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"Any white deck can cast it" is technically true, but also a huge misnomer... uh, well, there are lots of decks (say, WGu) that would be far more interested in a 1U spell than a WW spell. Not to mention this thing is totally sweet. Play it on T2 with no Plains. T3, play a fetchland pre-combat...

I think you need to calm down there sailor, because you're pretty blatantly wrong. Grossly so. Let's take a simplifying assumption and say we have a two-color deck with an equal number of basics of each color. Further assume that we only have two lands in hand. Our land drops can be modelled as...

The question is what to cut for it. Surely it's an UW card... bump that section up to four cards?

There are times in my cube when Earthcraft would have no targets...

There used to be a 3-0 GW deck in my cube... Zuran Orb Wasteland Fastbond Land Tax Balance Armageddon Mox Diamond Crucible of Worlds Life from the Loam Steppe Lynx Knight of the Reliquary Flagstones of Trokair It's a pretty crazy archetype that I never wrote about, with tons of interactions...

Does Horizon Chimera trigger three separate times off of Brainstorm?

I don't really buy a new front being needed for the rare "packaging errors" that machine readability can prevent. Is there any other advantage? Like, a physical card authenticator where you can "check-in" your Standard deck and be able to play with it online... one can dream.

Is the flavor text trying to relieve WOTC of culpability for such a poorly designed card?

Wall of Fire For comparison.

Steel Hellkite Steel Hellkite is pretty cool design, I think it's perhaps a bit below the power level of a, say, Grave Titan / Wurmcoil Engine cube, but I'd love to play a cube where this was one of the premier finishers. It's also a fine Tinker target in a theoretical Hannes cube.

Maybe it's the Goat Tribal thing, but I feel like RiptideLab should make a fake Born of the Gods preview card and article.

Congrats to our winners, CML and Laz! I ordered the gift certificates this morning, and they should arrive in your RipLab inboxes shortly. Apologies for the delay.

Pretty unsure about Vamps, but cool that you're testing it. Are you updating the Utility Lands for Tezzy?

Well, one difference is that a lot of duders have ETB effects that provide value even through removal, whereas they provide no value through countermagic. That means it's only a matter of time until Wizards prints cards that say "when you cast this spell, do X". Oh right, Cascade.

I don't often laugh out loud when on the computer, but for some reason this article cracked me up: http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/12/23/amazon-is-at-war-with-monster-erotica/?hpt=hp_t3

Perilous Myr Birthing Pod Ghitu Slinger

For those of you wondering, this article started as a Facebook conversation where I told James I used his hitchhiking as an excuse to possibly delay a date.

I don't know the exact reason why, but soft counters are all amazing here. Daze, Spell Pierce, Force Spike and Mana Tithe all get the job done. Note that Spell Pierce becomes less "feel bad for holding mana open" the more instants you have. If you're like Eric and not running Dismember and...

Just jam UB Tezzeret and some artifact lands into the utility draft. That's all it took for us to get a 3 - 0 Tezzeret artifact control list. If you really want you can include build-a-Baneslayer targets like Vault Skirge, which also supports the lifegain theme.