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I touched on it a little bit in one of my articles. I forget exactly what I said there, but to elaborate here... WotC introduced Storm in Scourge. Mind's Desire was broken and preemptively restricted in Vintage when WotC realized what it would do there. Tendrils of Agony was put into combo...

I believe that was Spike Cannibal, but I might be wrong. Not a chance.

Yes, I'm trying to win. I don't know what the competitive metagame is like either. I'm too lazy to find out. I want someone else to build the deck for me so that I can play it and win. But I guess that's not very likely...

Just remember: if you play a five-color commander deck, you're playing the Hermit Druid deck and everyone should try to kill you as quickly as possible.

I just want to chime in on Rokapoke's behalf and say that I interpreted Turgy's post in the same way.

I have the Counterpunch deck, although it's now incomplete because I took out Karador and Vish Kal (and Command Tower) for my dredge-based Commander deck. It's a cool deck, although sadly it's probably too hard to find and too expensive to be worth buying anymore. Vish Kal is really impressive...

Hey everyone, he remembered! That means a new article. I wasn't really planning to close out Volume I with a Duel Decks review, but I'm happy with it.

Resubmitted article because it's been a while and I think Spidey forgot about it. Also, I noticed a few typos and that Gmail does some arcane formatting thing that my primitive brain couldn't possibly understand, but I tried to excise all of the extraneous line breaks, which were added to the...

I bought a playset. It will drop again once Theros block rotates out of Standard, so I'm being punished a bit for my impatience, but I wanted to use the card now. Oh, it's not a functional reprint of City of Brass, though. Lots of cards can tap lands, and City of Brass deals damage in those...

Monastery Mentor is attracting quite a bit of attention already. I wouldn't be surprised to see big things from that little guy.

It's 2015.

Merry also-on-time Christmas.

I thought it might be something like that. Wouldn't Ætherflame Wall be preferable? I do love the Rath block, but it seems like the potential threat of actually killing attacking creatures, rather than just being able to block one, is worth having a 0/4 instead of a 0/5. Anyway, I'm still...

I'll admit I'm curious about the Wall of Diffusion idea. A multiplayer Burn deck would probably need some blockers (after all, a 0/5 isn't too bad for buying a little time), but I was just thinking of ones that would synergize with direct damage spells. Wall of Diffusion's advantage is awfully...

I concur. On an unrelated note, let's play a multiplayer game. I have this Stasis deck that's really good...

New article submitted. I know it took forever. I had something planned for November that wouldn't take much time, so that I could use the time for NaNoWriMo, but I ended up scrapping that project and failing to finish NaNoWriMo. I started over on writing a new article, but it took longer than I...

Well, that's a different topic. I'm also averse to cards like Browbeat and Steam Augury (but not Fact or Fiction, because it actually gives you the final say). Most cards that give opponents dichotomies face some situations in which one choice is bad for the opponent while the other choice is...

Yeah, that's an issue for Burn decks and its prevalence has shifted over time. At one point, I had Street Wraith in my Burn deck, but Al0ysius took it out and added fetchlands. Burn hopes to kill by turn 5, and possibly as early as turn 3, so self-inflicted damage is worth it if it helps me...

I've given the deck another overhaul. Changes from the November version... -1 Ashen Ghoul: Too small to matter in the long run. Usually, this guy just sat in my graveyard doing nothing. -1 Call of the Herd: This sure did let me make a 3/3 elephant token, even if the card was milled away...