It's very hard to tell what is going on with his leg

Urzatron decks in Pauper often ran lots of Fogs and life gain so they could survive into the late game. They had lots of excess mana and Bonder's Ornament was by far the most efficient draw engine. They made several hits to the deck due to its dominance but it hasn't been as good in recent years so it might be able to come off now

Pauper / [[Bonder's Ornament]] possible unban. Bonder's Ornament is a pet card of mine, goes in almost every Commander deck I run. So I was both surprised and saddened to see it's banned in Pauper. Was anyone here playing Pauper when this card got banned? I admit I was not, so never saw this in play. But this is one of the few bans that never made sense to me. Reading the notes, it was banned because Uzra-Tron was too powerful. I don't see it. Best case scenario is you get to draw 1 card on turn 3? I've seen Pauper games end before that. Is there some some broken ass combo I'm not seeing?

To be fair, the second reason for banning it is because Bonder's Ornament wasn't supposed to be a common, but got shoved into that slot due to the way it was released. That reason makes sense, but that cat's out of the bag.

Who thought Food Chain would be okay in Historic in the first place?

Tamiyo still fine in legacy apparently

Ah yes, right after Brewer's Kitchen plays it

Scheme cards are a special type of card for Archenemy format. Originally a variant of 60 card formats they brought it back as a Commander variant in the Duskmourn commander decks. Similar to how the Dr. Who and March of the Machine commander decks brought back Planechase

Nice finds, Thanks!

Scryfall does have tags for Surreal/Surrealism, but it hardly feels complete. I’m also not sure if MC Escher-inspired cards count as surrealism, but if so that would include things like Bootlegger’s Stash.

I didn't realize that scryfall had art filters as well. Still seems to find quite a few.

A lot of the art on the Duskmourn Archenemy cards play around in a similar space.

What's the story of these Scheme cards? They don't seem to be legal anywhere.

Lastly a lot of individual mill cards seem to have pretty surreal art, like Tome Scour, Millstone, Fraying Sanity, Sweet Oblivion, Mystic Redaction, or Fractured Sanity

Ohh this is interesting! A pattern emerges. The og millstone too.

Certainly, but it's finding them that's the hard part!

Scryfall does have tags for Surreal/Surrealism, but it hardly feels complete. I'm also not sure if MC Escher-inspired cards count as surrealism, but if so that would include things like Bootlegger's Stash.

A lot of the art on the Duskmourn Archenemy cards play around in a similar space.

Another plane we've only seen on 2 cards also has some reality bending art

Lastly a lot of individual mill cards seem to have pretty surreal art, like Tome Scour, Millstone, Fraying Sanity, Sweet Oblivion, Mystic Redaction, or Fractured Sanity

I really dig the artwork! Are there more surrealist/absurd cards? (Given the sheer numbers, I'm guessing yes)

I'm glad I managed to grab one while they were available.

I've always loved this artwork.

This was such a good reprint. The flavor, the art, the statement in the flavor text, everything was just so perfectly executed. I actually bought two of the dual decks so I could have them for commander.

Why is the pizza blue??

That's a nice introduction. I'm not really up to date with the lore, do we know what Ral means when he says he messed up something with the leylines ?

When I was reading M:tG actively, I encountered a bit in which a character introduced another character to a mirror. The recipient said "what's that for?" And the giver said "reflection."

Thought you should know.

Join pack, get +1/+1s... but then I'd have to fight... hmmmm. Decisions, decisions. 🐺

-- Frost

Thanks. My bad. I missed the fact that in newer cards (and thus also Tom Bombadil), "on the bottom of your library in any order" became "on the bottom of your library in a random order".

Tommer is my inspiration as a deckbuilder! Like I would watch these 3h videos even if didn't build any of them.

I never realized just how horrifying some of the art in that set was. Crawling Chorus is pretty messed up!

To add to the other comment, in general, you do as much as possible when resolving a card or effect.

The only exception is if something targets (specifically only with the word "target") and either there are no valid targets when it would go on the stack (in which case it cannot be cast/triggered/activated), or the targets all become invalid when it's time to resolve it (in which case you do nothing at all and just remove it from the stack).

So to answer your question, you reveal cards until you reveal a saga (which means you reveal every card in your library), then shuffle those cards back into your library.

With the added bonus of having your whole library revealed, making it possible for your opponent to deduce your hand via POE!

Because the effect puts them in a random order you don't get to stack your deck. If you have no sagas in the deck you effectively just shuffle the deck with no other game effects.

The meta was always to skip 6 because of this. Sadly, you're usually forced into it if the opponent hits any kind of card draw or ramp at all.

Don't worry, the Phyrexians have that covered too