nadu gives all your creatures "target me and draw a card, if it's a land it goes on the battlefield untapped" and that activates 2x each turn, for each creature you control. 0-cost targeters like Shuko, plus creature-creators like Scute Swarm (each creature created is 2 more free activations)
had a dream about an episode of Weekly MTG (the in-house magic the gathering show) that ended with Blake Rasmussen cryptically saying "Before we go, here's something you aren't going to want to miss..." then fading to a picture of a generic Dracula that says this underneath and ending the stream:
as a control player, when asked what my favorite card is, i will always and forever say Counterspell.
but man, wurmcoil engine whips so hard. what a great spell
The cunning and adaptable Cephalid have been favorites of mine since their debut in Odyssey, 2001. I ran a one-shot D&D campaign once purely to personally resolve hanging plot threads concerning Empress Llawan and the Riptide Lab.
While mechanically inconsistent and honestly kind of poorly designed on a card-by-card basis, the Cephalid are certainly still relevant, even getting a Sexy Version in New Capenna, and starring as the centerpiece of Cephalid Breakfast decks in Legacy, one of the game’s highest power formats.
