The Rats
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Emma: ve/she Ammie: she/her Trace: xe/any • 23 • Rat kinnie • ACAB • MTG
I have a brand to uphold and repeats are apparently against the rules
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December 3, 2025 at 6:17 AM
I have a brand to uphold and repeats are apparently against the rules
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I read this thinking it was pretty mid —combat damage plus three mana to impulse draw once? — until I reached “without paying its mana cost”. Lmao. Great commander
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December 2, 2025 at 6:23 PM
I read this thinking it was pretty mid —combat damage plus three mana to impulse draw once? — until I reached “without paying its mana cost”. Lmao. Great commander
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Lol, fair. Do you also hope to cascade into Brainstorm in that deck to set up next turn’s cascade? It seems a similar vibe of value :p
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December 2, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Lol, fair. Do you also hope to cascade into Brainstorm in that deck to set up next turn’s cascade? It seems a similar vibe of value :p
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So you pay eight mana to draw a card. Usually you get at least two cards for eight mana?
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December 2, 2025 at 6:05 PM
So you pay eight mana to draw a card. Usually you get at least two cards for eight mana?
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1. Edge of Eternities (!)
2. Tarkir: Dragonstorm (Jace died)
3. Aetherdrift (good story, bad set)
4. Through the Omenpaths (as cool as getting a new core set was, it featured only new characters and the spiders theme was weird)
No other Magic sets were released this year, to my knowledge
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2. Tarkir: Dragonstorm (Jace died)
3. Aetherdrift (good story, bad set)
4. Through the Omenpaths (as cool as getting a new core set was, it featured only new characters and the spiders theme was weird)
No other Magic sets were released this year, to my knowledge
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December 1, 2025 at 12:55 PM
1. Edge of Eternities (!)
2. Tarkir: Dragonstorm (Jace died)
3. Aetherdrift (good story, bad set)
4. Through the Omenpaths (as cool as getting a new core set was, it featured only new characters and the spiders theme was weird)
No other Magic sets were released this year, to my knowledge
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2. Tarkir: Dragonstorm (Jace died)
3. Aetherdrift (good story, bad set)
4. Through the Omenpaths (as cool as getting a new core set was, it featured only new characters and the spiders theme was weird)
No other Magic sets were released this year, to my knowledge
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Golos was not only the best WUBRG commander, but the best commander for basically any strategy at the time. Having a land tutor in the command zone was great for lands decks, but even just using the ability as repeatable ramp made him incredibly powerful and resilient at the head of any deck
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November 29, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Golos was not only the best WUBRG commander, but the best commander for basically any strategy at the time. Having a land tutor in the command zone was great for lands decks, but even just using the ability as repeatable ramp made him incredibly powerful and resilient at the head of any deck
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Making awful commanders work can be silly. Putting notoriously strong commanders at the head of completely different strategies that make them fair can be silly. Nyla is neither awful nor strong, so willfully ignoring what makes him interesting is not silly, it is confusing and sad
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November 29, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Making awful commanders work can be silly. Putting notoriously strong commanders at the head of completely different strategies that make them fair can be silly. Nyla is neither awful nor strong, so willfully ignoring what makes him interesting is not silly, it is confusing and sad
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Mono-black X-drops is a fine idea, but Nyla’s recursion is frankly awful if that is all you want out of your commander. Five mana for an enters trigger, then an end step trigger to get a single card back. You could play Viconia with Scion of Halaster for recursion that is better for the strategy
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November 29, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Mono-black X-drops is a fine idea, but Nyla’s recursion is frankly awful if that is all you want out of your commander. Five mana for an enters trigger, then an end step trigger to get a single card back. You could play Viconia with Scion of Halaster for recursion that is better for the strategy
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Casual can mean anything outside of cEDH, and some people use it to mean everything outside of cEDH. MLD and lockout decks are not in the meta, they are not competitive, so they are casual. I agree with this on technicality, which is why brackets are the most important part of rule zero
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November 29, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Casual can mean anything outside of cEDH, and some people use it to mean everything outside of cEDH. MLD and lockout decks are not in the meta, they are not competitive, so they are casual. I agree with this on technicality, which is why brackets are the most important part of rule zero
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But then that entirely bypasses the interesting part of the ability. The point is not getting one creature back next end step, it is exiling Draco or Shadow of Mortality from your graveyard and creating fifteen Clue tokens
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November 29, 2025 at 11:35 AM
But then that entirely bypasses the interesting part of the ability. The point is not getting one creature back next end step, it is exiling Draco or Shadow of Mortality from your graveyard and creating fifteen Clue tokens
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I loved his story in Origins. What a series of events to put a kid through to produce a delightfully twisted character. Also, his interaction with Chandra in BFZ was hilarious. “We’re strategizing, but you’re not listening, so sure go roast some Eldrazi” XD
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November 27, 2025 at 9:49 PM
I loved his story in Origins. What a series of events to put a kid through to produce a delightfully twisted character. Also, his interaction with Chandra in BFZ was hilarious. “We’re strategizing, but you’re not listening, so sure go roast some Eldrazi” XD
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What was his plan that got him scattered across the multiverse? What was he actually trying to do?
