Reflecting pool is great even amazing in dual colored decks and slowly loses value once you start adding more colors. Which I love because on reading the card it may seem like the opposite. It's one of the few cards in my cube I maintain as a skill testing card, one that makes me appreciate when I see it fully utilized from across the table.
I travel a lot for work so I get to utilize the pools from many a holiday inn express.
The orignal Tempest art is amazing. Way better than the new art.
Wha? Am I missing something? Looks like a brown puddle in brown ground. Maybe its just my phones resoloution.
I love the Adam Rex piece, and always have. One of my favorite arts from the era.
Here's a closeup:
Don't know if it changes your mind about it, but I think it's the far better piece of art, and I think it does a better job of representing how the card works.
Reflecting Pool is a fine card. It's a bit of a "win more" land since it can't do anything by itself, but it helped you hit those CC / 1CC spells a lot. Had to cut it when colorless became a thing and it got replaced by the likes of Tendo Ice Bridge / Aether Hub / Ash Barrens.
I'll take a swimming pool over a pool table any day (weather permitting).
Second best white morph behind Exalted Angel, IMO. The less relevant the morph ability was in a matchup, the more relevant the lifelink became, so that was a nice tossup. It's getting cut next update for Glory-Bound Initiate.
I've been pretty happy with Hidden Dragonslayer. I wish it cost one less to unmorph it, but it does usually find a target, and when it doesn't it's fine to just run it out as a 2/1 lifelinker when there isn't one, or when you just need to curve out.
Hidden Dragonslayer has to spend most of his time slaying other things in my cube, because I'm only running 2 actual Dragons right now: Thundermaw Hellkite and Dragonlord Atarka. Sarkhan, the Dragonspeaker is on his way out in my next update (just got a new Chandra), so Ugin, the Spirit Dragon is my only planeswalker dragon.
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Child of Night is a pretty good set of stats to build on. It's pretty easy to find a target, and that +1/+1 counter is handy with lifelink. I'm a fan of this entire cycle (of which Den Protector is the most famous member), and I'd be happy to run all five. Morph isn't much of a theme in my cube, but I like a little bit of mystery, at least on game 1.
I'm running 17 dragons. I'm currently testing Zirilan of the Claw for funsies.
I cut Dragonslayer in the EMN update. It's a fine card, but I scaled back on the morph theme that the megamorphs compelled me to add. There ended up being better options.
My cube has four dragons. They're all pretty good.
I tried out a morph in each color, and the only one I liked well enough to get over my aesthetic distaste for face-down cards is Den Protector.
There are two dragons currently in my cube: Thundermaw and Atarka. It'd take a lot to get either one of them out. I also play Ugin.
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Dragonslayer is a fine dork. The lifelink is relevant against aggro and the removal is great against midrange. Not the most powerful card, but does enough where you are otherwise weak, that I think there are several white two drops I'd cut before him. I'm running Thundermaw, Ojutai, Atarka and Silumgar.
Stirring Wildwood is a great land, not much else to say about it.
This is a good land, but probably the worst of the man-duals. The other issue with it is that Horizon Canopy exists. Selesnya is the only guild in which I don't run the man-dual because Canopy is just too good to exclude. If I added a cycle of lands, Selesnya would likely get Wildwood.
Proabaly my least favourite mainland, but a manland is manland is a manland so its still solid when you are on colour.
I used to enjoy the Duel Decks, Knights vs. Dragons was a lot of fun and a few cards from it remain in my cube to this day. They were a fun product but they left like they got worse as time went on... or maybe I just got better/more concerned about value.
I don't think that Stirring Wildwood is the worst manland dual at all. In fact, I think I like it better than most of the BFZ/OGW manland duals. However, its popularity suffers from direct competition with Horizon Canopy. A 3/4 is a solid body, and Reach catches people unawares surprisingly often.
The Ajani vs. Nicol Bolas Duel Decks were the most fun pair I ever got to play, and it had pretty solid value in them as well.
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I like and run Bombardment. I'm supporting Reveillark combo, so having a sac outlet that wins the game is very nice. I also like the combo of Sun Titan + Saffi Eriksdotter + Goblin Bombardment. Bombardment doesn't tend to make the main deck of aggressive red decks often, but the utility and reach it provides is nice, so I like to run it as a combo enabler for Naya that is also not dead outside of the combo. Free sacrifice outlets are important for some decks, and I think this is one of the better ones.
Unfortunately, I won't be able to make any prereleases this weekend.
I run Goblin Bombardment in my low power list and it's a solid performer there. I support a ponza style deck in that list and it's good in that archetype with the red token makers (Mogg War Marshall, Beetleback Chief) and creatures that die anyway (Keldon Marauders, Hellspark Elemental, etc). I don't think it's good enough to make it into my powered 555 list, but I'd certainly consider it if I were to ever go up in size for some reason.
I won't be attending any prereleases this weekend. My wife and I are on "stay-cation" and she probably wouldn't appreciate me leaving her home alone to go play Magic.
Goblin Bombardment is a fan favorite over here. Couples so well with sacrifice decks and pairs perfectly with blacks recursive creatures. Maybe not good enough for high power lists, but it really synergizes well with a lot of stuff. Just a fun card.
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To each their own I guess, I just don't get it.
I'll take a swimming pool over a pool table any day (weather permitting).
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Hidden Dragonslayer
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I think I have 3 dragons in my combo list (370) and 5 in my midrange (450). So I guess I run roughly 1%.
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I have a few dragons in my cube, and they're all cards you want to get off the board.
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Dragons I'm currently playing
- Eternal Dragon
- Thundermaw Hellkite
- Dragonlord Silumgar
- Dragonlord Atarka
- Hellkite Overlord
Planeswalkers that are dragons
- Ugin, the Spirit Dragon
- Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker
- Sarkhan, the Dragonspeaker (turns into a dragon)
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Hidden Dragonslayer has to spend most of his time slaying other things in my cube, because I'm only running 2 actual Dragons right now: Thundermaw Hellkite and Dragonlord Atarka. Sarkhan, the Dragonspeaker is on his way out in my next update (just got a new Chandra), so Ugin, the Spirit Dragon is my only planeswalker dragon.
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I'm running 17 dragons. I'm currently testing Zirilan of the Claw for funsies.
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My cube has four dragons. They're all pretty good.
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There are two dragons currently in my cube: Thundermaw and Atarka. It'd take a lot to get either one of them out. I also play Ugin.
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Stirring Wildwood is a great land, not much else to say about it.
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I don't really have a favorite duel deck.
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I used to enjoy the Duel Decks, Knights vs. Dragons was a lot of fun and a few cards from it remain in my cube to this day. They were a fun product but they left like they got worse as time went on... or maybe I just got better/more concerned about value.
The Ajani vs. Nicol Bolas Duel Decks were the most fun pair I ever got to play, and it had pretty solid value in them as well.
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Probably Blessed vs Cursed, because I kind of learned to play magic using them, and there's quite a few cube staples in there too
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Koth vs Venser were my first planeswalkers when I came back to magic after a long hiatus so I'm a little biased. Plus Dat Koth of the hammer art.
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Unfortunately, I won't be able to make any prereleases this weekend.
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