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In the Dominaria previews thread, the topic of Mark Rosewater's 2002 "When Cards to Bad" article came up. This topic has been revisited by Mark Rosewater in various media many times, and I can kind of see why. Our context was a bit muddled: I wasn't actually citing any cards as "bad cards."...

UUD, Mogis's Marauder, have it give both creatures Intimidate and Haste, attack with both, responses?

Crumbling Necropolis, done. Nicol Bolas, God Emperor of Dune: 40 Command Zone: My Forces Are Innumerable Hand: 7 Library: 53 Battlefield: (T) Crumbling Necropolis (~ etb tapped. T: add U, B, or R to my mana pool.) (S) Horror token (3/3) Graveyard: Exile...

I wanted to attack Melkor, but not like this!

The dryad thaws out and Ty decapitates it immediately. All of the monsters are dead now.

I mean, I do think you're right that when I agree with them about something, there's not as much to be said. But I have, here and there, voiced my approval for some of the decisions they've made. I even wrote an article that was a retrospective look at good moves they'd pulled over the years...

I mentioned in my first post that there are a lot of misconceptions surrounding the card. I've noticed a trend of non-Necro players, years after the card had left the limelight, claiming that the way the card would work would be to "pay 19 life" and then win with a combo (this made its way into...

It's hard to gauge the extent to which Necropotence leans on Dark Ritual because virtually every historical Necro deck included a playset of Dark Ritual. The only exception I can think of is Extended Trix following the banning of both Dark Ritual and Mana Vault. I'll get back to that later, but...

I hope you didn't think I was asking you to come up with an entire decklist on the fly! Although I guess that sort of thing comes more easily to you than it does to me. I take forever to build decks. I get stuck obsessing over minor details and find the experience frustrating. That was why, for...

Ooh, do I start with stuff already on the battlefield? :p

Necropotence will never again be reprinted in a Standard set until after my hostile takeover of Wizards of the Coast. Then it will appear in the core set alongside Dark Ritual. :p I'll admit I'm at a loss to see how. In Vintage, Necropotence is almost exclusively used in Storm combo decks. If...

Just because I'm worried that perhaps I'm not being clear enough... I remember Mark Rosewater's "When Cards Go Bad" article. I agreed with most of what he said, but took issue with just one thing, and it was a fairly big thing. But that's a bit of a tangent and I don't think it really applies...

UUD, Swamp, Rakdos Shred-Freak, attack, done. Spidey: 18 Hand: 7 Library: 52 Battlefield: (T) Azorius Guildgate (~ ETB tapped.; T: Add U or W to my mana pool) Graveyard: Exile: ================================================================================ Oversoul: 20 Hand: 5 Library: 52...

I've got nothing.

Here's the article I mentioned earlier, since I forget where/when/if I linked to it at the CPA: https://www.mtggoldfish.com/articles/future-future-league-failures-and-fixes That was about a year ago. I suspect that it's gotten better in the meantime. Why bring it up, then? Well, it's an...

Sure. What I was getting at was that the community here is small and insular, and it's not really representative of what's out there. I've seen a range of responses and receptions to these things. Some people are extremely critical and some people are pleasantly optimistic about everything...

Well, I was confining myself to monored cards in that example because multicolored cards add their own considerations. As it happens, I think that Lightning Helix is good card design, and I think I very briefly mentioned that in the memories thread for Lim-Dûl's Vault. Maybe I should be more...

What might get lost in the context of discussions here at the CPA is that in many other places, there are at least a few vocal detractors of just about everything WotC does, people who criticize everything and act like they just can't get anything right. I consider my own stance to be much more...

Those cards are really emblematic of the disappointment I have for most of the recent sets. Counterspell and Lightning Bolt were old core set staples, so new cards with similar effects are inevitably going to be judged against them. WotC have decided that those cards are too strong to appear in...

Oh yes, we're doing this. We're making this happen now. I finally decided that I'd put it off for long enough. But the time has come! Well now, where to begin? I don't know whether my favorite card ever is Dark Ritual or Necropotence. They go together anyway, so it's really just a matter of...