Recent content by Zoss

Yeah, my initial thoughts were of Berlusconi as well, but I, uh, didn't think we needed to get into that too much. Yeesh.

I prefer the Kraken because I figure that if a big flier (i.e. >3 power) Does The Thing, the Thing that it Does is going to be attacking and really nothing else.

To expand on Ravnic's point, one major issue regarding ramp discourse is that people have historically conflated the "unga bunga" style of ramp (i.e. ramp into a 4-5-6 drop on turns 3-4-5 and win off of being both being a turn ahead of schedule and their threats being inherently larger than...

Yeah this is grueling even for the Joey Chestnuts and Takeru Kobayashis of spoilers. I wonder why they decided to compress the seasons like that? Three weeks between complete image gallery and release seems longer than normal, but maybe I just haven't been paying attention.

I'm shocked that no one else was on Plumecreed Escort. Plumecreed Escort If this was a faerie people would be drooling over it. I also run the following: The Infamous Cruelclaw Mabel, Heir to Cragflame Repel Calamity Cruelclaw is never coming out, but the other two are negotiable. Repel...

The Ozolith Crucible of Worlds Mirage Mirror Paradox Engine Spawning Pit Etched Monstrosity Etched Champion Seconding Altar of Dementia and Monument to Endurance.

Baird is the clear frontrunner, but Goblin Trenches is a rare old card that works from aggro to control and nothing else quite does what it does. You can make combos with it, you can go for value, you can screw yourself over if you're not careful--card's unique and cool and IMO the perfect...

I'm a little biased because I'm pretty much fully off retail cards these days but I think Umbral Collar Zealot would have been actively better as a 2/2 with menace or a 2/1 with deathtouch or something. 3/2 for 1C doesn't feel like a statline anyone should get without a downside, and then only...

My solution for this is to seed 3 in pack one, 2 in pack two, and just one in pack three. But I use a ton of occasionals, so there is that (48 in a given draft). I just have a big printout and sort them myself afterwards--but if I'm being totally honest, I just kind of eyeball it. If an...

This rules, and I really love how you're thinking about these categories! One that I haven't seen anyone else include is the bit about color hate as specific silver bullets--fine to see a card or two occasionally, terrible if it's omnipresent. I think this is a great idea, and I think (if you...

I'm voting for the same as LadyMapi and Nanonox, pretty much: CondescendMemory LapseRemandMiscalculation Big thumbs up to Nanonox's recommendations as well. There's also Mirrorshell CrabSink into Stupor But if you wanted open-ended recommendations I figured you'd have asked :)

History of Benalia History of Benalia does a pretty good job if you're okay with typal things going on. Approach of the Second SunFelidar RetreatPaladin Class These are splashy and end games. Mirror EntityParallax WaveHumility These are various levels of "pretty good" to "absolutely...

They might not be strictly better than shocks, but it's nice to hear validation that I'm not exaggerating! I'm of the mindset that it's difficult for fixing to be too good so long as you're not strapping too many bells and whistles onto it--this is borderline, but I don't think it quite crosses...

Sometimes you just want pizza, you know? But Seeker has the non-flippant answer of sometimes wanting something different for different decks. Representative members of the two cycles I have: There's also a reluctance to pick custom cards (even in a custom cube), and I want to communicate a...

I mean....maybe my anti-Detective chauvinism shouldn't have been a shock lmao Oh boy do I have a suggestion for you. This is busted, true. But think of it as "fetching during the draft portion."