The problem with Kappa Cannoneer's Ward 4 isn't just that Ward 4 is obscenely big ward number but ALSO that the Blastoise is a big/big, so if Hero needs two spells to remove it (red burn, -x/-x effects) then the ward effectively just becomes hexproof. Not a fan of the design; a cheap big/big...
oh, is it real 'talking game theory' hours? fuck yeah...
Iterated prisoner's dilemma is fun but central IMO to any broader discussion of "prisoner's dilemma" is its most compelling real-world example: nuclear war. 'co-operate' and 'defect' are broadly analogous to 'don't use nuclear weapons'...
My favourite demonic tutor variant is actually one they printed in a recent 'Alchemy' online-only release, but it's a card you can cast in paper without having to do any, uh, "translating" between digital and cardboard.
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two mana is about right for a really good Impulse...
There's a combo deck in Pauper that does some adjacent version of this. Cards that do what you want:
Gurmag Angler
Tombstalker
Hidetsugu, Devouring Chaos
Keen Duelist
Illuminor Szeras
Energy Tap
Sacrifice
Slobad, Iron Goblin
Soldevi Adnate
One With The Machine
Rush of Knowledge
Sister...
when it ETBs, you sacrifice another creature (it 'eats it'), then when it dies U gain 1 life per thing it's conceivably "eaten". I think it scans as a flavourful whole
Merry Christmas and chag sameach to all. In a strange, strange year, as the new year draws upon us, I'd like to share a poem that I found meaningful at this time of year last year, and which I continue to think about.
The best reason to vote for Phyrexian Altar is an environment where you have multiple Gravecrawlers and a viable Storm archetype (where it enables saccing Gravecrawler for {B} and recasting it an arbitrary number of times; bleeding storm into creature-storm). Short of both of those, it's Altar...
I'm fully on Arena Rector now - I found that I was working really hard to create a density of enchantments that a drafter still couldn't reliably build a toolbox with. Tutoring one of two planeswalkers (especially if one of them is The Wandering Emperor, who gets to activate an ability if you...