Mishra's Workshop

The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale

Cabal Coffers

Tolarian Academy

Ancestral Recall

Lightning Bolt

Force of Will

Counterspell

• Mishra's Workshop
• The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale
• Cabal Coffers

• Tolarian Academy

• Ancestral Recall

• Lightning Bolt
• Force of Will
• Counterspell

Lands:

1) The original duals

2) Ravnica Shocks

3) My heart shall always belong to my first plains and island: the basics

4) Tolarian Academy , damn memnarch control...

Instants:

1) Path to Exile just for the chance it could match with Swords to Plowshares

2) Whoever was performing said ritual just got zapped. Lightning Bolt !

3) Swords to Plowshares.

4) Counterspell.

Lands:

1: Original duals

2: Tabernacle

3: Basic lands

4: Academy

Instants:

1: ancestral recall

2: lightning bolt

3: force of will

4: counterspell

• Mishra's Workshop - I just feel it's more powerful than the duals. Also, the duals have a lot of alternatives (albiet less powerful)- shocks, basics, the Glacial Fortress cycle- whereas there is no good alternative for the Workshop.
• The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale - Upon reflection, it was a mistake for me to vote for the shocks in round 1. That matchup really was a definite win for the Library just as this one is for the Tabernacle.
• Basics- We have the basics versus a card that relies on having a certain subtype of basic. I'm seeing Basic on both sides of the equation. Must mean they're a big deal or something.
• Fetch Lands- though this feels a lot like the Duals/Workshop matchup, I just love the fetch's so much. I don't know why, I just love them.

• Ancestral Recall - no contest.
• Dark Ritual - not much of a contest for me, though that may just be that I love combo decks.
• Fact or Fiction - It has just as much of a right to complain about a "totally unfair matchup" as Maze of Ith . Plus, it's way more fun to play than either Swords or Force. Note: My official vote is Force of Will .
• Capsize - Counterspells are kinda boring (not Counterspell specifically, but spells that counter in general).

1) original dual lands

2) ravnica shock lands

3) Cabal Coffers

4) pain fetch lands

1) Ancestral Recall

2) Lightning Bolt

3) Force of Will

4) Counterspell

Land Bracket##

1) The Original Dual Lands
2) The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale
3) Cabal Coffers
4) Tolarian Academy

Instants Bracket##

1) Ancestral Recall
2) Lightning Bolt
3) Force of Will
4) Counterspell

8 Mishra's Workshop - while the duals are amazing at fixing your mana, the workshop actually provides mana acceleration....and we all know that wins matchups.

11 shocklands - the haven is definitely a control enthusiasts dream, it's not very useful for most of us.

5Cabal Coffers - I don't believe the basic lands should be here, since any land with any ability is better. I also feel Lake of the Dead should've been here instead, but coffers it is.

2Tolarian Academy - i've seen more mana produced on turn 1 with this land than by any other means. I'm riding this baby to the championship!

1Ancestral Recall - card advantage is huge in magic. 3 cards as an instant for 1 mana is just too much.

6Dark Ritual - lightning bolt is amazing. when burn decks were forced to downgrade to shock, they were still good. when black lost dark ritual, they were retired.

5Force of Will - an amazing matchup here. I have to tip my hat to the free "get me out of any tough situation" card though.

2Counterspell - god i love me some blue. capsize should be run in many decks.....counterspell should be used all the time(unless you have mana drain). For 2 mana you have creature, enchantment, artifact, instant, and sorcery removal.

