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We're gonna build a wall and Turgy is gonna pay for it!

I've asserted that with the new tools in Alara Block approximately coinciding with the card's availability in Eternal formats, Dream Halls became more empowered than it had ever been. And, demonstrably, its performance wasn't really that impressive. In contrast, the card was the centerpiece...

Alara Block was probably the biggest-ever boon to the heavily multicolored approach to Dream Halls. The core for a five-color version of a Dream Halls deck, in any format, got far more to work with and certainly seemed to surpass the power available to older monoblue and blue/black concepts. In...

Thirdly, to honestly answer what's going through my head when I am piloting a broken deck, I'd like to think it's a kind of elegant, intricate probabilistic analysis of the conditions in the game. Maybe that's too self-aggrandizing, but it's probably not that far from the truth. Certainly when I...

Seems like there are a few different questions/issues involved here. Going to try to distinguish them... Firstly, I almost exclusively play paper Magic. I am on a bit of a hiatus from Arena (briefly returned to the game in December/January, but moving house caused me to drop it again for now)...

My plans have been thwarted somewhat because I thought my internet would already be set up at my new place but it's not going to be installed until next week. I've already switched over to Google Drive for most of the Warhammer Quest stuff, so it shouldn't be too hard to get back to this...

There's certainly more to talk about, but I should note an amusing Dream Halls + Conflux kill pile I saw. Some chaff card would be pitched to cast Conflux, which would tutor up Beacon of Immortality, a counterspell, False Cure, and two five-color cards. The extra five-color cards would be...

I mentioned the Mark Rosewater article about design mistakes. Despite his concerns that Dream Halls circumventing mana costs affected design space for very expensive spells, WotC had already gone on to design both very expensive spells... ...and new options to circumvent mana costs...

Came across this interesting (and quite long) article by Stephen Menendian: http://www.eternalcentral.com/history-of-vintage-schools-of-magic-an-alternative-history-of-the-banned-and-restricted-list/ While I'm not a fan of the article's overall format, it has some great insights and...

Well, I should finish my turn, but currently my Magic cards are still packed up and I can't remember exactly what I was going to do next. I'll probably get on this soon, though, maybe. Potentially. It's a thing that could happen. It's not out of the realm of possibility! Anyway, I don't think...

You descend the staircase. The material of the walls and the steps shifts from dark, brown wood to a hard, translucent material. Pulses of light, too dim and too brief to fully illuminate your path, shoot through the strange substance... An Unexpected Event occurs! Time Rip: due to a warp in...

The Sylvan Epic Part 5: Enchanted Wood -Throg's Axe of Mighty Striking resets. -Throg's Chalice of Night resets (6 charges for this deep) -Throg's Mark of Chaos resets. -Throg's Warp Magic gives him one use of the "Dazzle" spell for this deep (Choose a target. For the rest of the turn, all...

Alright, so I'm assuming right now it's... Carrow and Ty (point) Revaethan and Dorgath (second line) Tomas and Jekaena (inner line) Kelgar and Throg (rear guard) You can switch around more if you want, but we'll get started...

UUD, Unclaimed Territory (naming Human). Lightning Strike on Dreamstealer, attack with Bomat Courier, play Scrapheap Scrounger, done. Spidey: 18 Energy Ctrs: EE Hand: 4 Library: 50 Battlefield: (T) Swamp (T) Forest (T) Hashep Oasis (Desert; T: Add C to my mana pool.; T, Pay 1 life: Add G...

UUD, Swamp, attack Spidey with Child of Night. Blocks/responses?

I've been meaning to dig up an old decklist I think I still have from Apprentice. Should do that at some point... When I first joined the CPA, Dream Halls was restricted in Vintage and was generally set aside as a broken card that wasn't suitable for normal gameplay. It was completely unplayed...

It's your funeral!

Take it. Taunt you that your efforts are misplaced and Melkor is probably going to murder you before/after he kills me. :p

That's everybody!

Take it.