After all, getting to show off this 16-year-old unfamiliar design to your friends at Commander Night has plenty of appeal
This is why I did a double-take when I saw one of my Twitter friends referring to a subset of newer cards as the Modern Reserved List. After all, if there is something out there that can conceivably be called the Modern Reserved List without eliciting gales of laughter, isnt it worth spending a lot of time to see if theres any truth to that claim
This can also be used to surprise opponents who try to swing in, forgetting you can just flip the Incubator into a blocker
Theyre on the cheaper end and theyre not particularly pretty, but theyll protect your decks and are pretty sturdy
While some players cautiously redact cards by writing on their inner sleeves, or are experimenting with removable tape, or printing out substitutes, I get a kick out of seeing a Magic card treated like a disposable piece of cardboard rather than an investment in your children's college fund
Ask a draft pod about their favorite format, the best deck in Standard, or-God forbid-whether Magic is better now than it was five years ago, and youll end up with a squabbling mess