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I kind of hate all Dimir cards other than Baleful Strix and Dragonlord Silumgar at this point - yeah, I kind of even hate Forbidden Alchemy - so I think I'll give Wydwen a shot. I remember the hype around the time she was spoiled, though the faeries deck ended up not needing more four drops, and...

Huuuuuuge update - Human theme is gone! Champion of the Parish was cute, but was still just a vanilla */* at the end of the day. I'm looking both to slow down my environment by half a turn or so, and to make weenie rush more interesting, so Champions no longer fit the bill. - Less generic...

Duuuude, lighten up. No one's out to "get" you. I've said this before, but as a frequent forum-goer, you really need to develop a thicker skin.

Agree. Lucas, simmer down, man.

The thing I always wanted to do in that Standard was to combine Mistveil Plains with the card below somehow in a mono-white control shell. Endless Horizons That was the era of everyone running 4x Cryptic Command, between Faeries and 5cc, so it wasn't a realistic option... but I would've...

I've had it in my utility land draft for about a year... and it's been nabbed exactly zero times. I'll probably have to force it once myself to give it a test drive. I don't think it's great in control decks - those decks tend to stick fewer nonland permanents - but it might be fine in an aggro...

i mean it's NEK-ro-man-ser but it's also IM-po-tens, so when you slam them together... ok i honestly have no idea, i think i hear ne-KROP-uh-tens more, but i say it NEK-ro-PO-tens then there's the actual word potence which is pronounced PO-tens isn't this fun guys? (i have no idea if it's fun)

Were there actual stores than ran tournaments in your areas, back in those days? As high school students in the Ice Age era, we would all hang around the local Magic store whenever they got a new shipment of singles - finally, my fourth Lightning Bolt to fill out my green red fat creature...

i hereby motion to change the pronunciation of the Greek titan to PRO-me-THEE-us

Yeah, it's one of those cards that doesn't do a whole lot in some matchups - say, against the fast aggro decks - and then completely dominates other matchups, without giving the opponent a chance to interact. Granted, Staff of Nin has the same problem in that it's difficult to remove, but its...

that's how i pronounce it (NEK-ra-tall), but everyone around me seems to say ne-KRA-tel then again, they all say ga-ROOK instead of GAR-ruk, so maybe they're all dumb and i can ignore them also, it's POL-u-KRA-nos and not pu-LOOK-ra-nos, people

I think I'm with Peter on this one - Keranos, God of Storms is far and away the strongest of the multicolour gods, at least over here. Even assuming that his creature clause is flavour text, the ability to draw a card 40% of the time and draw Lightning Bolt the other 60% of the time is very...

the only thing i want to know is, how the hell do you pronounce Nekrataal

FSR, I'd be fascinated to know more about the history of early limited Magic play. Was Ice Age as bad as everyone makes it sound? How did sealed decks look in those days - with creatures as small as they were, was it still a midrange-fest like it is nowadays? We should start a thread for you...

Epochrasite is secretly the most Riptide-an cube card around. It works well with the sacrifice theme, counts toward artifacts, is a warm body for Pod, goes in straight control decks looking for a roadblock, plays well with blink, and on top of all that is nigh-unkillable. Over here, it's gone...

in the next Fight Club post, we put Fight Club up against Single Card Spotlight and The Card Art Thread

Really interesting posts from everyone - it's illuminating to see how everyone evaluates Skinrender against all of the other options in the same camp. This thread normally covers cards that are borderline playable, but we should do more of these head-to-head comparisons with cards that are being...

In practice, Nekrataal's nonblack drawback is lessened in a draft environment, because by the very nature of taking a {B}{B} card, you're staking a claim in heavy black, and therefore are more likely to be taking many of the playable black creatures yourself. (To take this point one step...

I would rate them from best to worst Shriekmaw Nekrataal Murderous Redcap Skinrender In a 360 list, you probably don't need all four - any two of the above are usually sufficient. Best thing is that you can mix and match to suit your power level!

Yeah, Birthing Pod is an interesting design. I'm not sure who it was made for, but after seeing it in the wild, as it were, I'm starting to think it was designed specifically to cater to Spikes. It's not big nor splashy enough for Timmy, who wants cards that read amazing and play larger than...