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Next step is to play Gifts Given and get to do all this with your opponent's deck

There's a world of difference between 1UR and UURR and Crackling Drake counting exiled cards brings back bad memories of Battle for Zendikar for me

I like Pir and Toothy a lot

It's cute that Legion Warboss gets to Mentor onto the Mob Boss and make his mob even bigger

Have zero expectations for the rest of this set but Flux Channeler is wonderful

Updates since then: SCG Indy (new Standard): did not Day 2; Top 32 in the Standard Classic SCG Balt (Team): did not Day 2; Top 16 in the Standard Classic SCG Syracuse (Legacy): did not Day 2 but got to put on a nice show (feature matches here/here), then won the Modern Classic with UB...

Some of his finest work

The spectacle cards need to feel noticeably better than the average card to justify the feel-bad moments when stuck in your hand. Light up the Stage or some of the rares manage that; a card that's slightly better than Phyrexian Rager when it works and terrible when it doesn't will lead to a lot...

I love fiddly shit with counters but Ascendancy really doesn't do it for me. Counters are great because you can do things with them beyond boosting stats (and when it is mainly doing that, it's in fun and flashy ways). Ascendancy just sits there tying up your mana and demanding some basic...

I'm more prescriptivist than some but when everyone knows what everyone means, pedantry isn't helpful? We all know the difference between Jace's Ingenuity and a card last reprinted >15 years ago!

Dig at least offers a unique, splashy effect; Treasure Cruise is just a hyper-efficient version of a card we've seen a hundred times

Caller of the Claw

Sure! RAVNICA ALLEGIANCE: Disappointing for the OG Ravnica fan in me. A handful of playables: Lumbering Battlement: Very curious but no obvious use for it (which I suppose is what makes it curious!) Benthic Biomancer: The latest heir to Enclave Cryptologist; I have visions of Grafting...

I like Gravecrawler specifically but it's neat that there are enough recursive 2/1s that you can fill out an entire section with them without breaking singleton (alongside Carrion Feeder and Cryptbreaker, the real MVPs for me)

Highly bizarre! I have a hard time Day 2ing a GP too, so I definitely feel lucky! But it's hard to evaluate these things objectively, and I have a lot of impostor syndrome. I worry that I'll commit to the grind fully only to realize I don't have what it takes to succeed consistently, but I...

We decided to drive 8 hours to the SCG Open in Worcester, MA instead of just playing a local 5k and, well: Ones 1 Engineered Explosives 1 Pact of Negation Twos 4 Amulet of Vigor 4 Ancient Stirrings Threes 1 Coalition Relic 3 Wayward Swordtooth 4 Azusa, Lost but Seeking Fives 2...

Made the finals of the SCG team Modern Open in Columbus (watch our semis and finals here starting ~8:23:35): I twerked my irons with mixed results but we split our losses well and my teammate on Grixis Shadow went 15-3 on the weekend This is the first Open of the season and this finish...

A cautionary tale from a few years ago, c/p from my thread: [spoiler="RUG Ramp"] Ones 1 Ponder 1 Preordain Twos 1 Goblin Electromancer 1 Magma Jet 1 Explore 1 Impulse 1 Condescend 1 Mana Leak 1 Izzet Charm 1 Remand 1 Cyclonic Rift Threes 1 Electrolyze 1 Chromatic Lantern 1 Pristine...

One of the things that sparked my distaste for conventional power-max Cubes was seeing how jumbled and same-y all the ramp decks were: Noble Hierarchs, Rampant Growths, and Grim Monoliths stood together with the singular goal of generating mana as fast as possible in decks that weren't fun to...

4-0ed tonight with: Ones 1 Birds of Paradise 1 Noble Hierarch 1 Siren Stormtamer 2 Cloudfin Raptor Twos 1 Kraul Harpooner 1 Skyship Plunderer 1 Sylvan Advocate 1 Walking Ballista Threes 1 Courser of Kruphix 1 Rishkar, Peema Renegade Fours 1 Nullhide Ferox 1 Vengevine 1 Cytoplast...