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November 27, 2025 at 9:42 PM
What was his plan that got him scattered across the multiverse? What was he actually trying to do?
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The original gang! 😸
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November 25, 2025 at 7:57 AM
The original gang! 😸
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No, it is pretty clearly a Gonti-style “exile and cast later” theft effect. Hama just adds waterbending instead of the usual “may spend mana of any type” clause
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November 25, 2025 at 7:54 AM
No, it is pretty clearly a Gonti-style “exile and cast later” theft effect. Hama just adds waterbending instead of the usual “may spend mana of any type” clause
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I would be more worried about guaranteeing someone has an Essence Flux
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November 25, 2025 at 7:51 AM
I would be more worried about guaranteeing someone has an Essence Flux
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Wait that’s the guy from Homestuck he’s real??
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November 21, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Wait that’s the guy from Homestuck he’s real??
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But if you mean “what if all lands were rainbow lands”, then there is less downside. But having to choose a commander with higher colors can be a negative. Perhaps you are missing out on a more synergistic piece in the command zone that is fewer colors. There are less 3+ color commanders
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November 21, 2025 at 1:19 AM
But if you mean “what if all lands were rainbow lands”, then there is less downside. But having to choose a commander with higher colors can be a negative. Perhaps you are missing out on a more synergistic piece in the command zone that is fewer colors. There are less 3+ color commanders
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Even with my manabases, I notice that I have to mulligan more often with 3+ color decks. Sometimes the cards need colors on turns the lands do not produce, sometimes hands lack a color of mana entirely. And in deckbuilding, I am much more hesitant to include cards with multiple pips in mana costs
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November 21, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Even with my manabases, I notice that I have to mulligan more often with 3+ color decks. Sometimes the cards need colors on turns the lands do not produce, sometimes hands lack a color of mana entirely. And in deckbuilding, I am much more hesitant to include cards with multiple pips in mana costs
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I had this one game with a guy who only brought bracket four and five decks with him. The rest of us only had bracket two and three decks, but were willing to go into a game with him as archenemy. *The guy tutored Blood Moon with his f i r s t tutor.* What a terrible non-game
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November 21, 2025 at 12:27 AM
I had this one game with a guy who only brought bracket four and five decks with him. The rest of us only had bracket two and three decks, but were willing to go into a game with him as archenemy. *The guy tutored Blood Moon with his f i r s t tutor.* What a terrible non-game
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I do not build for bracket 4, all of my multicolor decks have manabases optimized for fun games (the ability to cast spells) usually with only a basic of each color for Path to Exile / Assassin’s Trophy effects. I appreciate the pregame discussion for bracket 3 Blood Moon
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November 21, 2025 at 12:23 AM
I do not build for bracket 4, all of my multicolor decks have manabases optimized for fun games (the ability to cast spells) usually with only a basic of each color for Path to Exile / Assassin’s Trophy effects. I appreciate the pregame discussion for bracket 3 Blood Moon
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Counterpoint: worn powerstones generate more energy than new ones (this is canon, not just “haha it makes two pips and powerstone tokens make one”)
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November 21, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Counterpoint: worn powerstones generate more energy than new ones (this is canon, not just “haha it makes two pips and powerstone tokens make one”)
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Because that is an entire separate, previously existing word
November 17, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Because that is an entire separate, previously existing word
Definitely proxy some alternative art. MTG.design is great not only for custom cards, but for aesthetically tweaking existing ones. I recreate old cards in it all the time to have decks with matching frames :>
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November 15, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Definitely proxy some alternative art. MTG.design is great not only for custom cards, but for aesthetically tweaking existing ones. I recreate old cards in it all the time to have decks with matching frames :>
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I am actually quite pleased there are not 49 more legends in four more decks. Less UB is good
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November 14, 2025 at 11:38 PM
I am actually quite pleased there are not 49 more legends in four more decks. Less UB is good
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