Tormod's Crypt isn't nearly as hateful to reanimator as Grafdigger's Cage. Cage is a card I've considered monopolizing just to get it off the market so that no one could use it. I've figured out how to play around Crypt, since Crypt can be baited. Cage is a first turn drop in any deck that just shuts off my reanimator unless I draw one of the two answers that I main deck EXACTLY FOR IT.
In all the years I've seen it, I never seem to notice that it included the "or libraries" clause. That's much more powerful than I thought!
I never realized it shuts down my Panglacial Wurm. I actually do play 1 in a deck because no one ever stops me from going to get a land with ramp and then I have a 9/5 trample creature ready to go on my turn.
Get it out turn 1 and it sets them up for the whole as well as making the opponent's turn take that extra bit longer- especially if multiple people have the top. It's the 1 card I refuse to add to my decks, just out of hated.
Although I don't like Crypt and Sol Ring, at least you can kill them, unlike Top which it's so hard to get rid of.
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Commander-wise, aside from the obvious Tier 1 commanders, I dislike playing against Breya and Atraxa, just for the simple reason that they are so overplayed on MTGO, it feels like every other game is vs 1 of those two.
I'm starting to wonder if I'm one of the few that uses top on a whim and only when someone else is doing something boring. "Tutoring? Sweet, I'm just going to rearrange my top 3 real quick." or "Well, while you figure out how much damage we all took, I'm just going to look at my top 3 cause I don't remember what I put first." I don't do that eot, so everyone has to wait on me specifically, thing.
Tormod's Crypt isn't nearly as hateful to reanimator as Grafdigger's Cage. Cage is a card I've considered monopolizing just to get it off the market so that no one could use it. I've figured out how to play around Crypt, since Crypt can be baited. Cage is a first turn drop in any deck that just shuts off my reanimator unless I draw one of the two answers that I main deck EXACTLY FOR IT.
In all the years I've seen it, I never seem to notice that it included the "or libraries" clause. That's much more powerful than I thought!
I never realized it shuts down my Panglacial Wurm. I actually do play 1 in a deck because no one ever stops me from going to get a land with ramp and then I have a 9/5 trample creature ready to go on my turn.
Once upon a time Shared Fate was a true tilter for me. I've gotten over other people playing my stuff as I played the format, and borrowing decks became a common thing in my playgroup. Back in the day though, resolving a Shared Fate meant I scooped no questions.
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I never realized it shuts down my Panglacial Wurm. I actually do play 1 in a deck because no one ever stops me from going to get a land with ramp and then I have a 9/5 trample creature ready to go on my turn.
EDH decks: 1. RGWMayael's Big BeatsRETIRED!
2. BUWMerieke Ri Berit and the 40 Thieves
3. URNiv's Wheeling and Dealing!
4. BURThe Walking Dead
5. GWSisay's Legends of Tomorrow
6. RWBRise of Markov
7. GElvez and stuffz(W)
8. RCrush your enemies(W)
9. BSign right here...(W)
I'm starting to wonder if I'm one of the few that uses top on a whim and only when someone else is doing something boring. "Tutoring? Sweet, I'm just going to rearrange my top 3 real quick." or "Well, while you figure out how much damage we all took, I'm just going to look at my top 3 cause I don't remember what I put first." I don't do that eot, so everyone has to wait on me specifically, thing.
WBG Karador, Ghost Chieftain
B Toshiro Umezawa
BG Pharika, God of Affliction - Necromancy and Politics
WWW The Church of Heliod
WBR Zurgo, Helmsmasher
RG Wort, the Raidmother
UBR Jeleva, Nephalia's Scourge
UG Vorel of the Hull Clade
Oh, it shuts down way more than that...
Bribery
Birthing Pod
Chord of Calling
Defense of the Heart
Dragonstorm
Eldritch Evolution
Green Sun's Zenith
Natural Order
Pattern of Rebirth
Woodland Bellower
Yisan, the Wanderer Bard
Not Tooth and Nail, though. More's the pity.