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Scourge was really good for me - it does need some setup (though that can be as little as 'cast Stitcher's Supplier') but the ability to turn random chaff into a serious threat can't be overlooked. Sometimes you have it with Gravecrawler, Bloodghast, Lingering Souls, Bitterblossom or whatever...

Quick hits from past month or so: - I lost playing for T8 of Nationals but went 6-0 in Limited somehow (including beating Nicol Bolas, the Ravager transforming twice in the same game) - Scrubbed out at some GPs and will shortly scrub out of more - Lost a PPTQ finals with Hardened Scales, then...

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I'd still look at Tormenting Voice/Cathartic Reunion; they aren't inherently aggressive, but it's easy to unload your hand the turn after and make up for lost time. This is more true the heavier your version of the deck leans towards aggro-combo

You all posted enough to knock my thread off the front page. Pretty rude tbh! It's ok though I still love you all GUILDS OF RAVNICA: I was very excited when I heard we were heading back to (back to) Ravnica. The OG Ravnica was my first full block as a new player and I loved the art, flavour...

There are a few ways you can take this: - Have the archetype be centred in one of the colours e.g. +1/+1 counters in Abzan with green as the primary colour as it's easy to build GW or GB counters deck but WB counters isn't really a thing. This lets you indicate more clearly to your drafters...

In my experience people accept double fetches/shocks without a second thought while anything else takes a bit longer to wrap their heads around. Most drafters view lands as a constraint on what spells they can cast rather than an end in themselves whereas, as soon as you see two of one spell...

I must have taken a nap during SOI because I forgot about Ravenous Bloodseeker and never saw Furyblade Vampire before AFAIK. Does anyone have much experience with either? Check out this deck that's put up some results in Vintage recently: Ones 1 Mox Pearl 1 Mox Sapphire 1 Mox Jet 1 Mox...

Experiment One/Lumberknot mashup! Really excited for this one This one is hard to evaluate but I like counters, gold cards, and graveyard nonsense and this is a cute intersection of all three. It's not Walking Ballista, but Ballista is one of the best cards printed in a long time and this...

I remember simpler times when we all briefly tried to Cube Vaultbreaker Llanowar Mentor is cool but more at home in a grindy GB graveyard deck that can afford to tie up its mana early to have more of it later There's a close tie-in with the RG Berserkers strategy that many of us have tried...

Vortex is a great example but stuff like Grafted Wargear, Hellrider, Armageddon also qualifies

I think TSG's place as a 5 on its own scale is conditional on your environment; if your synergy-based decks are doing something more powerful when the pieces lock together or your control decks can go over the top of it (the way the Approach decks did in Standard), you can exploit its...

Finally an interesting lifegain payoff!

The discard replacement not being optional is bizarre considering how severe the drawback can be

I love that this set has many cards that are very clearly meant as a fuck you to Tron in Modern

The timeshifted version of the old frame is the Platonic ideal of a card frame IMO; it fixes the mid-90s design issues of the original frame (other than white-on-white text) while retaining the resonant feel Future Sight card frames are sweet too: Darksteel Garrison

The 'grave-pulses' in green are really nice: Vessel of NascencyGrapple with the PastSatyr Wayfinder And Gather the Pack, Commune with the Gods etc White has... literally nothing. The W/X Temples are the best card selection white has, which is a pretty sad state of affairs

yikes the border there is ugly sweet card though!

oh that's cool, I was basing that on a Maro comment but I must have confused it with a different mechanic there. Spells matter is a broad enough theme that they don't *need* to go back to replicate this time

I'm on CaptnIrony's side in this argument though: this feels like a hostile takeover on the part of Scryfall and, while Scryfall is impressive and a great resource, I wish the two could still coexist