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I admit that my mind did immediately jump to "What tribe could exploit Oath of Druids?" I think I'd look for the creature type with the highest rate of creatures that can be sacrificed for very big effects that don't turn off Oath. The usual approaches that make Oath powerful aren't really...

Recently, some people (very few people, really) have advocated unrestricting Fastbond in Vintage. I doubt it'll happen, and I'm actually not sure either way. Unlike with Yawgmoth's Bargain, I don't really have anything to compare Fastbond to. Nothing else in the game is quite like it. So even...

Well, we all have our perceptions of ourselves that might not line up with how others see us. I think that I can approach gameplay in a very competitive way and I find some of the really competitive "Spike" games to be interesting academically. But I'm more of a "Timmy" at heart and so much of...

http://www.eternalcentral.com/so-many-insane-plays-podcast-episode-77-masters-25-preview-and-arabian-nights-review/ Listened to this one today and it impelled me to update my LED Memories thread to note the late 90's Doomsday decks. But I figured I might as well share it in a separate thread...

Well, this sucks. Slave of Bolas was on top of my graveyard, but the deck sat there on my desk for so long that at some point (definitely before we ever started the Explorers of Ixalan game) it was knocked off and I can no longer find it. Not going to tear the place apart looking for it right...

UUD, attack with my whole team. Blocks/responses?

I'll finally explore the tile hanging off the edge of my table in every picture... Jungle Bounty Event Create a Saproling token. Gain 2 life. Merfolk Sovereign, done. Melkor: 13 Command Zone: Cannons to Port (The next time you deal combat damage to the player on your left, draw a card.)...

Funniest reaction I've seen to this set was over at TheSource message boards: "A silver set symbol on Lightning Bolt is hate speech."

As Stephen Menendian also noted in the podcast, that Doomsday archetype first showed up in late 1997 and was mostly active in 1998. It saw some refinement, but was superceded by newer combo decks. Then Doomsday itself was restricted in 1999 as part of the massive Type 1 restriction waves that...

Yeah, land destruction as utility is probably the biggest space for it in tournament play. That's why Wasteland and Strip Mine are so good: they offer that utility when it becomes valuable, but work as normal lands the rest of the time. I do wish more of the stuff like Pox decks, Stax decks...

Done. Spidey: 13 Hand: 4 Library: 49 Battlefield: (U,U,U) Forest x3 (U) Mountain (U) Burning-Tree Emissary (2/2; When ~ ETB, add RG to my mana pool) Graveyard: Flame of the Firebrand, Skaarg Guildmage Exile: ================================================================================...

I don't know how what happened with the battery could have anything to do with it. Might be a coincidence. What happened was that I realized I didn't have power steering when I went to do my drive home from the train station after work, but didn't closely investigate why not. Serpentine belt had...

I'm listening to the new episode of So Many Insane Plays, and there's a bunch of stuff about Doomsday, a fascinating card that I couldn't really do a Memories thread on because I hardly touched it myself. Stephen Menendian helpfully dug up the oldest Doomsday deck he could find. Even though I...

Bah. Still having car trouble. Probably going to have to replace it. I'll still get to this and the Archenemy game relatively soon...

Skaarg Guildmage dies, one centaur token dies, and you take 4?

UUD, Godless Shrine, activate Vitu-Ghazi Guildmage to populate, making a third centaur token. Attack with two centaur tokens and Doomed Traveler. Blocks/responses?

In large, established tournaments? I mean, it's kind of a high bar to set. I think a lot of perfectly interesting mechanics don't make it into the highest tiers of current tournament gameplay. Still, LD does show up in all three of the formats you named. I agree that it seems slow for Modern...

Well, I just posted that list from one of the land destruction decks I used in the old computer game. Here's the other one. 4 Birds of Paradise 4 Erhnam Djinn 4 Armageddon 1 Balance 1 Black Vise 2 Dingus Egg 4 Ice Storm 3 Juggernaut 4 Kudzu 3 Llanowar Elves 1 Regrowth 3 Savannah Lions 4...

In the casual decks forum, I already posted my Ankh deck from the old Magic computer game. Here's the list... 4 Ankh of Mishra 4 Stone Rain 1 Strip Mine 1 Regrowth 3 Drop of Honey 4 Birds of Paradise 4 Ice Storm 4 Ghazban Ogre 4 Kird Ape 4 Lightning Bolt 4 Taiga 1 Black Vise 2 Fellwar Stone 4...

That old Type 2 deck Black Rasmussen put in the article looks awesome. I didn't use Thermokarst a ton because of the double-green color requirement, but I did have it in some old land destruction deck at some point. The new art and flavor text are probably fine. I might just be nostalgic for...