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One thing that annoys me about EDH is that it has effectively removed kitchen table magic from the picture, and as a result there's a much bigger gap between "casual" and "competitive" Magic than there used to be. I used to build a bunch of janky combo decks, but I stopped because I didn't have...

Thank you for reminding me that Blade of the Oni exists. EDIT: I'm also not terribly surprised that Standard success correlates to so well with cube inclusion - given the sheer firehose of new cards, it's easy to forget about cool cards unless you see them all the time in one context or another.

To be fair to the people who keep going "oh, [X] card is outdated"... building a cube using whatever cards are currently terrorizing constructed formats or just chucking in the shiny new cards that you just saw in spoiler season is quite a bit easier than agonizingly picking through the tens of...

It's worse than that - it's a 2/3 for 2 that actively wants to see play in a format with a bunch of "vanilla" 2/2s.

I rather like these designs - Gleeful Arsonist in particular is pretty interesting as a way to knock villain off-tempo. Then again, I've always been pretty fond of Scab-Clan Berserker...

The funny thing is that they just spoiled... So who knows what color the second ability actually is! Though my guess would probably be {U/R}, given how that's the actual "cares about Rooms" pair if we go by the draft archetypes. ... One of the reasons I'm playing the game with Marina...

Marina Vendrell - {W}{U}{B}{R}{G} Legendary Creature - Human Warlock When Marina Vendrell enters, reveal the top seven cards of your library. Put all enchantment cards revealed this way into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. {T}: Open or close target Room...

Look at that nerdy little guy. I love him. Behold, removal: Exorcise Sporogenic Infection Cathartic Parting

You know, I'm appreciating Survival more and more as an ability word the more we see of it.

@ravnic My only problem with Under The Skin is that my creatureless Shigeki EDH deck has given me an aversion to Regrowth effects that make creatures. I hate how my brain works sometimes. :p Some neat blue three drops! Glitch Interpreter's a nice card advantage engine if you've got artifact...

Wait, Piranha Fly? How low power is your Battle Box?

Some intriguing new two-drops (which is a criteria that I'm excited about): Traitorous Diplomacy - {1}{R} Instant As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay {2} or sacrifice an enchantment or creature. Traitorous Diplomacy deals 5 damage to target creature. If that creature would die this...

My understanding (which I might've gotten from someone on here) is that the original intent behind un-sets was they'd be the last set of packs in the draft. By that point, you've drafted 30 cards so you're only looking for a handful of playable cards in the un-packs. However, people ended up...

When you get down to it, Gloomlake Verge and Blazemire Verge are really just cleaner/more flexible versions of Tainted Isle and Tainted Peak... EDIT: Yes, they can't tap for {c}, but that's a Brad problem.

Oh look, it's this set's cancel-with-an-upside. In all seriousness, I like it. New leylines! I like how they're both solid buildarounds. The rare duals for the set ({W}{W/U} / {U}{U/B} / {B}{B/R} / {R}{R/G} / {G}{G/W})! I'm... not sure how I feel about them? I'm a sucker for cards that...

Control decks might like them against aggro, I guess? (Their real home: the You Compleat Me cube.)

This thing is a pretty amazing blink/tiny reanimator payoff. Yeah, sure, I'll Recommission this into a 5/4 double striker, that sounds fair. "Untapped duals at common" wasn't on my checklist for the set...

Survival's interesting, especially if you have an alternate way of tapping creatures. I wonder if they're going to put it on any mana dorks? I'm really not sure about Manifest Dread and Cloak/Disguise being in the same standard, though. It feels like that might be confusing in paper. EDIT...

I think it says something that "Yu-Gi-Oh, but only cards printed up to 2005" and "Yu-Gi-Oh, but only cards printed up to 2010" are the two most popular unofficial formats. Come to think of it, I have seen more people bring up Pre-Modern lately... (Personally, if I had to make a "time capsule"...

Rasmus gets it. It basically pushed Pauper Ponza to Tier 1, unless things have shifted around a bit in the last month or so (turns out getting COVID messes with you - who knew?)