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Of those three, probably Vital Force. But based on what I run, nissa, vastwood seer

A good question. Generally speaking, bitterblossom isn't as generically good in my format as one might think. It's basically un-runnable against agro decks in my format because they are more attrition based, for instance. And it relies partially on being able to maintain a board advantage, else...

Tracker may very well work for a variety of archetypal situations, I just think it occludes too much of what other green 3-drops are trying to do, in general. Why pick up the Yavimaya Elder when I can have this generically much better self-contained engine? So archetype support sure, but in such...

I cut Tireless Tracker for being, tbph, too good. I wouldn't cut Courser for much of anything. I can see the reason for hesitation; that green section is very solid already. I feel it's outclassed largely by Tireless Tracker (so is loaming Shaman, imo), so Tracker is my first choice to broaden...

My green 3's will have both Loaming Shaman and Deathgorge as well, and I agree that I need to see how that redundancy of body works out, but it's not stopping me at least trying it out :) It often is a different sized body in combat, if that's part of the trepidation.

deathgorge scavenger I drafted with this card on release day, and it performed very, very well. Eating a creature on ETB and following up with eating a non-creature on attack is great game. Decent body, useful and impactful effect: definitely giving this card a spin. I was hesitant, but it plays...

If we are running reshape, aren't we also running, or running in its place: whir of invention Color requirement aside, a similarly costed effect. I also would not run Transmute thanks to the textbox. There's one person in my group who might struggle to read this at all. I'd need to get it...

It is a neat card. I won't fault anyone for running it. I just don't think it's right for my group. It's very much a "spell removal check" in a variety of mathcups, and it has to be determined whether or not that's wanted, and I think I'd have too much latent backlash from it being absolutely...

The problem becomes that UW "doesn't exist" in the format. That means you have to be ok with effectively a fully basic land mana base in order to run that color combo. Approach honestly frustrates me in that it can be fairly trivial to win with it given a little setup, and it's hard to interact...

Green land mechanics have played better as a background resource for me (fueling draw engines, land drop consistency, etc), with the decks' focus being more on the burn combos and green late game. Looking for another focus seems totally understandable. I also have reservations re: enrage here...

This all seems like relatively valid arguments for Tinker in this format, which really cool. All I'm saying is that Trash for Treasure is easier to make "fair" due to setup requirements, which you seem to agree with. It can still provide an additional tool to artifact decks looking to get high...

Isn't the "fair" version of tinker trash for treasure? Sure there are some inconsistencies in comparing these two, but it's a one-shot artifact cheat effect, it simply requires your deck have some synergy and gameplan more so than play artifact -> sac for best possible artifact in deck at the time.

Agree with Grillo on all counts. Same reason I like Miasmic Mummy over Rotting rats, the more relevant body (and simpler design). Y'all got me on Glint-sleeve siphoner. I'll give them a whirl. I like the thought that it may actually represent more damage thanks to menace.

Of course, please do! Note that it's less about making green ramp, though that is there, as it is about focusing on lands as an overall resource. This includes getting a critical mass of lands into hand, discarding them, sacrificing them, ensuring lands drops, and so on. It's a more defensive...

I think finding each colors truly unique place in a format is 50%, maybe more, of the fun for me. Figuring out that green really wanted to be the color focused around lands specifically (a specialty I still strive to fine tune) has really opened up my color wheel, I think. Taking away a color...

As someone who personally loves white, this whole conversation has me aghast, tbh :p

this is a very tempting argument... Still worried that something like D tutor would just enable shenanigans past what would be wanted... I still like Dark Petition well enough, but could see myself coming around on something like this as well. Though I may be wrong, I thing the perfect tutor...

Yeesh. 42 walkers.... scaled by different cube size that's almost 4 times the density of mine :confused:. Hold up, that doesn't even count flip walkers, so 47, actually (if you count those). So over 4x I think a good measure of time well spent crafting a worthy lower-powered (lower than...

Ixalan Updates - 09/15/17 fdfNow that Ixalan is fully spoiled, I think I have a grasp on what I want to try. This set and the Commander set just previous were very light for me. I think this is largely due to the Tribal nature of the sets. Eh, nothing wrong with not swapping much. One common...

Didn't see much either, but I do like this: Adding artifact sac to altar's reap adds quite a bit of utility. Goes excellently with wellsprings.