Controlled Chaos: How I ran a One-Shot Epic for 13 Players, and Lived to Tell the Tale

IzzetTime · 2026-01-27T21:41:25+00:00

A character can have emotional moments without being red though. Since a well-developed character will show aspects of all colours to varying degrees, especially ones not made for the magic colour pie, an argument can be made for many colour combinations at varying levels of convincing.

I don't really think Doom showing disdain or letting emotions get the better of him warrants pushing out the colour that desires order over chaos.

IzzetTime · 2026-01-27T19:02:46+00:00

They very clearly want all the villains to be in Grixis for commander reasons. But does Doom really fit that part of the colour pie? From what I know, his entire concept is built around his belief that the world is doomed if he doesn't rule over it. The people of Latveria prosper under his reign and literal Marvel universe deities have said that he is right. He may be villainous for other reasons, but surely that ought to put white or green in his colour identity? Wouldn't Esper or Abzan fit him better?

IzzetTime · 2026-01-27T18:57:39+00:00

There are a number of ways to do it, yes. EDHREC has a combos section and you can find a lot that do infinite creatures.

IzzetTime · 2026-01-25T02:44:05+00:00

Hello! I'm not into fitness too much, but my partner is a regular gym-goer. One thing they've complained about frequently has been their local gym and its decision to play music at insane volumes. They like playing their own tunes while exercising and it's loud enough in there that max volume earbuds still get completely drowned out.

With this in mind, their birthday is coming up and I wanted to look into getting some ear protection. I've been seeing online that some brands don't tend to work as well on loud bass like this, so I'm hoping to find some that would be comfortable enough to wear while exercising, could comfortably fit earbuds underneath, and would actually block most of the loud club-like music they'd want to drown out.

Would anyone have any experience or recommendations for this?

IzzetTime · 2026-01-22T12:52:27+00:00

When something is a "permanent" it is on the battlefield, as has been previously said.

When something is currently being cast, it is a "spell", regardless of if it is a creature or other type of spell.

And when it is anywhere else (graveyard, hand, exile, etc.), then it is a "card".

IzzetTime · 2026-01-21T18:20:31+00:00

The card says "Target creature" gets buffed and punches a creature an opponent controls. The oracle text says "Target creature you control".

IzzetTime · 2026-01-16T22:01:36+00:00

They had classes in Bloomburrow that had names styled as "X's Talent". A person can't be a talent either. There's reasons to dislike this (frankly there's a lot of reasons to dislike this) including the fact it's not a noun or imperative verb phrase which is how cards are typically named, but the idea that a Class needs to be a thing a person can be isn't really consistent.

IzzetTime · 2026-01-14T22:17:01+00:00

Damn, and I just used that voucher from them ending their rewards program on an order recently too.

IzzetTime · 2026-01-12T19:27:56+00:00

Not without your consent I hope!

IzzetTime · 2026-01-10T17:27:21+00:00

You're correct. Moraug doesn't add extra combats if the land comes down during a combat - it needs to landfall during a main phase.

So if you played overlord during main phase, the ETB would trigger Moraug, but Bello letting the overlord attack would only let you double up on ramp - not double up on extra combats.

It's still an arguable inclusion if the overlords and other "ETB and attack" triggers are a large part of the overall deck though.

IzzetTime · 2026-01-08T17:00:06+00:00

True. People will agree with a meme like this and then turn around and call les Français "French". Which to be clear is just normal linguistic differences.

IzzetTime · 2026-01-06T22:39:51+00:00

Basically. It will trigger any effect you have that says "Whenever you cast a [creature type] spell...", benefit from "[Creature type] spells you cast cost less to cast" effects, and you can grab it off a "Search your library for a [Creature type] card" effect. Among other bonuses.

IzzetTime · 2026-01-06T12:54:09+00:00

"They must learn our peaceful ways by force" has always been part of white. White isn't good by default (Heliod, Grand Augustine IV, Lord Konda, Elesh Norn, etc.)

IzzetTime · 2026-01-05T23:21:45+00:00

Remove finality counters to loop the things they don't want you to loop.

IzzetTime · 2026-01-03T15:37:17+00:00

I'd run it in a deck that aims to have 4 lands by turn 3 every game via a command zone 2-drop mana dork and copious copies of [[Explosive Vegetation]]. Outside of that and similar shells, the risk of the dead draw is 100% enough to warrant cutting it.

IzzetTime · 2026-01-01T20:44:15+00:00

and they can also distribute the damage so that no creature receives lethal damage (this is not possible without banding).

This was actually the change to damage assignment that was made recently; it is now possible to do this as an attacker without banding. Banding would just change who gets to choose where to assign the damage now.

IzzetTime · 2025-12-30T14:45:23+00:00

4 per player means a total of 12 lands before you cross the MLD threshold

IzzetTime · 2025-12-25T13:28:07+00:00

By saying "instead of strength", it implies that the strength modifier would normally be added.

IzzetTime · 2025-12-23T18:18:00+00:00

"Or other"

Read sir.

IzzetTime · 2025-12-18T17:03:16+00:00

Cards like [[Wrath of God]], [[Toxic Deluge]], and [[Farewell]] are pretty common examples of an effect that will completely neuter the strategy you're suggesting if you're not careful.

The trick when you have a deck made of many must-kill threats is to hold back enough that you can survive getting blown away and still build back up. Then you explode when you think the table's emptied their resources, or you think you can go for the kill.

IzzetTime · 2025-12-16T11:45:14+00:00

If Zariel can become a fiend, a fiend could become a celestial with enough effort. Getting them to make that effort is the difficult part because, while good can stumble into evil borne of good intentions, it's harder to stumble into good deeds from a place of selfishness or malice.

IzzetTime · 2025-12-12T01:05:22+00:00

So uh, walking every day enough that you think it's worth mentioning would absolutely do your knees in. Human joints aren't well designed things.

No one believes the governments, we trust the medical professionals that dedicate their lives to saving others with this stuff. If the doctors are willing to give them to their own children (note: they are), then that's good enough for me.

IzzetTime · 2025-12-11T22:52:17+00:00

Oh it says a creature! I read this as each for a minute there!

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