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Based on this argument, I'd like to ban Jace: The Mind Sculptor.

I'm kind of joking because I miss Survival like crazy, and kind of serious because I think JTMS drove me out of Legacy.

I don't...

Survival was a pet deck of mine before it got banned. I never played the broken version/versions (everyone thought vengevine was broken, but I know some people thought the necrotic ooze combo was...

I agree with Arianrhod's core, especially in that 4x GSZ is not necessary (although it may be optimal, depending on the list). I played a Birthing Pod list for a while which ran more random non-green...

I have a minor nitpick:



"To loathe" (rhymes with "clothe"--kind of a weird word but the best I could come up with on short notice) is to intensely dislike; "loath", as used in this context...

I played this in a local tournament (15 people--I went 2-0-2, lost in top 4 due to play mistake, split for third place), after practicing (very little) online and in person over the course of like...

Bloodchief Ascension looks like a fun card. It's cheap, it's relatively quick to charge, it's pretty solid when charged, and even if it gets Qasali Pridemaged or whatever, hey, they wasted their...

FinalFortune, I haven't played legacy in a while but I don't see how Sun Titan pitches my hand, dredges two, mind twists my opponent, and does it again next turn. Getting back Cephalid Coliseum seems...

I remember Clique used to cause problems, when people didn't know about the card as much as they do now--you say "Clique, does it resolve?" and they say "yes, please look at my hand" and you write...

Nice report. Congratulations on the finish!

Nice of you to give the guy the points, even though he could have been more polite about it (?)

What do you think about running a singleton...

Embarrassingly, I don't think either of you are actually children.

Calling each other children is a poor insult, as I know some startlingly mature children.

On topic, someone said Brainstorm...

Someone, I don't remember who*, said that even if people are talking about banning brainstorm, it won't happen, because 75% of the people on this site voted to keep it.

That means nothing.

When...

I remember this. The other guy eventually decided that Uwr was worth it, for burning wish and replenish. Maybe there was some other sorcery that made it more worthwhile, but I don't remember it.
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It's an interesting idea, but it would make it a lot easier for, say, storm combo to transform into tempo thresh. Which I think would be a Bad Thing.

So I'm coming from the ichorid-player's perspective here, and I think the deck hates me. I consistently draw hands with one dredger, it gets extirpated, and then I draw 4 cabal therapies in a row. In...

Depends on the deck. Leyline is great against dredge and loam shenanigans. Leyline is great in combination with ichorid.dec (they can't remove your bridges) or, say, ill gotten gains, or helm of...

Zilla, I'm impressed. Just yesterday you thoroughly and perfectly outlined Brainstorm's place in Legacy, and now you've thoroughly and perfectly outlined the Mental Misstep situation.

I was just...

A couple pages ago, someone said something about Aether Vial being format warping, and then someone was like "oh hey, MMS got played way more than Vial, therefore you're stupid" (essentially).
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I was sad to hear that misstep got banned, because I deluded myself into thinking that misstep was stopping people from playing storm combo and high tide quite as much. I recently played against high...

Bullshit. Brainstorm sucks when you keep a one land hand with brainstorm, play it turn one and see no lands, and then have to draw two nonlands on your next two turns.

Obviously you shouldn't keep...

Good article.

I played Aggro Loam a couple weeks ago in a local tournament, and I still love Seismic Assault. With one resolved LftL, you can wrath merfolk or whatever, while with punishing flames...

I think my initial reaction was to take the force, because I don't like them, but I'm convinced by a couple people who preceded me in the thread.

1) don't take a brainstorm or preordain, because...

You have three colors and a lot of one-ofs. Looks like fun, but probably pretty inconsistent. I'm surprised you don't have Gifts Ungiven or Intuition in there, seeing as you're recurring things...

I don't know enough about tournament mechanics to even be able to parse that correctly. I think the whole 5 turns thing is lame, but it's the way it is (I'd rather have like a chess clock, where each...

I remembered heartbeat when IBA reminded me of wake. I think wake costs too much. By the time any of these control decks has five mana, they're probably already in control. With turn three mana...

Mana Flare

I was trying to design a landstill deck this morning, and I kept
wanting to put in more high cost cards (elspeth, humility, jace, fact
or fiction, wrath...) and it occurred to me that...