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I'm more prescriptivist than some but when everyone knows what everyone means, pedantry isn't helpful? We all know the difference between Jace's Ingenuity and a card last reprinted >15 years ago!

Dig at least offers a unique, splashy effect; Treasure Cruise is just a hyper-efficient version of a card we've seen a hundred times

Caller of the Claw

Sure! RAVNICA ALLEGIANCE: Disappointing for the OG Ravnica fan in me. A handful of playables: Lumbering Battlement: Very curious but no obvious use for it (which I suppose is what makes it curious!) Benthic Biomancer: The latest heir to Enclave Cryptologist; I have visions of Grafting...

I like Gravecrawler specifically but it's neat that there are enough recursive 2/1s that you can fill out an entire section with them without breaking singleton (alongside Carrion Feeder and Cryptbreaker, the real MVPs for me)

Highly bizarre! I have a hard time Day 2ing a GP too, so I definitely feel lucky! But it's hard to evaluate these things objectively, and I have a lot of impostor syndrome. I worry that I'll commit to the grind fully only to realize I don't have what it takes to succeed consistently, but I...

We decided to drive 8 hours to the SCG Open in Worcester, MA instead of just playing a local 5k and, well: Ones 1 Engineered Explosives 1 Pact of Negation Twos 4 Amulet of Vigor 4 Ancient Stirrings Threes 1 Coalition Relic 3 Wayward Swordtooth 4 Azusa, Lost but Seeking Fives 2...

Made the finals of the SCG team Modern Open in Columbus (watch our semis and finals here starting ~8:23:35): I twerked my irons with mixed results but we split our losses well and my teammate on Grixis Shadow went 15-3 on the weekend This is the first Open of the season and this finish...

A cautionary tale from a few years ago, c/p from my thread: [spoiler="RUG Ramp"] Ones 1 Ponder 1 Preordain Twos 1 Goblin Electromancer 1 Magma Jet 1 Explore 1 Impulse 1 Condescend 1 Mana Leak 1 Izzet Charm 1 Remand 1 Cyclonic Rift Threes 1 Electrolyze 1 Chromatic Lantern 1 Pristine...

One of the things that sparked my distaste for conventional power-max Cubes was seeing how jumbled and same-y all the ramp decks were: Noble Hierarchs, Rampant Growths, and Grim Monoliths stood together with the singular goal of generating mana as fast as possible in decks that weren't fun to...

4-0ed tonight with: Ones 1 Birds of Paradise 1 Noble Hierarch 1 Siren Stormtamer 2 Cloudfin Raptor Twos 1 Kraul Harpooner 1 Skyship Plunderer 1 Sylvan Advocate 1 Walking Ballista Threes 1 Courser of Kruphix 1 Rishkar, Peema Renegade Fours 1 Nullhide Ferox 1 Vengevine 1 Cytoplast...

The issue with Manamorphose is that it doesn't do anything. You'll often put it in your deck, and you might have some cute interactions with spells matter or w/e, but is that enough for a slot in your Cube and a pick in the draft? I want to say yes, but YMMV (Though I've also been trying this...

http://markrosewater.tumblr.com/post/181248775268/was-proliferate-ever-considered-for-simics-guild what could have been... :(

I've found Reveler clunky even in the shells that it should be best in (you see this in Constructed too; a lot of the Arclight Phoenix decks in Modern initially leaned hard into Reveler and now it's being cut more and more). It's a shame, because I like the idea of it a lot and I don't want it...

Baral is great; it incentivizes you to build around it and there are few scarier things to see across the table than a T2 Baral you can't answer

Dragonlord Silumgar isn't un/common but a format where it is sounds pretty hilarious

On Mulldrifters and Baneslayers in Cube As is his style, Patrick Chapin brilliantly framed a crucial deckbuilding insight in the middle of one article in a multi-part set review, ensuring nobody would ever stumble on it by accident. In essence, most creatures are one of these...

Now that I have nothing to test for and some time over the holidays I'll actually get a list up here for you all. In the meantime, following Standard has made me reevaluate a few cards: Arclight Phoenix: The stats very much are there! Phoenix has taken over Modern and is doing its best in...

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Played the SCG Invitational this weekend; muddled through Day 1 at 5-3, then started Day 2 6-0, lost my win-and-in for T8 on camera (here at 7:27:30), then won my last round (after opponent refused the split!) for T16, $2k, and a qualification for the next Invitational Went 6-2 in both...