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  1. safra

    General "Looking for a card"-Thread

    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...
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    General Poker and the Prisoner's Dilemma

    read Plato so you can read Aristotle so you can read Kant so you can read Hegel so you can read Marx so you can read Sirlin
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    General Poker and the Prisoner's Dilemma

    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'...
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    General Custom Cards: The Lab

    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. Assemble the Team two mana is about right for a really good Impulse...
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    Sets (MoM) April of the Machines Previews

    ELSPETH CONFIRMED TO HAVE SURVIVED THE SYLEX BLAST i don't care about nothin' else
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    General "Looking for a card"-Thread

    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...
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    General CBS

    Absolutely.
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    Card/Deck Low Power Card Spotlight

    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
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    Card/Deck Low Power Card Spotlight

    tacked on lifegain is the best kind of lifegain and spider's lifegain is surprisingly real on the defense
  10. safra

    The Black Cube

    I really like what I'm seeing here.
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    Sets (ONE) Phyrexia: All Will Be One Previews

    Kalonian Tusker was mildly pushed back in M14. We're on watchwolves now, watchwolves are great.
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    General CBS

    CrEnSpiracy: Take The Crartifact
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    Card/Deck Low Power Card Spotlight

    yeah, but they suck, so it doesn't matter
  14. safra

    GBS

    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.
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    Card/Deck Single Card Spotlight

    Sheoldred, the Apocalypse Echo of Eons what a beautiful combo......
  16. safra

    General Fight Club

    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...
  17. safra

    Card/Deck Single Card Spotlight

    The Instant speed on this is often really big game. echoing this suggestion
  18. safra

    General Custom Cards: The Lab

    Then do BB héros downfall
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    General CBS

    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...
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    Card/Deck Single Card Spotlight

    magus of the tabernacle is a huge stinker and Humility is a weird sideboard card against reanimator. HTH
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