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One of my go-to decks from back then used Ertai, Wizard Adept + Arcane Laboratory.

After high school, most of the Magic I played was in a playgroup with friends. But our interests started to diverge. I played casually and had some interest in Vintage and Type 1.5. Most of my friends were playing Block Constructed, Standard, and Extended. After having to play my casual builds...

The first widely successful Storm decks used heavy mana acceleration, Burning Wish, tutors, and "draw-7" spells to build up a chain of spells terminating in Tendrils of Agony. It generally won by outracing the competition, a task for which it was better suited than the previous established combo...

Oops. Six of them.

I might as well do this now. As though The Storm Count wasn't enough. Oh, who am I kidding? If there is such a thing as too much power, I have not discovered it. But I'm getting ahead of myself. The proper lead to this, the starting point for what led me here, is an older article. Because...

Throg blasts the last plaguebearer with lightning. As soon as the daemon falls, the floor of the pit rumbles and launches itself, along with all of you, up toward the ceiling. Rows of spikes project downward, and the floor below your feet rises up to meet them... -Throg takes 4 damage...

Play Mountain, attack with Guildmage, Unleash another Cackler, done. Spidey: 18 Hand: 4 Library: 51 Battlefield: (T,T) Swamp x2 (T) Forest Graveyard: Dawntreader Elk, Vampire Nighthawk Exile: ================================================================== Oversoul: 20 Hand: 3...

Oops. Thought I'd already asked, but I don't see it. Melkor, do you want the merfolk or the vampires?

Overall, I think that Mist Dragon is a fun creature, a reasonable medium-sized flyer that's just a bit outdated in terms of efficiency for its mana cost. The activated ability to phase out has a cost that runs too high, but in principle that ability is very useful. Late game, when you have mana...

UUD, Mizzium Mortars on Vampire Nighthawk. Responses?

Pittsburgh? Hm, shouldn't this be your card, then? Dinosaurs and Pirates are accounted for. What'll it be, Melkor? You want vampires or merfolk?

The countermeasure to that is, of course, for your opponent to ensure that neither of you ever takes an upkeep. :p

I realize that your comment is tongue-in-cheek, but I got this whole scenario based on a deck that I ran for casual playtests of broken decks and I really was running something very close to this. I vaguely recall that at one point I had a bunch of penny sleeves with basic lands shoved into them...

In analyzing this scenario, I double-checked my own math because I was sure that somewhere in there I'd inevitably make a mistake. I seemed to be getting all of the numbers right and was actually just a little bit proud of myself, although in the back of my mind I did figure I'd made some...

For most of the game's history, looping Mist Dragon's activated abilities (either both of them or just the same one over and over) didn't really do anything (other than let us mildly troll multiplayer games). But now there's an actual application for it... Mist Dragon + Crackdown Construct is a...

Rix Maadi Guildmage, done. Spidey: 20 Hand: 5 Library: 52 Battlefield: (T) Swamp (T) Forest Graveyard: Dawntreader Elk Exile: ================================================================== Oversoul: 20 Hand: 4 Library: 51 Battlefield: (T) Swamp (T) Mountain (S) Rix Maadi Guildmage...

Both creatures die?

UUD, Swamp, attack with Cackler...

Silliness aside, as a large creature, Mist Dragon is OK. The obvious point of comparison is Air Elemental, another 4/4 flyer. It costs 3UU. Mist Dragon costs 4UU. Ignoring the gains/loses flying utility (which is quite the niche), you're paying extra for the potential to have your creature phase...

Mrs. Turner's classroom. After school game club, circa 1999... Player 1: I cast Tsunami. Player 2: In response, Power Sink for 2. Al0ysiusHWWW: In response, Mist Dragon loses flying. Player 1: What? Al0ysiusHWWW: I pay 0 to make my Mist Dragon lose flying. Player 1: OK. Player 2: Oh no...