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UUD, attack with the 6/5 Strangleroot Geist. Blocks/responses?

The Power Phase is 3, which might be relevant to the healers in the party. Huh, that's mostly just Melkor. There's also Rokapoke, but I'm currently pretending to be Rokapoke in this thread until Rokapoke returns triumphantly. Also, Jekaena will try to heal anyone who asks for it.

As I noted in the Memories thread for Dark Ritual, the card used to be associated most strongly with aggro decks, although it also appeared in control and combo decks. Vintage TPS was probably the deck that really started to turn that around, as Dark Ritual disappeared from most competitive...

We may not know the exact identities of the people responsible for this, how many of them there are, and their exact methods, but it seems clear that the broken market for Modern tournament cards exists for profit, not as an accident or a mistake. I am convinced that the same forces are behind...

Take it.

A few times, I talked about "pillars." This is a vague term that has shifted in meaning over the years. I should probably have spelled it out in the Dark Ritual memories thread. Originally, the term applied to Vintage and came about largely due to the rise of TPS. Well, it'd also be fair to say...

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UUD, Mist Raven bouncing your Champion of the Parish, done. Spidey: 16 Hand: 4 Library: 49 Battlefield: (U,U) Mt x2 (U,U) Plains x2 (U) Boros Guildgate (~ ETB tapped.; T: Add R or W to my mana pool) (U) Truefire Paladin (2/2; Vigilance; RW: ~ gets +2/+0 ueot.; RW: ~ gains first strike...

Updated map...

Broadside Assault Event Deal 2 damage to each opponent. Melkor: 20 Command Zone: Cannons to Port (The next time you deal combat damage to the player on your left, draw a card.) Hand: 7 Library: 52 Battlefield: (T) Swamp x1 Graveyard: Exile...

Dorgath detects no signs of any secret doors and all exits are sealed off. However, once Throg decapitates Utronicus, the floor sinks and the portcullis back to Bysshan's shrine reopens.

WotC is doing away with the two-set block system. Every Standard set moving forward after Rivals of Ixalan will be built as a large set meant to be drafted alone. They've gotten a lot of feedback, which I think is correct, that the draft experience when a first set in a block comes out is better...

Vintage is, inherently, a fast format. If you want to survive, you'd better be doing something and doing it quickly, whether it's killing your opponent before he can kill you or setting up defenses that can stop your opponent from doing just that. In 2004, Trinisphere hit Vintage like a ton of...

One of the topics that's been on my mind, but which I haven't gone into at great length (yet), is the tendency in "new" sets to sacrifice potential gameplay elements on the altar of fine-tuning the booster draft experience. I have some trepidation on this matter because I don't want to hate on...

Shenanigans... So, let's say that I am the humble proprietor of an international business involved in the sale of cardboard rectangles and cardboard rectangle accessories. We'll call my little venture, um, Moon Village Games. Seems like a good name. Now, we at Moon Village Games have taken an...

The pirates in Ixalan use the Raid mechanic (previously used in Khans of Tarkir for the Mardu Horde). I was making a cheeky multiplayer-politics comment that you just gave the player with all the "my cards do extra stuff if I attacked with a creature this turn" a free, expendable attacker. :p

I wonder if MM will use the saproling to trigger Raid...

UUD, Forest, Wolfir Silverheart soulbonded to Strangleroot Geist #2, Farseek grabbing Mountain, done. Spidey: 16 Hand: 3 Library: 50 Battlefield: (T) Mt (T,U) Plains x2 (U) Boros Guildgate (~ ETB tapped.; T: Add R or W to my mana pool) (U) Truefire Paladin (2/2; Vigilance; RW: ~ gets +2/+0...

Spidey's tile... Natural Defenses Event You create two Saproling tokens and an opponent of your choice creates one Saproling token.