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must be missing something, opponents playing flubs and they drew their whole deck, they attacked and I sacked all my lands to survive. On my turn I passed to them and they skipped right to combat phase and attacked me. I don’t compute

Lost to this card a couple times now. Can't even be mad at it. It's just wild when op has an X discount of 4 with a bajillion lands and can cast free ulamog + army. Wild fun.

I got my hands on the new [[Inspiring Easel]] from Alchemy: Secrets of Strixhaven, and it's, *ahem* easel-y one of the most busted uncommons I've seen from an Alchemy release. Though to be fair, it always seems like the uncommons are the truly busted digital-only cards.

What wasn't obvious on first read is that you can stack the second ability on the same card multiple times. If the game's at anything close to a standstill, you can keep incorporating some finisher or extra turn spell, then unload a ton of extra copies all at once. The spell gets more expensive every time you do it, but seems worth it if you're copying a [[Time Warp]] or [[Jeskai Revelation]] or something.

I suppose you could also stack extra copies of a [[Lightning Bolt]] and hit the opponent for 12 at some point, too.

Anyone playing this card? Where at, and what's the go-to spell you're trying to copy multiple times?

I started taking pictures after back to back Rofellos against the same guy, Ragavan, Teferi, Sheoldred th Apocalypse, and Magda.

How is some tribal merfolk with a few spot removal spells destined for this queue? I literally won only a single game and that is because I drew 2 of my 3 counterspells against Ugin.

Am I crazy or is Sygg a good commander? I have used him a lot since he was released, but he is not very good. Fun? Yes. Not good, and certainly not good enough for this kind of matches.

With Final Fantasy, we saw Arena Anthologies 1+2.
3+4 around Spiderman- and even got the powered cube shortly after with avatar rolling up.

So if the trend continues, that gives us a large window of them having more time to do something else.

I am still begging for a Puresteel Paladin

It's honestly pretty respectable. I'd even call it good as far as completely non meta decks go. Collected Company into Arahbo plus another cat can take you from an empty board to 4+ attackers on the opponent's end phase. If you can follow up with another lord and/or Claws Out on your turn that's probably lethal or at least forces some bad blocks.

It can grind out slower wins too tho through card advantage with Helpful Hunter to draw and Adorned Pouncer to soak up removal and then come back as a huge threat. It's also not the easiest thing to deal with since many common crowd control options only hit 2 CMC or less and will leave your 3 drops and let u rebuild your board quickly. Going card for card when I can pump out multiple attackers can be taxing on resources.

It also has a lot of baked in enchantment/artifact removal. Nobody sees Feline Sovereign coming on turn 3 so you're constantly picking off their Unholy Annex, Beanstalk or (formerly) CSC or other stuff that can run away with longer games. There's also Flanker for grave hate except it can be found with Company and trigger Arahbo too. There's also a frightening number of Izzet players who don't know that if they cast Boomerang on Stormchaser Talent and I sac Felidar Cub to destroy it Boomerang fizzles and they don't even draw.

Obviously it's not without flaws. I really struggled against Selesnya decks that can set up stupidly fast with Badger, also get 2 cards for 1 with Collected Company, and run away with games if you don't remove Enduring Innocence which this deck still doesn't have a great answer to even with all the enchantment removal (hence the Exorcize in the sideboard).

Anyway, thoughts/questions/suggestions/whatever?

Just doing MWM as normal and I randomly recreated the final duel of Yugioh DM.

It went just as expected. I was playing the new golgari alchemy deck and creating massive bodies, reanimating, drawing tons of cards, and dealing good damage to my opponent. Unfortunately for just like in the final duel, Yugi had the heart of the cards and won out of nowhere. They were playing simic and kept perpetually reducing the cost of X spells in hand, then blasted me with mathemagics X =5.

10/10 experience hope to find them again

I'm OBSESSED with Beseech the Mirror control-combo so here's another silly ass list.

Gameplan is simple: you play an enchantment that kills you, and you give it to your opponent. Play out any copies of Demonic Pact to draw out removal. Then play Greed's Gambit to draw into Harmless Offering or Beseech the Mirror. You can bargain Beseech the Mirror with the bat tokens from Greed's Gambit to find a Harmless Offering and cast it for free.

Things start to get hairy if you play enchantments blind without Harmless Offering in hand. Worst-case scenario you can use Cathar Commando or Feed the Swarm to nuke your own enchantment and stay in the game. Chaining Demonic Pacts using Beseech the Mirror is fun too: wait until you've used it 3 times, sac it, and fetch a new one!

Cathar Commando and Wojek Imvestigator are amazing in W/X control. Cathar Commando kills enchantments, artifacts, creatures and planeswalkers, dodges removal, and enables double casting to bait out counterspells. Wojek Investigator blocks for days, has vigilance, and baits the opponent into going wide so you can nuke their board with Day of Judgement. Sometimes it will even give you a clue token you can use to keep up with your opponent's hand or bargain a Beseech the Mirror.

Demonic Pact ends the game quicker but Greed's Gambit is more fun to hand the opponent because they will try to play through it. On the odd chance they do draw removal, they have to sac 3 creatures and discard 3 cards. Sometimes its worth it to kill the Greed's Gambit yourself with Cathar Commando to nuke their board and their hand, but most of the time its better to let it work its magic over multiple turns, lest they recover.

BEWARE if you have 2 pacts in play, Arena won't let you bargain the newer one to hand the opponent the older one. It will always highlight the older one no matter how you click them.

I belly laugh every time Harmless Offering resolves 🤣 I love this stupid kitten omg

Looking forward to seeing if I can pilot it well! And if Armageddon is any good in limited.

Guys, you better make it clear, I need to find the right excuses on why my next 3 decks lose all the time!!!