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The next turn is uneventful and the party reaches the disused door at the end of the hall.

The party leaves the room and heads north. At first, this is uneventful. They pass out of the T-junction section and along a corridor. The passage stretches further, terminating in a dirty, disused door. -The Power Phase is 1. An Unexpected Event occurs. You suddenly come upon the slumped...

I have an old computer that still runs the first Magic computer game (the one with the "Shandalar" mode). I occasionally play a few fun games against the AI, and Swamp with Dark Ritual into Black Knight and Unholy Strength is a very common first-turn play for me. Hm, I should try posting my...

I can understand the rationale behind abandoning Dark Ritual. As long as the card is in the environment, black three-drops can effectively be black one-drops. Supposedly, WotC R&D originally pulled Hypnotic Specter from the core set because they thought that it was too powerful, only to later...

Draw, Forest done. Spiderman: 20 Poison: 0 Hand: 5 Library: 53 Battlefield: (T) Plains (U) Flayer Husk (Living Weapon; Equipped creature gets +1/+1; Equip 2) (S) Germ creature token (1/1 from Flayer Husk) *Equipped w/Flayer Husk* Graveyard: Exile...

Heads it is. Not mulliganing.

I don't think that any of those cards slot very well into a currently powerful deck, except maybe Frantic Search because hey, free card-drawing. But I do agree that Mind Twist is probably the most egregious. Another one that's pretty weird to still have on there is Goblin Recruiter. Legacy had...

That leaves us with this list of "banned from constructed play" cards... Earthcraft Frantic Search Goblin Recruiter Hermit Druid Mind Twist Survival of the Fittest Well, on the one hand, at least that isn't very many cards! One could potentially dispute some points. Some of the cards that I...

This doesn't quite fit the theme of the "Memories" threads that I've been posting, but I've been thinking about an old post I saw when looking for one of my own old posts on Survival of the Fittest... I don't know how well that holds water, but I find it interesting. The idea seems to be a...

After Survival of the Fittest was banned in Legacy, it was thought to be gone from competitive Magic, and essentially, it has been. Almost, anyway. It has appeared in Vintage, although it's tough to say how meaningful that is these days. Vintage has become so marginalized as a format that...

The thought did occur to me, but it's too tough to say from just seeing that one game. You had to mulligan twice, and I think that if you'd gotten a strong starting hand, it might have stacked a few more poison counters onto me and made it so that even one unblocked attacker could be pumped by...

UUD, Equip Skinwing onto Leonin Relic-Warder, swing for 10. Well, that's lethal. Interesting. I think we both got off to a bit of a slow start for what these decks can average, and perhaps mine just wasn't quite as bad...

UUD, equip Bonehoard onto Leonin-Relic-Warder, swing for 8, done. Spiderman: 8 Poison: 0 Hand: 0 Library: 45 Battlefield: (T,T,T,T,T) Forest x5 Graveyard: Mutagenic Growth, Carrion Call, Carrion Call, Primal Bellow, Mutagenic Growth, Carrion Call, Groundswell, Putrefax, Viridian...

I mean, while the set is full of value, one thing that is definitely tempering the reaction for some people is that last year, Eternal Masters got a second "print run" toward the end of the year. It has been argued convincingly that it was printed right after the first "print run" and that WotC...

Before Survival got its suite of options for Legacy, long before the format even existed, Survival of the Fittest was the linchpin of a successful Standard deck, used together alongside another iconic enchantment from Exodus. I half expected that someone else might chime in on this thread to...

I devoted some posts in this thread to the usage of Survival in the early days of Legacy (ATS, Welder Survival, RGSA, Full English Breakfast) and toward the end of its Legacy tenure before it was banned (Vengevival). But the card had other appearances in Legacy between those two eras. To some...

Still need to get home to see my topdeck, but I should have one more poison counter from that last combat.

Yikes! Let's see... I'll assign Leonin Relic-Warder #1 (the 5/5 one) to block Putrefax. I'll assign both Germ tokens to block Viridian Corrupter. I'll assign Leonin Relic-Warder #2 (the 2/2 one) to block an Insect token. So that should result in... Relic-Warder #1 and Putrefax kill each...

Might as well rewind.

Yes, but it also has a -1/-1 counter. I know you indicated that in two different spots when you updated the board, and for the germ token that got hit by Infect, I left both of the -1/-1 counter mentions in, but on the Relic-Hoarder it was going to make the line for that creature start to get...