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Also, Mark Rosewater, their head game designer, is someone who really loves the game: Besides leading Magic s design, he also runs polls everyday on twitter, releases two podcasts every week, writes an official article every week and answers lots of questions on any free time he has
Fauna Shaman often gets played over Survival in cube now as it at least does something on its own
I was looking at the deck recipes for the NR Festival floating around on Twitter and such, it's interesting to see what everyone wants to do with their decks
The constant pressure of the best Auras MTG allows you to commit to aggressive plays without the fear of losing your resource investment to a simple removal spell