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It's more of a situational or reactive card than one to build a deck around (it relies too much on what your opponent uses). However, it did kill me in a Casual (with a capital "C" I guess :) ) tournament in one round. I had a losing hand to begin with and it never helped except then, but I was...

Ironically enough, as others pointed out, they don't see Illusions of Grandeur being used as originally intended. It actually can be abused, at least more than Forbidden Ritual wiout the errata. Illusions doesn't have an errata though... Now, I don't want Illusions to have an errata, even...

It doesn't have any sort of upkeep or any other obligation. The number of spells will be lowered overall, but with MP, you're still going to get some most likely. I'd try it...

I would go with the latter, because it's a more versatile strategy...

Heh, good idea...

Whereas I beat life-gain consistently with it, but that shows how much variation there is in the game... Necropotence is a favorite of mine, but it's not the best card in the game. That title easily goes to the insane card-drawer: Mystic Remora.

Everyone uses cards for purposes that they weren't originally intended for... Well, maybe not everyone, but if that were what erratas were for, we'd have a lot more erratas... We didn't mean for Balance to be broken, so let's errata the crap out of it... Ancestral Recall? That thing's errata...

Carrion maybe... Kaervek's Spite, even with the errata... But basically anything that gets you tokens... Infernal Genesis, Saproling Burst, that sort of thing...

I don't know... But why Diving Griffin?

Oh, agreed, except that the four card rule is more than just a tourney-imposed limit. Using the restricted list is playing Type I, even if it's not tournament play. You could do it in a casual manner, sure. That's not what I'm talking about though. I'm talking about the format known as casual...

No, Chant is past Prophecy. In fact, I'm not sure as to what the reason for Therapy not being in there is. Maybe he thinks that there are enough ways to kill Rector already, but Therapy is the best one, even if it is from a newer set...

I dispute that. The greatest point about Lake is that it taps to produce FOUR mana for the price of a swamp. Being legendary is just icing on the cake. But the card is great... Why not include a Necropotence or something? It looks like that would work...

But it's cool and a fun deck to play...

It was in no danger of being broken... If they meant nontoken, they'd have said it when it was printed. It wasn't left out in any sense except maybe they realized the card would have some use if it were allowed to use tokens. The errata on Great Whale/etc. was to stop them from being broken...

That's why Fork would be so fun: it's a challenge. Regrowth would just be insane though, I'd think. You could keep digging stuff out of your graveyard, so that you could use it whenever, not just during your upkeep...

Yes, increase land count...

I didn't say that the banned/restricted list serves no purpose. What I meant was that it is a list for Type I or Type 1.5. Criticizing someone for posting a casual decklist that uses multiple copies of cards that are restricted in Type I, on that basis, seems to be a bit uncasual though...

I'd imagine some would, if they wanted to... They do have some advantages over dual lands, etc., however minor those might be... What might be more fun though... Restrict mountain!

I gave up on trying to make the game seem realistic...

Balance, Demonic Tutor, Timetwister, Ancestral Recall, Time Walk, Time Warp, Coercion, Hymn to Tourach, Soul Feast, Corrupt, Boomerang, Shahrazad, Abeyance, Lightning Bolt, etc. But what I think would be most interesting, either Fork or Regrowth...