, cutting opponents off from resources and overwhelming them with card advantage. As competitive Magic moved on, important tools in this approach, like Hymn to Tourach, Strip Mine, and Hypnotic Specter became...

UUD, Rakdos Shred-Freak, attack with both Shred-Freaks. Blocks/responses?