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That was essentially the resource land rule that I played with a couple friends years back. Here was the exact rule. You may play any card face down as a "resource land". This counts as your land drop for the turn. Resource lands have "tap: add 1 to your mana pool". If a resource land would...

I derailed a recent thread on color matters / devotion with some discussion about challenging conventions in Magic. It's an interesting topic to me and I wanted to start a new thread to keep it going. The discussion centered originally around the origins of the "4-of" rule specifically with...

Thanks for all the responses. I think I'm going to start a new thread. Slightly different topic, but along these lines. Again, I think I've taken this thread totally off the reservation at this point but this is a fascinating discussion IMO so I want to try and keep it going.

Fair enough. By by that same token, I'm pretty sure the "4-of" rule was the same kind of thing. Thumb in the air - that sounds good. Where did he come up with 60 cards for a constructed deck? Even number pretty close to how many cards in a deck of playing cards? All I'm getting at is...

Those cards above are completely broken even with just one copy. They are degenerate beyond belief. That's not just him thinking no one would have a bunch of lotuses. He didn't think through how badly costed those effects are and how they undermined the resource mechanic of his own game...

Sorry. I was just trying to be supportive and offer ideas to the discussion. I don't mind supporting some combos if they aren't super easy to assemble (I think the only one I have right now is Kiki/Pestermite but I had Palinchron in my cube before and it didn't get arrested by the fun police)...

To get the most out of X spells, should we include some infinite mana combos? I've been looking for an excuse to put this guy back in. Palinchron

Those are good points. I don't disagree that the more towards singleton you go the weaker you make combo-ish type decks (those decks that rely on one or two cards). I guess I'm just calling into question the original decision made 20 years ago to allow a 4 copy limit in a 60 card deck. I...

I don't get the dogmatic allegiance to singleton. Preaching to the choir here, I know. But regular limited isn't even singleton. Depending on what you draft, you will routinely see more than one copy of commons (and maybe even an uncommon or two). Do these guys toss the packs back on the...

Wow. That is sweet! I want one.

Fair enough. But it's a pretty small cost most of the time and as many have mentioned, sometimes it's not really a cost so much as it is an abuse (like the venser example or how about reveillark?). And even when you aren't abusing ETB, turn 1 elite vanguard turn 2 deep hours doesn't feel...

I like the one copy idea. I know some cards just don't work without multiples, so it's not that simple. But I find the decks that get built in cube to be considerably more interesting than anything that I've ever built or played against in constructed. One deck never plays the same game to game...

Except undying dudes. They are down with black sun's zenith. Wickerbough Elder is a fan too. :)

From a flavor perspective, I REALLY like bonfire. It does two things that I think are very red - burn and randomness (the randomness coming from miracle). If ever there was a red-like ability, it would be miracle. It does what all the "flip a coin" cards tried and failed to do. But then...

Makes sense actually. I fancy myself an amateur game designer (I've designed dozens of games), so this topic is interesting to me. I often buy games with the intent of just learning how they work (knowing I'll never play them) because I find game mechanics very interesting. And no game I design...

That's a fair criticism of a 3-of rule. And maybe it needs to be something like 4-of one card, 3-of two other cards, and 2-of everything else. That would still give a lot of flexibiliy to deck building while keeping super consistent exploit decks from being easy to assemble. Point is, I still...

I think it's good value in any deck running dudes. 1U for 2 damage and a card is really good. Even if that's all you get. Plus there's the extra synergy of potentially reusing an ETB trigger on something else. Oh, and he's really good friends with Thassa's activated ability. Maybe I'm...

I think I tend to dislike it more than I like it. My next update is probably removing it again. But to be fair I keep putting it back in. I'm just drawn to it for some reason. It's twisted really.

Cool read guys. I'll give my 2 cents (although with how disconnected I am from standard at this point, is more like 2 pesos... if that even). I certainly agree with the general sentiment that bad fixing leads to a bad meta. By the same token, I also think there is value in moderation (at...

Guess it depends on how you feel about two card infinite combos. Might be too easy to assemble is the only negative I can see.