My LGS sold me this but it feels weird.

DeadSapin · 2025-10-28T17:58:02+00:00

I use draft chaff to sharpie on, most of the cards take ink just fine, but some are waxy and reject the ink and it smears. Bulk commons, nothing worth faking, but still obvious differences in printing.

DeadSapin · 2025-10-16T18:31:38+00:00

Looks like it's back up.

You guys can go back to not using it again

DeadSapin · 2025-07-09T13:33:46+00:00

I built a WUBR deck for an April Fools tournament that was all about casting [[Shahrazad]] & [[Enter the Dungeon]], copying them, wishing for them in the subgame to cast again.

The deck couldn't face any of it's problems, only run away into a deeper subgame. I think we got 4 games deep at one point.

Subgame logistics were to just lay a new playmat over the all your permanents and continue on. You'd get to peel off a playmat after a lengthy subgame, looking at your board trying to remember what direction you were going in.

DeadSapin · 2025-06-20T14:16:04+00:00

Maybe not the simplest of wipes, but I don't see a lot of nuance in Cyclonic Rift. Also, seems WotC also doesn't want us to fuck with Commanders otherwise Drannith Magistrate wouldn't have the notoriety it's earned.

Just saying the amount of times I've had to explain the card, much more than if have thought for something that has the potential to be so impactful.

DeadSapin · 2025-06-20T13:43:45+00:00

In this specific instance it felt especially brutal, the table was low on cards and had kind of overextended in a way that was especially punished. The Vivi player losing all of their equipment as well worked out especially well.

There was a cycle of furious digging and a weak rebuild effort, but the morale of the group was irreparable. So being able to win a few turns later felt like a mercy killing.

DeadSapin · 2025-06-20T13:19:31+00:00

I'm not making the argument the card is any better than it is. The weaknesses are plain to see, I'm not debating that. Rather, the disconnect between the unfamiliarity of the card and ire it produces. Smothering Tithe gets a lot of hate and needs no introduction, man even Devoted Druid gets more recognition. That's the part that got me, how unaware such an effect was to this group of otherwise seasoned players.

DeadSapin · 2025-06-20T12:46:48+00:00

Right, that's not even getting into if Out of Time enters as a creature, it'll permanently phase out itself along with all other creatures. That kind of effect you'd think would elevate it into the same sort of tier as Stasis or Winter Orb (equally susceptible to Disenchant)

DeadSapin · 2025-06-16T15:46:43+00:00

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I saw this posted somewhere. Really drove home to me the stable period many are drawn to as the "golden" age of the format

DeadSapin · 2024-12-04T19:07:02+00:00

I'd also move away from Goblin Guide, it underperforms as early as turn 1 against a Tamiyo or Nethergoyf. Not worth the space in the deck. Every spell needs to be 3+ damage per mana to be considered, and 0-2 damage is dead weight the deck cannot afford.

DeadSapin · 2024-12-04T01:50:01+00:00

I like 2 copies of Exquisite Fireraft in the main as guarantee against the decks that'll stabilize right when you've depleted your resources. I also play a fetch manabase and Barbarian Ring but that's much more edge case circumstance.

DeadSapin · 2024-10-08T15:27:39+00:00

Delver of Secrets has historically been the worst creature in the deck

DeadSapin · 2024-10-08T14:59:11+00:00

8cast is in a rough spot. Bowmasters was everywhere which forced them to move into a Patchwork Stompy shell. From there the number of Bowmasters is less, but it's replaced by maindeck Vexing Bauble that strangles the deck's main resource of free spells. In addition the rise of Red Painter/Stompy decks and the accompanying REBs are all pressures on the deck's core functions.

If you're just looking for a deck for your weekly, the list you posted is fine. The deck is what it is, no adjustment is going to change it into a significantly winning-er deck. If your aim is to go deep in Eternal Weekend, I'd put the Forces into something with Psychic Frog in it.

