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I drafted Alpha once (online, not IRL) which is and isn't the same as what you describe. My deck was nine Circles of Protection spread throughout all five colors and forty-two cards so that I could win by mill. It was about as fun as you'd think for the first couple of hours, but when we got to...

Okay, that's totally reasonable lol. Definitely not a high-powered card, but if it doesn't do anything in kitchen table games then it's not going to cut it here. I guess I should have figured that out from it being cheap as dirt.

Brine Shaman Has anyone ever tested this strange, strange card? I feel like it has to do something.

Necro, but I just realized that we may have been asking the wrong question here. Instead of percentages of spells dedicated to removing other permanent, I'd like to pose the following: what is the ratio of spells that can remove creatures to the number of creatures you have? No need to take into...

Agree to disagree on Linarch Veteran, I guess--its performance in MID was definitely not because of the lifegain deck--and agreed on Covetous Castaway not quite getting there. I really wish that card had an ETB trigger rather than a death trigger. Time for customs, right? As for the Hermit, I...

I feel like you're looking at the "wrong" Disturb cards for consideration. Specifically, I feel like Lunarch Veteran and Malevolent Hermit might be more your speed than bulky finishers or combo pieces. Lantern Bearer is my other pick for a flagship Distrub critter, but you're not supporting that...

No, but I was considering him. I've always thought that cards like this just needed a keyword or two to be viable, and this sure is. Maybe there's something cute to be done with Memnite? It seems tricky to have a deck that both modifies creatures and cares about recursion while wanting to attack...

No, cool as it is. You can't even use it to stabilize the board because killing any nontoken creature on the opponent's side ends the effect, meaning that decks have be okay with either using the zombies as resources or waiting for a single attack. That makes it incredibly narrow while requiring...

Ramunap Ruins Barbarian Ring This might just be splitting hairs, tbh. I think I value the simplicity of Barbarian Ring most of all, followed by the ability to hit creatures. But does anyone else run it over the Ruins? Is the prevalence of Ruins just due to it making bigger waves in standard?

Sure are :oops:

No no, an Emblam is what Deadeye Jace, the first gun-themed Planeswalker, makes when he ults. :texas:

Arcanist is the more interesting card because it requires you to enter the rumble zone and thereby changes your play patters, whereas Magmatic Channeler is a Saga with a bunch of chapters that give you an option to cast a variant on Tormenting Voices and then you get a 4/4 as the last chapter...

If I ever stop posting about this card, please assume that I've been replaced by some sort of android. More or Less This card does it all. Silly combos, serious combos, combat tricks, counterspells, a kill spell for X/1s, this thing is only limited by your imagination. I truly believe that...

Shard So, okay, it's a token, and yes, it draws on death, but this is pretty similar to the dog's effect and I think it goes to show that enchantments can just draw a card upon state change. Also, even more than that, I think the fact that it took us so long to remember that these exist goes...

Darksteel Relic I also think it's fallacious to assume that one card = one living being otherwise planes walking would cause you to shit yourself uncontrollably due to leaving your gut flora behind. That's not to say that cards don't normally work that way, but rather that it doesn't always...

It's neat that you made a deck for constructed, and the deck sound pretty sweet, too! However, it's not doing what I'm interested in. Thanks for sharing! Because I want the decks to work that way, it's not strictly necessary but I want them to, and yes. Kinda confused myself as to why you'd...

If you want both the enchantment and the wall, may I interest you in The Birth of Meletis ? You draw a card that's always a plains, but the upside is that you know it'll always be a plains.

Oh duh, thanks for the reminder! Yeah, I've run a lot of these cards including the Magus, but I'll check against that later today to see if I can figure out why my decks haven't been performing.

Sure, if you want to take apart the semantics of flexible versus unpredictable and how one leads to the other then that's fine, but the point remains that there are holes in the archetype and that they make the deck unwieldy. My issue with hybrid untap-flash decks is that they're an even more...

Okay, I might have exaggerated a bit on them being incredibly mediocre, but the point stands that the actual creatures tend to be weirdly uneven in terms of quality and part of the point of a flash deck existing is to be unpredictable. If you're always wanting to cast a creature on 2 or 4 and...