Abaques on Star Trek (2009): the 15th …

a few seconds ago

Funny story about this movie. I'm a huge Trekkie and so is one of my oldest friends (none of our other friends are really into it). When the movie came out he was in the middle of a year-long deployment to Iraq.

A couple weeks after the movie came out I got a call from his wife asking if I would be around so he could call me in 30 minutes. She said it was important but didn't say why he needed to talk to me. After she hung up I got nervous about why he needed to call me right then. Was he okay? Had he been wounded or something? I was getting worried about him when he finally called.

Why had he called? To bitch about a whole bunch of continuity issues in the Star Trek movie. He'd totally missed the bit about the alternate timeline and when I brought that up he totally got it and thought it was an okay movie. But it was super funny that he called me up to talk about a Star Trek movie from half-way around the globe.

Bookrook on Judge's Tower *Primer*

51 minutes ago

Experimental Frenzy and Eye of the Storm can be fun cards.

legendofa on First Pauper Try

1 hour ago

First thing I see is that there aren't any one-mana options. Akoum Hellhound can get some early pressure, or Jaddi Offshoot gives you time to develop. And Lightning Bolt is an option, too.

This is more of a personal preference, but I would use Ash Barrens or Evolving Wilds/Terramorphic Expanse over Promising Vein.

Still, this is going in a good direction. I can't call myself a Pauper expert yet, but this looks very solid.

legendofa on Card creation challenge

2 hours ago

I'm just going to do something super simple, which I might have even done before, but I don't remember, so here are Deserts with basic land types.

Scoured Hamada

Land - Plains Desert

(: add .)

"Relentless sun, cutting wind, and rocks. You can't drink from a rock." -- Mestos the Cartographer

Brine Playa

Land - Island Desert

(: add .)

_"Water, but it's useless. And the salt cuts your feet to shreds." -- Mestos the Cartographer

Decaying Cienega

Land - Swamp Desert

(: add .)

"Finally, clean water! Too bad it smells like sewage." -- Mestos the Cartographer

Scorched Buttes

Land - Mountain Desert

(: add .)

"Very pretty. Very colorful, like walking through a sunset." -- Mestos the Cartographer

Bushy Chaparral

Land - Forest Plains

(: add .)

"I was surprised to see such lush growth. They even don't taste horrible." --Mestos the Cartographer

Create a card that would go in your favorite set.

Eloniel on Nobody has the intention of …

4 hours ago

Another suggestion that might worth include in this deck is: Invasion of Ikoria  ^Flip, a tutor or recursion on the front and a wincon on the back to make all our defender unblockable.

lil_cheez on Boros Puppies

6 hours ago

I second Battlefield Forge, maybe you could try two of that and two Boros Garrison

Instead of Legion's Judgement I'd go with Valorous Stance!!

Dogpile and Release the Dogs are not very powerful but fun

There are two basics with dogs on the art, if you'd care for that

Also, pretty cool deck, this has a feeling a haven't felt in years :)

Stodge17 on G/B graveyard/reanimator deck

7 hours ago

Thanks I appreciate your input and yes I agree I need to modify my creatures add more heavy hitters that will better align with the recursion aspect of my deck!

I’ll look work on removing squishy creatures that aren’t as powerful or ones that don’t align with the theme of my deck!

You are also correct with Meren, it takes time to ramp the counters so it would be a much different deck if I tailored it to Meren.

My only fear of having fewer creatures is if I play against players that have cards that exile my graveyard which will prevent the recursion and ultimately clean me out of creatures since I’ll have used them all and I’ll be left helpless with nothing to block.

Craeter on There Can Be Only “One”

7 hours ago

Nice theme, and good job it looks like you've added most all of the staple 1 drop / cards.

Here's a few more to consider: Heritage Druid, Copperhorn Scout, Llanowar Mentor, Scute Mob

Craeter on Standing Stones | Archelos, Lagoon …

7 hours ago

Sweet thanks for the explanation, yes all those trigger granting abilities make sense.

Good work, glad to see a new deck from you!

Tonight I believe will be playing at a friend's place who has not seen my new decks, so it should be interesting.