Play SotF, search for Retainers and play it. Search for Iona or Emrakul, discard Iona or Emrakul and reanimate them with Retainers. It's a pretty powerful play!
Retainers still sees some play in Maverick sideboards with Elesh Norn for creature heavy metagames (using Fauna Shaman in the same way as Survival).
Library of Alexandria
English Mana Drain
English Rolling Earthquake
Book Promo Jace Beleren
Revised Underground Sea
Since duals are boring, the next most expensive card is a NM Korean Wasteland.
Other cool expensive things I've got are a German Force of Will, Japanese BB Mana Vault, a Korean BB Sylvan Library, and Japanese Foil Batterskull that I personally opened in a pack.
I have a non P9 cube and Tinker is still excellent. I generally want to have at least two things to get with it, but most control decks have multiple artifacts so sacrificing stuff isn't too big a deal. The other day I had Tinker in a UB deck to go get either Wurmcoil or Sundering Titan with a Sol Ring, an Everflowing Chalice, an off-color signet and Mimic Vat as the sacrificial lambs. Worked great.
I've taught multiple people how to play Magic using my cube, and yet I still include foreign and a few misprint cards (just 1 right now, the Japanese Cursed Scroll). Who your intended audience is changes your card selection; in my case, the misprints have been the only time some people have ever seen the card, so they just take the misprinted text as how it is.
Speaking of abusing original wordings/printings, for a while I had a Beta Manabarbs in my cube. The original wording says "whenever a player taps a land" not "whenever a player taps a land for mana" so it was basically a strict upgrade for red decks hating on control. Still turned out to be not good enough, but there was never any confusion, and I don't think people would be confused by a 1R Orcish Artillery. I say go for it!
I, for one, would like to see Buyback make a return. With Forbid. Lots of Forbid.
I agree wholeheartedly with this one. Buyback is a mechanic that supports a slower format as well, which would make sense if they want to have M13 be different to play from M12.
I wish they wouldn't spoil limited jank before good rares.
I think they've learned that spoiler seasons are best when the good stuff doesn't get spoiled all at once. By mixing up the rarities of spoiled cards, they keep our interest for the entire period until the set comes out. If we got the best stuff up front, then by the time the last spoilers were coming out, everything would be disappointing and we wouldn't be into it for the prerelease.
Clearly the release of Starcraft caused the death of Magic in Korean back in 1998 (Saga came out only a couple months later, and was the last set printed in Korean).
In all seriousness, the Korean writing system is kind of the best ever (for a nerd like me at least). It looks cool, like other east Asian systems, but it actually makes sense, since it's phonetic instead of a syllabary or ideograms.
Retainers still sees some play in Maverick sideboards with Elesh Norn for creature heavy metagames (using Fauna Shaman in the same way as Survival).
Yeah. I'm a big fan of it. The book was also one of the best involving the newwalkers.
English Mana Drain
English Rolling Earthquake
Book Promo Jace Beleren
Revised Underground Sea
Since duals are boring, the next most expensive card is a NM Korean Wasteland.
Other cool expensive things I've got are a German Force of Will, Japanese BB Mana Vault, a Korean BB Sylvan Library, and Japanese Foil Batterskull that I personally opened in a pack.
Speaking of abusing original wordings/printings, for a while I had a Beta Manabarbs in my cube. The original wording says "whenever a player taps a land" not "whenever a player taps a land for mana" so it was basically a strict upgrade for red decks hating on control. Still turned out to be not good enough, but there was never any confusion, and I don't think people would be confused by a 1R Orcish Artillery. I say go for it!
I agree wholeheartedly with this one. Buyback is a mechanic that supports a slower format as well, which would make sense if they want to have M13 be different to play from M12.
I think they've learned that spoiler seasons are best when the good stuff doesn't get spoiled all at once. By mixing up the rarities of spoiled cards, they keep our interest for the entire period until the set comes out. If we got the best stuff up front, then by the time the last spoilers were coming out, everything would be disappointing and we wouldn't be into it for the prerelease.
In all seriousness, the Korean writing system is kind of the best ever (for a nerd like me at least). It looks cool, like other east Asian systems, but it actually makes sense, since it's phonetic instead of a syllabary or ideograms.