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What's changed? I'm not implying green sucks - far from it. It's just specialized. Green still has few CA engines, pretty much no removal. What new dynamic have they gotten in the last 5 years? I just see more ramp options and bigger dudes.

Batman is a vampire who is skeletal because he has an insanely high metabolism. Dude is always hungry and by extension looks emaciated all the time. As far as the bat minions... he can control them with his mind. They really aren't his friends, he's glamoured the whole species so they really...

I hear what you're saying, but at the same time I think the color requirements make this an acceptable card (if it were in white, I would not play it). This feels similar to Opposition to me - a super broken card that is made slightly less broken because of the color it's in. Different...

I haven't played him, so not saying this is wrong. But what is he hating against exactly? Removal.dec? Counterspell.dec? Aggro can run him, so it can't be that. Midrange should love this guy. Is control really foiled by this thing? What am I missing?

As I'm not running most of the broken equips, I don't see Thrun as a huge problem. Sure, Rancor and Silverheart are both nasty combos with this thing, but you know what? Green should have some really bomby creature cards. I don't see the problem. It's not like he costs 3G either. Green sucks...

Does this guy really stand up in today's world of pushed creatures? I love Batman but I keep wanting to take him out because against the other options he seems so underpowered these days (even in my semi-retro cube). How are you using (abusing) this guy? Clearly blink themes are good, but...

I'll toss my 2 cents in this discussion as I find it very interesting. I think there are a lot of ways to solve for a meta that is diverse, interesting and balanced. One core debate that comes up often is the importance of aggro to a meta. While I agree with the prevailing thought that you...

Skullclamp is just broken to pieces. Tangle Wire is a great tempo card, but it's not unbeatable.

Man do I love what you just wrote.

I'm probably adding Thrun in my next update for this reason. I don't really like Hexproof guys simply because they are non-interactive, but this guy feels very green to me. Plus since losing Lotleth and Ascetic, I think I'm down to zero trolls and that is just not right.

What if you got rid of Crucible? I know you wanted to 86 an aggro card, but does Crucible really do amazing things outside Loam decks (or recycling wasteland which isn't fun anyway)?

I was going to write all this, but I'm glad I waited for your version because it came out better than mine would have.

Yup. That's the biggest problem with it. There was (is?) a huge fad where designers believe that an attack needs to be more than an attack. It doesn't. All the fun is already build into a core attack. You have a chance to succeed and the damage you do is variable (with the possibility of a...

Interestingly enough, no. Not for me anyway. I was introduced to AD&D (1st edition) when I was very young and I played that into high school. But I never liked the ruleset all that much (too much crunch and in the wrong places for my liking) and so I went to other games (Warhammer Fantasy...

My friend would totally approve of that. He was pissed when they all became instants. I never played the game with that rule set though. The stack seemed so much easier when he explained it to me, but that's the rule set I learned from the get go. Funny how your first rule set is the one...

Yup. And mana burn. :) When I told my long time friend that Wizard's removed mana burn, he was like "WTF? Why?!??!". So we all kind of agreed to keep playing the version of Magic we all knew and liked.

I don't have a lot of weight in this argument either because I rejected the M10 rule changes. So when my friend who had been playing since alpha did the same thing with contiguous artifacts, what was I going to say? Read the Oracle text but ignore any reference to M10? LOL. So I got rid of...

Thanks for the explanation on the rule change. To answer your question, no. It isn't that simple. My cube is "retro" for a reason.

It was still an issue for one of my friends. He has one from unlimited. I don't, but he still insisted it was turned off when tapped. Not everyone subscribes to the rule changes handed down from Wizards. Admittedly, this one seems hard to defend since it completely changed how the card...

Winter orb is pretty oppressive. Plus you have the continuous artifact debate with the guys who still know what that was, and it leads to arguments. I took that card out awhile ago. Wasn't worth it.