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Yeah, at some point we're just splitting hairs. For a lot of these cards you have to construct a Rube Goldberg machine to make the cards even work at all. That's a good point. I totally forgot how cool Mistform Ultimus was back in the day. Now there are just so many Changelings that do things...

Yeah, there needs to be a name for that phenomenon like "The Dragon Effect" or something. Maybe they all blend together because nearly every set in recent memory has dragons in them? Even cards like Glorybringer which are format defining, powerful cards just get lost in the shuffle, so to speak...

Hall of Fame: No mention of KILNMOUTH DRAGON is SHAMEFUL! I love that card so much and it offers so much more than any other card from Legions, solid stats and mana cost plus the Amplify ability makes it really sweet. Hall of Shame: Pyramids is pretty close to the worst card of all time but...

Here's something I didn't expect, a Vintage Aluren list with our favorite lich. This looks really neat. How many decades has it been since Aluren was even remotely playable in Vintage? A few, for sure.

I've been a little ambivalent on this set as a whole but it's way cooler than I expected. The flavor keyword stuff is a bit overdone but kinda cool. I like the Dungeon stuff. That's really cool especially since it enabled the Aluren + Lich guy dude kill. Neat. All the dragons are a big...

I was going to make a Pirate deck with this guy in it so I'm glad I never got around to doing that. I wasn't even going to do anything broken with it either: it's just a good pirate! I think it's probably a good ban since it seems like one of the hardest cards to come back from. Mind Twisting...

This card is sweet. I'd play it over the other Bant enchantment-matters Commanders. Not getting blue is fine since this lady is one heck of a draw engine for only two mana and those other Commanders aren't really enchantress effects. Two is about as cheap as it gets. I like it quite a bit.

I like Limited tho I'm pretty bored of the signpost uncommon stuff they've been doing for awhile. Very derivative. Favorite format was probably CHK block.

Sporogenesis makes everything a fungus! He spiked when Slimefoot was printed in Dominaria. He is a free sac outlet for saprolings and the life gain is good with some of the BG cards from Strixhaven. So I think he is good but only in saproling token decks.

Im a Saproling Token. OK, I actually just like making Saproling Tokens. They're kinda cute, some of them at least!

Phew! What a preview season. That was a close one. I thought it was going to start out as Squirrel Horizons. ...but they decided to save some interesting cards for last. Thought Monitor is just awesome. Another good flyer to put equipment or counters on. Nettlecyst is a mostly better...

That's a really good way to put it. That illustrates how difficult this endeavor is. Time Vault is a good example of a card that went from broken to useless and then back again with errata so that certainly impacted it's playability. I think we can have a much better view now of what was...

I never noticed that. There is a lot of bias towards those eras and as you already mentioned Vintage as well. Obviously I think it's good to consider all eras as about as "equally" as you can but that's a pretty big ask since any metrics you use are going to be subjective, for the most part. My...

Link to the video: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL04lbfeNAaS96Tj8wZ8LHy_VRHZbQ5Ugl This is an older video series, pre-F.I.R.E. design philosophy, that ranked all the cards in Magic. No sideboard cards (Leyline of the Void, elemental blasts, Null Rod, Pithing Needle, etc. don't count...

Yeah, it's a two-fold problem. First, Affinity cards haven't aged particularly well. Thoughtcast is probably the only really good one. Most of the payoffs aren't that great except for Ravager and Plating/Clamp which are good but to enable them you need to play a lot of cards that are just kinda...

The last week or so I've been really thinking about how I would best abuse Skullclamp in an Affinity deck in Legacy because of the "Banned from Constructed" thread. Skullclamp is one of those cards that is, if not in actuality, potentially format warping in a way that few cards are. There really...

I think it was around 2002 or so when I first came upon Smoketstack-based Prison decks in Type 1. And holy shit did that blow my mind. I was still a fairly new player, only been around for a couple years and the idea I could play such an... extreme strategy, to lock my opponent out of the game...

I think I could get behind a trial period for Goblin Recruiter, Necropotence, Skullclamp, and Mana Drain. Of course all the other easy unbans should come off first. I mean we can just "Gush" them back. If it ends up working out well I could see taking off DRS, Astrolabe, Top, etc. depending on...

TL;DR: WotC is has no actual philosophy for managing the format and banned list and that makes me PLATINUM MAD. Now that I think about it, at least regarding the current Legacy Banned List, I take umbrage with Brainstorm and Ponder. For whatever reason the DCI has decided to not ban those cards...

Hello! Good to be here. You are correct. The early Legacy format had Goblins and it was one of the best decks, if not the best deck, and it wasn't a big deal. There was generic hate in Pyroclasm or more specialized cards like Tivadar's Crusade or Engineered Plague. However, things changed a bit...