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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...

As I've pointed out in the past, I've had a Burn deck since 1998 or so, and it's the only deck of mine that hasn't been completely dismantled since then. My deck has evolved a whole lot in those 16 years, as I acquired better cards and as new sets introduced new tools. But I'd like to think that...

This does make sense if we want a new committee system. I don't know how much of a committee we'd have. I think just about everyone here is pretty familiar with certain sets, and less so with others. In my case, I've played with cards from all sets to some extent. I'm a bit weak on Innistrad and...

You missed out on some good stuff! Well, I'm up for it.

I don't know that we stopped because of any realization. Maybe you realized it seemed hollow. The only discussion on the subject at the time was that we were going to wait. When it never happened, I just assumed that getting committees together for this was too much of a bother...

Yeah, I picked the Signet because I wanted access to black mana for if I topdecked an answer in that color. I hadn't noticed that the library was empty. So yeah, oops. I'll just discard it.

Ooh. Doing games with the 2013 Commander precons? I have all of them, so I wouldn't even need an Excel list...