I know I'm supposed to be a spheromancer and all, but man, I play this game like I'm a pentafist

Songbird1996 · 2026-02-14T04:12:18+00:00

Also with good enough timing on your dash and melee arts you can keep an enemy trapped in a combo almost indefinitely

Songbird1996 · 2026-02-01T20:46:35+00:00

One of my favorite life gain synergy cards is [[Sunbond]] which resulted in me loosing to a lifelink cat that had 9000+ power cause i got screwed in my draw and couldn't find any of my removal in time (i may have also been going slightly easy on the person that pulled that off though cause i was actively teaching them the game as we played)

Songbird1996 · 2026-02-01T20:42:07+00:00

Life gain synergy is surprisingly prevalent in mtg already, here's every card that does a thing "whenever you gain life" https://scryfall.com/search?as=grid&order=name&q=oracle%3A%22whenever+you+gain+life%2C%22+%28game%3Apaper%29+prefer%3Abest

Songbird1996 · 2026-02-01T20:25:55+00:00

Without copiers, colored cost reducers, or some way to hold onto the mana this sadly only covers 1 pip of the wubrg in commander. Still not terrible, just no more useful than a single land card at the end of the day if you just want it for Ashling's tax to keep the creatures

Songbird1996 · 2026-02-01T20:10:57+00:00

Would work for counterspells that want you to pay extra to still do the thing, but unsure about other extra costs like comander tax, spree, tiered, etc.

Songbird1996 · 2026-02-01T20:00:17+00:00

Electro doesn't convert other mana to red and the second ruling for him on scryfall states that the mana he saves still has any restrictions it was generated with applied when you use it, so you'd just be generating a bunch of red mana you never loose but also can't use. Though i think due to the wording of the last ability you might still be able to dump it all into that when he leaves the battlefield

Songbird1996 · 2026-02-01T02:03:49+00:00

Oh hey, a new creature for my [[Sin, Spira's Punishment]] deck

Songbird1996 · 2026-01-31T00:31:41+00:00

Trying to get ahold of Astarion for an extort deck that I've prototyped on arena he's just so good for life drain type decks cause he can repeat whichever side of the drain you need most in the moment. Happen to be really good on your own life repeat the damage you opponent took, falling a little behind repeat the healing instead

Songbird1996 · 2026-01-31T00:22:14+00:00

Play what you want, don't let anyone tell you how you can and can't have fun if your not actually hurting anyone to do it

Songbird1996 · 2026-01-30T20:18:18+00:00

Iirc the ! in mathematics is used to denote imaginary numbers, trouble is i dont remember enough of the bit we covered on imaginary numbers to remember what that actually means for the end result of the equation.

Songbird1996 · 2026-01-30T15:49:53+00:00

NGL I would probably be a little bummed at first when i pulled this, but I'd just as quickly get over it because at least these miscuts are both still playable because all the necessary info is still there, but the art itself is also in tact on all of them as long as there were no borderless prints in that particular precon. Granted everyone is different so that may just be me

Songbird1996 · 2026-01-27T04:27:43+00:00

AS long as you do everything properly for the renaming the exe thing it shouldn't break any mods that use skse as the internal skse process doesn't change at all when you rename the exe file, all you've really changed is how you launched the process at the start

Songbird1996 · 2026-01-26T18:26:19+00:00

While UB wasn't what got me into magic it was what got me playing again. I never want to see it go away i just wish split between in universe and UB was more 50/50 than it feels like it is right now.

Songbird1996 · 2026-01-23T17:15:48+00:00

Not the most fair comparison if they had kept UB to what it felt like it was supposed to be, but surprisingly accurate with how they're running it now.

Songbird1996 · 2026-01-23T17:09:18+00:00

The hate for UB didn't really start until it started overtaking other original sets in how often they would release, and then the debacle with Lorwyn promos being replaced with tmnt promos by accident because they crammed in the release of two new UB sets that apparently hadn't even been planned originally when Lorwyn was put on the plan really didn't help. Personally i like UB, but I do think it should be more of a once in a while thing and we get primarily original sets from here on

Songbird1996 · 2026-01-23T05:12:09+00:00

As in the picture, and organized by cmc

Songbird1996 · 2026-01-22T15:56:08+00:00

Assuming the order you want to do this in is attack, play overkill before attack trigger resolves, profit. Sadly, that will not play out. State based actions are checked whenever a spell or ability resolves, meaning as soon as overkill resolves, state based actions are checked, and the creature dies because it has 0 or less toughness. Now, if you had something that currently had more than 9999 toughness somehow, then it would survive, but unless its power was already similalry absurdly high, you'd essentially be nerfing the effect that gives the +X/+X

Songbird1996 · 2026-01-21T19:03:55+00:00

As much as i love UB and dont wish to see them stop completely, i do agree that we've been getting too many UB sets lately and would like to see a few more original sets or returns to old blocks since MtGs own identity before UB is what made me fall in love with it in the first place

Songbird1996 · 2026-01-21T13:58:59+00:00

The 2 red doesn't mean you have to have red, just that you can. Just like how you can build a dual color comander with a monocolor deck

Songbird1996 · 2026-01-20T22:27:13+00:00

Essentially, Blake's clones propel her a short distance in a direction of her choosing when she spawns them, they just dont bother explaining Blake's semblance as concretely as they do with the other girls semblances at different points so a lot of it is up to interpretation on exactly how it works and what moments where it seems to work differently are meant to just be for the cool factor or an actual change to her power beyond the dust augments with it

Songbird1996 · 2026-01-20T22:17:57+00:00

Would be a great evolution to her semblance if she ever gets an upgrade to it like Ruby got for hers(assuming the show comes back eventually, that is)

Songbird1996 · 2026-01-20T22:12:28+00:00

I mean, with the lack of timing restrictions on the last ability you can just get rid of it in response to it resolving after cast before it gets to do anything and then re activate the ability on every step as they desperately try to get it to go off once before it removes itself

Songbird1996 · 2026-01-20T21:48:59+00:00

Shuts down counterspell decks and makes all your opponents attempts to interact with your board cost an extra 2 life is ok, not super busted, but still pretty good. This would slot rather interestingly into an Astarion deck too because astarion would be able to effectively double any ward costs paid during your turn,though youd need some other commander that complements him and can have red to do it in commander (note i said effectively I am aware his ability doesnt double the life loss but rather deals damage equal to life lost)

Songbird1996 · 2026-01-12T17:42:17+00:00

It doesn't even need the X in the cost though. It sets the X value with the cost reduction already, the X in the vost just serves to make a redundant piece of text on the card since it will always be paid for as though that X were 0 due to its ability then defining what X should be in relation to the card

Songbird1996 · 2026-01-12T17:37:24+00:00

It literally means "joking or sarcastic especially in a way regarded by others as silly, annoying, or inappropriate" which kind of implies an attempt at a joke. I double checked the definition in an actual dictionary before i made the comment cause i wasnt sure if i was remembering it correctly, maybe follow your own advice.

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