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Necropotence as a card was so strongly associated with proactive black control decks that "Necro" was the usual moniker for such decks. They started out taking over Type 2 in 1996, but I think the big reason that the reputation continued while I was playing was mostly due to the prevalence of...

I can't be the only one who thinks Richard Garfield's Saga concepts there look amazing. Bummed out they didn't make it into the set. It really seems like this set could have been so much better and that it was modified into weakness for some reason. I'm guessing that in large part it's meant...

Yeah, Black Vise is brutal in decks that disrupt opponents' mana, like with Winter Orb or Armageddon. And of course it's potent with Manabarbs. Rather amusingly, I found it to be a perfect kill condition for a Stasis deck, but Stasis didn't really take off in competitive play until after Black...

The path through the canopy leads you into an area surrounded by huge spiderwebs. It's probably fine.

Cannons to Starboard Quest The next time you deal combat damage to the player on your right, draw a card.

UUD, Swamp, attack with Rakdos Shred-Freak. Blocks/responses?

I mentioned "Black Summer." I wasn't playing back then, so I can't use direct experience to talk about this. But I've heard enough from people who were there and read enough that was written and preserved from that time, as well as retrospective articles, that I think I get the gist of it. Necro...

Graham Tatomer's deck won the Junior Division. In the main division, Leon Lindbeck took third place with a Necro deck. The sites posting his list actually bother to include the sideboard... 4 Hypnotic Specter 4 Order of Ebon Hand 3 Knight of Stromgald 4 Necropotence 4 Drain Life 1 Soul Burn 1...

UUD, Vineshaper Mystic putting +1/+1 counters on Merfolk Sovereign and itself, Rancor on Mystic, done. Melkor: 12 Command Zone: Jade Reflection (Quest: When you cast your next instant or sorcery spell, copy that spell, and you may choose new targets for the copy) High and Dry, Pirate's Market...

Well, that takes me back. I read a book in college, but I can't remember the name. The author used some concrete examples of how Modern observers had blatantly discounted certain ancient works and been wrong to do so. I can remember some of the examples from the book, but not the title or the...

Definitely. I think it's kind of a combination of Mark Rosewater's points 2 & 4. Some cards just won't ever appeal to one person, but are useful to another. And sometimes people just understimate a card. I remember at one point quietly objecting to a player dismissing Cloud of Faeries as a bad...

In my experience, Spiderman is merely forgetful, not retaliatory. :p

One of the earliest famous Necro decks was piloted by Graham Tatomer in the Junior Division of the Pro Tour. He won. There was speculation that his deck was stronger than any of the decks in the regular Pro Tour. It was also famous in part because some of the participants in the Junior Division...

About historical Necropotence decklists, and I'd have saved more of the ones I really liked over the years if I'd known I was going to start this thread, there are definitely some quirky issues to take note of. I'll try to do a little digging and provide some reasonable context for all of this...

Done. Spidey: 14 Hand: 7 Library: 51 Battlefield: (U) Azorius Guildgate (~ ETB tapped.; T: Add U or W to my mana pool) (T) Azorius Guildgate (~ ETB tapped.; T: Add U or W to my mana pool) Graveyard: Exile: ================================================================================...

UUD... Swamp, tap Necropolis for U, tap Swamp, use that and the mana from the scheme to cast Icefall Regent, attack Spidey with the Horror token, done. Nicol Bolas, God Emperor of Dune: 40 Command Zone: Hand: 6 Library: 51 Battlefield: (T) Swamp (T) Crumbling Necropolis (~ etb tapped...

I don't know how much you've been following the situation with their "leak" on this set, but most of the set has already been revealed at this point. I'm not just seeing the first few cards and making extrapolations about the whole set. I think like 60% of the set, in terms of card text (not...

Your post here includes a couple of cards that will be turning up in my "I Have No Memory" articles. So of course I'd be interested to try out something like this. I assume that the setup is too elaborate to compete in Modern tournament play, although I have a poor feel for that format. Of...

As much as the power of the card might get exaggerated, Necropotence really is three mana for an enchantment that can keep refilling your hand at the end of your turn. Sure, it costs life, but that's still a pretty big deal. Maybe some kind of aggressive black/red deck? Modern has a lot of cards...

Seems like they've kinda built these sagas up to be a big deal. They're different from what's come before and I don't know how to evaluate them. They seem kinda weak (because they're too slow) to me right now, but I'm hoping that I'm underestimating them...