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5 months ago ::
Dec 25, 2012 - 12:54AM
#51
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I was always a huge fan of Lim-Dul's Vault  back in the day, when nobody else seemed to run it. I see from its Gatherer card-rating nowadays ( 4.816! ) that it seems at least some other have caught on in the intervening years. Oblation  is another card I just love. Any-nonland-instant-permanent-removal is great in itself. Sending such a permanent back into a player's library rather than to grave is so tasty, especially to foil reanimator decks, or to put a pesky EDH general out of sight for a long while. It's awfully neat to use this on a permanent you own that someone else has taken control of. And the icing is being able to use this on yourself - if your creature is headed for death anyway (targetted by a kill spell, overmatched in combat) - or if you're simply desparate for card draws, you play this as a cheaper white Inspiration  on yourself.
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5 months ago ::
Dec 25, 2012 - 1:09AM
#52
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Date Joined:
Jun 14, 2006
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I like taking advantage of some of the old forgotten mechanics. Someone mentioned Soltari Guerrillas  . I play them a good bit along with Soltari Emissary  . Rime Transfusion  and Rimescale Dragon  from Coldsnap see some play also. I tend to play with a LOT of off-the-wall stuff.
Yeah a lot of the coldsnap stuff is overlooked.
Don't be too smart to have fun
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5 months ago ::
Dec 25, 2012 - 7:17AM
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Date Joined:
Apr 14, 2008
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I was always a huge fan of Lim-Dul's Vault back in the day, when nobody else seemed to run it. I see from its Gatherer card-rating nowadays ( 4.816! ) that it seems at least some other have caught on in the intervening years.
Oblation is another card I just love. Any-nonland-instant-permanent-removal is great in itself. Sending such a permanent back into a player's library rather than to grave is so tasty, especially to foil reanimator decks, or to put a pesky EDH general out of sight for a long while. It's awfully neat to use this on a permanent you own that someone else has taken control of. And the icing is being able to use this on yourself - if your creature is headed for death anyway (targetted by a kill spell, overmatched in combat) - or if you're simply desparate for card draws, you play this as a cheaper white Inspiration on yourself.
The vault was card disadvantage, so back in the day it was avoided. Once you hit casual/multiplayer and the need for Johnny to horrible stack his deck in order to hit the coolest win ever with two mana during that one turn where the rest of the table is tapped out doing stuffs and it becomes a hilariously awesome way to dig 60 or so. The key part to remember for said deck is that nonmultiples of 5 in your deck allow you to cycle through and change which selections are even available.
Oblation, while a cool white tuck effect in EDH, is NOT a cheaper inspiration. Inspiration is card advantage, Oblation isn't.
Luckily, we have stop-having-fun guys to remind us that having anything more than 60 cards in your deck is tantamount to being a rapist and anyone considering it should be strung up by their ****  .
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5 months ago ::
Dec 25, 2012 - 12:20PM
#54
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Date Joined:
Aug 29, 2011
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 Thanks to Long_Con for the avatar. River Guide
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Hi everyone,I have two questions.
1. If my opponent already controlled a planewalker , then he cast avacyn,angle of hope  ,and resolved on battlefield.Now his planewalker in indestructible right?
[c]Avacyn, Angel of Hope[/c] -> Avacyn, Angel of Hope 
No need to be so obtuse, maybe he's just trying to complement her. That's not too radical of a concept, I mean she is pretty acute, right?.
This right here should be a bannable offense :p
No, not an outright banning, that's too easy. He should be punished ...
... by degrees.
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5 months ago ::
Dec 26, 2012 - 7:20PM
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Global ruin  of course!
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5 months ago ::
Dec 28, 2012 - 12:34PM
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Date Joined:
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I like taking advantage of some of the old forgotten mechanics. Someone mentioned Soltari Guerrillas . I play them a good bit along with Soltari Emissary . Rime Transfusion and Rimescale Dragon from Coldsnap see some play also. I tend to play with a LOT of off-the-wall stuff.
Yeah a lot of the coldsnap stuff is overlooked.
Riding the Dilu Horse  , Dauthi Embrace  , Rime Transfusion ...
In EDH, "Instant -- Arcane" just means "copy of another card that isn't arcane".
Clever deduction Watson! Maybe you can explain why Supergirl is trying to kill me.
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Autocard is your friend.
[c]Lightning Bolt[/c] = Lightning Bolt 
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5 months ago ::
Dec 28, 2012 - 12:47PM
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Date Joined:
Sep 16, 2011
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And the icing is being able to use this on yourself - if your creature is headed for death anyway (targetted by a kill spell, overmatched in combat) - or if you're simply desparate for card draws, you play this as a cheaper white Inspiration on yourself.
Oblation, while a cool white tuck effect in EDH, is NOT a cheaper inspiration. Inspiration is card advantage, Oblation isn't.
The main part of my sentence (the part around the "or if you're simply desparate for card draws" aside) was "if your creature is headed for death anyway..."
It is no worse card advantage if you were losing the creature in play anyway. If you chump blocked some nontrample fattie, your chump blocker is going away and not killing anything whether you play this or not, so this card to draw 2 becomes as good, from a card advantage perspective, as Inspiration. If your creature has been targetted by a Murder or a Searing Spear or such, and if you do nothing your creature is going away anyway, playing this nets you the same card advantage as an Inspiration would.
Is that what this thread is about now? Nitpicking people's choices of cards they like and telling them they cannot like things they like under specific conditions because you don't like the sentence structure of how they framed their conditions?
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5 months ago ::
Dec 28, 2012 - 1:08PM
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5 months ago ::
Dec 28, 2012 - 1:50PM
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Oblation, while a cool white tuck effect in EDH, is NOT a cheaper inspiration. Inspiration is card advantage, Oblation isn't.
It  can  be  . 
So, those card are all card advantage.
If you're playing them all you're probably playing EDH, where Oblation is good and skullclamp is legal.
Luckily, we have stop-having-fun guys to remind us that having anything more than 60 cards in your deck is tantamount to being a rapist and anyone considering it should be strung up by their **** .
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5 months ago ::
Dec 30, 2012 - 8:17PM
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Date Joined:
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dual casting. A fun card in red which I'm siding into my RDW vs turbofog at the moment (there's quite a bit of turbofog in my meta unfortunately).
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