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To me that game is just a flash in the pan. I might even be being unfair to KTANE when I compare the two. CAH relies almost purely on shock value and it doesn't take long to find the funnier combinations of cards. After that, it's kinda boring. I personally kinda think apples to apples sucks...

I liked it in my ULD before my wasteland/fetchland max experiment. Now I'm wondering if maybe I do want more busted 5 color lands like City of Ass in my ULD since they're probably just gonna get blown up by aggro players wastelanding anyway?

What's the conceit? I've played 7 Wonders but outside of my assumption that "Duel" is a two player version I'm clueless on the mechanical details.

I played Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes this weekend after my best friend's rehearsal dinner for his wedding. Super fun game, works well in a large group setting, works well when the group is scattered across the Sober-Drunk continuum. The tl;dr is it's asymmetric gameplay mechanics with one...

Don't have it, not gonna get it, but I suspect that any such discussion is similar enough to the rest of what we do here to be interesting to a good portion of our members.

That deck is straight filth. I want to hope I live in a world where people can't get away with that. Alternatively, I'd accept living in a world where only I get away with it...

Small note: I was running FoF instead of priest of blood rite for most of the evening, but sided into the priest round 3 against Shamizy because spending a turn doing nothing meant dying. (not that priest is that much of a better option but at least it's two blockers)

Kinda-sorta OT for this thread (though I don't think there's a better place for it...) I cubed with Shamim and his playgroup at UCSD last night. I thought it might be fun to write another half ass tournament report. It has been a long time since I've played against active competitive players...

Great points here. You're probably right CT that tricks might just be terrible in environments with a lot of good removal (which mine definitely is). Maybe in a sense Grillo's point about temp protection addresses that a little bit and creates some interesting tension. The point about doom blade...

This kinda raises the question then of how many combat tricks are desirable in a format. Generally speaking, I feel like my own format has too few (I can think of 3 off the top of my head in my 360. One each in white, green, and black, not counting reckless charge in red because it's not really...

I've done a bunch more small-scale testing on this idea. Sadly I've yet to fire it off in a large draft, but I thought I'd share my updated findings. A handful of observations, some of which may be positive or negative depending on your outlook and your playgroup: It feels fun Landfall guys are...

Thus far my free wastelands/fetches experiment has gone great. I'll update my own thread later, but just wanted to voice sort of an alternative opinion :) Also, yes, proxy that shit.

I'm okay with it being high variance as long as it's feeding synergy into the rest of the deck. Like if, in addition to alternatively swinging for 1 and swinging for 8 I'm also putting bloodghast or 2shieldz in my yard, I'm okay (which is why I'm inclined to make it mill more as part of my...

CT do you think my proposed design works? Intent is to be an evasive beater with a chance of generating some yard value

ooooh I didn't even notice the ability to mill the opponent. Tbh that wincon was never really my intent. I think I'd be okay making it only mill the controller.

I've been testing Mindshrieker and it has felt a bit lackluster; paying 2 to hit land feels pretty terrible in a higher powered format. I thought through a handful of tweaks and I think I may have hit upon a decent, if wordy, design: Modded Mindshrieker Flying : Target player puts the top two...

Right, everyone thinks/talks about their format a lot. But my point was that riptide guys and retail limited guys tout their format as being theoretically pure and balanced in the abstract. Modern and Legacy guys talk about whether their current format is balanced in concrete terms ("delver is...

I think I've said this before on these boards, but my gripe with casual formats like EDH or just pickup kitchen table style magic is the "knife to a gun fight" problem. If there are people out there who have lucked into a balanced environment, good on them. I think those instances are pretty...

Gideon is the only one I run, and I don't think I can ever cut him because I like the card too much. I'm almost positive he's bad for my format for all the reasons mentioned above.

The amazing thing is, this deck exists as a possibility in my cube too (nearly card for card).... and yet we've never seen it! I may have to force it next draft.