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The 11/01/23 random card of the day is Elvish Reclaimer. If you have any comments, combos or a decklist involving this card, feel free to share.



"Mom, I want a Knight of the Reliquary."
"We already have one at home."

For a third of the cost of Knight of the Reliquary, you get a more efficient threat with the lower ceiling, but more flexible since you don't need the specific land types any longer.

Loses points for the largely redundant name-- it's a Phoenix, fiery wings are the default assumption. It's a like calling a creature "Elven Forest-Dweller" or "Fanged Vampire"-- it's notable if they don't fit the description, not if they do. [/rant]

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The 11/03/23 random card of the day is Kamahl, Pit Fighter. If you have any comments, combos or a decklist involving this card, feel free to share.

One of the worse pit fighter legends cycle from onslaught especially compared to visara the dreadful

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The 11/14/23 random card of the day is Bad River. If you have any comments, combos or a decklist involving this card, feel free to share.

The original bloodstained mire. Back around odyssey, there was an extended deck at my LGS that ran these along with river boa and shadowmage infiltrator to tutor up dual lands.

I'm currently very pro-bounceland in my commander setting. It's a lot of value with extra land drop effects or ketchup ramp, and not a lot of people want to fire off their strip mine on a land that just makes mana on curve in a multiplayer game, when Field of the Dead or Cabal Coffers will take over a game.

Bouncelands are definitely a lesson in virtual card advantage. It's pretty easy to translate a bounceland play into "I played a tapland and drew a card," but the same advantage is given when you play an Ancient Tomb. Not a lot of people will be able to identify an Ancient Tomb as card advantage when asked, they usually just see it as fast mana, but as long as you're willing to spend a card to put a land into play, spending a card to put two mana sources into play will make your card resources go further. In Legacy this mostly means you get to trim land count from your deck. In Commander it means your curve may be a little higher.

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I'm currently very pro-bounceland in my commander setting. It's a lot of value with extra land drop effects or ketchup ramp, and not a lot of people want to fire off their strip mine on a land that just makes mana on curve in a multiplayer game, when Field of the Dead or Cabal Coffers will take over a game.

Bouncelands are definitely a lesson in virtual card advantage. It's pretty easy to translate a bounceland play into "I played a tapland and drew a card," but the same advantage is given when you play an Ancient Tomb. Not a lot of people will be able to identify an Ancient Tomb as card advantage when asked, they usually just see it as fast mana, but as long as you're willing to spend a card to put a land into play, spending a card to put two mana sources into play will make your card resources go further. In Legacy this mostly means you get to trim land count from your deck. In Commander it means your curve may be a little higher.

One advantage is to pick up MDFC like Agadeem's Awakening if you needed early land drops since bouncelands let you use the back of the MDFC.

Even after all these years the soul still burns

They wasted a good card name on a mediocre card. I'll stick to drain life and to a lesser extent consume spirit.