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I do love me some Commandeer, but that trade would ultimately be a 3-for-2. Even so, he'd get to see my hand and I wouldn't get to see his. But it'd depend on what the Commandeer player was trying to protect. Could totally be the right play in some situations. We started that game around the...

UUD, Selesnya Guildgate, Vitu-Ghazi Guildmage, done. Spidey: 20 Hand: 5 Library: 51 Battlefield: (T,T) Forest x2 (S) Burning-Tree Emissary (2/2; When ~ ETB, add RG to my mana pool) (S) Skaarg Guildmage (2/2; RG: Creatures I control gain trample ueot.; 1RG: Target land I control becomes a...

Not at all. I touched on it in one of the first "Memories" threads I started, but the main reason I started them was because I changed jobs and found that my then-new job was leaving me with some awkward "wait in the office for a bit" moments. I was checking in a lot at the CPA, but the downtime...

When it comes to the appearance of Magic cards, we all have our preferences, but I like to think that I'm not a huge snob. I like good art, but if I don't care for the artwork on a card, it's only a minor consideration. I'm one of the 12 people in the world who actually preferred the white...

I am presently less enthusiastic about it than you might be. In fact, I contend that I am presently less excited about it than are those individuals who got free saproling tokens earlier in the game.

Placate the Raptors Event Each opponent sacrifices a creature.

That's a potent example, but it doesn't even need to be that extreme. Land destruction spells are a bit of a balancing act when it comes to actually winning games, and usually they're especially susceptible to several different types of opponents. And yet it seems like it's mostly new players...

I think that LD spells have either been balanced or have erred on the side of being too weak in most environments. It can become a problem when it's especially undercosted or when it is too easily repeatable. But those instances are very rare. Examples that come to mind are Balance and the...

I get where you're coming from. Or I think I do, anyway. But I'd contend that an important distinction isn't that land destruction is inherently unfun, but that it is an effect with a greater-than-average danger of potentially becoming unfun. Land destruction can be used in multiple ways. In...

Crack a treasure token and Unsummon the Aegiosaur. Block a saproling with Air Elemental.

UUD, attack Oversoul...oh wait, I can't do that even though it's what everyone else is doing. Play Island. Well, I'm still going to try to take my Tree back and also I'm still going to create those treasure tokens (or rather, they were already created). Also summoning an Air Elemental and using...

Much like Counterspell, WotC continued to use Stone Rain as a baseline card for the cost of providing its effect, with most other variants being a bit more expensive to do something extra and with the original card remaining in the core set and acting as a kind of default. And then, in the...

The Ring of Illusion covers it up. It's an illusion. The effects of that Atrophy attribute are real (and could hypothetically lower your characteristics, but you rolled the "it's just cosmetic and doesn't affect his profile" option when you picked up the attribute). Good question. I have...

If I remember correctly, I opened over 80 packs of Aether Revolt without ever seeing a single masterpiece. Doesn't hurt my feelings too much because I'm not into foil cards anyway. But yeah, they're stupidly rare. Some people have taken to calling them "lottery cards."

Hm, I'll try to clarify it better... It's pretty common in Warhammer Quest for an item, character skill, or other optional effect to work "once per adventure." Also prevalent, although a bit less common, is for some boost or bonus to last "for one adventure." The default adventure, like if...

Yep, Ice Storm was last printed in the glorious Unlimited Edition. It was taken off the Reserved List in 2002, so it could theoretically be reprinted, but so far it hasn't been reprinted. Sinkhole was in the exact same position, but then it was reprinted as a rare in Eternal Masters (which, of...

They're obnoxiously rare in booster packs of the sets that have them (Battle for Zendikar, Oath of the Gatewatch, Kaladesh, Aether Revolt, Amonkhet, Hour of Devastation). I heard the ratio was supposedly around one masterpiece per booster box. So it's either get super lucky or buy from someone...

True. I was kinda shoehorning into the theme of me clogging up the Single Card Discussion forum. And it kinda works: it's just that from the beginning of the game there were multiple mostly interchangeable land destruction spells. I mean, Sinkhole is the best, but the others are pretty good. I...

While looking for some cards for a deck, I realized that I do not currently own a single copy of Ice Storm. A technicality that will shortly be remedied! So yeah, buying some copies post-haste. Not sure what happened. I used to have Ice Storm at some point. Must have been one of those things...

Heh. I saw Mooseman had taken his turn and just went because I was after him. Didn't even notice that Melkor hadn't gone yet. So it's Mooseman's fault? :p