It's an interesting take, and you're probably mostly right, although I want to point out there's a very recent counter-example: Chainwhirler is an example of a card that players felt OP, in a deck...
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It's an interesting take, and you're probably mostly right, although I want to point out there's a very recent counter-example: Chainwhirler is an example of a card that players felt OP, in a deck...
There's a big loss of tempo, though. Needle can come in any turn; fighting Wasteland with Wasteland not only takes a turn longer, it forces you to spend more time with colourless mana on board and...
So basically, you’re just going to twist whatever other people write to suit your whims? “This specific deck is interested in the specific effect of Thoughtseize” becomes “you agree that Probe and...
I'm not sure I'd say "complicated" rather than plain more "difficult". They're either fast enough and there's little you can do, or they're not and there's little they can do, but they have a bad...
This argument is in bad faith. There is a difference between an effect existing in the game for a cost, and that cost including having to play a color, and that same effect being available to each...
Probe found a place in any combo deck, so Omni-tell, Sneak and Show, Infect... Going through a search by 4 copies in maindeck on Goldfish, I also see multiple instances of Belcher, Depths, other...
Should have known trying to be overly flippant would cost me. Hermit Druid needs a answer right away, Strix can be Tim-ed in the next 15 turns.
Shaman is most definitely not Tim-able, but...
(I notice I made a mistake on my previous post: obviously, I board OUT a Wasteland and IN a Needle. I also notice you have a Maze in your list: I missed that and I must have a mistake in my MTGO...
I think you’re jumping the gap between “good card” to “overpowered card” here.
First, Probe’s problem wasn’t just how it enabled any one archetype, even if it did push one or two. The main issue...
Spell with text that says "I just thinned my deck by 4 cards/I see what you play before I even lay down a land/I like to play Combo and now I know I can go for it" seems obnoxious enough to me, and...
My personal experience is that aggro decks that put down a Karakas have a very good chance of killing you before you have a chance of going off with Sneak Attack. Also, Blood Moon just take care of a...
Well, for all my disclaimers, I’m not THAT bad a player... :tongue: No, I sequenced well enough that my threats did hit the field, for the most part. They just dug and dug and found the correct...
Warming: salty post.
Well, it’s a holiday here, and after a very disappointing weekend, I decided it was time I stopped pretending I knew how to tweak lists and just picked up solnox one. The...
No Karakas, only 2 Surgicals, the GSZ are exclusively for Gaddok Teeg… I assume he expected little Reanimator/Dredge, and a lot of Storm? (I wrote this before checking the other decks, but hey, what...
2 weekends ago, I had a 4-1 and a very easy 5-0. Last weekend, I played 4 leagues, and met 9 Miracles, which makes it 45% of my matches! (at least one might have been Stoneblade, but I wasn’t making...
Yes, what you say makes absolute sense. And I agree Depth is an excellent shell for Confidant. Plus every Fatal Push and Lightning Bolt is one less Edict in hand or even in their list or 3 that did...
Well, if we’re really gonna have this discussion, the original argument was to have a white answer to Burn. I don’t know a lot of white decks that have problems dealing with creatures, so we’re...
A couple lightning bolts illuminating a rolling fog is dramatic and cool. A bunch of goblins ruining a moment's peace is annoying.
You mean putting the Confidants in the SB and bringing them out for slower matchups? Main issue for me is that my SB is tight as it is.
It’s entirely my fault: I take a hamfisted approach to...
Legacy and this forum being what they are, when someone writes that Fog is better against burn than lifegain, I hesitate between a joke, a mistake, or a complex combat trick involving Sarpadian...
If Burn becomes a large share of the meta, I’m still not sure I’d run Revitalize.
I completely understand the “goodwill” bit. I haven’t played paper in a while, but when I did, I always put on my “stern face” on before every game, not trying to be an asshole, but much colder than...
I don’t think there can be circumstances under which you could end in trouble for not having reminded your opponent to pick up the pace, but it’s certainly good form to tell them yourself once before...
Here’s the thing, though: by calling a judge, you’re not being an asshole, and you’re not even necessarily making an accusation. You’re asking a third party to make that call, and a third party who...
I haven't met Infect in ages. But I am getting beat a lot these days by tempo delver decks, including the new brand of UR Wizards/burn stuff. Of course, I play the Slow Depth version with Dark...