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The beauty of two-color New Benalias is that they color-fix part of the time while scrying full-time. Sure, they often won't be top picks in a pack, but I find them to be nice speculative fixing in an almost-mono-colored deck or a two-color deck with decent fixing, speculative fixing that can...

I concur. There was a blue-green ramp deck in Standard circa Worldwake that ran Time Warp with Jace, the Mind Sculptor, Oracle of Mul Daya and Avenger of Zendikar to good effect. I am a bit worried in my case that someone will take Warp and then be disappointed that there is nothing "cool" to do...

I used shitlanguage as a noneffortpost does not necessarily mean a shitpost. Anyway, I am subscribing safra's system of keeping a high like-to-post ratio to ensure that I am contributing to the forum with effortposts or maybe even just normal posts. I have a sneaking suspicion that...

I find "crazy mana enablement" to skew the drafting portion; drafters don't have to work as hard to build their powerful bashing (maybe controlling too!) machine of a deck. It's personal preference, I suppose. You're totally right about cards mana costs defining the splash. It's too bad that I...

This thread is really depressing; I am pretty sure I paid something like 5$USD/each for Jade Leech in 2000 and was happy about the purchase. Don't get me started on Sapphire Leech... I usually think about Druid's Familiar in the context of equipment where Briarhorn is removal/combat trick...

When does mana-fixing transition from being "something to reduce the variance in a drafted deck" to "something that enables a drafter to play splash cards as their heart desires"? In Modern Masters, the vivid cycle (Vivid Marsh, etc) combined with basic land cyclers (Fiery Fall, etc.) and Search...

The more I see decks with 3+ colors split between cards with 1-2cmc, the less I like cards like the WWK creature-land cycle. It's not that I mind bolstering the creature slot through lands to be offensive; it's what the mana-fixing of these cards (combined with other mana-fixing) does to a...

I am glad that I not the only one to use likes-to-posts ratio as an allowance for shitposts. :D It's bad when the shitposts get liked; it's akin to giving an animal a biscuit for pissing in your bed. I am consciously releasing this post into the wild; do not like it!

When I played versus safra with a Curse, it felt like she had a planeswalker that I could never kill. It even triggers when the tokens attack and is difficult to contain. #StillSalty

Green one is a nice converge enabler and mana fixer in 3c+ decks, even if nongreen

Ah, but "Con" stands for "Confounds", as all of the attendees were unaware there was any gender distinction within the humanoid classes. The first year I went to GenCon beyond dropping off friends to PTQ, I managed to irk some Assassin's Creed cosplayer by inquiring, "is that kid dressed up as...

I kind of like the Urza's Factory idea of making tokens (and not exposing the land to removal), BUT having those tokens exile at EOT. (They could also all have haste, but activating after EOT triggers would effectively give them haste anyway.) The idea would be for each color's land (these are...

Druid's Familiar Anyone played this outside of peasant cube/AVR Limited?

Seems like a humorous, semi-educational song. Not my preferred subgenre, but it has decent classic heavy metal/sludge sound (kinda like Electric Wizard).

Thanks to Ferret's search, I can across Frank Karsten's discussion of playing extra cards (in which he shows in a variety of scenarios that less cards is better). He does concede that there are fringe cases where more could be better... let's talk about those theoretical, taboo situations...

How many times have you seen a drafter play more than 41 cards in cube as a strategic choice? There is some talk about playing more than 61 cards in competitive Constructed at the moment, and it reminded me of a BG selfmill player running 46 cards once! Share your thoughts on "big deck"...

Ugh, I swore I traded Aston last night, but it's still staring at me in the active binder. My apologies. Anyone available to pick it up today?

I tried to splash red, but I never saw a dual in packs 2/3 (when I had a few cards that seemed worth playing).

I have to admit that I've watched Baby Metal youtube videos a nonzero amount of times :) I've also seen Mastodon live a few times (and also thoroughly enjoy Leviathan). But I am surprised that Amon Amarth is your jam, if you don't like gruff vox! Primordial - To the Nameless Dead Progressive...

this deck sucked, and i just played one round ... Jason and I both drafted esper beats :( 2-1 me