Recent content by safra

repartée. i'm a big fan of vastlands scavenger too

updates / nerfs been doing a lot of nerfing lately. my 'aim high, nerf later' philosophy demanded it but also some of these guys were just ridiculous. I've been watching a lot of LSV's cube drafts lately and it's good info to pivot off of into a cube that's meant to be no Power (except Time...

but boros reckoner is so fun with creature combat. i dare you to block this with your Titan. i dare you

Mystical Archive: Reprieve Spell Pierce Stock Up Smallpox Berserk Crop Rotation Pick Your Poison Bring To Light first printings: Erode Emeritus of Ideation Flow State Ral Zarek, Guest Lecturer Flashback Vastlands Scavenger Prismari Charm Witherbloom Charm Professor Dellian Fel Hardened Academic...

as this forum's historical biggest booster of the initiative i would suggest that it's not worth doing unless you're playing vintage cube with a focus on combo. they invalidate any degree of combat that isn't fish.dec warp+blink smokebraider etc+elementals Ghalta, Stampede Tyrant

I would rather have a Hordeling Outburst I think?

of note also: the mono black devotion deck that played these in standard went t1 thoughtseize t2 rat t3 more rat. which without the targeted discard spell up front was a lot more vulnerable. however despite the retrospective context it remains pretty boring to play and particularly uninteresting...

Casey Jones, Vigilante

I did a few cards with the backsides as fetchlands. made cutting them a little easier

landfall guys and Fastbond. lol. but to be serious for a moment here: Garruk Wildspeaker Exploration Oracle of Mul Daya Wayward Swordtooth Icetill Explorer Cataclysm Balance Bear Umbra Rising Waters Frantic Search Pore Over the Pages Hope Tender Horizon Explorer Magus of the Candelabra...

good stuff is stuff that doesn't need synergy to be good. on this we concur! but we can't be saying oh bad cards are actually good. you know?

Card is terrible what are you talking about

honorable shoutouts not yet mentioned: Cephalid Colosseum Centaur Garden Tower of the Magistrate Forgotten Cave Cryptic Caves Grasping Dunes Tower pops equipment off guys at instant speed at a reasonably low opportunity cost while also doing something else in like 2% of games Colosseum a stone...

playing with fire here

They've got this thing on Arena with digital-only cards. Ostensibly these all had digital-only mechanics, but they print ones that could be regular-ass silver bordered cards or even straight up main set includes. There's nearly 800 of them as of time of this post. This thread is for discussing...