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While I do like the story, I suspect that it is apocryphal. But even if it isn't, my reason for bringing it up was to illustrate the concept that giving humans more to work with sometimes blinds them to options that they would notice if they were actually given less, options which they might be...

UUD, Plains, Elvish Visionary, done. Spidey: 20 Hand: 6 Library: 50 Battlefield: (U,T) Mt x2 Graveyard: Evolving Wilds, Evolving Wilds Exile: ======================================================================================= Oversoul: 20 Hand: 7 Library: 50 Battlefield: (T) Plains...

-Dorgath's disappointment has no effect. -Throg hacks at the dead snotlings. This has the effect of making a mess. -Carrow points out the futility of Throg's action. This has no effect. -Ty finds a backpack.

Some of the most powerful tools to use with Lion's Eye Diamond were well-known before the card existed I mentioned this before. The most important examples are ones that would go on to be used with LED once people actually bothered with the card: Wheel of Fortune, Timetwister, and Demonic Tutor...

Draw, Forest, done. Spidey: 20 Hand: 6 Library: 52 Battlefield: (T) Mt Graveyard: Evolving Wilds Exile: ======================================================================================= Oversoul: 20 Hand: 7 Library: 52 Battlefield: (U) Forest Graveyard: Exile:

Although the note in the previous announcement was more intended for Vintage, I think Legacy players expected that "no changes" would apply to them too with the announcement scheduled right before Eternal Weekend. So really, that's no surprise. But they failed to even mention Legacy (again), and...

https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/news/october-17-2017-banned-and-restricted-announcement-2017-10-17 No changes to any formats. Once again, Spidey is slow on the draw. I thought about waiting but I want to whine about Legacy!

ProsBloom After initially deciding to start a Memories thread for LED, I was brainstorming and thought, "Well, it was in ProsBloom at one point." No, it wasn't. Not as far as I can tell, anyway. Not in tournaments. I was mistaken because I used it in ProsBloom in casual play, many years after...

Speaking very broadly, yes it's true that Magic is more complex than Poker or Bridge (I picked them because they're card games with extensive bodies of literature concerning strategy, but this goes for lots of other games as well), but there are a lot of things that we can shortcut. In your...

-Ty's Pit Training kicks in. He may move and attack before combat starts. -Ty slices through one snotling and move to takes its place. -Ty eliminates another snotling with his fist spike. -Ty dismembers a third snotling. -Ty leaps in with a knee strike and downs a fourth snotling. -Snotlings...

Heads it is.

Broken Jar I had intended to get to this earlier and then I forgot about it. The first tournament deck, as far as I know, to make use of LED was actually in Extended in the late 1990's, but it was an unusual case so I wanted to distinguish it from Burning Desire: there was a kind of late 90's...

Well, that's understandable: they both have usernames that start with "P"! Part of me is still convinced that Turgy and TomB are basically the same guy. :p

Well, I think that the Manaleak article correctly identifies that problem. Games like Poker and Bridge have detailed book-length treatises on theory, and Magic, which is more complex (not saying that as a point for or against it, but merely as a fact), is lacking in that department. A major...

Good game. I kept thinking that I had you for sure but you managed to thwart me a few times. If you'd been able to stick more attackers on the board earlier, I don't think I'd have been able to win.

Wait, really? Dan is Sean's pseudonym? Not trying to pry and I'm enjoying this content either way, but that seems off somehow. Sean's articles were wiped (by you, I think) because he's a professional writer and was worried about having his old stuff archived here (understandable, as there are...

They are, but at first I was just giving Rokapoke a chance to post, and then enough time passed that it became awkward. I assume that Rokapoke is busy with trivialities like "work." So I'll update this tomorrow in order to keep it moving. I'll probably just assume that Tomas is using Freeze...

Well, I didn't mention it because I never used it! Don't think I even saw it before. Really, I haven't seen many other Pandemonium enthusiasts since the tournament days of PandeBurst. Aluren is popular, though, but I don't think I ever saw the cards used together. But I can see how it might be...

I think that's a valid point and a simple one, but it raises an issue that is a lot more nuanced. A lot of these extreme decks have some percentage chance of what I've call losing to themselves. This could be literally attempting a combo kill and decking oneself when the engine fails, or it...

I found the "MetaEsper" deck delightful. I've long thought of silly, unusual, and interesting decks as the heart of this place, and I'm especially fond of decks that push boundaries. I still have a sleeved-up Oops, All Spells deck (this exact list) except for the sideboard (took that apart to...