I went to another RTR block draft at the LGS tonight. There were 16 people who wanted to do a Two Headed Giant draft, and 20 people who wanted to do normal drafting. I ended up doing the normal drafting.

P1P1: Rare was Melek, Izzet Paragon. I took Armed // Dangerous instead.

P1P2: Turn // Burn

P1P3: I took Battering Krasis over Woodlot Crawler because I thought I might be Gruul, but Battering Krasis is pretty bad. I ended up playing against...

BUG Gifts Guide

Contents
1) What is BUG Gifts?
2) Introducing...Gifts Ungiven
3) Card Choices
4) Synergies
5) Decklists

1) What is BUG Gifts?
BUG (or 4c, white being the splash) Gifts is a control deck based on the namesake card, Gifts Ungiven. That card is an extremely powerful tutor, being able to search out four cards at once. Your opponent does get to choose which cards make it to your hand, but as you will see, this is...

Deck
(19) Land 4 Stomping Ground 4 Temple Garden 4 Sacred Foundry 2 Overgrown Tomb 2 Gruul Guildgate 3 Mountain (30) Creatures 4 Dryad Militant 4 Rakdos Cackler 4 Experiment One 4 Burning-Tree Emissary 4 Gore-House Chainwalker 2 Pyrewild Shaman 4 Boros Reckoner 4 Ghor-Clan Rampager	(11) Spells 4 Mizzium Mortars 4 Madcap Skills 3 Domri Rade (15) Sideboard

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Consuming Contract At the beginning of your upkeep, choose one—You draw two cards and lose 2 life; or destroy target creature; or __________; or you lose the game. You can't choose the same mode twice.

This is an interesting and hard-to-evaluate idea. The closest precedent I can think of is Final Fortune. However, this loses points for having a significant memory issue.

The real question here is one of balance. Balancing...

Hey guys, I designed the card Mass Mummification which made it to the top 8 of You Make the Card 4. There are a lot of great ideas you can choose from (and from what I read online, there are a TON of fantastic cards that unfortunately didn't make the cut). In case anyone was interested, I thought I'd share a few ideas behind the design of Mass Mummification.

First of all, it was a bottom up design meaning I created the ability before the flavor. It was important to me that my card...

I don't know about you, but Standard has gotten a bit stale to me. Even with the release of the new set, I'm just not as interested in brewing in a meta that's full of Reanimator, Thragtusk, Resto Angel, Geist of Saint Traft, and Snapcaster Mage. As a result, I've turned my attention to RTR Block Constructed, which has a smaller card pool and hasn't been solved yet.

The size of the card pool is important, since with the release of DGM the size of the pool just increased by roughly...

Tonight was my first RTR block draft. I wasn't sure what to expect.

P1P1: Krasis Incubation over Beck // Call. While the format is slow, and rare fuse cards seem pretty sick, eight mana for a four 1/1 flyer + draw four is still pretty damn expensive. I remember struggling to cast Trostani's Summoner at the sealed prerelease.

P1P2: Maw of the Obzedat.

P1P4: Saw a Trait Doctoring. I'm glad I didn't open it.

I passed a couple of...

While my largest post (and thread) is linked in my signature along with a few others, here's a collection of individual posts I've made that may serve as decent reference material. (most of it related to EDH)

The case for legalizing Staff of Domination

Anti Hexproof-Voltron Cards

Budget 5 Color Manabase

Frustrated by the RC ban list?

Thoughts on Mass Land Destruction

Comprehensive List of Commanders

List of Pauper & Ambassador Commanders...

Deck
16 Forest 4 Young Wolf 3 Basking Rootwalla 2 Wild Mongrel 3 Silhana Ledgewalker 2 Shinen of Life's Roar 4 Groundswell 4 Gather Courage 4 Rancor 3 Hunger of the Howlpack 3 Vines of Vastwood 4 Nettle Sentinel 4 Skarrgan Pit-Skulk 4 Quirion Ranger	Sideboard 1 Bonesplitter 2 Serene Heart 3 Vault Skirge 4 Thermokarst 3 Scattershot Archer 2 Spore Frog

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I almost missed tonight's tournament.

I left my apartment around 5:20 As I'm walking down my driveway, a dog runs over from across the street, and starts jumping up and down and barking at me in an aggressive fashion. I stop moving, don't say anything, and stare the dog in the face, not wanting the dog to bite me. The dog's owner calls the dog back. But I wonder what would have happened if the dog bit me.

I drive to the parking garage, and as I walk out of my...

I'm really happy my FNM ended on a high note because I'm leaving for Kentucky(home) tomorrow so no more magic for at least a week maybe two. I have mixed feelings about going home because an ultimatum is coming and I don't think anyone is going to be ok after it. Oh if only life could be like magic where you shake hands and discuss deck changes after fighting for an hour and then possibly hug. I like hugs.

No changes to the deck. I won't lie and say I didn't have time I just decided...

Party A and Party B hereby agree to the following Contract:

1. Neither party will grow to dislike the other.
2. Both parties will grow to like each other even more.
3. Neither party will have a change of heart along the way.
4. Neither party will change. their feelings in the future.
5. Each party will be at the others side when one is lonely.
6. That said Party B is always lonely, so in short, Party A will always be by their side.
7. If both parties do this, life will probably proceed in a good

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I am worthless on my own, the only reason I bother doing anything isn't because I want to survive, it's because I don't want to feel discomfort.
If I could just end it instantly with no pain or discomfort I would but I can't just wait until I have nowhere to live and go out on to the streets and die from starvation, it would take to long and hurt too much.

How do so many people go about their daily lives, its something I can not understand. How do you think you matter that you...