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The thing with value is that it is artificial. A deck with rares and uncommons will have that the rares are more worth money wise, while they do not necessarily are better. That is why I proposed to look at the top 8 deck lists of major tournaments in eg legacy, modern, and standard. And please...

I would try to leech top8 decklists of formats, or your format of choice. That and the banned lists of the non-commander formats. Monetary value is not a good metric at all.

The thing is: one knows when cracking the junk it could lead to not being able to use that card. If one goes into it without this expectation, then that one is fooling him/her/it/whatever self. I know that when one needs a land from the deck and draws a non-land card during the regular draw...

The thing is that yes you will have feel bads. However, a clue cost two mana. How many times will you lose the game due to this mana investment? Does that make you feel bad or is it that you kinda fool yourself and does that not make you feel bad?

Many? Combat tricks can be used in your attack, counterspell is, as much as I like to taste the salt of my opponents to see their plan thwarted, not something I cry about when I do not draw it. It feels like junk suffers from the same fate as self mill. It is hard to see a great card go, but...

Why? Just sac it after your draw. if you cannot play it, then it is most of the times better since you would likely not be able to play it when you draw it next turn.

But stonewall it with: beloved chaplain Metathran zombie Fog bank Pacifism Pacifism is kinda cheating and works against a lot of creatures, but it does not work against sheoldred/etb nonsense of these days.

There are already so many great examples of cards from that era. Invasion block was great. That era has a ton of cards which change the rules of the game without being bombs itself. E.g: worship Smokestack No mercy Crumbling sanctuary Dueling grounds Ensnaring bridge Noetic scales Together...

You mean a standard deck like: birds of paradise Fires of yavimaya Flametongue kavu Shivan wurm

It is a green card, greens power is to have strong creatures. Yes, it can happen that you do not have the biggest boy in town ready to attack, but that should be a rare occasion. Unless you do something completely different with green in your cube. Plague winding an opponent is almost always...

The beautiful part is that it is non-interactive due to the split second and hexproof… blegh

All I can think about when I see that card is: Hey, removal for one green mana! (Just play it before you attack what you planned to do anyway.) It could be even played as protection or a fly catcher.

My choice of words was not what I meant. The thing is, sometimes people will get upset no matter what you do. What is accepted changes over time. Sometimes something meaning changes a lot, e.g., a swastika. Banning all swastikas would be something that many religions would not like. At the same...

The problem is: what’cha want? Of all these blocks it is possible to make a block cube. It is also possible to make a cube using cards from all these sets. A few things to keep in mind: Creatures are way, but I mean way, weaker than now. Still and surprisingly, the cards that are really...

Well, if a stereotype has been used for some time, then the ones not hurt by that stereotype can get upset when one stops using that stereotype. There were riots in the Netherlands about part of the Sinterklaas myth (from which Santa Claus is derived). The Dutch version of krampus, called Piet...

I do not know, there are pros for keeping it the same and cons since one can do a lot more online. All I know from my experience with the commander decks of brothers war is that the game has become really complex and that boardstate errors/reading errors are made more often than not. This is all...

So to summerize: they introduce a shitload of counters to ease memory issues. However, those counters are only used on a handful of cards. Do they ease or add to the burden that paper magic has? (And yes I prefer the paper version to connect to people.) To be honest: what does it solve? In...

I think it al depends on the unmorph cost. Borph is very doable but boring if the unmorph is hefty. 1/1 for one are also okay. The thing is, morph demands a special environment. At least if one wants that the morph is important and not that morph is on the card but almost never used. Like on...

You are completely right that b/morph warps the format. I do not agree that one cannot go under/over a morph card. elvish warrior was in onslaught after all. The thing with morph is that the tension on what is below is fun, but being blown out of the water with a cheap unmorph can be...

You mean exalted angel. In limited it was not unheard to have off-color morphs. A 2/2 for 3 was just good enough when one was low on creatures. In extended the angel was good. Not because it is good for the total cost of 7 mana but because it is good in a draw go shell. The unmorph cost were...