[Article] TCRF: Baxter's Prison

[Michael Keller]

Going old school (http://jupitergames.info/articles/2013/53105/the-cutting-room-floor-baxters-prison) this week.

[Tammit67]

Going old school (http://jupitergames.info/articles/2013/53105/the-cutting-room-floor-baxters-prison) this week.

Damn that is old school. While it wasn't very relevant to any event I'll be going to, I still enjoyed it :)

[Kich867]

Prison decks are definitely a pet project of mine, I've recently built a prison deck for standard I'm going to be testing over the weekend.

I loved this article, Winter Orb is something I'd love to abuse in conjunction with Aether Vial, maybe in a black/white shell with Thalias/Tidehollow Scullers..

[LOurs]

I really really enjoyed the article because good old school mtg is that good (more about old good time would be soooo appreciated)

I remember these old time like if it was yesterday. Me coming proudly with my 163 cards / 5 colors decks (everything but competitive) at the shop for the first time and just loosing to a 60 cards land denial one (something around stripmine / winter blast / sinkhole / juzam ...). Then I discovered there was a real serious approach of the game in mtg.
So I got this deck and then loosed to stasis / blackvise / kismet / serra one. And so discovered what "control strategy" meant. I came to blue and never went back since. Stasis was probably both the most enjoyable deck I ever played, and the reason I lost some testing partners ... no even speaking about how huge necropotence era was as you very well explained it ... A++ article.

The only cons about that article : it makes me feel so old :D

[anonymos]

The only cons about that article : it makes me feel so old :D

I actually double checked Winter Orb to see if it had the tapped artifact errata or not. Sadly, it does not. Static Orb does though.

[lyracian]

I actually double checked Winter Orb to see if it had the tapped artifact errata or not. Sadly, it does not. Static Orb does though.It is such a shame that a few cards got reprinted with the changed wording while others just fade away. If you look at the image of the MTGO Masters Edition for Winter Orb it does have the 'if untapped' wording. http://magiccards.info/med/en/173.html

http://magiccards.info/scans/en/med/173.jpg

[Esper3k]

Good article and thank you for the history lesson!

[nedleeds]

Wish WotC would revert Winter Orb to how Garfield intended it.

[Arsenal]

Why did WotC do away with turning artifacts "off" when they're tapped? I thought from a flavor standpoint, that was an ingenius idea by Garfield.

[Kich867]

Why did WotC do away with turning artifacts "off" when they're tapped? I thought from a flavor standpoint, that was an ingenius idea by Garfield.

Because new players wouldn't be able to grasp the concept, it would be chaos everywhere!!! *Waves hands around over head running in circles*

I mean we're talking about the people that changed Shroud to Hexproof because they thought Shroud was too complicated.

[nedleeds]

It would have no impact on anything really as Winter Orb isn't in any format they care about. It wouldn't impact magic online because the logic for handling cards that work that way is already in there for a few other cards (Trinisphere, Static Orb). It's just them pissing old players off because they want them to die sad.

[Arsenal]

It would have no impact on anything really as Winter Orb isn't in any format they care about. It wouldn't impact magic online because the logic for handling cards that work that way is already in there for a few other cards (Trinisphere, Static Orb). It's just them pissing old players off because they want them to die sad.

It also makes me collection of Kill Switch useless now. Damn WotC to hell!

[Oiolosse]

The if untapped clause is what makes it asymmetrical with Opposition.