Card seems decent, but honestly this ‘creatures good, noncreatures bad’ thing is becoming a cliché.

I just want them to spoil a 4 CMC artifact that makes you the monarch.

The article on wizards.com that introduces this guy is quite interesting:

I'm sinking into my chair, shoulders slumped, trying to avoid looking at the battlefield. All eight of my lands are tapped. My hand is empty. I have a sickening feeling that none of my creatures are going to survive until my next turn.

Across the table from me, my opponent is going off. "Let's see, I cast Serum Visions, scry both cards to the top, draw two off this Divination, kill both your Demons, exile my graveyard to lower the delve cost on Dig Through Time...”

My opponent is playing Magic, and I am not. It is one of the worst feelings in the world.

The good news is that apparently, WotC still think casting cantrips etc. constitutes ‘playing Magic’. The bad news is that they also think playing Magic should be punished.

WotC seem to be wasting a lot of reprint equity with this set, and I’m wondering why they have decided they need to do so now, in the last quarter of the fiscal year. None of the reasons I can think of say particularly good things about the current health of the game.

I keep my power in the games cupboard, in the deck box of whatever deck I played last.

Scenario 1: Playing mana denial vs the mana denial deck has never worked for me. Here, you’re not gaining tempo from wasting because you don’t have a threat on the board. I would fetch for basic Island and Preordain to find a white source.

Scenario 2:

Had I held the wasteland, my opponent would not have had the mana for fluster, and who can say what would have happened, what would you have done?

This is three turns, with a Top, past your Wasteland. The game’s entirely different if you don’t waste. I think your rationale for wasting here is solid. I think I would be more inclined to think that protecting the Ponder signals they are low on business rather than mana, so I’d probably have gone Volc for Ponder for permission, but that’s a personal call.

@rbartlet I have a three-year-old and luckily he’s pretty careful with my stuff, but he’s had a lecture about daddy’s stuff not being toys—after he managed to pry open a deck box and was playing with a Lotus and some duals. Now I keep my Lego next to my cards. That stuff is technically also off limits, but I’d much rather he’d play with Lego than with my cards…

@Stormanimagus Spirits also have that 1UW Crystalline Sliver-type guy. Fit Tallowisp in there and you’ve convinced me.

@serracollector said in Proposed New Mulligan Rule for Mythic Championship London:

Just curious but how much would this increase odds of Mox/crypt/lotus + Orchard + Oath turn 1? They are all 4+ ofs, can anyone do the math?

Assuming 4 Orchard, 4 Oath and 7 Mox/Lotus/Crypt and assuming you mulligan until you have T1 Oath, roughly 32% compared to 15% under the existing mulligan rule.

@typeonestorm said:

Interesting note is the Printing of the Vintage EDH fast mana, so they didn't forget about the Format as it seems.

FTFY. Sure it’s nice for Vintage players, but EDH pimping is the reason WotC is printing these things.

@vaughnbros said in New Companion Errata:

This makes all of them +1 card for 3 mana. So if it really was just about +1 card for 3 mana, then here you have it.

+1 card for 3 mana is Divination. Divination is not a playable card.

Quoting from Smmenen’s Alternative History of the Banned and Restricted List:

The restriction of Sword of the Ages is inexplicable. According to Beth Moursand, it was restricted because it “allows any creature-heavy deck to do a huge amount of nearly unstoppable damage.” Yet, this was a case of bad timing. As noted above, the Legends expansion ushered in the “creatureless era of Magic,” a hyperbolic description to be sure, but it was nonetheless a metagame where this card was rarely seen. It should not have been restricted.

Flash would not stop an ability that has already triggered though.

@wagner The art could be lifted straight out of Mirage block. I really like it.

How is $300-400 cheap for a computer game?

@gutocmtt Right, Chalice is obviously a card you play in your combo deck. That’s totally synergistic. Silly me for asking.

On what number would you typically play Chalice of the Void? Everything from 0 through 4 seems to hurt your combo in some way.

Any one-mana threat is weak to Misstep. Shadow has a synergy with Misstepping their Misstep on your threat that most one-mana threats don’t have.

@moorebrother1 I don’t think it’s hard to find good discussion, but you won’t find it in these “omg the sky is falling again” threads.

Full proxy Vintage in Groningen, the Netherlands next Sunday.

Location: Proeflokaal Hooghoudt, Gedempte Zuiderdiep 61, 9711 HC, Groningen, Netherlands
Date: June 2, 2019
Doors open 12:30 PM
Event begins 13:00 PM
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Playtest Cards: As many as you like; be considerate of your opponents.

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