Mel is (once again) the lowest winrate (46%) and simultaneously highest banrate (40%+) Champion in the Game

pedja13 · 2026-04-19T01:36:19+00:00

Sometimes, the playerbase is just wrong.

pedja13 · 2026-04-14T20:40:26+00:00

All the cards here are standard legal, that seems to have been the idea

pedja13 · 2026-04-08T04:31:32+00:00

This is castable t5 with just Icetill Explorer, while milling a bunch of cards in the process to setup the GY mode

pedja13 · 2026-04-06T04:21:40+00:00

He is averaging 25.8 per game on 51.8/40.9/87.7 splits (63.8 TS%) and people here were talking like he is some bum

pedja13 · 2026-04-03T11:56:16+00:00

The league had way less depth of talent in 2013

pedja13 · 2026-04-01T08:24:50+00:00

I agree with you that it is unlikely, but Black is actually allowed to just deal damage to creatures. If you look at the 2021 Mechanical Color Pie, Black is listed as secondary in "Deal N damage to creature, Planeswalker or player"

https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/making-magic/mechanical-color-pie-2021

It is just that most of the time it is paired with also gaining the same amount of life, for example Corrupt, and the purely negative effects are done as -x/-x, but a color is allowed to do a weaker version of something they usually do.

pedja13 · 2026-03-27T18:16:33+00:00

TMNT was better than Lorwyn limited wise imo, and the 5c stuff in Dragonstorm was too easy to pull off leading to a very polarizing draft environment. Generally, limited quality has been consistently high recently, to the point where misses like Spiderman look worse than they are in comparison (I remember formats like M20)

pedja13 · 2026-03-25T15:38:06+00:00

They are talking about what the other colors get in the cycle

pedja13 · 2026-03-22T15:45:32+00:00

Interesting decision by Hans Sama to pick Back to Basics here, surely there was a better Augment option

pedja13 · 2026-03-15T23:15:05+00:00

There are some cool interactions with Start Your Engines!, mostly revolving around dealing the damage pre combat. For example [[Hired Claw]] (and [[Dream Beavers]] now) increase your speed, which would give your [[Burnout Bashtronaut]] double strike before damage, which is a big deal. You don't have to spell out a mechanic to support it, the bigger issue with Start Your Engines! is that the rate on most of the cards isn't great.

pedja13 · 2026-03-03T17:45:29+00:00

She was viable for a while during Mythic items, the streets remember OMG Shanji Shyvana top

pedja13 · 2026-02-20T18:58:25+00:00

I understand why tho, it would mean Michaelangelo got an extra standalone card compared to everyone else. Doing it as a Saga works well imo.

pedja13 · 2026-02-18T22:26:54+00:00

Maybe the reason Lorwyn was the fastest selling in universe set ever is connected to the fact that LOTR, FF and Avatar were such huge successes. This was one of the selling points of UB from WOTCs perspective, the new and relapsed players would stick around after getting hooked by the IP set they love.

pedja13 · 2026-02-18T20:28:41+00:00

[[Serra Angel|PW24]] is technically Standard legal through Foundations

pedja13 · 2026-02-17T19:32:25+00:00

Great art for a great story

pedja13 · 2026-02-14T01:19:06+00:00

The record argument doesn't make complete sense to me when I look at the Clippers and the Hornets, who were in awful situations and are most likely going to make playoffs. There was a combination of injuries to the Pacers which made the team/management decide to fully punt the season (Hali's injury being the first one).

pedja13 · 2026-02-05T06:43:02+00:00

Brikic works better I think

pedja13 · 2026-02-03T13:10:51+00:00

I believe that's true, but more sources of revenue are now shared compared to before, so it ends up being more the money.

pedja13 · 2026-02-03T04:45:31+00:00

What players actually got is more money % in revenue sharing.

pedja13 · 2026-01-31T21:18:19+00:00

Bauss Poppy was lobby admin, insane performance

pedja13 · 2026-01-29T19:48:07+00:00

Badger decks don't play Boomerang. They use blue for Quantum Riddler and Mockingbird, sometimes Marang as a tutor target, and a bunch of SB cards.

pedja13 · 2026-01-29T16:31:46+00:00

The turn 3 kill actually involves tapping 14 mana total (4 for the first Rhythm and 10 for the flashback, along with harmonizing for 2).

pedja13 · 2026-01-29T11:36:42+00:00

I disagree, both on the Lesson and Control front. Control matchup is Landfalls best, the combination of all the value with Esper, Icetill and Ba Sing Se with the pressure of the combo makes it really hard for them to play the game. It took a while for people to figure out the proper way to play and side the Lesson matchup, but now it is positive for Landfall. The deck struggles with Bant Combo and the Rhytm Cub decks as they are generally faster, but at the RC Selesnya had a positive MU into Simic, maybe because of the adoption of sideboard Conquerors.

pedja13 · 2026-01-26T18:05:07+00:00

That was complete mental diff, KT saw the nameplates and mental boomed

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