MTG Salvation

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What would they call that WBR Guild?

Uroboros.

Yomiji, who bars the way.
JUST LET ME DIE, DAMN YOU

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Uncommon? I doubt this would be anything other than rare, if only because it's so strange.

It would only be rare if it kept Mox in the name. See Lotus Guardian for a good example of "rare because of the name"

The fact it only makes colorless mana makes me think its pretty fair for an uncommon. You can't ramp into a titan on turn 5 with just this for example.
I think you could get away with 3,T: 4

Its a lot better in a creature-dense deck.
The thing about comparing it to Oracle of Mul-daya is that playing lands from the top of your library draws you castable spells and ramps you at the same time. It's probably the best four drop green creature in the format because of that.
Garruk's Horde is nice in some decks simply because he's a fat bastard with additional value. It's very hard to get that value the turn you cast him, though.

Another distinction; You can't omniscience creatures from the top of your library, but you can Exploration lands from the top.

If I have a two-lander and a hand full of two and three drops I'll play easily, then I keep it. If I can't cast anything, its a little more questionable.
Oftentimes mulligans to 6 will end up giving you average 2 lands anyway in a 16-17 land deck. You have to keep some bad hands in Magic, there's no way around that.

Hah, I've been a gamer all my life... back in high school, there was this chick that went on trips overseas to help people in Africa. Though I didn't exactly have the money to do that, I guess she was still making better use of her time than I.

The Gruul letter was perfect for me, because I can't read. They really know how to convey a point

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It's Birds of Paradise we're talking about here, not Demon's Horn.
Furthermore, Paradise Plume doesn't even come close to filling the role of birds

Demon's Horn has about the same complexity level as Birds of Paradise, but they never thought to make Birds an uncommon. Someday, they will. One card just happens to be rather bad.
Paradise plume is a better flavor adage than shoving the same friggin cards in your face. "Welcome back to Ravnica, you wanted it, HERE IT IS! Bouncelands, shocklands, guildmages, birds, hybrid mana, guild keywords, Dark Confidant, hell, we even put in Zephyr Spirit, because hey, YOU WANTED RAVNICA SO BAD."
Reprinting Birds would take away something that was really special about the return of birds in City of Guilds.

Fuel Rod Discharge 2R
Destroy target land you don't control.
Overload 4RRRR

I wonder if any Overload cards will have a cheaper overload than casting cost? Would any effect get better without overloading it?

They sell for MSRP in the MTGO store, if that's any consolation.

Into the North can fetch Mouth of Ronom and Scrying Sheets, if you're interested in slight dilution of colored mana in return for killing Teferi locks and drawing extra lands.
I'm going to question Sterling Grove in this deck. How "all in" are you on the Survival combo? A three mana tutor that eats a draw step is pretty deep if you ask me, considering that and aura shards are the only things you would realistically tutor for value.
I feel like you could easily replace Seeker of Skybreak with Thousand-Year Elixir. Get your tutor on with Sisay as soon as she hits the board, twice in a row. TYE also makes sweet sweet... music?... with mangara.

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Are you saying that misstep is better than clamp? Because there is no way that is true except in vintage where creatures suck so skullclamp also sucks. Also, there's this thing called brewing. And I can bet any amount of money that the moment that skullclamp was unbanned people would start brewing up a list with 4 skullclamp that would wreak havoc on the format. It's also parallel to saying that because goblins isn't a top tier deck that goblin recruiter should be unbanned when in reality it should never be unbanned as stacking your deck is bonkers. Also, misstep was going to become even more broken when snapcaster was printed a few days after the banning was going to take effect. Good luck resolving another one drop the rest of the game.

Not so much "better" or even "more powerful" so much as "ubiquitous." Remember how everyone had to play it? I don't think the same would be said of skullclamp. A lot of people would play it, it's an engine and a good one. It would see a lot of tourney play. It would win those tournaments, and people would bring hate for the next tournaments. But a good portion of the decks would actually not play it at all. Compare to Brainstorm, Force of Will, etc. It would be a legacy staple and there would be nothing at all wrong with that. You catch me?
And I'm pretty sure Goblin Recruiter is banned in Legacy for the same reasons as Shahrazad is. Takes way too much freaking time to resolve.

I'm not going to guarantee that Skullclamp wouldn't lead to a degenerate legacy format, because legacy already is degenerate.

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Why do you think I'm playing magic wrong?
Why don't you like the same things about thegame that I do?

Why do you get mad when I bring the hate to the table? It doesn't mean I hate you, it means your strategy is good but there are ways around it.

When it comes to countermagic, there are only a few things that tick me off.
One is multiplayer threat analysis fail. Oh, he's playing all sorts of crazy things that you let resolve, but when I play something your lands tap faster than a college girl who's had a few too many. The other thing is Mana Drain. I see that card, and think to myself... why do you hate me, God?

People have liked shiny things since our first days as man.
The fact that they are rarer appeals to the collector's part of this game.
Hell, at least paper foils make sense. MTGO foils? Geez, where's the sanity?