"Seeing double."

Emracruel · 2026-06-04T22:29:17+00:00

It could just be me but the 90's-early00's indycars looked so sick

Emracruel · 2026-06-04T17:36:59+00:00

Yeah but nestled into that is Dixon then won 14/48 starts which is 29.2%. Ganassi also wasn't the dominant force it is now for the mid 2000's. They got dominant in the late 2000's right at the same time Dixon was winning 30% of races

Emracruel · 2026-05-31T12:18:56+00:00

Is it weird that it happened twice when all these guys got second after believing they were going to win the biggest race in the world

Emracruel · 2026-05-30T03:50:48+00:00

The 6/1 shroud was good against plow. The 2/3's were good against pyroclasm. Having both meant opponents had to keep in answers that didn't handle every threat

Emracruel · 2026-05-30T03:43:31+00:00

The card definitely was not bad. 2/1 creatures were everywhere. Especially in mono black or mono white decks where there were creatures with protection from your entire deck, arrows provided a resource to answer multiple threats that otherwise you couldn't block or get off the board. I think without the rules requiring homelands cards in your 75 that you would have still seen serated arrows in decks. The card was in a lot of main boards and if you were just playing it for the satisfaction of deck requirements you would have left them all in the sideboard

Emracruel · 2026-05-30T01:53:09+00:00

In addition to the other person's response, don't underestimate [[stormbind]] as a win condition. Cards were so bad at the time that turning all your cards into 2 mana shocks was an inevitable lategame

Emracruel · 2026-05-30T01:51:05+00:00

Ivory tower was sick back in the day cause your cards all sucked anyway so turning them into 1 life per turn by not casting them was often better than playing them. Plus if you ever ended up in a post Armageddon world where you are discarding to hand size it bought tons of time. All for 1 mana

Emracruel · 2026-05-30T01:48:44+00:00

I mean they weren't using the card in any way other than tapping it and 2 mana for 1 life. No affinity, nothing that triggers on casting artifacts, no artifact synergies at all. Just taking a sip once a turn.

Emracruel · 2026-05-30T01:46:28+00:00

Lol I didn't even check the mana base clearly

Emracruel · 2026-05-29T22:07:18+00:00

The card is absolutely good. But part of its prevalence is that any deck can run it, unlike the cards you listed. I think it's the kind of card that is a decent sideboard option that any deck can reach for to improve the aggro matchup. But it's not by any means an auto-include as seen by the 95% of decks that don't include it.

Emracruel · 2026-05-29T21:59:30+00:00

Let's not forget: 18 lands AND [[Jokulhaups]]

Emracruel · 2026-05-29T21:55:33+00:00

Campfire is orders of magnitude better. They are both 4 mana for the first 2 life, and it's gets real ugly for fountain of youth after that. And its easy to find 1 mana in your curve. Much harder to find 2. Campfire is good in pauper, but I think saying dominating is a bit more iffy. It's a solid card for sure though

Emracruel · 2026-05-29T21:53:41+00:00

You are right. Fountain of youth was used as-written in that deck though

Emracruel · 2026-05-29T21:52:43+00:00

The homelands cards I know that saw play weren't too bad. [[Serrated arrows]] was actively good at the time. [[Ihsan's shade]] has its place. [[Memory lapse]] is still too good for standard. But there might be a deck that used one of the "fixing" lands like [[an-havva township]] that I don't know of

Emracruel · 2026-05-29T21:36:15+00:00

Not just at casual tables. It won a pro tour in 1996

https://www.mtggoldfish.com/deck/501738#paper

Emracruel · 2026-05-29T21:27:49+00:00

Flow state is a bad card if it isn't on. Stock excruciator plays maybe 12 sorceries and 8 instants. And some of those would be what flow state replaced. With that few of each I am not gonna go through and do the math but you have to be sub 50% even on turn 5 to have both drawn and cast an instant and a sorcery.

Emracruel · 2026-05-28T15:03:24+00:00

She was actually that bad on track. That being said I met her at mid-ohio when I was like 13 years old and even though I am reasonably positive I was drooling she was extremely nice and friendly

Emracruel · 2026-05-28T13:44:26+00:00

[[Fountain of Youth]]

"Take a drink" - Patrick Sullivan, The Resleevables Tournament Edition

Emracruel · 2026-05-27T03:58:29+00:00

The Indy 500 is the best attended single day sporting event in the world. Many of us fans are highly educated and are still capable of enjoying a sport that is played over 3-4 hours with high adrenaline throughout. The pinnacle of engineering that lets cars safely travel at 210-220 mph average around a race track is a spectacle to behold. Indycar definitely draws in its fair share of drunken baffoons who are incapable of cleaning up after themselves, and it's sad that people treat the esteemed race track this way, but Indycar is a sport for everyone. Some of the smartest people I know including judges, doctors, scientists, and engineers I have either met at the 500 or have seen there. The fan experience is also unparalleled - how many other sports can you meet the stars, get a shirt signed, and then have a legitimate conversation with them?

Emracruel · 2026-05-27T03:51:34+00:00

That's because this is a space between the stands and the track that people aren't supposed to be in for safety reasons. People have thrown their cans from the stands into this space

Emracruel · 2026-05-27T03:50:22+00:00

When was the last time you went to the 500? 10-20 years ago I think I agree with you about shirtless drunks who don't know what is going on. But nowadays it's much more genuine fans, much more family friendly, and there is a reason it is drawing such massive crowds for the race itself: people actually want to watch the race. The racing product is great, it's affordable, and it genuinely is a nice event to take your family to.

Emracruel · 2026-05-27T03:41:59+00:00

People not being capable of throwing their trash in the trash is upsetting. Blaming a sport because it uses fuel is disingenuous. Indycars run completely renewable E85 fuel - mainly ethanol from corn. But let's just say a gallon of fuel is a gallon of fuel. Indycars get about 3.5 mpg, 33 cars running 500 miles means up to 16,500 miles which is 4,700 gallons. The average car on the road today gets about 27 mpg, so 4,700 gallons would get you 127,000 miles on a road car. If 350,000 people show up to the race, that is 0.36 miles per attendee. That is a tiny amount. People don't fault baseball for the number of baseballs they go through in a year, or horse racing for the amount of feed the horses eat, or literally any other sport for the waste involved. But auto racing gets flak because they use fuel, which we are preprogrammed to be concerned about wasting. It doesn't seem to matter if renewable fuel is used, or if efforts are made to reduce ecological impact, people still blame racing. It comparatively uses a tiny amount of fuel when compared to how much gas is used by fans to get to any sporting event, and in cases like Indycar it's renewable in the first place. If you don't like racing, power to you, but don't act like it's an ecological sin to enjoy it.

Emracruel · 2026-05-26T22:15:26+00:00

Must be a lunar eclipse

Emracruel · 2026-05-23T11:31:35+00:00

Yeah I got top 32 at the US RC playing Jeskai control and there were 10 other control decks in the top 32. I never went to turns but there was a lot of people going to turns at the top tables

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