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  12. Posted

    1 hour ago, A Burgerking Crouton said:

    Your posts bring me some good chuckles every now and then.  ThoughI'm probably just becoming too distant to the community, but I keep forgetting how often you're just messing around when you post, then I get worried that you're going to go all high society on us and start calling people Foucaultic Disasterpieces or some other shit that would be completely and utterly incomprehensible to people who don't study philosophy.

    I really shouldn't make opinions when I'm half tired this post took me 2 hours to write up. Granted I was watching a stream but still

    That is the greatest shit I've read in a bit. Imma keep that, Foucaultic Disasterpiece is a gem.

  14. Posted · Edited by Hina's Simp

    So, you're considering the age old argument of card velocity vs. card advantage. How would you compare Phyrexian Arena to a card like Underworld Connections that does similar things, but can be played on turn four and generate card parody, where it takes a card to cast, but can generate a care in place of itself? I am not sure what argument that you're trying to put forth; It seems pretty specific toward that advantage or velocity point of drawing cards, without much considering the outlier into playing such a card like Phyrexian Arena. Or considering the different developments of play, much like French Commander or table top with some friends.

    There really isn't not much here to argue. The biggest pull here is that Phyrexian Arena has a fixed card in Underground Connections, that does provide lasting advantage to pull you out of the game, albeit not in the same form of Rhystic Study and Mystic Remora, sure, but it is one that provides choice and point of manipulation, that Phyrexian Arena does not have. Now, there is also the argument of trigger vs. activated ability, sure, but that is getting into a whole other position.

    I really don't see your argument as fully convincing. It sets up situational paradigms that hold against not playing Phyrexian Arena, sure, but is that all you're trying to get across? I have seen many lists that play a plethora of card advantage, from engines like Phyrexian Arena (even alongside Underworld Connections), to even cards like Necropotence.

    Seems like a lazy point of conversation, that doesn't do much in the way of participating in an overall discussion of black card draw. If you want to discuss this card itself, let's talk about Phyrexian Arena; But the best point of card advantage and card velocity are that Black has many cards that have a high-range of impact, even from Mono-Black EDH shells to more color-infused ones, that even play Painful Truths. The reasoning here is drastically missed: Many EDH decks, especially in more Black-based identities, try to spread out their consistency toward many different avenues.

    Phyrexian Arena could easily be one to just have a simple engine. If we're trying to play cards like Rhystic Study: Necropotence, Greed, Dark Tutelage.

    For cards like Read the Bones, it is a stellar card. However, this is another point where you seem to be lost. The difference between card advantage and card velocity, to keep the concepts around this argument. Read the Bones is card velocity. Sure, there is advantage that it gains, but it draws cards quickly and specifically. The main crux of card velocity is that is smooths out the hand and the immediate situations. This is something that no draw engine would ever do (maybe Necropotence, but that varies on going off or going for the win).

     

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