LANDS

(1) Original Dual Lands

(4) The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale

(5) Cabal Coffers

(2) Tolarian Academy

(5) Force of Will

INSTANTS

(1) Ancestral Recall

(4) Lightning Bolt

(5) Force of Will

(2) Counterspell

Lands

1. Original Dual Lands
   
2. Ravnica Shocklands
   
3. Cabal Coffers
   
4. Pain Fetch Lands

Instants

1. Ancestral Recall
   
2. Lightning Bolt
   
3. Swords to Plowshares
   
4. Counterspell
   

dual lands

shocks

basic

fetch lands

ancestral recall

swords to plowshares

counterspell

1. Dual lands
2. Ravnica Shock Lands because forcing you to pay upkeep on your own stuff sucks
3. Basic lands because they are the foundation of the game
4. Tolarian Academy
5. Ancestral Recall .
6. Dark Ritual is just so dang versatile and useful at almost all times.
7. Swords to Plowshares
8. Counterspell because.... Counterspell

1. Original Dual Lands - Not much of a fight, sorry Mishra's Workshop
2. Ravnica Shocklands - Close fight, but mana fixing still wins out
3. Basic Lands - No Swamp , no Cabal Coffers
4. Tolarian Academy - UUUUUUUUUU vs deck thinning? UUUUUUUU wins
5. Ancestral Recall - Not much of a fight unfortunately, much as I like Path to Exile . The extra ramp is sometimes quite beneficial to my opponent.
6. Dark Ritual - Iconic as Lightning Bolt is, Dark Ritual is just too powerful
7. Swords to Plowshares - Force of Will is awesome, but doesn't fit in as many decks as easily as StP. 2 cards to counter 1 spell is card disadvantage, unless you feel like paying 3UU.
8. Capsize - Capsize wins games, Counterspell may not.

1. Original Dual lands
2. Ravnica Shocklands
3. Cabal Coffers

4. Tolarian Academy

5. Ancestral Recall

6. Lightning Bolt
7. Swords to Plowshares
8. Capsize

Ancestral Recall

Lighting Bolt(close one)

Swords to Plowshares(no contest)

Counterspell

Lands...sorry, nothing has a chance against the #1 seed. A contest w/o them would have been interesting though. Then again, I suppose a contest w/o Ancestral Recall would have been good too.

Lands:

Duals

Shocklands

Basics

Tolarian Academy

Instants:

Ancestral Recall

Lightning Bolt

Force of Will

Counterspell

1)Original Dual lands

2) The Tabernacle

3) The basic lands

4) Tolarian academy

1) Ancestrall recall

2) lightning bolt

3)Swords to plowshares

4)Counterspell

"When Richard Garfield designed this card, it was thought that giving a creature +3/+3 until end of turn, gaining 3 mana, doing 3 damage, preventing 3 damage or gaining 3 life, and drawing 3 cards were all the same power level."

Ok yeah I get that you were saying that for dramatic effect. But still:

No it wasn't. They're even different rarities. Also Garfield mentioned it in one of his lectures... although he might have been fudging the facts a little bit...

Best land ever printed: Tolarian Academy its the most obviously broken card ever printed. Yes dual lands are good, etc but the academy rules over all. There is really no debate.

1. Original Dual Lands
2. The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale
3. Cabal Coffers

4. Tolarian Academy

5. Ancestral Recall

6. Dark Ritual
7. Swords to Plowshares
8. Counterspell

Never noticed that theme of 3's with all 5 of those instants you're talking about. Interesting.

1. DUALS
2. TABERNACLE
3. CABAL COFFERS
4. FETCH
5. PATH
6. DARK RITUAL
7. SWORDS
8. COUNTERSPELL

1. Dual lands. They're just the best.
2. Shocklands. They're just the second best.
3. Basic lands are still the way that literally everyone plays Magic. Every good deck has basic lands.
4. Tolarian Academy is the most unfair magic card ever.

Instants:

1. Ancestral Recall . I can't believe people are voting for Path.
2. Lightning Bolt . I think it's just a better Magic card. Dark Ritual is pretty neato and gets cool turn 1 or 2 plays, but lightning bolt can negate most of the ones involving creatures, particularly Phyrexian Negator .
3. Swords to Plowshares is the best spot removal in the game.
4. Capsize is a stupidly good card.

