Wow, Belcher not only took down the thing but left such a lasting impression on player(s) post game?
Can't remember Belcher taking first place in vintage...(in a very loooong time)
Can we call it Goblin Salt-shaker from now on?

I'm testing one in bomberman and a playset in Legacy solidarity minus the Snapcasters. So far, feels better than SC in solidarity since it actually digs us further into our deck and more likely to chain multiple Mission Briefing ,thanks to Hightide.

Is this Soly?

@brass-man All the work you put into TMD Is appreciated, for sure. Thank you.

Bought my first mtg cards at a yard sale of our neighbors two houses down, around summer of 1998 They were all artifact, red and green cards from ice age, tempest, stronghold, weatherlight and a bunch of forests, mountains, ghost towns and and some anti shadow land of sorts. Woman said they belonged to her son but he was in collage and didn't want them anymore. She said she would look for more but her husband had already sold the rest by that that time.
Without a clue as to how to play, my brother and i pretty much played by what we assumed was the correct way. Quickly figured the Mana cost were paid by lands. Playing a land a turn, one card a turn, attacking only with one creature a turn. Only 40 card decks with one of any card except lands of any kind. Player with no creatures left on table and no library lost the game.
A year later I came across a comic book store that was closing out and once again, most of the mtg stuff was gone since the man was selling at 80% off! All he had, and recommended anyway, was Classic starter box and urza's saga decks.
From that point on I would walk 1hr to a store just to play free for all with six other guys there. They all had powered decks and never went easy on me. My first play was swamp into duress, taking my opponents duress. "there is hope for him after all" another guy said. Lol. Few turns later I suffered Palinchron, Morphling, Ernahm, Jackallope Herd, Lighting Dragon and Hyppie beats. What fun I had.
Fast forward and I'm still jamming duress, tinker, academy and necro into my decks. Could never get into type 2 or even extended, later on.
I still say type 1 when referring to vintage. sigh

Just got to listen to the podcast. Started off well and ended leaving me with a bitter after taste in my mouth. Have people forgotten the difference between right and wrong? Why is it so difficult to say, getting assistance while online play is wrong as is in paper magic? It IS black and white. I usually agree with most of what you have to say, Steve. This time I was surprised by your position on the ethics matter. I'm still a fan of your work. Just have to strongly disagree here.

I don't like how they are making planeswalkers interact more like legendary creatures. That was the point of planeswalkers. These mythic beings that are immortal and can travel the planes. Summoned to assist you like no creature could.
Unless they're going into some "timespiral"
Like setting with alternative version of Planeswalkers etc, etc. sigh
I shouldn't be surprised by this change.
They should've kept Planeswalkers at the "highlander" rule.
C'est la vie.

No.
Wouldn't this just put you where we are now, but decades from now...again.

I didn't like Old-school until I came across EC and other non-Swedish rules. OS'96 is a bit better, but Vintage redux is definitely something I would stay away from altogether.

The rules/B&R would still become fractured as, if not much more, than OS'93/94.

This might be a format for a few players out there but, I just dont see it becoming a thing.

My 2 cents anyway

The logic against MM is laughable to say the least.
I'm In the minority here, but that's ok.

To consider windfall to be unrestricted at any point is ludicrous as well. But I guess since they've "paid attention to vintag these past few months",they're probably correct. Lol.

The irony of these blue moon decks; Blood moon effects would wreck them.
Good read, as always. Keep 'em coming

For the record, Jaco Drazi wasn’t “budget” but intentionally ran without moxes. It was “optimally designed to be unpowered” for the meta at that time.
...carry on.

Glad to see you guys back online. Gonna give this a listen!

@fsecco said in MTGO Eternal Weekend:

I for one find it funny that people spend their time and energy complaining about this awesome article by @IamActuallyLvL1 but, as a community, say almost nothing about Andreas Petersen being DQ'ed for Bribery.

I didn’t find anything awesome about the article, but ok.

@fsecco said in [CMR] Jeweled Lotus:

God, we always go to the SAME arguments whenever a RL discussion happens. Wow.

If they made a "better than" Black Lotus (and restricted it), every deck would play with 2 Lotus. That changes NOTHING.

Come on, I can't believe we're still at this stage in the discussion.

I agree.
The remedy for this is to abolish the RL, and just reprint the Lotus and moxes.

@thecravenone said in [CMR] Jeweled Lotus:

$150 ugly Black Lotus proxy

My thoughts as well.

I’ll just stick with Blacker Lotus as my proxy, thank you very much.

These are Musor.
Merde.
Good thing I’m focused on getting the rest of my duals and starting my P9 instead.

@stuart
I really enjoyed this. Thank you.

Christmas beats may come early this year

I’d run this along side Magus/Blood moon, Ouphe/Null rod.

@desolutionist said in The Riddler:

I'd like to see the decklist if anyone is willing to type it up. I cannot watch the video for personal reasons.

Same

Wotc usually hints at what’s coming next in a set or two prior. So, the new duals May look like the Thriving lands in Jumpstart but with The dual land types.
Which would be insane if they don’t ETB tapped.
Would make sense flavor-wise with Zendikar thriving now with the Eldrazi “dead”

On the other hand, they could also be a finished version of the playtest lands found in Mystery Convention Ed.
Noxious Bayou
Aggressive Crag
Taiga Stadium
Rift
Waste Lands
Etc.