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For what it's worth, I made my own Deck of Many Things for 4th Edition in January of last year. The design intentionally strayed from the idea of the DoMT as a world-altering artifact, instead being designed to be used during combat and used frequently.

If that's the metric you want to use, then every card should have the ruin descriptor. There's literally nothing there which seems better than having the deck of many things. The only ones that are even questionably worth it are the Comet and Knight, and even then... I'd rather not. As you said...

The Deck of Many Things is up: Dungeons & Dragons Roleplaying Game Official Home Page - Article (The Deck of Many Things) Personally, I'm underwhelmed. The effects of the cards just don't feel... potent. Of course, among the first cards is Balance, a "ruin" card which means it's supposed to be...

There's a wiki for it on Wikia, though it doesn't seem that hot... There's a lot of info about Magic on Wikipedia, though. Here's a good hub: Magic: The Gathering storylines - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Well, first you should figure out what sort of range you want. How frequently should an average character get an extra action, what about a good or a poor one? What are the extreme limits? Here are some ideas, irrespective of the range. 1. Each player gets a speed point at the end of each...

Only slightly more dull than playing Shadows in the first place. ;)

Pretty much just the Eldrazi. This is the first time in Magic history, as far as I can recall, where we've seen anything that was from "beyond the pale," so to speak. Until the Eldrazi, planeswalkers have been the only "otherworldly power," and even they were each born as mortals. All the "gods"...

Not so much... Here's an example that happened to me in the prerelease. Turn 1: Land, go (it was 5 AM and I messed up, I should have played my Joraga Treespeaker, but forgot) Turn 2: Land, Joraga Treespeaker Turn 3: Land, Level up Treespeaker (it can not tap for GG) Turn 4: Land, Ondu Giant...

Well, that's not quite accurate... I'm almost positive Rise of the Eldrazi was completely done, or at least significantly done, long before players got their first previews of Zendikar. Mark Rosewater's said that they were worried about how popular the "land matters" theme would be, and so a...

Glad to hear that you had such a good experience, Eric! Also, you're probably lucky to get those theme decks, AFAIK they're not actually supposed to be on sale til next week. o_0 I did want to mention that, after playing in the prerelease this morning at midnight, I think Eldrazi would be an...

Wanted to add something similar. At Toys N Things in Danvers, MA last week we had two new players. One of them was probably in his mid 20s, which is average for the group there, but the other was quite young, probably somewhere in the 7-10 range (yeah, I suck at estimating ages). His father...

Money = win is at best a half-truth, and at worst an outright falsehood. In constructed tournaments, it is often necessary to spend a fair amount of money to be competitive-- BUT that's (sometimes) necessary, and never sufficient. You also need to be able to build a good deck for your meta game...

The prerelease is tomorrow, and I can't wait for it. It promises to be a very different game, at least with respect to limited. Instead of a mad rush to kill your opponent before he can do the same to you, the ground is clogged with efficient, very playable defenders which give people time to...

A while back there was some effort to create a "gamer symbol" which could be easily recognized by other gamers. The symbol decided on was: And it was dubbed "Go Play," something about reminding people to get out there and actually play, as opposed to just sitting on the intertubes and talking...

The Duel Decks are limited, and the older ones can be quite pricey... Just checked Star City Games, and they've got Divine vs. Demonic (which I would have recommended as a good simple one) for $40, Elves vs. Goblins for $70 and Jace vs. Chandra for $70. Besides Phyrexia vs. The Coalition, the...

Well, the swastika also has an entirely different (and much more positive) meaning, but some things get such a strong connotation to them as to wipe out any previous meaning the thing may have had. See also the word decimate, which no one actually uses correctly.

Just wanted to mention that I picked up Phyrexia vs. The Coalition today and gave it a few plays. Phyrexia is monoblack and a bit more aggressive. Coalition is 5-color domain (though it only has a splash of black and blue). Both decks have some control elements in them. Both decks have a lot...

Well, this is embarassing... No sooner did I give Nifft some xp then I realize I meant Solomon, not Midas, and further there's no way for me to edit that or even call attention to it. Ugh.

Just to go another tack, blood demands blood: the paladin's debt can only be repaid with a ritual sacrifice. Presumably, he would refuse to give such a sacrifice for a variety of reasons, and then the gods would send out their lackeys to hunt down the paladin. A marut, I think, would work very...