Recent content by henkdetenk

Big update, I guess. I've cut down the cube down to 360 cards, and decided to finally put an end to the "set experiment" after a year. It was a fun experience, but I've decided to return to mostly singleton, with a couple of key breaks, because I play with 4-6 players 90% of the time. Moving...

Clay Statue I hated this thing so much as a kid when my brother played it. It's not even that terrible. It just brings back so many godawful memories of chumping my Craw Wurm forever. Incidentally, I just love how weird and all over the place the art for this set is. It gives off that feeling...

Eidolon of countless battles It's kind of an old favorite of mine. I think this is one of the bestow creatures, if not the only one, with a reasonable cost and a decent payoff. It fits in Enchantress and tokens, and it gets around removal.

I agree with this. The problem with old border shifting moderns cards, particularly creatures, is that old border creatures were designed on a completely different axis. They're clunky, lumbering, slow, expensive, or weak. I forgot where I read this, but it rings so true: Like, you'd have...

God, this set was just an absolute unit. So many fun things to choose from. Designwise, it doesn't get much better, really. There's just so much stuff. Totem auras: Kor SpiritdancerAura Gnarlid Self saccing spawns are just beautiful design, along with everything in green like awakening zone or...

Pretty much. Also, kicker was introduced in Invasion, so it also helped as a way to "reset" creatures you didn't kick but who were already on the battlefield by returning them to your hand and allowing you play them with their kicker, or replay as them in the case of the battlemages.

patrol hound I like how this thread has evolved into digging up the most obscure old border cards.

We must fight awesome power with even awesomer power. Grotesque Hybrid

Planeshift was hot garbage, but I have a soft spot for Invasion block's horrible and fantastic designs. I love the familiar cycle mentioned before, as well as the battlemages. Thornscape battlemage is just a bad Flametongue Kavu, but I love the weird kicker proto modular effect that gives a bit...

Reanimate

I think it's a combination of all of the above, but most of all I want that same gleeful feeling I had when I was in highschool and I beat someone over the head with wild looking cards. Goblin War buggy

I wanted to ask in response to this (but forgot), but how many enchantresses and enchantment matters cards would you run in a 360 card environment when enchantment control is a thing? Or maybe I should be asking at how many enchantments would including a yavimaya enchantress or an enchantress...

You filthy heathen, an old bordered kraken or sea serpent should force you to sacrifice half your mana base or something similar just for being on the battlefield, not be cheaper and/or better than green fatties. In all seriousness, I'm still in love with early 2000's old border design...

Tireless Tribe + about face + valor Nostalgic kitchentable dreams.

I don't even see old border alt art cards as old border. I think the only old border version "new card" I run is Grim Lavamancer with the new art on the old frame, but the original was printed in Torment so it doesn't count and I am not a hypocrite.