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That's exactly what I thought. But I'm pretty sure Microsoft Office moved on from that (I don't use Microsoft Office at home, but I've used it at school quite a lot, and Clippy wasn't around in Office 2007 from what I could see). So the feature of Microsoft Office that was universally derided...

So I don't play MTGO and haven't even seen it in almost a decade. I'm not familiar with things there, but this is an April Fools Day thing, right? I mean, it seems like it's probably kind of funny, but I feel like an outsider on whatever the real joke is...

Goblins, elves, and zombies were off the table for previous tribal games here, with the exception of the highlander tribal game we played. The distinction is that for that game, which was probably bound to be something of a one-off, was strictly highlander, with no duplicates of any cards, not...

Yeah, that'd cover the deckbuilding rules. I mean, we wouldn't want to call it EDH, since that's just the original name for Commander. More like Highlander Tribal. Well, not quite, because the creatures in the tribe wouldn't be restricted. Maybe Quasi-Highlander Tribal.

One key difference: no Commander. That makes all tribes eligible, not just those containing a legendary creature. It also removes the fancy interactions with commanders that are so format-defining. This is basically just another version of tribal. It's even pretty similar to the tribal...

So this would make every creature type, including the ones with zero printed cards, legal as tribes. Amusing, but not particularly problematic. A Brushwagg deck is going to be a huge disadvantage against, say, a bird deck. I thought about this for a few seconds and actually, I like this more...

Either one or both in combination.

Too Much Love Will Kill You - Queen (1988).

Not really applicable to Highlander formats. The "restricted" part of the Vintage restricted list refers to only allowing one copy of a card. In Highlander (Commander is a variant of Highlander), all cards other than basic lands are already "restricted." The Vintage banned list consists entirely...

I'm skeptical that the cards that refer to "when" something dies "this turn" (unless they also specified some condition that would kill the card) don't sound odd. Also, I don't see any reason that "if" couldn't be a trigger condition. Maybe the issue is that players looking for trigger...

Since Mistform Ultimus, Lorwyn came out with the "changeling" mechanic, which seems very similar. Mistform Ultimus has never been retroactively given "changeling" even though the wording in his text box is very similar to the wording for the changeling mechanic. Rule 702.70 indicates that even...

1/3 of a 60-card deck is 20 cards, not 33. I explained this in one of my posts, but it was a long post. With the 1/3 rule, 20 slots in a 60-card deck have to go to creatures of the chosen tribe. One of my tribes, chimeras, only has four different cards: Iron-Heart Chimera, Brass-Talon Chimera...

I don't recall ever having said it, but I've long been sort of impressed with the people that work on Oracle texts. There are a whole lot of cards in the game now and they usually manage to keep everything straight. I have to wonder what the hell they were thinking with the template on War...

I like all the colors too, although I do play favorites with them... I've never been a huge landwalk fan, but changing enemy's lands for landwalkers used to be a pretty common strategy. One time in the old Microprose game I got my butt kicked by a deck called "Swamp Thing." I forget what deck I...

Throg has not yet succeeded in smashing the bones in the pit. Kelgar blocked him from reaching them. Throg does have a carved femur in his possession, though.

Carrow examines the bones...

Train would like this guy.

It's been a while since I've played Magic in the games run board here. I used to always use Apprentice, but then the number of cards in the game became big enough that the program could no longer cope, and the volunteers that were updating it gave up. So I switched to Cockatrice, a potential...

Keep in mind that the only sanctioned formats with restricted lists are Vintage and two of the Magic Online formats, one of which is a Vintage analog and one of which is played using a very specific cardpool. The only one of those applicable to the full cardpool of Magic is the Vintage list, and...

1. 50% is too high. The 1/3 used in the official versions of Tribal seems fine to me. I don't know all of the reasons that WotC chose 1/3 as the ratio, but it seems like the right neighborhood to force players to build decks around creature types without basically crippling deckbuilding...