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I think we agree, then. Yes. It's the conclusion from the article I linked to. There will be more normal rares on the market if people would want the mythic rares in the same quantities as they want playsets of rares now. There will be more cards on the market. If you refer that the group...

I think you're right about rare devaluation, but I don't think it'll be because of the value of mythics. To collect playsets of mythics, you need to buy more packs that you do now (more than 0 ;) ). So I'd say the supply of normal rares will increase (more packs!), so the value will drop. Just a...

Not primarily, but they must see they can influence their own (primary) sales by influencing the secondary market.

That's a pro magic nerd. I just read a very nice article on mythic rares. I encourage you to read it. Of course you probably won't, so I'll just copy paste the juicy bit: The bottom line is that the value of the content of an average booster goes up. This means that it's more profitable to...

There are two warriors with persist, Scuzzback marauders and Furystoke giant. Especially the giant is nice, it grants all other creatures the ability to ping for 2. If you combine the card with Bramblewood paragon (gives counters to warriors when they come into play) you have an infinite loop as...

Spam, mostly. In between there's some Civilization going on.

My favorite combo is Varchild's war-riders + Leyline of singularity (or Night of soul's betrayal or Aether flash) + Tainted aether. Instead of Tainted aether you could use Dingus staff to kill immediately, but Tainted aether is pure evil. On it's own, the card is also a lot better than Dingus...

You are correct, but my point was that the addition of a land does have a purpose, whereas Oversoul stated that it doesn't. That it pisses of players is besides the point. True nevertheless. I'm not sure how much it would lower costs though. Printing cardboard probably isn't the variable cost...

It does affect limited. If they decrease set size, the chance of a certain common popping up in your booster increases. By replacing a common with a land the chance of getting a certain common decreases.

Hm well, I'd rather just pretend that never happened.

Heh. I started playing in '95, just after the release of Ice Age. That's when Chronicles got released, with only reprinted cards. Needless to say that this was going to kill magic. Personally I thought Stasis was going to kill magic ;) The african setting of Mirage would be deadly. Taking...

I just read this on SCG, copypaste FTW. There are some rares that aren't quite budget, like Fulminator mage and Magus of the moon. You won't be making friends with LD in the casual room anyway, so ditch these for either more burn or creatures. Burn is nice, but there are some nice cheap cards...

"Essentially wasting some of your money." Heh. That pretty much sums up magic for me ;)

I got that much from your start post. I'm just trying to persuade you to do something different ;) What evil combo kills you with stuffy doll before turn 6 or so anyway? Don't you have more time than those 4.625 turns? Look, I don't know you or your playgroup, but I'm afraid what you're...

Off colour solutions: splinter, cranial extraction. EDIT: Another direction: Night of soul's betrayal, midnight banshee, Ascendant evincar, Crovax. Triggered stuff: Noxious ghoul (heh, Tombstone stairwell/Vengeful dead/Shepherd of rottt FTW), plague dogs, Festercreep. Darkblast with dredge...

But Runed halo is white. Something like Puncture bolt will work.

If you want to prolong the inevitable, you could try to fit in some ensnaring bridges.

If you're playing tribal, I can imagine you want to ban some tribes. Elves, goblins and slivers make competitive decks, and their place in a casual meta is... debatable. However, if you play non-tribal multiplayer and there's no player packing silver bullets (tutorable singletons) like Night of...

Nice that I had made that call :) Anyway, try to get your hands on Midnight banshee if you want to totally hose elf, token or weenie decks. And if you consequently get rid of the skeletal vampire you can safely run the most annoying card I just thought of: damping matrix.

So, was it any good? I think you could improve the deck with Enlightened tutor. With the assortment of singletons, tutors are good. I don't know what format you're running (vintage probably, but your list looks more like extended), but if you go with legacy I'd say 4x E. tutor, and replace some...