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I think the fact that it costs 4 mana is more prohibitive than anything else. It's a nice finisher in a control deck, but so far monoblack control doesn't really work. There's a deck like Trainwreck and the Gate. In the gate it could replace Abyssal Persecutor. [4x] Dark Confidant [4x]...

Dredge and madness work together, because for dredge or madness to work you need a discard outlet. A dredge/madness control deck however... Okay, Psychatog is a good creature to build a control deck around. There are few Dredge control elements though. There's Life from the Loam, but that card...

Friends are overrated ;)

With an inverse Negator effect the trample doesn't really matter, because who in it's right mind would block it? Still, the difference between 3 and 4 mana is huge: 3 mana is Dark Ritual territory... And besides that, Negator was 2B, so you could play it off something like Ancient Tomb. If this...

A bit more news on the decks that were mentioned in the first article: Commander Decks product images. So each box contains three "wedge" commanders, and two of them are new. I'm looking forward to the actual decklists! I'm considering buying one. I have a B/G and a R/G deck now, it would be...

I don't know if any of you reads mtgsalvation's spoiler, but there's a card on it that caught my attention: a 5/5 with trample for BBBB. So, you ask, what is it's downside? There has to be some major drawback like Juzam had, or Negator, you say? Well yes sir, there is a drawback! Whenever a...

Indeed... Actually, there are way too many options to build something with madness. What are the madness card you want to build around?

Zombie Infestation is also a nice madness outlet. Perhaps you could pick up some Squee's or Life from the Loam. Dredge (LftL, Golgari Grave-troll), incarnations (Brawn, Anger) and flashback (Cabal Therapy) are all mechanics that work nicely with Madness.

Try Vengevine in a madness deck if you don't want to have any friends.

On the bright side: it's not that bad to have a clear antagonist.

Actually, I was trying Mesmeric Fiend in my Survival deck at the time, but that's pretty much obsolete nowadays.

Yup, drama. Yesterday I spent some hours rebuilding some of my decks: my Savra EDH deck, my lame zombie deck, my VWR deck, my Elf combo deck. I also build my second EDH deck, with Ulasht as the general. In the process I disassembled some other decks. This was actually a sad business. I have a...

Well, it's what I'm here for ;) If you answer my questions I think I can give you more pointers. They sound like dumb questions, but it helped me streamline my EDH decks. The trigger was a recent article on dailymtg.com. Basically, at first you try to put as many strong multiplayer cards in...

Your creature count is a bit low, and you're also low on recursion and card draw. Those aren't needed, but you're playing a control deck. If you're depending on counters you have to make sure you draw more than your opponents. I'm not sure what the idea behind the deck is. How do you aim to win...

He also had a comeback at SCG, but apparently he quit again.

I've read his articles at SCG. Somehow it seems that since Wizards screwed up the color pie writing about monocolored decks is somewhat irrelevant. He's a good writer though.

Aren't you guys playing with the 21 commander damage rule? If you aren't, and will next game: I think it's useful to track the damage from each commander to each player as well, like you're now tracking life, hand and library. At least that'd make it easier to follow the game.

I have the feeling that Magic has a higher attraction for people with issues than it has for "normals". I guess this is the case for all sub-cultures, but at least for Magic it seems very clear: a lot of magic players aren't very confident people. Frankly, we're all nerds that were picked on in...

Meh. "This is going to cost me a lot of rating points" could mean more than what you made of it. It's also something that's said to new players that are obviously talented. DCI ratings are global; I play a lot of FPS online, and you hear the same thing on public servers a lot when there's a new...

The "Beacon" mechanic from 5th dawn is also back.