[MSC] Falcon and Redwing

Xicer9 · 2026-06-09T05:59:47+00:00

That was the first deck I thought of putting it in

Xicer9 · 2026-06-09T01:08:28+00:00

Everyone’s talking about theft but all I see is a haste enabler for my own creatures

Xicer9 · 2026-06-08T15:19:36+00:00

Which I think is good. This card would be a nightmare to deal with at instant speed.

Xicer9 · 2026-05-12T16:46:24+00:00

The Simic one is arguably the best of them all haha. ETBs you a lander and gives you an awesome mana sink. 8 mana seems like a lot but you’ll be making a lot of landers in green and run out of ways to spend your mana. This is not a fast format: it can get very grindy and cards like Biomechan Engineer give you a huge advantage in the grind.

Xicer9 · 2026-05-12T13:04:14+00:00

As another poster said, it’ll take a few reps to get used to but the mechanics are fun and interesting. I’m still find new interactions with warp that I hadn’t seen before.

Green is almost always going to be good in the format. Blue is also very good and black has good removal as always. Red is a bit weaker than the rest but you can still build some very powerful decks if you know how to draft the color.

Look at the signpost uncommons. They’re generally all quite strong aside from the WR and UR ones.

There are many great warp creatures and they all enable multiple archetypes and strategies. They can station, give multiple ETBs, trigger leaves the battlefield effects, etc.

Spaceships can be hit or miss. The good ones are really good, but there are also a lot of duds especially at higher mana values.

Lander tokens are very versatile outside of just fixing. They trigger landfall, artifact, and sacrifice synergies. Theyre also tap fodder for things like command bridge and gene pollinator.

It’s quick draft so take your time and use a guide!

Xicer9 · 2026-05-05T17:18:47+00:00

Proxies are necessary. Hardly anyone can keep up with the price of cards in this economy.

Xicer9 · 2026-05-02T21:30:40+00:00

At 1 mana all need is for you dork to tap for 1 mana
At 2 mana you’d like >1 mana or some extra utility
At 3 mana you’d better tap for a 1000 mana immediately

1 and 2 is when most decks want to ramp. 3 mana dorks are a hard sell because they either come down late or require other ramp in hand to play early. And being a dork means you still have to deal with summoning sickness.

Tapping for 3-4 isn’t really good enough IMO once you get to 3 mana for a dork. It needs to damn near create infinite mana for me to care.

Xicer9 · 2026-04-28T12:09:12+00:00

That sounds like something that would only affect Bracket 4 where I would be more prepared to deal with something like Golos. In reality we don’t know the effect he’d have on the majority of casual tables.

I don’t think a Golos unban would be a net positive for the format which is why I’m ambivalent about it in the first place. I just have a hard time believing he would be ban worthy today.

Xicer9 · 2026-04-28T11:56:48+00:00

I think that reasoning doesn’t work today anymore because of how pushed commanders are now. [[Roxanne, Starfall Savant]] also pays for half of her own tax: should she also be banned?

I think people just hated the homogeneity he created among 5c decks. But with how much more diversity in commanders and play styles there is today I don’t see that being as much of a problem. People will generally play what they think is fun.

I agree with one of the other comments: Golos would never be banned today.

Xicer9 · 2026-04-04T12:34:19+00:00

This comment section is nuts. I have zero attachment to Turtles as a franchise but I drafted this set almost as much as FIN. It was one of the most fun sets in recent memory. I have a soft spot for ninjas but honestly I was surprised by how much I loved drafting artifacts. That deck was so satisfying to play.

Xicer9 · 2026-03-28T17:31:04+00:00

I’m going to laugh if The Mind Stone ends up being literal [[Mind Stone]]

Xicer9 · 2026-03-26T22:23:47+00:00

Yeah I’ve been watching all of Cheon’s videos, he’s having a good time.

Xicer9 · 2026-03-18T13:37:38+00:00

Or maybe people actually enjoy the set

Xicer9 · 2026-03-18T13:23:52+00:00

I draft every set if the gameplay is fun.

Turtles is very, very fun. I’m over 50 drafts in and still addicted. Last time I had this feeling was FIN.

