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I've always had a soft spot for Urza's Destiny. The set did some really cool things and had a lot of very good cards, but the association with the most broken cards in Urza's Saga and Urza's Legacy taints the set as a product of a "broken" era. I think that history has largely vindicated the set...

I've got nothing, of course.

As much as I like Jet Medallion and Dark Ritual, they don't pack quite as much of a punch in a three-color deck, and you can't very well build a mana curve into your deck to account for them when it's a 99-card highlander deck and you could easily just never draw them at all. So yeah, LDV and...

Well, I think that kills me no matter what (on your next turn, at least). But let's play it out anyway. I'll block a Guildmage with my Guildmage.

By the time I was playing Magic against my fellow students in high school at lunch and in an after-school game club, I'd been at it for some years and, by focusing my meager funds on certain deck that I really wanted to build (Slivers, Necro, Academy, Forbidian, Jar) I reached a point where I...

UUD, Evolving Wilds, Vampire Nighthawk, Scavenge the Slitherhead to the Nighthawk, done. Spidey: 19 Hand: 1 Library: 48 Battlefield: (T,T,T) Mt x3 (T) Swamp (T) Rakdos Guildgate (~ ETB tapped.; T: Add B or R to my mana pool) (T) Rakdos Cackler (2/2 from ctr; R: ~ gets +1/+0 ueot from...

Some day Psarketos will run out of ways to use Worldfire! But today is not that day.

EOT Ultimate Price on Stonewright.

I should note that the header for the message boards themselves reads "CPA Message Boards" and the front page link to the message boards reads "Community Forums." Those are synonyms and most native English-speakers would figure it out, but for optimum clarity, they really should be called the...

So it would be visible right off? Well, how about... Welcome to the Casual Players Alliance. We're a Magic: the Gathering fan website founded in 1999 as an offshoot of the Magic Dojo. Some features of the website are now obsolete, but feel free to check out our message boards, which are still...

Take it.

UUD, Golgari Guildgate, done. Spidey: 19 Hand: 2 Library: 49 Battlefield: (T,T) Mt x2 (T) Swamp (T) Rakdos Guildgate (~ ETB tapped.; T: Add B or R to my mana pool) (T) Rakdos Cackler (2/2 from ctr; Unleash (I may have this creature ETB with a +1/+1 ctr on it. It can't block as long as it...

It may not be a tournament staple, but Lim-Dûl's Vault does have its uses in Legacy. I've even seen Vintage lists using it, although I'm at a loss to understand how it would pull its weight in that environment. Its biggest home these days is probably Commander, which is a quirk of the current...

I've been describing Necro-Donate with Lim-Dûl's Vault as "control-combo." That's because the faster "Trix" version was mostly acceleration and support with only modest protection. Notably, the faster version had far more tournament success. But the slower version wasn't really built for long...

Block with Slitherhead.

That would be cool, but it'd have to be something that a bumpkin like myself could use. I'll see if I can find anything...

Rokapoke continues to shamefully stall my inevitable triumph in Archenemy, but now there's a new product out that I was wondering if anyone wanted to try. It looks like Explorers is able to work with 2 to 4 players. Basically, there are four precons, one for each of the factions in Ixalan...

UUD, Korozda Guildmage, done. Spidey: 19 Hand: 4 Library: 50 Battlefield: (T,T) Mt x2 (U) Rakdos Guildgate (~ ETB tapped.; T: Add B or R to my mana pool) (T) Rakdos Crackler (2/2 from ctr; Unleash (I may have this creature ETB with a +1/+1 ctr on it. It can't block as long as it has a...

Yes, but for Darkpact. Not for Serra Angel and Shivan Dragon. Well, Force of Nature was the biggest creature when the game first started and if you had an Alpha copy (I didn't and don't), you had yourself a real Magic card with the word "GGGG" printed in its text box, which is pretty cool. I...

To be clear, Spidey shut down Article Replies because they were getting hit by too much spam back in 2014. Clicking "more" in the Article Replies section leads to a list of replies and their authors with months and days, but what might not be clear is that they're all from 2014 and 2013, the...