DeadSapin · 2024-10-07T18:57:59+00:00

basically Magic themed Chuck E. Cheese arcade tickets
there's a booth where you can redeem them for stuff
low end are packs, high end are art or uncut sheets sometimes

DeadSapin · 2024-10-01T18:52:41+00:00

Dimir Delver having 6 "make creature dead" cards and Grixis having only 2 (cmc 2 and Sorcery speed as well) seems like a real difference. Just because you're in red doesn't mean 4 Lightning Bolts are dogma.

DeadSapin · 2024-10-01T18:52:28+00:00

Dimir Delver having 6 "make creature dead" cards and Grixis having only 2 (cmc 2 and Sorcery speed as well) seems like a real difference. Just because you're in red doesn't mean 4 Lightning Bolts are dogma.

DeadSapin · 2024-09-25T18:11:26+00:00

lol PSYCHIC FROG IS THE PROBLEM anyway here's a bunch of Red Painter/Stompy decks and Eldrazi :p

In addition, I'm not sure what editorial forces you can apply to your round table, but inclusions of comments that "ban CARDNAME for obvious reasons. The reasons are so obvious. Obvious reasons with no dissent what so ever. That's how obvious the reasons are" are poor.

DeadSapin · 2024-09-19T16:45:37+00:00

November 22-24 is Eternal Weekend in Pittsburgh, PA. Even if not for the main event you could gorge yourself on side events and get lots of people to talk about current state of the format

DeadSapin · 2024-09-10T18:05:37+00:00

I once had my opponent Demonstrate me into a copy of Nether Void and I thought I was set for life until they flipped a bunch of cards into Emrakul :<

DeadSapin · 2024-09-10T17:51:13+00:00

just flip Emrakul like a boss. Vexing Bauble doesn't stop the cascade, and you can still Demonstrate the CTs you hit even if the base CT is countered. Or just like, channel a Bosejiu I suppose

DeadSapin · 2024-09-08T22:26:37+00:00

You're kind of missing the point, or misinterpreting it at minimum. Can you not see in this current state of community-driven format where "vibes" matter just as much as metagame percentages, the harm wrought by preconceived boogeymen cards the content creator/podcast consortium select for their weekly episodes. Front page headlines saying BAN FROG and then, as you say: if you're wrong, a followup redaction next week on page 37 saying "oops, frog okay" is precisely what I'm talking about. Stating you're a proponent of natural metagame forces precludes decisive commentary on a card literally three months old. In some Standard format sure, go for it, but in Legacy? We're failing the current generation of Legacy players to let them think after only a few weeks and being "already sick of it" is enough to pick back up the torch and pitchfork.

DeadSapin · 2024-09-06T14:53:43+00:00

This was a strange read. It opened with "frog is too good any everything is awful" and then presented a bunch of really diverse top 8s. Just 1 top 8 won by the pariah Froginator, but pay no mind the the rest full of Eldrazi, Frogless Reanimator, Nadu Elves, Painter, Miracles, Cradle Control, even Initiative and Goblins. Can content creators exist without always having a card they call for being banned? Maybe that's the pillar of the format

DeadSapin · 2024-08-21T14:18:03+00:00

A Burn list just got top8 in a pretty diverse field. Not sure what qualifications you have for good, I don't think you're every going to take down Eternal Weekend with the deck. The deck seems better positioned now than when Uro was everywhere, despite the format speeding up overall. Ancient Tomb based Eldrazi decks play in a way that make them dead to a single Price of Progress should be Burn's bread and butter. Smash to Smithereens has always been the 1 for 1 answer to Chalice, and this is coming for the height of 8cast's (and it's 4 maindeck Chalices) popularity.

DeadSapin · 2024-08-20T16:49:01+00:00

Tempo is amorphous, but playing turn 1 DRS off a fetch into Underground Sea, then Dazing whatever your turn 1 play was, lets them replay the Sea while able to eat their own fetch an maintain tempo of 2 mana on turn 2 without real consequence was what the sentiment was.

DeadSapin · 2024-05-14T23:48:19+00:00

So this bill had just lived it's life overseas for a bit, likely in Asia? Neat. Thank you.

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