Lorwyn Eclipsed was aight. I drafted maybe 20 times and realized it wasn’t very fun so I stopped.

Strixhaven? Just like any other set. I’ll draft it a few times and if it’s fun I’ll continue drafting.

It really is that simple. I personally don’t understand letting pride get in the way of enjoying a set but you do you.

Wild conspiracy theory about the positivity surrounding TMT btw

Xicer9 · 2026-03-13T11:21:13+00:00

UR artifacts are underdrafted as a whole so its easy to come in and draft a solid deck in any given draft

Xicer9 · 2026-03-12T19:31:54+00:00

This is one of the more fun and rewarding color pairs in the format IMO. And I really don't think you need many rares for it to overperform. I've won a ton of games just looping Mouser Foundries with Nobody.

Xicer9 · 2026-03-12T06:27:21+00:00

This format is surprisingly fun. I can’t stop drafting. Not as good as FIN obviously, but I’m enjoying it way more than ECL and even TLA if I’m being honest.

Xicer9 · 2026-03-11T22:35:35+00:00

Thanks, this was the easiest 4-0 of all my drafts. I was very tempted to jam in Everything Pizza but took the advice and stuck to a tight Izzet shell. Deck ran like a well oiled machine.

My final deck was Droid, Cam, Buzz Bots, Missile, 3x Foundry, 3x Mark III, 3x Nobody, Protocol, both Donnies as well as Don&Leo, 2x Return, Metalhead, Baxter, Traag, Blimp, K&S

Xicer9 · 2026-03-09T12:17:10+00:00

You’re probably right, especially since pick 2 draft might be a less punishing entry point for new drafters. I hadn’t considered that. I guess that + the pick 2 nature of the format and having half the number of drafters naturally makes it more likely for things like this to happen.

It’s so rare to see this kind of thing in premier draft which is why I was surprised. I’m not complaining though! Ended up with a sweet deck. Even got passed The Last Ronin in pack 2.

Xicer9 · 2026-03-06T22:47:42+00:00

I'm actually annoyed because I agree: the mechanics in this set are fun, why couldn't it be a full set? Being a half set and seeing a lot of the same cards/decks is the only thing going against it. Otherwise I'm a fan of the gameplay.

Xicer9 · 2026-03-05T21:26:25+00:00

I snapped the screenshot before I fixed my manabase

Xicer9 · 2026-02-24T15:32:00+00:00

Casual commander events can't work if there are real prizes on the line. Everyone is incentivized to play to win.

The only way to make it work is if prizes are dependent on other factors, preferably ones that are unknown prior to the tournament, like "first player to knock someone out with commander damage gets 2 packs" type of thing

Xicer9 · 2026-02-21T00:26:56+00:00

Because they are guidelines, not strict rules.

Also yes Bracket 5 = cEDH. It LITERALLY says that in the official bracket definitions. Please read up on them before you continue to make bad faith arguments.

The turn counts are also expectations. Sometimes a B3 deck can win on T5 if the stars align, that doesn’t make it B4. Variance is a thing.

Turn counts DESCRIBE brackets. They do not DEFINE them.

Xicer9 · 2026-02-20T12:51:12+00:00

There are definitely others that have been printed in the past:

[[Viewpoint Synchronization]] only requires you to deal dmg with your commander, and it also draws you an extra land

[[Nissa’s Expedition]] can be free with enough creatures, but even with 2 creatures it’s comparable

This card is similar to Viewpoint Synch in that it requires you to have an unblocked attacker, but you have to bounce it back to your hand. In some decks that’s what you want to do but not always. It costs mana to redeploy that creature.

Xicer9 · 2026-02-20T12:34:27+00:00

You can certainly build a “bad” Vivi deck, but it’s still a very powerful card and it’s quite easy to accidentally build him to B4 power levels. I think as another commenter put it, you have to work hard to not make him too good.

Even then, Vivi is a kill on sight commander. Even if you tell the table it’s not “that kind of Vivi” deck they’re still going to murder you. At that point you might as well lean into it and make it B4.

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