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as long as Terramorphic Expanse remains unsullied

The Gitrog Monster Everyone's favourite frog has a lot of fans around here (me included!) but I want to unpick it a bit. It's easy to list off cards that trigger it or work with it in some way but I'm looking for examples of decks where it excelled

The thing that always made sense to me was: - Take an adjacent colour pair - The second colour becomes the first colour of the next pair - If a new colour isn't directly adjacent, keep going forward until you find one So: WUBRG WU, UB, BR, RG, loop around to GW. WB, BG, loop around to GU, UR...

You can activate Diamond Lion then, you just can't use it while paying costs (to dodge the 'put my 6-drop on the stack, pay for it with Lion' scenario)

Sadly that qualifier didn't go so well but I had a nice run in Standard, racking up four Top 8s in the weekend Challenges on MTGO and Top 4 in a PTQ (mine to lose I think but lost focus at the end, ah well). I started with a Naya adaptation of the Gruul Adventures deck that dominated the...

PIONEER CUBE As well as the perennial Vintage Cube, Magic Online now frequently has a new novelty Cube that's up for a week or two (and may return eventually). These vary in both premise (Set Cubes, Format Cubes, specific colour combos like Temur Cube or a mechanical focus like Proliferate...

In a general Cube, your usual Sneak Attack/Opposition/Grim Monolith etc. In this Cube... Pestilence?

I love the cycle. There's much more competition for CIPT lands now (and more reason to avoid them entirely - see the Fight Club discussion) but I still like playing with them. My ranking of them: Staple: Celestial Colonnade - Top-tier in the abstract and WU in most Cubes skews controlling with...

The most awkward thing about Treetop Village is that it's green - a typical green section that has a ton of Llanowar Elves variants and wants to use them to jump up the curve (a 3-drop on Turn 2, 4-drop on Turn 3 etc) can't afford to take the first turn off and has a harder time fitting that...

Hashep Oasis is a generally stronger and less painful/conditional version of Centaur Garden if you want that effect

I'm glad that we've given the newcomers a taste of who we are by debating LOTR nudity in the Funchian design thread and Funchian design in the Strixhaven spoilers thread

I admit to being thrown by Funch's tone initially and contributing to the problem myself but let's collectively dial this back a bit. This math is assuming 60 cards AFAICT? The 'stock' Sultimatum deck in Standard has 80 cards for Yorion, ~36 lands (including DFCs), and 8 'pure' ramp spells...

COMMANDER 2021 I remain in awe of how we ended up with Core Sets named after years that weren't [current year] but I'm glad we don't have to worry about that here. The preview week for this year's Commander decks was an odd experience - the Boros deck was previewed first and was so good that...