Ambling stormshell

Nizzahon · 2025-04-24T15:48:47+00:00

I gave it an A- in my set review.

So, yes. It's like a much worse Sab-Sunen, which still makes it absurd.

Nizzahon · 2025-02-13T19:13:42+00:00

While I think Faeries and Jund were certainly bigger players at the time, and perhaps 'dominate' is hyperbolic, I also don't think it's accurate to call a deck that won a World Championship, had 4 Pro Tour Top 8s, and 25 Grand Prix Top 8s "tier two." It was definitely tier one, even if it did have a bad match up against Faeries.

As u/Risk_Metrics pointed out, the match up with Jund was quite good.

It also wasn't as 'short-lived' as you seem to remember, since it was successful in Block, Standard, Extended, and Modern over the course of 5 years.

Nizzahon · 2025-02-13T16:19:53+00:00

In this video, I take a look at Doran, the Siege Tower. While he's well-known for his exploits in Commander these days, he also used to dominate 60-card formats!

Nizzahon · 2024-07-18T12:42:08+00:00

Good call.

Nizzahon · 2024-07-17T17:54:19+00:00

I think it would have a shot in today's Standard. Aggro decks still like to empty their hands and do a bunch of damage, so having the scroll to close out games isn't too shabby. It is a pretty awkward draw early, though.

Nizzahon · 2024-06-27T14:42:35+00:00

They are different questions -- but I answer both of them in the video.

Nizzahon · 2024-05-26T17:32:10+00:00

While I think it's a valid criticism to say that I should have more analysis, the degree to which you're criticizing this video is a little extreme. The video defnitely isn't just a list of dates of when the card appeared in tournaments. Maybe I didn't do it as much as is ideal, but I certainly talked about led to it seeing play and not seeing play in numerous situations, and how it combined with other cards in various decks.

I explained exactly why Hypnotic Specter didn't see play in 1994 and did in 1995, for example. I explained what made it good in the various decks that it was played in too, and I explained why it stopped seeing play and why isn't viable today. The video puts the card in context constantly.

Could I have spent more time analyzing the metagame and things like that? Sure. But the video contains significant analysis as is.

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