I think the awkward "any player may activate" wording is because the person who cast merseine owns the enchantment and the activated ability is only on the enchantment and not the creature, so the person who owns the creature needs to be able to activate the ability which the caster contro...

I REALLY enjoyed having Adam on tap tap concede. I enjoyed his commentary and would like to see him on the podcast more.

A lot of people are in outrage over modern masters 2015, I know I am. It feels like Wizards is talking out of both sides of their mouths on this one: "modern needs to be more accessible!" and "this is a limited print run with an MSRP of $10 a pack". These are two very conflicting...

Bearer of the heavens is like the most unfun card in my Marchesa EDH deck, cause if you have +1/+1 counters on your creatures and Marchesa out, and you sacrifice or kill bearer of the heavens. You can stack the triggers so that everything blows up and then all your creatures come back and then you j...

It's really strange that a lot of people really do not like the banners, but the obelisks were really good in Alara, even though the draw a card ability makes the banners really good. I guess it must be that with morph in the set, turn three becomes so much more important?

I understand the definition of "strictly better," if you look at the situation with lightning bolt and shock, it is always better to have lightning bolt than shock except for very niche situations. I agree with your counter spell example, counter spell is indeed strictly better same as lig...

Mana Confluence isn't necessarily better than city of brass, it really depends on the situation. Mana Confluence is strictly better than City of Brass, by the commonly accepted definition that specifically allows for "some situations". In nearly every situation it's better, so it's Strict...

Mana Confluence isn't necessarily better than city of brass, it really depends on the situation. I think you'll find that red decks or burn decks will tend to play City of Brass more than mana confluence because when you tap City of Brass you can respond to the damage trigger whir still using the ma...