Ravenous Baboons. How could you forget the baboons?
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Ravenous Baboons. How could you forget the baboons?
I think the biggest draw to the card is that it's a 2 turn clock in a deck with bolts. UR delver seems like the obvious place to try it, being a deck that wants the speed and is happy to throw burn...
The deck that scares me the most from Philly isn't Eldrazi, it's the new Lands build. Looks like the Miracles matchup is much improved, and with Storm getting hated out, it might be the best deck at...
There's certainly a fear of Eldrazi wrecking another format. While I don't like the deck, I do like that it's made a splash in the still pond. Now we get to see how everyone adjusts. There will be...
Decks that want to tutor for lands have access to Crop Rotation, and decks that want to tutor for creatures have Green Sun's Zenith. Those are both more efficient at what they do. There is a...
Flee the Keep :r:
Instant
Put two 0/1 red Kobold creature tokens into play.
Cloud Painter :w::u:
Creature - Spirit Wizard
Flying, Vigilance
T: Tap target creature.
T: Untap another...
Sparkspirit :r:
Creature - Elemental Spirit
Haste
When Sparkspirit dies, you may put a charge counter on target non-creature artifact you control.
R, remove one or more charge counters from an...
The spin has made me nauseous. Anthony Lowry's take on the leaks: "It isn't fair to them, it isn't fair to you, and it isn't fair to the people that make all of these things happen the way they do."...
Nah, lean on the hype machine. And hope you don't run out of greedy, manic kids who buy packs because they think they're special and due to open a shiny $300 bill. Is this even a game anymore?
Love the deck. I run Loam Pox sometimes and the deck has earned a special place in (the evil side of) my heart.
I'd get up on Sunday to listen to you.
Thanks, I'll stop worrying. After getting a fake emerald I've been super paranoid about everything I get from eBay.
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I received an UNL USea today that is a bit unusual. Three of the four corners are uncharacteristically rounded (not from wear), and the dot pattern overlaps in a...
What number are we shooting for exactly? Given that there are always players, even players who call magic their profession, who insist on going against the grain, Brainstorm has reached a level of...
*raises hand*
The problem with this approach to the management of the format is that it would require a very careful and intentional crafting of future cards by WotC to be able to play out in a positive way. ...
These articles seem to be getting more and more biased. Pick a needle out of a haystack and use it to make generalizations.
Because of UR? Delver isn't even the best creature in that deck. URW players have been cutting it, and the delverless versions have outperformed the versions with it. The BUG and RUG versions have...
30% seems really high, but I haven't seen any data so who knows? But yes, it's not the end of the world. The deck is linear enough that the best players can find ways to beat it.
20% of the day 2 meta is pretty huge for legacy. Even if UR was 20-25% of the meta at the start of the tournament, that's still quite good considering all the electrickerys, hydroblasts, cop: reds,...
Good luck, sourcers.
Summary of recent discussion:
UWR is now called Jetskis.
RUG is now called Toonces.
D&T is now called Death, Taxes, and Marketing Schemes.
The question for me is whether decks want to be doing this as their payoff. Drawing cards is great, but since you're casting a bunch of cantrips to set these up, you've already seen a lot of cards. ...