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There is a chapter that he wrote about "the deck" in the bradly games Totally Unauthorized: Magic the gathering Advanced player's guide that I bought back in 1996. His chapter is the best chapter in the book, but I have no idea where you would find a copy online without purchasing it. Its a...

I've been ripping great ideas from pauper again (no one can stop me) and that means a lot of black control and midrange variants. This has me wanting to make some changes to my green section, the reason being that I've been supporting a B/W lifegain deck (incidental lifegain in white fuels...

Is supreme verdict a color-pair incentive card, a color-pair reward card, a generic utility card, or an overly specific archetype enabler? I feel like I could make arguments thats it any of those in a vacuum. Tempo is confusing only because people write stuff like this about it: I...

I wasn't quite sure how to express this, and you didn't a pretty good job. I know what you mean by the term archetype, but there is a whole host of mtg terms that get thrown around loosely, or whose meaning changes depending on context. I do feel that theme encompases something distinct from...

Do not remember withering boon at all, but looks playable. The life loss might make it too narrow, as only BW control is going to be able to offset that really, and it plays into one of the weaknesses of UB control. Speaking of oddball cards I just stumbled into Quiet Disrepair While there...

If you go through some of the early posts in the penny pincher cube, it touches on a lot of the things you are asking about, exert below: The only thing that I would add to that is that my attitudes towards synergy have evolved. Brian Weissman, from years ago, had an idea of "branch...

I've gotten to the point where I favor a smaller, higher impact, but more narrow multi-color section. The higher relative power of the multi-color card justifies going in the direction it suggests, and accepting the color conditions it imposes. I find that its a nice tool to help tempt people...

I think we may be getting lost in a semantics discussion over a slang term, which seems like a pretty poor place to be. Let us simply agree that tutors may still be played while mindcensor is in play. I do disagree that minscensor ever actually justified its price with performance, as it...

It would seem so. "Hosing" is a euphemism meaning "screwed" or "decisively defeated." You can still hit off a mindscensored tutor and get value from it, which may or may not win you the game. Thats the weakness of the card.

The thing is mindcensor dosen't actually hose tutors: it just makes them worse cards. I actually can't remember off hand any tier 1 deck where it was a staple in--it always seems to be a sb card or a hate bears card. Death and taxes maybe? I don't think it was a main decked 4 of there. It...

Yeah, I really wouldn't call it a staple. The other $10 uncommons I know of--remand and cabal therepy--are actual great cards. Mindsensor seems very middling.

I never had much success running mindcensor, shadow of doubt, or any of the stile effects. They were always too unreliable, and really are just super narrow disruptive effects. To help put why in perspective, most of us are probably running 8-15% of our cubes as artifacts and enchantments, yet...

I had seen master thief but wasn't sure if the death clause would make it unplayable? Thoughts? Ah mirage...so many quirky cards I don't remember at all. Pirates looks interesting, not sure what to think about it. The ability to threaten to steal artifacts is interesting, but it does little...

Yeah, I'm really just looking for attractive ways to do AF/enchantment destruction. I really like that redux of it, as it adds a lot more play to it. I kind of wanted to go with an ETB though, because that way it could work with blink effects, but at least this version can be unearthed. One of...

For one moment there, I mistook your avatar for ahadabans, glanced over the comparison you were asking for, and promptly wondered if the world wasn't ending. Than I registered it was your name in my mind, and everything made sense again.

I don't know, being able to disrupt an opponent's anti-aggro plan seems pretty good in a low curve deck, and it protects key threats. I really don't think it needs to do more than that. But than I've never played it, so don't really know. The closest analogy is what, spellskite, standard...

I had a few custom card ideas bouncing around my head. I'm not sure how a lower powered siege-gang commander/pia and kiran would look, but I'm attracted to a few designs (excuse the lame names): Goblin Repairman {R}{1} goblin pay {R}{2} and sac an artifact, deal 2 damage to target creature or...

Great suggestion james, but yeah, probably a little to slow to the scene: needs flash imo. Might be good in a kithkin based strategy though?

As far as i know its this guy yeef on mtgs.

While it is perhaps true that golem wreaks deagol, the big weakness to your strategy is that valakut, the molten pinnacle will wreak your golem 100% of the time. Golems 3 toughness means that this card is unbeatable, and your strategy will fall to its doom. Sorry jason, time to go back to goat...