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Today, this deck finally broke its losing streak, albeit not in a very convincing fashion. I played against my friend's Grixis Time Vault deck and his Cradlehoof deck, losing 4 out of 5 games. I'm starting to become convinced to keep this deck around long-term as one of my default decks for this...

Hey, I guess I said this... Better late than never? The list I remembered appeared in an article by Omeed Dariani, probably written in early 1999. The cover on the magazine itself indicated April, which leads me to the assumption that Scrye followed the example of many other magazines and...

UUD, Explore U... Quest: Study the Nine Rivers The next time you would draw a card, instead look at the top four cards of your library, then put one into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library. Forest, done. Spiderman: 16 Sites: Quest-Dusk's Embrace The next time a creature...

Back then? Not sure. If I were to do something similar today in a sideboard-limited environment, I'd probably run a single copy of Spawnsire of Ulamog... And my sideboard would look like this...

I occurs to me that I never posted a decklist for my own old Academy deck. I'm sure I could find one: I had some sort of Academy combo deck on hand for at least five years, starting in 2000. I was pretty actively involved in casual Magic back then, and I recorded decklists in a few places. So...

I didn't put a ton of thought into that list of ten explanations for the circumstances surrounding the unbanning or unrestriction of cards. Like I said, the list is probably incomplete. And most individual cases are probably a mixture of two or more factors. But just for fun, I'll try to come up...

I'm sure in the long run my idea of using both Rectors in the same deck won't be unique, but traditional Pattern Rector isn't a wildly popular archetype in any format right now and Arena Rector is still quite new. So far, I'm the only one I know of to take this approach, although I assume there...

What kind of response would you like? :p

I'll Scry a card to the bottom from my creature dying. Eyeless Watcher, done. Spidey: 6 Hand: 4 Library: 43 Battlefield: (T,T,U) Mt x3 (T,U) Island x2 (U) Izzet Guildgate (~ ETB tapped.; T: Add U or R to my mana pool) Graveyard: Divination, Lightning Strike, Magma Jet, Guttersnipe, Anger...

3.

Pyromancer dies, face-down creature dies, and you take 6?

Yeah, I'm with you there. I don't know that I really know any of this stuff any more than you do, but I seem to be coming to the same conclusions. Dingus Egg probably wouldn't be the only example I'd cite of a card that became unbanned or unrestricted because the philosophy of the tournament...

Yep.

Copied from my update at TappedOut... Frustratingly, but also somewhat amusingly, my deck has yet to actually win a single game. I do put part of that down to luck, but I think I already see two major points I want to correct. Firstly, Pattern Rector is a hybrid deck and should be able to win...

Attack with everything. That's... 2/3 Catacomb Sifter 2/2 Nantuko Husk 2/2 face-down manifested creature 1/1 Eldrazi Scion 1/1 Edlrazi Scion

Since it would seem too late and I've already been right and properly rebuked, I might as well admit that I did indeed consider exactly that, and dismissed the idea as requiring the effort to remember which fonts are fixed-width, or I guess Google search for that. :oops:

-Kelgar trips and falls into the undergrowth. He sustains damage from the fall (9/19 Wounds) and is prone for the rest of this turn. In order to rescue Kelgar, the party will need to employ either a rope or a levitation spell. -Dorgath's Lifestone of Ashraz restores 1 of his Wounds. -Tomas taps...

Ah, well that's not what I meant. When I prefaced it, the exact phrase I used was "in a given case" and perhaps that's too vague. What I meant that hypothetically, for a specific card, on a case-by-case basis, some combination of those descriptions might apply, or that perhaps there were other...

Looking back over the past few posts, I get the distinct sense that this is probably too messy to untangle. In some sense, I'm trying to isolate the reaction to Academy itself from the other things going on in the game around the same time, and the reality was that the responses people had...

Behold, I have improved on my crude representation of the board state by switching from hyphens as markers for blank spaces to these little box characters. I think that it adds a bit more clarity...