Quote from DementedKirby »Interesting... I will probably just maintain my primers here just because they have some history and have been here for a while. There's lots of discussions and I believe that they'll still be useful if I'm still able to edit and maintain them. That being said, the staff here at MTGSalvation have made the experience and forums an amazing place and their dedication deserves way more merit and credit than can be given. I hope that, once MTGNexus is up and running, an announcement can be made and thus be able to create an account there (and hopefully no one takes my username ). It won't be easy juggling between being active in two different sites, but I will probably only be attentive here to my primers. If the exodus towards MTGNexus is a certain thing, then I will join that immigration.
If the people who make up the relevant parts of the community to you are moving, then going over there could be reasonable. If not, then, at least personally, the community is way more important than the staff. In my case, at this point in time, I'm almost exclusively focused on the Mafia side of things, with the occasional foray into EDH. The EDH section is losing a number of serious people to this schism, so I'm probably just forgoing the game altogether for the time being; I haven't played Magic since August of last year anyways, if I recall correctly. Both communities will probably change, but it's a question of convenience of staying here or loyalty to people who are moving, the primary group of which and force behind which is staff. Both sites are at an unstable state. This site needs a staff that is actively focused on it and appreciates the community, Nexus will need people who like the old staff of Salvation enough to want to be there, and doesn't have the funding or people to be as stable as Salvation potentially can be at this time.
That said, as a user, you probably won't even notice most of it. The staff are just people, just the same as users. Their authority is an artificial concept. So make sure that whatever you choose, it's based on your feelings about the community, not just following either the staff to Nexus or just staying here for the site structure itself, as either way, you'll likely end up disappointed if that's the reasoning for your choice.
If you have animated all your lands and made them all into copies of Izzet Boilerworks, but only have the option of one of these bounce enchantments, and have no other playable cards in hand. That's not far-fetched, right?
Yeah, I mean, I was having similar issues. Maybe as a secondary Ghitu Firebreathing... I don't know if a deck would necessarily need a back-up, though.
It is only a 50 cent card. I'll try to pick one up some time soon and test it some in place of Coffin.
Hmm... Rafiq Storm... Yeah, I don't think so. The best I can think of off the top of my head is a Mind's Desire subtheme.
I think that Rafiq is definitely going to remain more ubiquitous as long as GU has such a high ubiquity in the format.
Yeah, I think I would rather drink wine with Sheldon (or even share an entire meal) than play EDH with him, most likely.
That said, if I was going to play EDH with him, I think I would probably bring Stax or some variant of d0su/urdjur's Dreamcrusher.
I'm running Yawgmoth's Will... It's relatively necessary as part of the artifact recursion, actually.
It's interesting to think about playing this in 1v1 as well. Though I'd expect that you might be low-curve sculpting a bit more in that case.
Cloudstone Curio might be a thought, though it's a little awkward. I would definitely suggest running Phyrexian Altar...