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-A hobgoblin hacks at Throg, but can't land a hit because of how dazzlingly shiny he is. -Another hobgoblin tries, but also fails to make it through Throg's glittery distraction. -A hobgoblin smacks Revaethan (17/18). -A hobgoblin strikes at Revaethan, but the wardancer redirects the blow with...

UUD, and that's it. I'm out of effects that would stop any flying attackers, and you'd be able to swing for 3 in the air. It's been a long time since I've seen any deck perform so poorly as this one did. What a terrible heap of trash. What's next on the agenda? I'm eager to play something that...

In what has become a typical fashion, I'll turn to the card that I keep mentioning in every thread: Necropotence. When it comes to playing Magic with Necropotence, one thing that is easily noticeable but not usually discussed is that you tend to hit every land drop. That's actually a pretty nice...

Hobgoblins get an automatic ambush that takes priority over magic, but I was too lazy to roll for their pitiful attacks yet. I suppose that you'd want to know what the Power Phase is before you decide what you're doing, so it was silly of me not to at least throw the number up there before...

Some great classic creatures in there. Although if we dip into those sets for attackers, we also get even more powerful ways for control decks to neutralize them, such as the The Abyss, which you mentioned. Notably, Erhnam Djinn played nicely with Zuran Orb, and was one of the most efficient...

No map yet. Sorry. You proceed along the the right side of the fork. The trail here seems easy and almost pleasant. So of course some monsters ambush you. Twelve hobgoblins ambush the party.

Nah. I mean, maybe. I think there's a real chance of that being the case, but we'll see. It has been putting up some results on MTGO, but it's too early to tell (doesn't help that WotC clamped down on the access to MTGO results data). It has advantages and disadvantages over dedicated...

Bah, there's no Yawgmoth's Bargain in there!

For now (and indefinitely, really), if you want to do a front page article, getting in touch with Spiderman seems to be the only viable option. The old article and article comment setup was getting bombarded with spam.

Thinking a bit more about the power level question, I'm settling on the idea that MM3 is a not-quite-perfect-but-very-good reprint set tailored to the Modern format, and that IMA is a not-quite-perfect-but-very-good reprint set tailored to the Commander format. The two formats are fundamentally...

I don't think that it was a consideration factored in to the set development, so "supposed to be" could be attributing something that isn't really there. But that's dodging the question of where its power level actually sits. And that's subjective, but answerable anyway. I think that it depends...

Zuran Orb had some things going for it historically that aren't necessarily factors anymore, not the least of which was the powerful synergy with Balance, which is now pretty much strictly a Vintage one-off. But more broadly, it's important to note that Magic gameplay looked very different back...

Nothing else.

Alright then, which way?

Dismember the Legionnaire.

Nope.

Nope.

Throg is still holding the lantern, apparently lost in thought. (I actually wasn't stalling for once. I'd been waiting on a reply from Turgy, but he's been silent lately. Anyone hear from him?)

I've got nothing.

I blithely called Zuran Orb a "mere lifegain card." There is a bit more to it. Historically, decks that used Zuran Orb could get substantial utility from being able to kill their own lands, making the "cost" an end unto itself, with the lifegain being a bonus. I myself once had a deck that used...