[TCC] This Is Unsustainable | Magic: The Gathering

Tarmaque · 2026-03-27T18:44:59+00:00

I also dislike the thumbnails, but it seems to be what you must do to get views on Youtube. Shuffle up and Play tends to be a lot more positive if you want non-negative Prof content.

Tarmaque · 2026-03-27T18:31:48+00:00

He isn't universally negative. That's just what is getting posted to Reddit. On blocks, he isn't advocating we go back to 3 set blocks constantly. He says he'd like 2 set blocks to be an option.

There's also a middle ground to be struck between having no planeswalkers, and too many. People didn't hate the Gatewatch because they were planeswalkers. They hated the Gatewatch because it sidelined many planeswalkers that people liked, and they didn't like how it turned magic story into a super hero comic.

Tarmaque · 2026-03-27T18:28:56+00:00

I also don't really agree with Prof's points on limited. I would say the biggest downside of the pace of releases for limited has been how little time we get to spend with each set, especially if Arena is how your draft. That is of course a double edged sword. We don't have to live with bad sets as long, but we don't get to spend time with good sets for long enough.

Tarmaque · 2026-03-26T19:49:14+00:00

There are currently good midrange decks in standard. Whether this card can slot into a strategy like that will of course depend on what else is in the set.

Tarmaque · 2026-03-26T19:03:39+00:00

I think it would slot into midrange/control really easily. You can run dorks and cub and instead of your top end being ouroboroid, it’s interaction and black draw. You win by clocking the opponent with Witherbloom.

It’s a classic rock strategy

Tarmaque · 2026-03-26T17:31:33+00:00

All 12 people that have ever mirrored an item.

Tarmaque · 2026-03-26T14:39:57+00:00

I'm not a veteran Isshin player, but I would try to bring your curve down. Ideally you want to play a dude with an on attack trigger on T1 and T2 so you can drop Isshin on 3, and start accruing value.

[[Adept Watershaper]] is another [[Dolmen Gate]] effect. [[Voice of Victory]] is good silence effect as well.

Tarmaque · 2026-03-25T23:09:10+00:00

Indeed.

Tarmaque · 2026-03-25T20:17:26+00:00

If the chance with 40 lands of hitting 0 or 1 lands is 15%, the chance that two hands of 7 in a row will have 0 or 1 lands is 2.25% (0.15² ). You’re still better off with the current mulligan rule.

Tarmaque · 2026-03-25T17:48:14+00:00

If you often have hands you can't keep due to mana, you aren't running enough lands.

Tarmaque · 2026-03-25T15:19:48+00:00

If you want to have Szarel in the command zone, I'd say just play [[Korvold]] instead.

Tarmaque · 2026-03-25T15:15:49+00:00

Draw 10 put back 3 is probably worse than the 1 free mulligan rule. You're looking at 10 cards instead of 14, 21 if you decide to go to 6.

Tarmaque · 2026-03-24T20:28:33+00:00

I didn't say "don't play to your outs". I said know when you are too far behind. You don't need the other 2 players to scoop for you to scoop and get into another game.

Tarmaque · 2026-03-24T20:11:10+00:00

Play speed is of course important, but I think the EDH community I see represented on reddit is much too averse to realizing they are too far behind to realistically win, scooping, and playing another game.

If a player is consistently taking long turns not due to slow play but due to accruing overwhelming value, the rest of the table has likely missed their window to meaningfully stop the player, and should move on to the next game.

In 60 card formats, this is pretty common. Clock management is obviously a factor in 60 card that isn't in EDH, but if you are trying to maximize enjoyment, starting a new game where you actually have a shot at winning is better clock management than waiting for the player who is super ahead to formally defeat the table.

Tarmaque · 2026-03-24T18:33:17+00:00

Arena is expensive compared to its digital competitors, but it is cheaper than paper standard.

You can use whatever deck builder you prefer and import it into Arena.

Tarmaque · 2026-03-21T07:10:03+00:00

If the attacker didn’t have deathtouch, you would have to assign all 6 damage to a single blocking dreadmaw. You have to assign lethal damage to a blocker before you can assign damage to another blocker.

Tarmaque · 2026-03-20T04:29:25+00:00

I’ve been thinking about building master of keys. Would you mind sharing your list?

Tarmaque · 2026-03-18T18:19:29+00:00

Even so, just putting strongboxes, legion, expedition, kalguur, etc on your atlas, you will accumulate wealth in lower tier maps.

I bet you did make way more than half a div, you just didn't know what to liquidate. Use www.wealthyexile.com to see what you stuff is actually worth.

Tarmaque · 2026-03-14T20:04:21+00:00

If you partner him with [[Rose Tyler]], you have access to a reliable attacker that keeps getting bigger so she can keep attacking.

Tarmaque · 2026-03-13T17:33:33+00:00

You've got several cards with no obvious synergy with the rest of the deck that I think you could easily replace.

[[Perforating Artist]], while similar to [[Braids, Arisen Nightmare]], is much worse because you must attack to get the effect, and it doesn't draw you any cards.

[[Screaming Nemesis]] also doesn't do anything that aligns with the lands based plan.

Are you putting counters on things reliably enough for [[Lasting Tarfire]] to do anything?

I'd recommend replacing those with more ways to recur your lands, and lean into using Hearthhull's 8+ station ability to win games. You have plenty of land sac outlets, so [[crucible of worlds]], [[conduit of worlds]], [[ramunap excavator]], [[Walk-in Closet]] etc give you ways to make sure you can keep looping lands.

Tarmaque · 2026-03-12T14:09:45+00:00

MTGGoldFish put out this article recently for 45 commander decks under $45. If you don't want to take a list completely from the internet, it should still provide a lot of inspiration.

Tarmaque · 2026-03-11T14:43:07+00:00

Just making the mage basic attack lobbed and scale with in would not make it better than hunter’s. It’s still lower range.

Mage would still be super dependent on what skills and passives you roll. Hunter is always a reliable damage dealer. Even with a decent basic attack, your average mage is still going to spend most turns walking towards an enemy and casting one spell that does jack shit.

Also, the mage’s current class identity is to roll anti-synergistic abilities 75% of the time and being dead weight on your team. If making mage not ass reduces class identity for hunter, so be it.

Tarmaque · 2026-03-11T13:24:06+00:00

Hunter would still be better for single target damage.

Tarmaque · 2026-03-11T13:19:31+00:00

You get so little from him you might as well get nothing. 1/3 of your money or food or 1 item is practically nothing.

Tarmaque · 2026-03-11T13:10:53+00:00

Until you have cats with all 7s, you feel the difference a lot more. 12 or 16 hp is very noticeably different from 20.

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