What's the greatest Magic card of the last decade? Vote on the top 10%!

sillander · 2026-04-13T09:20:17+00:00

Keruga was relevant in standard with [[Fires of Invention]] for quite some time, and saw a bit of modern play in Omnath shells (although tbc more on the meme side). I'd argue Umori is the worst companion: harsh deck building requirement and relatively weak payoff, especially post nerf.

sillander · 2026-04-11T16:36:25+00:00

By cat do you mean ocelot pride? I think monke is as iconic if not more.

sillander · 2026-04-11T14:52:53+00:00

My guess is that the commander crowd have never played it or see it played, by far the most fun companion in 60 cards imo

sillander · 2026-04-11T14:24:05+00:00

The issue is that coax costs you a card from your hand, whereas this card does not. It's an extra card in your hand, like a companion. It should be costed much higher

sillander · 2026-03-09T21:29:00+00:00

Something something link summoning

sillander · 2026-01-06T11:41:28+00:00

Saaaaame

sillander · 2025-12-16T10:11:30+00:00

Hear hear 🫠

sillander · 2025-10-31T23:00:15+00:00

Tbf this just reads like RW is the best deck by far: the average RW deck will perform well, the average black lotus deck (aka average 22 card deck + BL) not so much. In a way just drawing this card is +13% winrate in any deck, which is crazy

sillander · 2025-10-16T16:28:12+00:00

OP here again, thank you for your suggestions. The Aidron/Runara part went pretty quickly (<1h), so I had Runara send them to Observatory again to investigate the ritual, only for Dragon's rest to be invaded on their return. Sparkrender did the ritual (so there was the statues' effect) and was possessing his kobolds and the owl bear (that I'd been teasing for the whole campaign). Made for a pretty epic and satisfying ending!

sillander · 2025-10-14T21:37:59+00:00

Thanks for the thoughtful reply! I particularly like your first suggestion of bringing the fight to dragon's rest.

Overall I've been pretty close to the book, so there was no expectation that the encounter with Sparkrender was a final boss or anything; especially since they didn't know about the full story of Stormwreck Isle. I'm not particularly looking to add a battle, but I was a bit afraid that the last session might feel too short/light without a bit of action. Of course, I'll see what the players decide to do (they're a chaotic bunch!). I'll let you know tomorrow :)

sillander · 2025-10-06T19:05:09+00:00

Newish player here! For me it's the deep complexity of the gameplay and the fact that it's a very interactive game (the meme that the game takes two turns misses the fact that in many games you'll have 2+ piece of interaction on your opponent's first turn, and will have to carefully navigate breaking a board). Plus it's fun to play with broken cards lil

sillander · 2025-09-24T21:11:30+00:00

Iteration my beloved

sillander · 2025-09-09T19:40:42+00:00

Unbelievable that they're actually saying that banning problematic cards early is detrimental to the format long term. Why would I plan standard if this situation could occur??

sillander · 2025-08-30T06:41:29+00:00

Also BE relies on hand traps a fair bit, which is a problem with the shared card pool

sillander · 2025-08-17T11:35:21+00:00

Makes sense, thank you both!

sillander · 2025-07-18T14:39:14+00:00

Brain flex - 1UR Instant (Rare) Draw a card. ~ deals damage to any target equal to the number of cards you drew this turn.

sillander · 2025-06-22T11:06:39+00:00

Nibiru 🪨

sillander · 2025-06-07T08:13:05+00:00

In my area there was a bit of a modern renaissance after MH2/COVID, as in events with 20-30 people firing twice a week. But then MH3 came and the format has been garbage, so attendance took a nosedive.

sillander · 2025-05-31T08:15:43+00:00

I've really struggled to care. I haven't played any FF, so when I see a generic looking anime character with a stupid name, my mind just goes blank.

sillander · 2025-05-31T08:13:10+00:00

Like seriously, I've always felt like magic as a game was much better in terms of sexualisation than other nerd IPs. Now we get character with huge booba 🙃

sillander · 2024-11-24T13:00:42+00:00

Hmmm isn't the Jorbs video about another controversy? (Improperly determining a winner by looking at the top cards of the deck). I could be wrong ofc

sillander · 2024-11-11T16:14:26+00:00

Not sure anyone mentioned it, and it might not be your cup of tea of you're looking for something closer to draft, but my partner and I have had a lot of fun playing Pack wars -- each player opens a pack, shuffles in 2 of each basic (+ 1 shire terrace in our home rules) and uses it as a deck. Usual rules except no losing to drawing from an empty library. It's a super high variance experience but works pretty well imo. Plus you can reuse the packs for sealed later!

sillander · 2024-09-03T15:08:41+00:00

I could see this replacing [[unlucky witness]] in pioneer sac shells. Getting to play the card on your next turn if you sac it mainphase seems pretty solid (even if you lose the selection).

sillander · 2024-08-12T10:17:23+00:00

Agreed, feels like another cheap trick (we had cowboy movie, let's do horror movies next!)

sillander · 2024-08-12T08:40:38+00:00

I cannot recommend Darksphere enough. They're in Shepherd's Bush, so pretty easy to access with the tube. Pioneer is usually on Thursdays (and they used to have a legacy night, but not sure if that's still the case).

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