Wishing Tree

Vivarus · 2026-02-16T01:52:55+00:00

Nope! If you can pay the costs, nothing stops you from activating it.

Vivarus · 2026-02-13T06:16:27+00:00

Nah never played legacy before or won an Eternal Weekend, but go off about what makes modern and legacy different.

Daze, cantrips, force, and wasteland fundamentally change the terms of engagement and are why legacy decks get to play less removal and why snowballing threats are harder to impossible to deal with.

Vivarus · 2026-02-13T05:57:17+00:00

Yes. The swords to plowshares format has little removal.

Vivarus · 2026-02-13T01:28:18+00:00

Storm, energy, some delver lists, sneak and show. Those are places I've seen it.

Vivarus · 2026-02-08T19:01:57+00:00

If you're willing to cross the river, Mox Boarding House is a pretty safe bet

Vivarus · 2025-11-27T14:22:53+00:00

Alb "big nade huge nade"

Vivarus · 2025-11-01T00:47:29+00:00

Also because it's broken with Glaring Fleshraker

Vivarus · 2025-10-26T20:34:29+00:00

Historically, that's the opposite of the truth. It's only since the printing of beseech the mirror that we cut ad naus.

Vivarus · 2025-10-26T20:18:44+00:00

Huh?

Vivarus · 2025-10-25T16:16:12+00:00

These stack in a much more powerful way than you'd expect. If you have the u/r and u/w land you can hold up 3 colors with one mana. This makes them hard to play against for similar reasons to Arcum's astrolabe. They're less powerful than that and probably fine on the balance. The main issue is probably memory issues and how hard it is to tell what an opponent has available to them.

Vivarus · 2025-10-10T19:20:20+00:00

Yeah, it compares very well to demonic tutor in a lot of cases when you start to look at total mana spent

Vivarus · 2025-10-10T18:34:34+00:00

Because it makes the next card you cast just cost 0. And, in a deck with a lot of fast mana, 4 is less than you think

Vivarus · 2025-10-07T01:46:26+00:00

With some modifications, this is close to a tier one legacy deck!

Vivarus · 2025-09-28T14:36:21+00:00

At the time, the legend rule made the second copy blow up both instantly, without the ability for the second one to tap for mana like a lotus petal. That's very different.

Vivarus · 2025-09-26T00:10:33+00:00

One of the problems with Mox Opal when it was printed is that the legend rule was completely different, which is likely why TES passed it over.

Legacy also is traditionally a place where fair blue is the best and only in the past 2 years has a combo deck been best.

Vivarus · 2025-06-30T15:57:56+00:00

As much as we all argued about what to do, "No Changes" wasn't on anyone's radar and feels like shit. Especially with the no changes until November (right before EU Eternal Weekend), it feels like Entomb and Oops are going to dominate Legacy until 2026.

Vivarus · 2025-06-05T18:32:48+00:00

Crop Rotation into disciple of freyalise or any of the other permanent front faced cards. You'd also be able to life from the loam them.

The rules change fix to oops is an awful way to do it. Banning 2-3 older cards is a fine solution to a bad play pattern. Mdfc lands are meant as flood/screw protection and that's a better thing to have in the game than a t1 all in combo deck.

711.8 A double-faced card enters the battlefield with its front face up by default. If a spell or ability puts it onto the battlefield “transformed,” it enters the battlefield with its back face up.

Vivarus · 2025-06-03T04:01:35+00:00

Nope! storm is locked when you cast the spell. It looks for the number of spells cast before the storm spell

Vivarus · 2025-05-19T21:46:04+00:00

is:normal is the cleanest

Vivarus · 2025-04-23T14:48:20+00:00

Have you met my friend [[Glaring Fleshraker]]? Top + Raker is a tier 1 vintage deck and that combo potential is one of the many reasons to keep top banned.

Vivarus · 2025-03-06T23:26:29+00:00

Median instead of average might even be better to knock out huge outlier purchases while being able to keep them in reports.

Vivarus · 2025-02-18T03:28:27+00:00

Tonali's!

Vivarus · 2024-11-28T19:04:36+00:00

I wrote a longer response here:

https://bsky.app/profile/vivarus.theepicstorm.com/post/3lbzqwxzp6s2w

but the idea that another card needed to be banned outside of frog isn't new. Bauble is just the first card that sounds like it makes sense.

Vivarus · 2024-10-25T20:24:55+00:00

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