She is so underrated!!! I've played her in an Artifact based deck recently and her ability to bring back Artifacts out of your Graveyard proved to be very handy. And having Deathtouch and First Strike is pretty handy also!!!

Magic was the first tcg/ccg I learned to play and I got into it by buying the boxed starter set for 4th Edition and picking up a bunch of Revised cards.

My all-time favorite card remains the Evil Eye of Orms-by-Gore from 5th Edition. I love the art and like the name of it even more -- hey, it's a good one to say out loud for dramatic effect! -- which is more than a little weird, since I started to see my interest in buying MtG wane with the release of Mirage, months before 5th Edition would be released.

I never played at venues; only in home games, which I did enjoy. Before "Evil Eye," I played all kinds of decks. But because of that one card, my favorite decks tended to be Black & Red.

As it turned out, though, the pull of The Force proved too strong and soon, all my game dollars were going to Decipher's Star Wars ccg and, after that, to LotR cards.

But even tho' I haven't played in a very long time, I still have my Magic cards.

That said...as if I needed any proof of how long I've been away, I understand very little of what I've read here.

I've got a red beatdown deck, a red/green werewolf deck that's in progress, a red/black vampire deck that's also in progress, a green beatdown deck, a green elf deck, a black discard deck, a black aggro deck(glad to see black aggro making a comeback) and a few others. Pretty much only play on rare occasions when my other casual-minded friends can get together, which kinda sucks, but oh well. I'll take a game where I get one, y'know?

I have 2 decks both red a Golbin and a Chandra/Vampire deck. I figured I'd keep it simple, unlike in the past when I've gotten into other TCGs

The Magic discussion has really died down in here the last few days, huh?

Sure looks like it.

I'm working on a spirit deck from Kamigawa stuff and a rat deck.

I ran into the hilarious problem of running out of islands.

You guys see the complete spoiler for Dark Ascension? Nothing strikes me as great, but this set is interesting at least. Quite a few really trashy mythic rares, but I guess I much prefer that to really great ones.

Not the complete list. I better look into that.

How does everyone feel about the transforming cards?

I like 'em. Aside from a little weirdness in sealed there's nothing wrong with them and they're kind of interesting.

Archangel's Light might be the worst Mythic Rare yet. Ugh. 8 mana for a graveyard shuffle? Why not just pack an elixir of immortality instead? Sure you get less life, but it doesnt cost 50 million mana.

There's some neat stuff in there, but nothing I have to have. Kind of weird.

Elixir of Immortality was the key to my advancing in an online tourney last night! Guy actually managed to make a deck burn deck out of enough blue cards in M12 (it was an 8-man draft). We had one win a piece and the third game I was down to almost nothing in my library when I was lucky enough to draw Elixir. Whew!

Jace's Erasure and Archivist? That alone might be enough in a sealed.

That's the combo! First time I actually saw someone pull it off (almost, anyway).

Jace's Archivist is nasty.

I run it in my mill/draw deck, and it has great synergy with Underworld Dreams/Megrim too.

Well, I have now!

I think several of the cards previewed on the main site are great. My brother has already forbid me putting the wolf that prevents werewolves transforming back in my deck. : - )

I'm still absorbing the strategy, and I can't compare cards to the great cards of the past like people who have been playing forever, but the set excites me.

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I love the werewolves. It gives me a pure, primal joy flipping them over on the battlefield and watching them all get tougher. Yeah, I have to sacrifice a turn not casting anything (or get my opponent to not cast anything, but that's harder), but it just works for me.

I haven't played as much with the non-werewolf flip cards, but I sense the future will include me scrapping my current vampire deck and building a new one to play with those.