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Stifle How do you all feel about this these days?

With paper events on hold, my reluctance to fully commit to Arena, and the difficulties Standard has had recently, I've had to cast a wider net for my competitive Magic fix. I've had a lot of fun exploring some one-off formats: Vintage Rotisserie Draft Ones 1 Duress 1 Thoughtseize 1...

Terese Nielsen likes a lot of woo-ey 'all we need is love' stuff and it's easy to view this in that context. Unlike most people like that, she's also all-in on Trump and believes a lot of conspiracy theories that are either explicitly alt-right or at least promoted by people in that space. If...

I'll try to post some detailed analysis of single cards or archetypes more regularly. Let's start with a card that most people (including me until recently!) have never even heard of: Look at Me, I’m R&D A uniquely enjoyable part of a game with a >25 year history is discovering some obscure...

JUMPSTART: What is this set? Why does this exist? Why now? None of these are good questions. Anyhow: Emiel the Blessed: If my aunt had the need to make useless comparisons at every opportunity she wouldn't be my uncle. In the society in which we actually live, Emiel is a cool mana sink...

Long overdue! IKORIA: In the past two months, Ikoria completely overhauled every Constructed format thanks to companion but none of us have been able to Cube with Ikoria cards in paper. That puts these evaluations in the odd position of having no direct experience to inform them but...

That PT happened on Arena and was a flop in every sense. However... As can you tell by my posts I am perpetually Online and love talking about Magic so I'm thrilled to have a chance to natter away on a bigger platform! First show was last weekend - featuring an amazing semis match between...

I like the pseudo-Pinatas thing a lot! Nowadays there are enough creatures that work well with those effects explicitly or implicitly that you don't even have to dabble in the pro-red stuff that can randomly hose people

I find Feather a bit awkward in these decks because they want pump effects that are already recursive to ensure a steady stream of Heroic/Prowess triggers and avoid the old problem of drawing too many conditional creatures and not enough tricks (or vice versa). If most of my tricks already have...

Forbid creates the feeling of knowing that the game is over and that nothing you do in the rest of the game will matter - it's satisfying to play around the first counter and make them have the second, but less so when they always have it because the first one is the second and so on. The...

I think being a creature makes Assassins far more useful for the kind of deck that wants to make and sacrifice (and probably, in BG, find + recur) creatures than either of the enchantments

Sometimes I flirt with running at least one card from each set as an homage to Magic's history and am quickly reminded that it's a lot easier with some sets than others...

Scarecrone was always too fragile for my tastes, and there are few enough good artifact creatures to return that being able to reuse the ability is less relevant than you might like. That said, tying reanimation to summoning sick creatures is a good way to limit how explosive those effects can...

I like these: Erratic ExplosionRiddle of LightningSorin, Grim Nemesis as a way to graft a unique combo onto an otherwise normal deck, It's easy to find cards with conveniently high mana costs once you go looking (split cards like Commit // Memory, delve cards, Emrakul 13...) Vivien...

Thassa's Oracle plays out far far better than Maniac in my experience. Having to draw a card isn't trivial and neither is keeping your 2/2 around in a deck that probably doesn't have many juicy removal targets

Was going to post my decks myself but couldn't access Cubecobra! I really like how the Cube has evolved and how it looks right now - it feels more deep and streamlined

idk about you but using By Gnome Means to put -2/-2 counters on Villain's best creature sounds delightful

A list of cards I earmarked for their interaction with Barrin:

Barrin is really neat! The bounceland synergy is adorable. Also one of a million cards that combos with: Words of Wind

Very happy to see Conclave Mentor, now we just need the UG one and the RG one (which Chris used to run already!) Heartfire Immolator is less exciting for me but far more necessary. Red desperately needs good 2-drops and Abbot of Keral Keep kept performing worse than it looked so I'm glad we...