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  [IMA] Mana Drain
  • Topical_Island

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  @topical_island I'm a goof. I was only thinking about the financial aspect. The DCI's plan to Make Mana Drain Dank Again is on track. Looking at data from mtgtop8 drain went from 22.6% (last 4 months) to 27.8% (last 2 months).

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  [XLN] Sorcerous Spyglass
  • hierarchnoble

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  I do think it is better than needle and not only because of MM. The peek effect really does make it valuable in some specific circumstances, the problem is, I think people were hoping it would stand in for thorn, and it isn't that good. I still think it is playable, and possibly even maindeck-able in some number (naming a planeswalker, or fetch as a pseudo wasteland is not SO bad) that gaining a couple slots in the sideboard that don't have to be dedicated to dredge I think makes it a decent card.

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  [KLD] Snare Thopter
  • gkraigher

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  I understand you had a rough day with the SMIP thread, @brass-man. @The-Atog-Lord is on record calling me a troll account and I thought you knew that. I shortened troll account to troll for the sake of my prior post. Consider me the Chaotic Good of D&D alignment, like Chandra!

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  Scorcerous Spyglass
  • guanno1249

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  What @gkraigher said. It can be found here. Hopefully it has enough Chicken Littles for you.

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  [XLN] Search for Azcanta//Azcanta the Sunken Ruin
  • Naixin

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  This is a neat card that can help in a variety of grindy matchups. The format doesn't seem super grindy right now, which will limit its play, but that could change if this could be a role player in the sideboard.

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  [XLN] Dowsing Dagger // Lost Vale
  • Dumpsterac1d

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  I don't really understand the payoff to this card outside of edh.

  You need to be packing small creatures with some form of evasion, or play a bunch of removal spells, and then you have to play high mana intensive spells in the same list.

  Why go through all the trouble?

  It's cool. It would be nice to have it flipped, but the process of flipping it makes it awful.

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  [XLN] Perilous Voyage
  • nedleeds

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  @fsecco since 2004, Echoing Truth was in and out of many decks: control
  Slaver, some gifts boards, etc. the bouncing multiples was sometimes important, but it was just an upside to the best all-around bounce spell available at the time.

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  Curious Homunculus (revisited)
  • NBA84

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  I admit, I've been dorking about in the practice room with an Esper build playing both Seeker AND Homunculus, which I'm sure makes me some kind of Vintage hipster ;)

  Not doing anything particular to get value out of him other than play Night's Whisper, plus Yawg's Will. Just a handy little beater, who also allowed me to cut a land, which in these post-Gush days feels quite a luxury against other blue decks. Not saying it's fantastic or anything, but I like the little blighter. With only one lonely Monk in my deck, I've got to beat down with something...

  Baral meanwhile I've been playing in a more controlling Slaver style build, but that's another story!

  Only just come back to MTGO after a break over the summer... will run some of this nonsense through the leagues and report back. Happy to admit, The Homunculus is probably more a fun/pet card. But life we would be boring if we didn't occasionally try these things!

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  [XLN] Kitesail Freebooter
  • Serracollector

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  @gkraigher

  I disagree, sometimes the tempo is all you need and if they get the card back it may be too late for it to matter. He's Cavernable easily which is huge for a tempo strategy.

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  [XLN] Field of Ruin
  • Protoaddct

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  If you side this in against shops you'll be left with a lot of games where you destroy their land only to be swarmed by its already in play creatures. You spend 3 mana on this only to take out their best land, which is not that relevant against Shops (unless in a few odd games).
  Not to mention this gets worse vs Foundry builds.

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  SOI Prized Amalgam in Dredge
  dredge • • wfain

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  Being able to remove the PA to the Force of will and Unmask makes its pretty great for pitch dredge, its removable to ichord and returns off the narcomeba it manages a lot of versatile could see its as a 2 of in any pitching dredge list.

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  [IMA] Mana Drain
  • fsecco

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  Drain would be WAY too powerful in Legacy. I mean, with 4 Drains I could easily play Ugin/Karn in Miracles or even stuff that draws X or whatever.

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  [XLN] Sentinel Totem
  • Protoaddct

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  I[XLN] Primal Amulet/Primal Wellspring
  • Serracollector

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  Great in Commander. Doodoo in Vintage.

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  [XLN] Unclaimed Territory
  • hierarchnoble

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  How many colors of a single tribe of creatures does a list need to be playing to make this + Caverns better than a normal fetch or rainbow package? How many tribes even have viable cards outside of the single color they normally occupy? Humans maybe, but merfolk, goblins, elves, all seem to be locked into 1.5 - 2 colors. This also does not provide color for spells which those decks still run, so I honestly cannot see it being playable as the 5th cavern over something like gemstone mine, aether hub, or Confluence.

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  [XLN] Ashes of the Abhorrent
  • Aelien

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  Its a GY hate card for a deck that uses its GY for creatures only. Kind of a strange card with no real current place in Vintage, but it has a niche.

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  [XLN] DeepRoot Champion
  • MaximumCDawg

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  @ssasala pretty fascinated by this idea, actually!

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  [HOU] Hollow One
  • fsecco

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  @brass-man

  I'll be very curious to see how it plays.

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  [C17] Heirloom Blade
  • John Cox

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  @mourningpalace ugh, sorry, I meant 'would' not 'will'.
  Well, who knows, maybe it will be reprinted in Ixalan, since it's a tribal centered set. Wotc, have been known to preview cards from upcoming sets in duel decks before. I dont know of any in commander products but there is always a first.

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  [C17] Mirri, Weatherlight Duelist
  • L0cke17

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  @l0cke17 It definitely fits naturally in any deck that's running Noble Hierarch (acceleration and exalted both match up nicely), but those decks aren't exactly super popular/successful right now.

  Amusingly I have a G/W list with a full complement of Moxes I've been wanting to test for a few weeks now and this might fit right in. Funny how that works!