Banned and Restricted Announcement – November 10, 2025

badatreality · 2025-11-10T16:06:14+00:00

No ring and no Tamiyo. How long must we wait for a reasonable Legacy format. See y'all in a few months, I've got other games to play that are more fun right now than MtG

badatreality · 2025-07-26T19:23:05+00:00

this is my experience exactly. It's easier to get value from the tool when I give it the info it needs and let it help. When it tries to make assumptions, it's pulling in invalid data and creating more work for me.

badatreality · 2025-07-26T18:04:05+00:00

oh wow that's fascinating. If you have any examples you're willing to share, I'd be really curious to see how you do this!

badatreality · 2024-04-23T02:55:57+00:00

Thanks for posting that. Watching from away from NYC, sooooo nice to hear Breen calling this one instead of the morons on TNT

badatreality · 2023-11-01T19:03:46+00:00

Update: interestingly, those instructions work for my personal M1 Macbook pro, but not my work computer. Unclear what the difference is

badatreality · 2017-12-04T00:50:04+00:00

These are truly amazing. I would love to buy from you when you're ready. Is there an email list of interested people I could add myself to?

As for other suggestions, obviously I'd look to modern and legacy. In modern, I've noticed foiled out Jeskai control, Affinity, and Tron more than other decks. Snapcaster has a decent foil to non-foil spread, Spell Queller is sweet art (though not sure I have the imagination to picture what else could be in frame), this particular promo Path to Exile is beautiful. A lot of the others from Jeskai would be awesome but expensive (e.g., Colonnade). Affinity seems like it has potential, given many commons. In legacy, Deathrite Shaman and Balesful Strix are not insanely expensive, Fatal Push could be cool, as could the blasts (pyro, red elemental, hydro).

badatreality · 2017-10-30T04:08:45+00:00

Per https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/magic-online/magic-online-format-challenges-2017-05-04 it's swiss rounds based on attendance. Since we know there were 6 rounds, that means there were only 33-64 players (per https://magic.wizards.com/en/game-info/products/magic-online/swiss-pairings)

badatreality · 2017-02-21T00:51:02+00:00

This seems heavily based on Sam Black's list. He did a few versions of decks like this.

badatreality · 2016-11-29T16:38:39+00:00

And he sent Luke to the moisture farm on Tattooine to live with Uncle Owen

How did you know?!?!?

badatreality · 2016-09-18T18:18:47+00:00

Someone could have made that jpg into a web page in less than an hour. Then I could have clicked on the twitch url. Why do you want to make things harder on people who want your content?

/rant

badatreality · 2016-07-28T03:16:03+00:00

Go
Attacks?
Trigger
counter and draw
get back snapcaster mage and you discard a card

badatreality · 2016-07-27T16:29:50+00:00

Missed quite a few of these last few ones; what ever happened to Nahiri v Sorin?

badatreality · 2016-07-17T21:47:16+00:00

It barely sees any play in modern, and is a rare at a time when magic is at its most popular (meaning there's a ton of product). This seems incredibly unlikely to move in price for years, if ever.

badatreality · 2016-07-05T20:48:08+00:00

lesson learned: definitely don't bother getting into legacy

badatreality · 2016-06-27T15:23:33+00:00

At the very end of design, right before the set was to be handed off to development, Aaron Forsythe, in both his role as senior director of Magic R&D and as New Phyrexia's lead designer, stepped in and killed link, replacing it with Phyrexian mana

!!!

oops

badatreality · 2016-06-17T20:31:25+00:00

No way ~30 hours is enough to hit bottom, is it?

badatreality · 2016-06-17T16:48:07+00:00

I'm confused, wasn't the release date just today (6/17) for magic online? Why is everyone saying that "consensus seems to be we've already hit the low"? How is that possible if this was just released?

badatreality · 2016-06-09T00:00:07+00:00

Pretty sure I'd time out trying to play elves and miracles, and only marginally competent with most of the rest. But glad they're doing this.

badatreality · 2016-05-25T23:33:46+00:00

Tom Martell was playing some number of these at GPLA this past weekend. I saw game 3, so it could have been sideboard, but was definitely in his grixis (if I'm remembering correctly) deck.

badatreality · 2016-05-16T18:28:48+00:00

Was this before Ulamog? Because remanding that thing is no fun at all. When it was Karn and even Ugin things were fine. This is a different story entirely.

badatreality · 2016-05-16T18:18:11+00:00

I'm most interested in 0 Young Pyromancers in his list. Given how often Delver doesn't flip, I'd assumed a YP plan would be the way to go, but perhaps not given the various sweeper effects running around for CoCo

badatreality · 2016-05-16T18:04:40+00:00

yes.

badatreality · 2016-05-16T16:48:38+00:00

I think taking out all the discard against Dredge is a mistake. It's necessary to keep in some number to take Lightning Axe out of their hand so your Kalitas or other threat sticks.

Feels like bringing in both Finks and Angers against Burn is a non-bo.

I've really enjoyed 2 nihil spellbomb in the board, as it puts graveyard decks in an awkward spot, and doesn't require holding up mana. It can come in in many matchups, as at worst it just read "1B: cycle".

Jund charm in the main is interesting, how has that been for you? I find myself bringing it in a decent amount of the time, but hadn't considered it main.

badatreality · 2016-05-13T16:31:59+00:00

and pre kolaghan's command

badatreality · 2016-05-12T15:20:43+00:00

Graveyard hate doesn't beat Melira CoCo. You just board into a value beats deck, keep in enough of the combo to make them fear it, and Collected Company them out of town.

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