@ vic - Yeah, Giant Growth , Ancestral Recall , Dark Ritual , Lightning Bolt , and Healing Salve were intended to be a little mini-cycle of sorts. I always found it interesting how they turned out: Healing Salve is laughably bad (though I remember thinking that if you can PREVENT 3 damage, that's similar to DEALING 3 damage, right?), Giant Growth is respectable, Dark Ritual and Lightning Bolt are slightly above modern power levels, and Ancestral Recall 's effect now costs four mana and moves at sorcery speed.

1. The Dual Lands win because even though Workshop is very (extremely insanely etc.) powerful, the Duals make the world go 'round
2. The Shock Lands win because even though Tabernacle is very (extremely insanely etc.) powerful, the Shocks make the world go 'round
3. Cabal Coffers wins because I'm not going to type all that a third time
4. The Fetch Lands win because they let you play 10+ copies of the duals/shocks in your deck

1. Ancestral Recall wins because of power and because I've grown to like Path less and less as time passes
2. Lightning Bolt wins because it's been used to set up and stop even more insane plays than Ritual has enabled
3. Swords to Plowshares wins because it's just as powerful as Force but more elegant and beautiful
4. Counterspell wins because it's just a better card

1. Original Dual Lands
2. The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale
3. Cabal Coffers
4. Tolarian Academy
5. Ancestral Recall . I really wanted to vote for Path, but the Recall is so powerful.
6. Lightning Bolt
7. Swords to Plowshares . I really don't like the card disadvantage of Force.
8. Capsize . This has a special place for me.

Lands:
Original Dual Lands
Ravnica Shock Lands
Cabal Coffers
Pain Lands

Instants:
Path to Exile
Dark Ritual
Swords to Plowshares
Counterspell

duals,shocks, basics, fetches, ancestral, bolt, force, counterspell.

1. Mishra's Workshop b/c artifacts
2. shocklands - strong fixing expecially in modern when combined w/ fetches
3. basics - b/c one of them produces red mana... the other does not.

4. Fetch lands - strong fixing and thining expecially in modern when combined w/ shocks.

5. Path to Exile nice kill spell and they don't even get life so it works for boros!

6. Lightning Bolt still some of the best burn ever printed.

7. Swords to Plowshares so white can kill stuff too

8. Counterspell i vote oh so reluctantly... but since this is a blue card face off less wordy one wins.

1. Mishra's Workshop
2. The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale .
3. Basics
4. Tolarian Academy
5. Ancestral Recall
6. Lightning Bolt
7. Force of Will
8. Counterspell

(1) Original Dual Lands ( Badlands - Bayou - Plateau - Savannah - Scrubland - Taiga - Tropical Island - Tundra - Underground Sea - Volcanic Island ) because dual lands are good.

(2) Ravnica Shocklands ( Blood Crypt - Breeding Pool - Godless Shrine - Hallowed Fountain - Overgrown Tomb - Sacred Foundry - Steam Vents - Stomping Ground - Temple Garden - Watery Grave ) because dual lands are good.

(3) The Basic Lands, because basics are OP and because Cabal Coffers is pretty worthless without either Swamp s or Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth .

(4) Pain Fetch Lands ( Flooded Strand - Polluted Delta - Bloodstained Mire - Wooded Foothills - Windswept Heath - Misty Rainforest - Verdant Catacombs - Marsh Flats - Arid Mesa - Scalding Tarn ) Because dual lands are awesome.

Instants Bracket

(1) Path to Exile is bloody awesome, and not inherently broken.

(2) Lightning Bolt because good spot removal holds a place in my heart.

(3) Swords to Plowshares because spot removal and not inherently broken.

(4) Counterspell is super good.

1. Original Duals
   
2. The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale
   
3. Cabal Coffers
   
4. Pain Lands
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5. Ancestral Recall - Must. Draw. All. The. Cards.
   
6. Dark Ritual - Turn 3 turn 1? Don't mind if I do.
   
7. Swords to Plowshares - Best targeted removal indeed.
   
8. Capsize - EDH bias prevails.

1) Original duals

2) Ravnica shocks

3) Cabal Coffers

4) Fetchlands

1) Ancestral Recall

2) Dark Ritual

3) Swords to Plowshares

4) Counterspell