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Three Day Weekend, Haven't Updated in a While Updates - 05/26/17 Pretty long time since I've updated! Sadly, I'm not entirely sure I've had an IRL draft since before my last updates :(. I think I did have a couple 3 man drafts and sealed's, but its been a little hard getting anything going. Ah...

I say that card is firmly GB. Green does the most random recursion from the graveyard by a good margin, and black I think does the most self mill on a creature etb for no immediate upside.

I mean that literally power is a lower layer than characteristic modification, so when the ability modifies the characteristic, power/toughness hasn't been xhanged. AKA power modification is only as "true" as the layers say they are. The example I read was that an enchantment that reads...

I'm not 100% sure idea the second actually works within the rules as written because layers? Power/toughness modI fiction is the bottom lahyer, so "hasn't happened yet" when this "checks" or something like that. Itd have to be worded as a trigger of some sort (beginning of each combat?)

Bummer. One of these moments when the MTG rules just have so many extra niche corners that sometimes it's just like.... why? The card works that way fine as read, and certainly it could have been oracle differently (afaik). Something like "when you discard a card..."

Yeah vintage isn't the greatest indication of 'healthy format' card that effectively won the Storm player's second game was duress

Thank you :). Not an original name, sadly, but I latched onto it as soon as I saw it in whatever corner of the Web I found it in. Deck is shaping up to be insanely fun to play, and Amonkhet has given ample additions and redundancies to the strategy.

For instance, I think Wrath of God is a good example of what I'm talking about. It provides control a critical mechanism to stabilize against aggro, but Aggro can work around and keep the pressure on with careful use of sequencing, and use of recursion to provide reach (like Scrounger). There...

This discourse is wild. My take on this is that a competitive environment, things like Thoughtseize need to be contained because Wizards themselves has lots of empirical data that cards like this harm competitive formats (namely Standard. See also Marvel) I think cards need to not only be...

...that is a really sweet combo. Maybe not for cube, but definitely for the Zur de France edh deck I'm playing around with. And the Aqueduct can be replaced with new perspectives and any cycler or fluctuator and random U land. Neat and rather robust combo!

I think the primary difference is that Thoughtsieze feels worse. You don't even get to try your cool game plan, it just sorta withers away. The hand info thing is stacked on feel-bad. Same argument against land destruction. People want to actually try. Personally, a bolted bird doesn't feel as...

Discard spell that I really love and can provide important protection against boardwipes and control effects, while doing tons of other cool stuff at the same time collective brutality

Black definitely doesn't need discard to be good. It's probaby one of the stronger colors in my cube, and it is because of the graveyard synergies. Why does it have to have another focus besides that? There certainly.isn't just one angle to the GY so it seems like a pretty rich color as far as...

Think the crown for colorless removal/pinge creature has been claimed by walking ballista

Similarly to Vortex, if you foster the right environment for cards like Haven, they are very cool and impactful in the format. I think Grillo may have mentioned something like this somewhere, but it's absolutely perfect with a blue draw suite based around draw/discard effects.

I do like both of those, but the "life drain" dude I'm trying out in WB is kambal, consul of allocation

Very nice concept! I think the only thing missing is the "token" in the typeline. Wizards would need some new rules tech to make this work, but this is very intuitive for a playgroup. Using the sorcery and instant typing as a rule basis even tunes into the framework of how instants and sorceries...

Thanks! I've started to come to my own conclusion to that regard in my first sets of goldfishing and play testing :). Collective Brutality has provided far more utility for the deck while fulfilling a "flexible discard outlet" or what will you

So I'm tinkering around with a Goryo's Vengeance list, on paper at the moment. Am I cray in thinking this card has some mileage in this deck?: nahiri's wrath

Some things I like about P // F: -lifelink. Not really any other playable combat tricks that grant lifelink. This can 'counter' burn by bringing you out of the red zone -untap. Being able to be two removal spells on offense or defense is great. Combat tricks that work after a creature has...