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Exactly! I've never seen it come up, but it is a possibility. I almost always used the Serf tokens as sacrificial victims, and not in decks for which the Autocrat dying and exiling the tokens would be noticeably different from the Autocrat dying and burying the tokens. Based on the way WotC...

Sengir Autocrat made it into the core set for Fifth and Sixth Editions, and was later reprinted as a timeshifted card in Time Spiral and then again in Eternal Masters. Notably, the Sixth Edition text was responsible for changing the LtB trigger from killing the serfs to exiling them. I have...

Black also gets its share of creatures inspired by Lord of the Pit. Big creatures, usually either demons or horrors, that are impressive in combat but have an upkeep requirement to sacrifice a creature or else bad things happen. That bad thing can be as simple as "you lose your big guy"...

"It wears the souls of its victims like jewels on a chain." At some point in high school, the notion of a first-turn 6/6 trampler appealed to me, and I set about making a deck to achieve that. I named it "Chain of Souls" after Delraich's flavor text... It wasn't an especially consistent...

I already talked about Hecatomb in the Memories thread for Corrupt, on account of my old Fun With Swamps deck. I didn't really use Hecatomb much beyond that deck, and ultimately I preferred Pestilence, although the enchantments do perform somewhat similar roles. Hecatomb would have been a big...

Oh man, I was browsing old posts and came across this. I had completely forgotten that deck, and I can only assume I never actually played it... 4 Royal Assassin 4 Living Plane 4 Opposition 4 Deranged Hermit 4 Sengir Autocrat 4 Sandbar Merfolk 2 Cloud of Faeries 4 Dark Ritual 4...

Yikes, Spidey has some mana ramp.

In official communications, WotC tend to use the word "mechanic" to describe new rules concepts that apply to multiple cards in a set. So, if just one card does something, it's just what that card does. But if a set has several cards with some common feature, that common feature might be called...

Deck Name: Pitch Dredge Magic Format: Vintage (2016 to present) Insight: Vintage Dredge decks, while not as alien as Manaless Dredge decks in the Legacy format, are unusual decks that are deceptively fast. These decks operate by finding a copy of Bazaar of Baghdad (and use Serum Powder to...

UUD, Island, explore the first beach tile of the game... Deeproot Tree Site At the beginning of your end step, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control. Well, I have a feeling that I won't be holding onto that for very long. I guess I'll attack Mooseman with River Sneak, take his...

Take it.

Ha, didn't expect that one, did you? Or perhaps you did. I don't know. Homelands is almost universally panned as the worst Magic set. And on that topic, I'm not really interested in swaying from public opinion. There are other contenders, and it really all depends on how you weigh different...

Oops. I had stuff come up and wasn't home as much as I'd planned, but I was still home way more than enough to update this. Got distracted by Zelda: Breath of the Wild, so it's practically not even my fault. :p Done. Spidey: 17 Hand: 4 Library: 50 Battlefield: (T,T,U) Plains x3...

OK. I'd initially waited to see if you were going to use the site, then I just sort of left that there and forgot to post anything further. I'll take my turn when I get home.

When I was in high school, I had a deck that I called "Fun With Swamps." I took it apart. I cannot fathom why, because the deck was awesome. It might be the case that I needed some parts from it to reassemble my Pestilence deck or something. I don't think I cared too much either way at the time...

I think that's a big part of my preference for the original. Tendrils of Corruption isn't bad. In most casual settings, you're probably getting decent value out of it. Sitting on it and building up swamps increases its potency, but wiping out an X/4 right away is generally worth it, especially...

That speaks more to the dearth of 2010's reprints than to the true functionality of the cards. Modern doesn't even get the hilarious Null Brooch + Ensnaring Bridge combo. I've long been torn on Soul Spike. It seems like they deliberately designed the perfect card for Necropotence in the retro...

I've sometimes thought that Corrupt should really only cost five mana and that'd still be fair. Probably true, but they did make Tendrils of Corruption, which is very similar and costs only four mana and gets instant speed, but cannot hit players. It's another fine card, but I prefer Corrupt...

I find it laughable that Ensnaring Bridge or Ancient Stirrings would be thought banworthy, but then again, I found the banning of Ramunap Ruins in Standard to be silly as well. We live in strange times. OK, maybe not. I mean, they did ban Thawing Glaciers and such, back in the old days...