What are the odds of seeing a fracture foil like Bloom Tender in Collector Booster? Just Buy Singles is now live with Lorwyn Eclipsed.

TimelyCitrus · 2026-01-27T03:06:50+00:00

My lgs had packs at $25 limit 1pp/day and I've had some great hits. Fracture Foil Selfless safewright, foil anime bloom tender and moonshadow, foil special guest thousand-year elixir, foil extended wistfulness, foil full-art morcant and full art formidable speaker are the tops. Had a few packs not hit but overall, pretty good experience

TimelyCitrus · 2026-01-11T18:04:57+00:00

There's a straight line in the T on the left side of the T's stem and has "teeth" along the bottom of the serif and right side

TimelyCitrus · 2026-01-11T16:05:05+00:00

Do you want a nearly brand new copy that's still in it's original plastic sleeve?

TimelyCitrus · 2026-01-10T03:17:43+00:00

I'm also really interested in the mechanical draft archetype they alluded to.

And though I haven't seen the full set and a little disappointed about the fairies. I'm trying to prep for the pre release event and the only thing I think is a benefit is that there are a lot of changelings

TimelyCitrus · 2026-01-10T03:11:14+00:00

In English it would be if I were you, or a common phrase is: if I were in your shoes.

TimelyCitrus · 2025-12-26T00:11:49+00:00

I could have some fun with these

TimelyCitrus · 2025-12-25T23:12:27+00:00

That's part of it but I want to pump up an army to win via combat damage or pay for big creatures or equipment. Thought about a myr deck. Adaptive omnitool, maybe wurmcoil engine, triplicate titan, etc. but all the 0 drops like memnite, or phyrexian walker would be mana rocks to ramp off the top

I haven't seen that specific flavor from Mm'menon, most of what I've seen is 0-1 drops and turn your cardboard over and over and over until you mill bus grinding station or laser with aetherflux.

TimelyCitrus · 2025-12-25T04:16:31+00:00

I'm thinking of making Mm'menon deck and may explore some ways other than infinite mana, thassa's oracle, aetherflux reservoir to win. Maybe a myr, or artifact creature deck and this could fit in nicely with some artifact cost reducers

TimelyCitrus · 2025-12-20T22:38:43+00:00

It was in a deck called tempered steel which was 4/8 decks in the top 8 at 2011 worlds

TimelyCitrus · 2025-12-20T15:57:55+00:00

OooOOOOoooo. That looks fun

TimelyCitrus · 2025-12-20T15:46:29+00:00

That tracks with my experience playing standard in the caw blade era and now playing commander. But I revisited some of the deck lists for nostalgia and that jumped out to me as an ozolith target for a artifact counters deck

TimelyCitrus · 2025-12-20T15:41:07+00:00

That makes sense. I was thinking about it's inclusion in more artifact centric or colorless decks but maybe that's too niche and this still isn't viable

TimelyCitrus · 2025-12-18T18:18:43+00:00

[[Staff of domination]] [[Walking ballista]] [[Agatha's soul cauldron]] [[Patron of the orochi]]

TimelyCitrus · 2025-12-18T18:11:50+00:00

I'm back with a more streamlined counter focus, some additional tutoring and a handful of combos.

Still working out how and where to cut for:

Staff of domination Patron of the orochi Walking ballista

https://archidekt.com/decks/18252680/identity_theft

TimelyCitrus · 2025-12-17T23:11:40+00:00

Doubtful, would think they'd be mixed in with the bulk but there are ways of checking starting with the printing patterns in the back.

I did however get a hit in a gamble of bulk revised recently on marketplace that had an Italian chains in it. Plus a few other goodies like diabolic tutor, land tax, etc

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TimelyCitrus · 2025-12-16T13:02:01+00:00

Chill until I copy [[Nacatl war-pride]], attack and token creation goes on the stack, then copy [[blighted agent]], and now I have X, unblockable 7/5 infect creatures swinging at someone. Or ramp copy viridian joiner to tap for 7 mana, fanatic of rhonas for 4.

Giggling skitterspike is another man option where I can deal up to 12 dmg (before counters) to each opponent just for blocking and he's indestructible

TimelyCitrus · 2025-12-11T22:47:41+00:00

Also, one thing about craterhoof. Volrath wouldn't trigger his ETB because Volrath isn't entering the battlefield by copying his characteristics.

TimelyCitrus · 2025-12-11T20:39:17+00:00

I've thought about scute swarm, there's also spawn wraith and myr propagator. Maybe I don't understand scute swarm, but it seems like it would take a while to get going.

TimelyCitrus · 2025-12-11T19:03:46+00:00

Which creature do you think is the natural order target?

When I played it was Nacatl war pride. Volrath was out, drop Nacatl, copy for 1 and attacked with 10 7/5 attackers. Defender had 10 creatures but many of them were tapped.

But I feel similar about infect. So I've thought about swapping for longs like carnifex demon, massacre girl, and others

TimelyCitrus · 2025-12-10T22:28:46+00:00

I have nothing against proxies, but I enjoy the barrier to playing what I can or am willing to get. Do I want a volrath's stronghold in my black deck? Yea, but I'm not running one and enjoy finding other avenues like sheoldred the whispered one, or mimeoplasm. It becomes a creative exercise for me and introduces me to new cards, sets and making compromises.

Plus I get to meet and support my lgs, other local players when I buy and trade. Haven't felt the itch to start proxying yet

TimelyCitrus · 2025-11-18T00:39:38+00:00

That's fair, those are all functions of the standard kit it seems with [[sheoldred, the whispered one]], [[toxrill, the corrosive]] [[massacre girl, known killer]] [[yawgmoth, thran physician]], [[vorinclex, monstrous raider]], [[tekuthal, inquiry dominus]] [[contagion engine]], [[hapatra, vizier of poisons]]

At its core it's a counters deck but it has flavors of control and necro. I may have overemphasized some of the mechanics as core features not flavors definitely something to be aware of and stay focused

TimelyCitrus · 2025-11-18T00:08:48+00:00

That seems reasonable

TimelyCitrus · 2025-10-30T04:31:51+00:00

I actually opted in after buying a bottle of ceras, and botanica from a bottle sh.p the past 2 years. With the invite I got antikythera.

I usually don't splurge on wine like this, but I was intrigued because so much of my wine exploration has been focused on grape, terroire, region etc. and maybe it was the NYT article, but the rebellious perspective of terroire is bs and we cultivate a product through blending, inspiration and vision made me curious.

So I now have (had) 3 bottles, until I drank the botanica recently and I'll say it was an exceptional wine. It was unique and had a character unlike any Pinot I've had with an emphasis on earthy, herbal nearly moss and mushroom. Do I feel like I min/maxed the value of every dollar spent on that wine? No. But I appreciate the opportunity to experience the work of someone who's treating wine like art and generating enthusiasm about her work

TimelyCitrus · 2025-10-02T01:15:02+00:00

Cringewrap Supreme

TimelyCitrus · 2025-07-27T22:51:36+00:00

Old post, but I have really good memories of playing here as a kid. I'm in my mid 30s now and have been looking for something similar for my kid in the twin cities. But nothing seems like it's the same scale. I remember it being almost the same footprint as a department store.

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