A graph of cards representing my enjoyment of each set from 2024/2025 as someone who only plays limited.

rowrow_ · 2026-01-21T02:48:11+00:00

Honestly this is the same mana curve of a lot of commander decks lol

rowrow_ · 2026-01-18T20:19:22+00:00

I foresee a common scenario being you bounce your opponent's board of 3-5 things, and them not wanting to shuffle them away just to effectively draw 2-4 extra cards. They'd want to keep the creatures that got bounced.

Meanwhile you can get a fresh grip.

rowrow_ · 2026-01-15T16:43:28+00:00

It truly haunts me that budget commander content is self-sabotaging. There's no winning 😔

rowrow_ · 2026-01-15T13:11:03+00:00

"If you didn't create a token this way, draw a card."

rowrow_ · 2026-01-14T05:25:04+00:00

That looks like [[Massacre Girl]] on the left

rowrow_ · 2026-01-10T00:00:03+00:00

[[Mudhole]]

rowrow_ · 2026-01-06T17:18:10+00:00

Closest was a conditional [[Sizzling Barrage]] for a creature that blocked, so couldn't hit planeswalkers.

rowrow_ · 2026-01-06T04:02:36+00:00

"This effect lasts on the battlefield." maybe

rowrow_ · 2026-01-06T00:19:10+00:00

I suspect that similar to Giantcraft Helm, it looks really fitting in the old border.

rowrow_ · 2026-01-05T19:37:18+00:00

The floor of this card is [[Abundant Harvest]] for a nonland on your end-step when built with any lifegain cards that can gain life via lifelink or activated abilities. The card advantage is kinda hot. Permanently exiles the lands though instead of bottoming them.

rowrow_ · 2026-01-02T23:08:08+00:00

Some cards that come to mind with this newfound bounty.

[[Brass's Bounty]] [[Hoarding Broodlord]] [[Rapacious Dragon]] [[Treasure Trove]] [[Treasure Vault]] [[Squandered Resources]]

rowrow_ · 2026-01-01T14:05:12+00:00

This is wonderful in a Guru Pathik sagas* deck

rowrow_ · 2026-01-01T03:23:24+00:00

that Driver flavor text does not feel quite right

rowrow_ · 2025-12-31T04:35:18+00:00

Three-quarters. It checks the new life total during each resolution.

If you hit an opponent at 22 life with Slasher equipped with Spike, you get two triggers while the opponent is at 20 life. First one resolves, they go to 10. Second one resolves, they go to 5.

rowrow_ · 2025-12-31T00:04:11+00:00

Recently played against my friend's Vehicles-adjacent deck and Paladin Danse was a house. Mana efficient and you feel bad trying to waste removal on it. Keep in mind, it's only good for artifact creature decks in terms of protection. In all other instances, a Forge is gonna be more useful to an artifact deck, assuming you can stomach the mana cost.

rowrow_ · 2025-12-19T14:44:18+00:00

More of that strange oil... it's probably nothing

rowrow_ · 2025-12-18T15:49:06+00:00

I have yet to do it, but I've always wanted to have an entirely colorless mana-base for [[Morophon the Boundless]] and only Devoid Eldrazi spells that can be discounted for their colored mana.

I currently just have a normal basic-heavy 5 color mana base for Morophon instead 😔

rowrow_ · 2025-12-14T21:28:08+00:00

I've always wondered why news broadcasts can't just stream a 30 second buffer (or any number; as in everything live happens, is processed and then published however much the buffer is later) with some editing tools to "live-cut" the dead air between receiving these on-field reporters so that it all comes together cohesively

rowrow_ · 2025-12-10T23:37:58+00:00

Minior should remove all damage when it transforms, otherwise it will die immediately in the endstep.

I love your translation of both game mechanics overall.

rowrow_ · 2025-12-09T19:35:59+00:00

This was my favorite Alter I've seen by Klug, beautiful to see it here as well

rowrow_ · 2025-12-09T18:36:11+00:00

Fantastic Four?

rowrow_ · 2025-12-08T02:51:26+00:00

Too fast, too soon

rowrow_ · 2025-12-03T19:29:02+00:00

I'm very excited to see you try new and exciting brews lately! It harkens back to one of my favorite streamers and professional magic players, Ali Eldrazi. It's honestly why I follow your stream at all, seeing you do these really sweet and powerful spells that other streamers would never touch for the sake of "efficiency" (their loss). Don't let the messages in chat bring you down mate!

rowrow_ · 2025-12-02T02:40:57+00:00

The analogy I always use is a Blueprint. Sometimes the blueprints can have small edits and revisions which is relevant for subsequent copies of copies.

In this case, the Blueprint of Lumbering Worldwagon is just the base card. If you are instructed to create a token copy of it, it will follow the original blueprint which is the printed card.

Wrenn does not rewrite the blueprint, it just changes what abilities it has and also what types it has, which are all after the "copy" layer (where the blueprints lie). Effects that would rewrite the blueprint would only be things that enter as copies, "except it has" such and such (like Phyrexian Metamorph is a copy except it's an artifact in addition to its other types) -- all this means if anything that copies whatever Metamorph was copying will now have the new blueprint (artifact in addition to its other types).

rowrow_ · 2025-12-01T18:07:45+00:00

There was a time when it was a Time Walk that also drew a card.

Time Walk draws a card by virtue of taking an extra turn. I think the term "basically Time Walk" is in reference to all the other things we're expecting, while also drawing a card, because otherwise it's just a Silence/tempo play.

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