Recent content by MilesOfficial

Toph, Hardheaded Teacher Toph, Hardheaded Teacher is hella cool. A Gruul card that cares about spells and makes a bunch of creatures? I'm in!! The concern about the lessons is valid here, though. I'm only planning on including a handful of lessons at this point (Enter the Avatar State, Redirect...

Bumi's Feast Lecture Bumi's Feast Lecture is another card in the vein of the earlier-discussed 2-drop-with-a-food-token Michelangelo, the Heart / Spider-Ham, Peter Porker / Tough Cookie / Unlucky Cabbage Merchant, and it's pretty cool! It plays better if you're playing with more of the others...

As we're wrapping up spoiler season (today's TLE cards round out the mechanically new cards in the set and we're down to just ~20 cards from the main set, with 270/296 revealed), I'm currently at 26 swaps planned for this set. Not a record-breaker (nothing close to FIN/FIC), but there's a lot...

Kind of makes me question why I'm playing Dryad of the Ilysian Grove! I think I'd rather have my greed-enabler also be able to tap for mana, and costing a whole mana less is huge. Losing one point of toughness and the Exploration ability seems like a small cost. The issue is my stupid sexy...

I like this one a bit, but yeah, not doing anything on its own is rough. Final-Word Phantom is probably better for this kind of ability, even if you don't get the potential draw engine out of it. I much prefer this to Zack Fair, and I think it's a big improvement on the art. I like keeping...

The bird is one of my favorite cards of the set. Really like the alternative art, too! Iroh's Demonstration Iroh's Demonstration is a fantastic bread-and-butter card. Stoked to have this effect in the game, can't believe it's taken so long to have this kind of thing for 2 mana. It doesn't feel...

Completely agree. As impossible as it feels to say, Michaelangelo is an art downgrade to Spiderham, made worse by the fact that we likely won't get one in a normal frame. (To this point: please give me all the Final Fantasy/LotR scene cards and Tarkir Commanders with a normal Magic frame...

I just don't get it. I used to be Maro-level upset that cards like these were available in green: Hornet Queen Hornet Sting Beast Within Hail Storm Jugan, the Rising Star It felt wrong! Green's not supposed to get these kinds of things! But then Tarkir came out and I listened to Drive to Work...

I wasn't expecting an additional cycle of full-art lands and these two in particular are some of the most gorgeous printed this year: Hell yeah. I think most of the most interesting cards have already been covered, but here's a few I wanted to talk more about. Wan Shi Tong, All-Knowing Wan...

A few unrelated notes: 1. Pyrogoyf This was my favorite card of 2024, and for good reason: it's the best. No, actually the best. It singlehandedly makes red the best color. It generates its own archetype (tribal goyfs). It makes you re-evaluate other goyfs, who are all fun. But yeah, it's...

I like your style. Going to be pulling a lot from both my main Cube and its on-deck binder for this! Black cards: Transpose Unshakable Tail Undead Butler Skullport Merchant Imotekh the Stormlord Tarrian's Journal Emergency Weld Out of the Tombs Royal Warden Gumdrop Poisoner Whispersteel Dagger...

I'm trying out Malcolm, the Eyes again and I think it's totally fine. I saw Dom looking into Captain Howler, Sea Scourge and I've bumped it up to my on-deck binder myself. I love the discard-matters theme, and since you're also on the Scrounging Skyray / Marauding Mako plan, it's not terrible...

I like the card, but I think this underrated card gives a similar level of flexibility: Reverse the Polarity Reverse the Polarity What it doesn't do is probably the most popular use-case (getting re-triggers of ETB effects), but in terms of how I've used it in limited, it does what I'm...

I do love accidentally hitting "post" as I was still formatting my response......but of all people who would catch me with Mana Tithe placeholders everywhere, I'm glad it was you.

I think most Magic players will give a different answer at various stages of their life/month/day, but for today, I've got these 5, and I think they're pretty similar to what I would have said any time over the last 20 years of my life, besides Greater Gargadon, who I've usually given as the...