Recent content by LadyMapi

Venser does get a bunch of points for being super clean. Sure, there are stronger 4-drops in blue these days, and there are better cards at doing what Venser does, but Venser just does the thing. Gotta love cards that just do the thing without faffing around with restrictions or conditions.

I appreciate that WotC decided not to specify which counters you can remove. Osteomancer Adept Mmm, tasty Finality counters... ... Raiding Schemes I'm kinda bummed that the reference to Wort, the Raidmother is commander-bait expensive. Conspire's a super fun mechanic and can be pretty...

One potential solution would be to start everyone off with a copy of each of the ubiquitous staples and then have a few extra copies in the cube so that people who want to lean into a particular deck can? 1 copy per player then 3-4 copies in the draft pool would come out to 12 copies of the card...

What an interesting card for some kind of Ninja subtheme.

Sodden Verdure Rain-Slicked Copse We got the {G/U} tango and the {G/U} bicycle. It's a shame that they don't just... print the rest of them? It's not like they're chase cards or anything... Also, how's this for a blast from the past?

This is obvious EDH bait, but that second ability is the kind of thing that's either going to do nothing or be GRBS.

I really like this thing for a lower powered list? The floor is a solid attacker that will probably take something with it if they don't chump it, and pairing it with Llanowar Elves and the like offers a serious clock if you can keep the board clear.

Not even thinking about powerlevel, but... Madness: Greenseeker Borderland Explorer Floral Evoker Jolrael, Empress of Beasts Dredge: Shigeki, Jukai Visionary Tokens: Dance of the Tumbleweeds Springheart Nantuko Intersecting: Gysahl Greens Turntimber Sower Ramp Target: Ashaya, Soul of the Wild

Mirror Mockery What a weird card. It's both a repeatable flicker engine that's tied to attacking (great if you want to encourage aggression!) and a pseudo-Pacifism because villain probably isn't too keen on attacking into the Mirror. It also very briefly gives you a token to mess with, which...

Auriok Bladewarden Pre-War Formalwear Gift of Growth T3 put a 3/3 vigilant Bladewarden onto the battlefield, then T4 attack with the Bladewarden, tap to make it a 6/6, kick Gift of Growth onto it to untap it and make it a 10/10, then tap it again to make it a 20/20. Foolproof.

Auriok Bladewarden Vigilant Sentry Serra Advocate So many options!

I think it's less a matter of Spike-first design and more a matter of making sure that your best White cards are either support cards or multicolor. Instead of having a strong White core to pull from, the format has strong things to do in the white color pairs that synergize well with what other...

Majestic festivities to all and sundry!

Dredging this up because a muse came to me. Something I tried to do a lot of when I was just getting into Magic was build decks whose central gameplans were actively stupid. We're talking stuff like playing Old-Growth Dryads and Veteran Explorer to make milling people out with Undercity...

I think the fact that it can be an Uproot but can also do other things makes it less toxic. Kinda like Primal Command, which is a perfectly cromulent magic card.