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Speaking of RAV standard formats, I have to get this off my chest Loxodon Hierarch firemane angel These cards are great!

Skeletal saw a ton of competitive play back in the day, it was one of the reanimation targets in solar flare, along with angel of despair, and later akroma, angel of wrath. The appeal of it in those deck was its ability to both stabilize the board while presenting pressure, and later, for its...

Where do you get your Italian language cards? I am dying for x4 scopritore di segreti, but don't want to pay over seas shipping.

I think thats less a statement showing its not a stabilizer and finisher in one, and more a criticism of how effective it is at doing so. Here is a shot from B8R's draft vs. Kirblinx, for example Skeletal took B8R from a hopeless position to one where he had stabilized the board, and...

Thats an interesting question because skeletal vampire both stabilizes and acts as a finisher. Lucre described it as a flying wrath some months ago, and I think thats a fair description. I also don't think its fair to describe low powered cards as only doing fair things. Honestly, I think low...

Lol no

That card looks gloriously horrible. Black devotion here we come. I think skinrender is the winner of this debate, however.

Both. The larger starting body is very relevant, and big square cards without ETBs need to promise a lot of power to make the cut.

Maybe barter in blood never did well because of the lack of lifegain or other perk? I've never ran it, but I'm kind of surprised it performed so poorly for you. Consume in vapors is a beast, though obviously its somewhat matchup dependent.

One of the nice things about low power formats is that suddenly all of those gravepulses become playable. To elaborate on low power mass removal, here are the ones I run: niv-mizzet, the firemind tibor and lumia savage twister goblin sharpshooter thrashing wumpus sulfurous blast starstorm...

I run a number of sweepers. They are usually pyroclasm style effects dealing 1-3 damage, or pestilence style effects. Some of them are de facto sweepers, requiring multiple creatures be sacrificed (consuming vapors) or repeat removal (death spark, slaughter, dark blast) that can clear the...

The problem I have with blood barren is that it has protection from itself. I just can't get past that.

Yeah, angel would really pressure the removal suite. Thats a lot of toughness for the damage based removal to deal with, and the fact that shes black means a lot of the black removal can't interact with her. Plus I have a strong enough reanimation suite that I feel that is where she will be...

Thats probably a much better general structure. I just did the math again, and you can go to 50 color fixing lands at 360, which divides out to 6.25 color fixing lands per drafter (at 8 drafters), or 15.6% mana fixing lands per deck. If you want to have an additional 10 slots (for maindeck...

Has anyone played Gwyllion hedge-mage? Is she just a solid value play? Though on the topic of strong B/W cards that don't see any play, remember this lady in solar flare? Angel of Despair I think she is out of this world strong for my format, even more powerful than the format's current...

Gnaw to the bone tortured existence First things that went through my mind; what elegant synergy.

wind dancer is probably too underwhelming? Floodgate is kind of interesting though, providing that the 4cc doesn't make it too slow. You could run it as a sort of blue synergy sweeper with self bounce/blink creatures in a U/W shell. kor skyfisher emancipation angel momentary blink...

As requested, a place to talk about all of the great commons, uncommons, and rares that don't make the cut in more powered cubes. I'll kick it off with: Rude Awakening 1. Ramps with bouncelands 2. Ramp target and finisher in itself 3. Interesting tensions between bounceland ramping it out...

I was just teasing, and it might even be right to run your mana base like that; but all those half cycles...it just looks like a real motley mana crew. I'm glad I didn't buy the tangos, WOTC really left me hanging there.

Yeah, I don't ULD either, for a lot of the same reasons, and because I find it makes format balancing much harder. If you were really using the format competitively, you would be kind of expected (I feel) to have done the testing before hand, rather than using consumers (which they would be in...