wickeddarkman

Hymn can be pretty annoying :)

What if one of your group makes "the move" and buys into power 9 ?

Ah, the beauty of death.

I guess you were inspired by user Xqc15gae :)
He has a very similar tribal deck.

Not very subtle :)

Then look up user: dedwards
Cardhybrid3 got his inspiration from dedwards take on the concept XD

That's magic sometimes.

I often find weird combos myself and say "noone else could have thought of this" then I google card a + card b, and there it is. It's a little odd sometimes when it happens with brand new cards... I've never managed to be first guy on the web with a card interaction, and it's not like I'm not trying.

I think I was first with [[children of korlis]] + [[immolating souleater]] + [[horned helm]]
But only because better versions exist.

Yeah, it's a bit of a nuisance :)
Good thing I know the card well.
I had an GR deck once based on what was once called "birdshit"
([[Chalice of the void]] & creatures that couldn't be countered)

I called my brew birdshit painter and had 12 cards that dealt with blue cards.
Later designs were pretty fast but painterless.

Harmless offering is likely to have an odd combo that mimics the old beeble donate.

There are some variants of 93/94 that include the last edition printed that year, so in a few formats you will see stuff like hymn to tourac.

It can be a very fun format except for the prices.
I have a long time habit of proxying the entire meta to play test anything I want to play with.
That way I won't end up buying something that won't work.

Still, sometimes an odd (pun intended) card can fix the problems of a deck by being somewhat different.
I've seen it again and again in my own experiments with evolution. It's rare though, and it takes a hell of a lot of research to find such cards.

Take [[horned helm]] for instance, if it hadn't been because I was searching for trample cards to put into a white deck with immolating souleater + children of korlis, I would never in my life had thought of it in a deck with burn and kiln fiend. Kiln fiend decks usually have numerous other cards to give them trample, but I've found that sometimes having the helm equipped on kiln fiend or festival crasher gives the deck a much needed defensive move. I'd never consider horned helm as being usefull if it wasn't because both decks I'm talking about are halfdecks, meant to shuffle together with another random deck. Never in a million years would I have put that card in a kiln fiend deck myself, but
Using halfdeck designs forces me to rethink cards constantly.

The point here is, you don't really know how a card will shape the way you play out a deck before you actually plays with it. Us humans think were so smart, but it can be a humiliating experience to see something unthinkable improve a deck in a direction you wouldn't have looked otherwise.

On a practical level, most people don't test very extensive, so they never try those odd cards and just wait till someone else have been through that process. It's a smart move, but rogue players will keep them on their toes.

Take a look at some of user: cardhybrid3
He really loved glass of the guildpact builds.

Didn't see the 4cc clause.
The others are clearly better options.

The mimic can copy something in play before you kill stuff, otherwise it's just a land, but 3-4 extra lands shouldn't stop gyruda.
It took me a while to learn not to always see the game as one type of scenarios.
Mimic won't be usefull in that one situation, but on average it will be good in a lot of other situations.

Metamorph isn't arena material unless they reprinted it.

It's a gut reaction from my part :)
People seem to be into copying creatures lately, so I sort of go through a small mental library.
In it I got glasspool mimic and [[phyrexian metamorph]] stored, as they are my favourites to memorize.

Metamorph because it can be in any deck and also copies artifacts
Glasspool mimic because it's also a land.

Some cards are just in the back of my head.
Everytime I see a new creature type I always go through all creatures with changeling to see if there's anything noteworthy.

Each time someone posts a sliver deck with white in it, I cry [[mirror entity]]

one day I'll put it all down on paper to free up some memory space in my head.

Glasspool mimic.

This is better known as the format 93/94

You can find the work of other people by searching for the decktag: 93/94

Here's a list I've been working on for a pro player.
https://www.mtgvault.com/wickeddarkman/decks/9394-esper-playguide/

One of the more important pieces in the list is [[spellskite]]
It's good against burn, good against boogles, good against infect
And can save phenax from stuff that ignores indestructible.

I had an esper version based mostly on draw and cheap walls.
By drawing more cards I could get to cast more walls and get phenax played faster.
All the small walls were played fast enough to hold aggro at bay.
I remember it drew so many cards that I turned to æther vial to be able to cast them all.

Here's a link to how it looked in some early designs.
https://www.mtgvault.com/wickeddarkman/decks/phenax-drawmill-2/

Unfortunately I lost the list to the finished decklist.
I have the deck somewhere but have it stored at a friend with a lot of my collection too.

[[Zealous persecution]] is a minor sweeper that allows for aggression.

White also has [[suture priest]]

Originally my milldeck faced two problems, the need to hate graveyards and protection against discard.
Back in time I used to solve this by having two leyline of sanctuary and two leyline of the void in the mainboard.
Then I discovered that relic of progenitus overs both cards.
A discard becomes negated by the draw the relic provides, and it's one of the few cards that can foil surgical extraction, making it fizzle by removing the card the enemy targets with it.

In some designs I often get to use glint-nest Crane together with relic, so it's a double draw.
(I used those two in my own phenax builds.

Historically relic of progenitus was the card that made snapcaster mage unplayable in mill. It also shuts down other parts of different mill types so try to keep this card in mind often.

https://www.mtgvault.com/wickeddarkman/decks/rdw-9394-budget/

In case you don't know, your deck format is known as 93/94

Here's one of my own decks.

I often forget the buy up chain of wotc.
But at some point hasbro bought them, and disney brought hasbro, and d&d got bought before disney entered the scene.

I think the my little pony move is about making magic more accessible for girls which are a so far unexplored player base.

There was a time in magic where I've seen and heard enough about girls to take and interest in how girls could warp the meta in terms of deck favourites.

And here's the deal, the goth environment dragged a lot more girls into the game, so the better marketing angle will be goth and emo, and when looking at it that way, crimson vow and kamigawa neon dynasty will likely bring the goth and the emo types to the game.

I personally love the guts it takes for someone to dress up vampire style and drag the girl/boyfriend to a tournament in full cosplay, with bloddy eye lenses an black fingernails.

A group of goth people entered my play area around the years where omnitell was popular.

Getting more girls into the game is a solid marketing move, and frankly, I like having them at tournaments, as well as the goths and the emos.

The whole zendikar thing with vampires trying to strike deals with older gods is lovecraftian which does appeal to the goth/emo universe and was likely why they started appearing in my game area.