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The first Magic tournament I ever attended, some time in 1998, was Type 1.5. I didn't know what formats were back then, but I sort of fell into Type 1.5 thereafter, only to later realize that it was a niche format without much of a dedicated playerbase. Card prices and my annoyance as a new...

If we'd been sideboarding, I'd probably have swapped out unnecessary high cost spells for most of the creature removal in my sideboard, but I think that Infect and Defile would still be at a disadvantage. I mean, we only played two games and that's not a large enough sample to be sure, but my...

Yep, that kills me (I know what I'm drawing next because of Preordain). I could take out your second Wardriver, but now with only 3 life, I couldn't stop the wave of goblin tokens from dealing lethal on your next turn. I was hoping to try to stabilize even though I was sure Lightning Bolt would...

If you put it in the board status, wouldn't your first Wardriver be dead? Just like I will be soon enough... UUD, Island, Preordain, Necropede, done. Spiderman: 20 Poison: 0 Hand: 3 Library: 51 Battlefield: (T,T) Meitnerium x2 (T) Goblin creature token (1/1) (T) Goblin creature token...

http://whfb.lexicanum.com/wiki/Colleges_of_Magic No worries if you're not sure. Just wanted to give a chance to make sure things are consistent. Like, if you wanted your character to be someone who was used by the Colleges of Magic as a field researcher studying Orcish magic, and you come...

Since it hasn't come up yet, what might Tomas' background be that would give him familiarity with different types of magic? Obviously he has studied magic somewhere and as a dungeon-delving adventurer is a bit of a magical generalist, not likely to be a leading expert on a particular magical...

That CounterPost concept is what I'd call a semi-hard lock. It starts out being straightforward blue/white control, but as the deck accumulates more lands and can employ the Browse + Soldevi Digger engine, it can answer more threats than most opponents can possibly provide. Transitioning from...

On the one one hand, Scalpelexis triggers are bad for dredge-based archetypes, exiling cards from their shrinking library so they can't get them into the graveyard and use them. On the other hand, dredge-based decks tend to be so fast that a five-drop creature without any abilities that control...

Carrow and Revaethan both examine the journal. They begin to think that perhaps Tomas might be the better person to look into it after all: much of the journal seems to deal with some sort of magic. There are diagrams and tables containing arcane symbols. The author appeared to have been in the...

Somewhere, I read that Browse + Soldevi Digger was a good combo. I didn't understand how at the time, but eventually I grasped the concept. A control deck with enough answers can stall for a while, use Browse to filter through unneeded cards and play the cards that actually keep them in control...

There was actually a third infinite combo deck with Soldevi Digger that I had built conceptually but never, to my recollection, piloted against a real human being. Like the others, it was monoblue. This time it was Grim Monolith and Power Artifact to make mana and, as usual, Stroke of Genius and...

Because I was once am a jerk, I used to try to win casual multiplayer games with infinite combos. Most of these were not engineered to be lightning fast, but spent early turns on defenses and then attempted to execute a combo kill. I distinctly remember that at least two of these relied on...

One of the aspects of black, which WotC continues here and there to emphasize (I know Mark Rosewater in particular likes to talk about the color pie and has brought it up on several occasions) is that it is the color with the biggest tendency to push people toward using more of it, because it...

Most of my experiences with Scalpelexis were across the table from my friend's deck, but I did get to play it myself and it was great fun. Scalpelexis was excellent against a popular card of the time: Gaea's Blessing. That card was ruinous for Millstone and friends, but easy prey for...

I'm guessing he's gone early for President's Day weekend? Guess we'll have to wait until next week for him to kill me. I'm thinking I survive to see turn 6, but that may be overly optimistic...

I blame power creep. Maybe the card was never amazing at five mana, but back when it was released in Judgment or maybe even when it was reprinted in Tenth Edition, a 1/5 flyer that could exile cards off the top of the library that much was, while not a competitive powerhouse, generally...

Also, your Meitnerium is subject to radioactive decay and by now would surely be other elements by now. Should I updated the board state to reflect this? :p

Because I'd guess that you'd probably still play the second Wardriver, but I just want to make sure...

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I used to use Soldevi Digger all the time. It's one of my old favorites, but people always seemed to underestimate it. I suppose it's the whole "bottom of your library" thing. Unless you shuffle your library, for most decks, putting a card on the bottom means that you'll never see it again for...