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Deck Name: The Fluctuator Magic Format: Extended (circa 1999) Insight: When a lot of cards in a deck have Cycling 2, then under Fluctuator it becomes possible cycle through an entire deck. Other than Fluctuator itself and the lone copies of Lotus Petal, Dark Ritual, and Haunting Misery, every...

Deck Name: 44 Lands Magic Format: Legacy (circa 2009) Insight: Most decks rely on lands only for mana production and minor utility. This deck consists mostly of lands and uses them to take over the board. The combination of Life from the Loam and Manabond, especially with Tranquil Thicket and...

Deck Name: Valakut Hunt Magic Format: Modern Insight: New players are generally told that approximately 40% of a Magic deck should be lands. As they gain experience, they learn lots of exceptions for which a lower ratio of lands to spells is appropriate. Less common are decks with much higher...

Block Paladin with Arbor Elf.

Arbor Elf, done. Spidey: 10 Hand: 2 Library: 47 Battlefield: (U,U,U) Mt x3 (U,U) Plains x2 (U) Boros Guildgate (~ ETB tapped.; T: Add R or W to my mana pool) (U) Clifftop Retreat (~ ETB tapped unless I control a Mt or Plains.; T: Add R or W to my mana pool) (U) Truefire Paladin (2/2...

Deck Name: The Pitch Magic Format: Legacy (allegedly made tournament appearances circa 2012, but has never been a true competitive archetype) Insight: A completely manaless deck that aims to win by casting spells that do not require mana, exiling other cards from the hand to pay for them...

Nothing from me. So Geist #1 dies, Soldier token dies, Champion dies, Thragtusk dies, I get a Beast token, and you take 6?

Ad Nauseam Alara Block didn't do much to affect Tendrils deck except for the advent of one card, and it sure was a big one. A really, really big one. Ad Nauseam was kind of like a new take on Necrologia, but actually good. I've written about the card before. See here and here. Ad Nauseam has...

No responses from me on that. Proceeding to combat damage?

None.

UUD, attack with everything. Blocks/responses?

No one expects the Spanish Inquisition! Mere months after Mirage introduced Infernal Contract, WotC released Portal (my first set!), which contained a functional reprint of the card: Cruel Bargain. That's quite the oddity. They had no problem with reprinting cards in the set, including such...

Tendrils of Agony in Legacy, 2004–2008 Tendrils of Agony in competitive Legacy has been defined by the full legal usage of Lion's Eye Diamond. I don't want to merely rehash the LED Memories thread, which covered much of this. And really, having followed Legacy since the format's inception and...

Meandeck Tendrils With TPS filling the role of a flexible, robust combo deck that was still fast, most other combo decks focused on maximizing cheesy, more consistently fast wins. Dedicating card slots to protecting itself meant that first-turn kills were rare and even second-turn kills were...

Take it.

Thragtusk, done. Spidey: 16 Hand: 2 Library: 48 Battlefield: (U,U) Mt x2 (T,U) Plains x2 (U) Boros Guildgate (~ ETB tapped.; T: Add R or W to my mana pool) (U) Clifftop Retreat (~ ETB tapped unless I control a Mt or Plains.; T: Add R or W to my mana pool) (U) Truefire Paladin (2/2...

Soldier token dies?

Nope.

UUD, attack with the 6/5 Strangleroot Geist. Blocks/responses?

The Power Phase is 3, which might be relevant to the healers in the party. Huh, that's mostly just Melkor. There's also Rokapoke, but I'm currently pretending to be Rokapoke in this thread until Rokapoke returns triumphantly. Also, Jekaena will try to heal anyone who asks for it.