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Quote from Ree Wicker »

Vetra WUR
Legendary Creature - Sphinx Avatar (MR)
When ~ enters the battlefield, secretly choose the name of a card that is a permanent.
Flying, haste
When the named card would enter the battlefield, you may reveal the name. If you do, it enters the battlefield under your control instead.
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"What do you use every single day, but never pay for? What is truly yours but came from somewhere else? What is very personal but shared with everyone?"

I would love this, but the rage on the table every time you steal that guy's commander...

Quote from Reach229 »

What's a cycling deck anyway, things like Astral Slide? I've seen a Zur the Enchanter deck that makes cycling look strong, but its pretty unique, in the same way that Grenzo, Dungeon Warden is a Bottom-Deck Matters deck... but there aren't enough decks out there to really call it a theme... or am i being picky?

Zur Astral Slide is usually the preferred Cycling deck (and the one I use), but I've also seen a recent EDHREC article on Yidris Cycle/Cascade, and just a couple days ago I played against a Thrasios/Ravos Cycling deck using the Decree of Silence/Solemnity lock and Alhammarett's Archive and Forgotten Creation to fuel a Laboratory Maniac win.

The weird part is that each of these uses cycling as the main theme (and often 30%+ of their cards) but use completely different wincons - does that throw them into the other themes or make them a loose theme with varying strategies? I don't know. At what point does something become its own thing?

Astral Slide requires creatures with ETBs and falls under the blink theme. But Faith of the Devoted, Drake Haven, and Lightning Rift all leverage the cycling directly into a win condition that only works with a heavy commitment to cycling (even if it mimics other themes like Life Drain, Tokens, and Burn, you wouldn't call the deck one of those because it may only have one card matching that description). Wharf Infiltrator interprets the cycling as self-discard to build an army. A deck with lots of cycling creatures can use Living Death and other reanimators to leverage cycling as a wincon. And there are ways to leverage the card draw end of cycling into a win.

I'd also support adding suicide to the themes. Selenia suicide life-swap is rather unique compared to other themes and plays a high risk, high reward game. Just last week, I dropped my life to 1 and cast Repay in Kind before killing all three of my opponents. It's fits in the combo archetype to be sure, but I feel the theme warrants its own place on the list.

What about Top Deck Matters/Miracles?
Cycling decks?

And +1/+1 Counters should probably be complemented with -1/-1 Counters now that we have Hapatra and The Scorpion God.

I find it odd that you have Enchantress as its own theme but stuck Artifacts under "Tribal" - those feel like they should be under equal footing.

Hate bears

Like Gaddock Teeg or Anafenza, The Foremost decks. Filled with cards like Aven Mindcensor, Reclamation Sage and it's many variations.

Kavu Commander

RG

Legendary Creature - Kavu

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Whenever a green Kavu enters the battlefield under your control, put a +1/+1 counter on Kavu Commander. Whenever a red Kavu enters the battlefield under your control, Kavu Commander deals damage equal to its power to any target.


The other thing I’d like is for a planeswalker similar to Nahiri, the harbinger to be able to be a commander. She wouldn’t be broken as a commander and would allow for a Boros control deck.

Well, I think 0 mana with a 20 mana kicker and if this spell was kicked, win the game, would be okish. I do not think there is any way to cheat a kicker cost and 20 mana seems fair to me if you hard cast. I also feel that using it as a kicker is fair for an anti-cheat clause in the spirit of the thread.

You cannot. Under the rules you used to be able to do this, but it was changed in the last 3 years or so.
Edit: It was in 2014. Here is a link to the article with the change in it from the official MTG site https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/making-magic/magic-2014-core-set-rules-preview-2013-05-23

Bjorn, Warlord of Kaldheim WR
Legendary Creature - Dwarf Warrior (R)
Opponents who control as many lands as you do can't play lands.
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What about the primers these people wrote? For example, the Legacy Pox forum, which was active, is now "forbidden" and cannot be accessed... This is over 200 pages of discussion gone! Can we get those forums back please, even if the posts from some people (even the one who made it and made the first post) are deleted?

Quote from Feyd_Ruin »

We've heard back from the legal team, and because you did not explicitly Accept the transfer, the deletion of your posts are threads are permanent.

First off I know this is not your (the moderators) personal fault, so my rant is directed at the people who run this site.

I'm the first one to say that EU data laws are made by paranoid idiots, but it's not the EU law that caused this mess. You sent an automated email from 'curse' that said something about an account getting suspended. And that's all you did to inform us about this serious issue. This email probably went directly to the spam folder of many people. When I see an email from an unknown origin in my spam folder that says something about my account getting suspended and me needing to verify information then I just delete it immediately. This is what most sane people would do since it is almost always some kind of phishing attempt. I didn't even know this site was run by a company called Curse and I don't care about it either.

There would have been many reasonable ways to ensure everyone gets informed properly. You could have automatically logged out people who were affected by this and then asked them on login whether they would agree to have their data transferred. Problem solved. But it seems you simply didn't care and now tens of thousands of posts and even more importantly many carefully crafted threads are gone forever.

This is unacceptable and that's why personally I'm done with this forum. I did create a Twitch account when I had to even though I don't use it and just a few months later everything I posted gets deleted because of some other bs. What's next? I don't want to find out.

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