So frustrating

He also lost a ton of landdrops

It was super interesting to follow as a Magda player. Couple of things i noted. - Be careful presenting a win into no stax protection. The transmogrant should perhaps have stayed in hand. Personally I would have bolted Magda, end player 3 turn instead of the Drake. As you still present a next turn win or at least tutor, but it doesn’t look nearly as obvious as when keeping the Magda on board. Second thing is how good portal to phyrexia would have been instead of bogarden. Taking care of the whole board setting and making a value engine would have been super strong. Still not sure of the card, but here it would have been awsome. Thanks for sharing the great game!

He was so young

Yes it would have!

Good catch! Yes it definitely would have been better.

That probably would have been a better line, yes.

Because Haldan doesn't let you do that? Unless I'm missing something.

@@alexmcgregor8658 Haldan says play, not cast, so you may play lands

Cool. Thanks for pointing it out.

Because it's an optional effect: > When CARDNAME enters the battlefield, target player _may_ search their library for a card with the specified name, reveal it, put it into their hand, then shuffle. The target would either go "nah, I'm good" or "sweet, a free shuffle," none of which are particularly good for the ability's controller (barring edge cases where one player is about to go off and the rest of the table scrambles to keep them from it). Not to mention cases where the other player has that same partner pair just in the 99.

Of course! We have a video about exactly this (kzfaq.info/get/bejne/b5OSf5OjzsfdmYE.html), but if you want the TL;DR it's this: In blue decks you can fetch Mystic Sanctuary, and sometimes you need shuffle effects to get rid of cards you don't want on the top of your library when you're playing Brainstorm, Bolas' Citadel, Future Sight Effects, Sensei's Divining Top, or Sylvan Library. It also enables landfall strategies.

@@TheSpikeFeeders on top of that, there’s the glaring advantage of fetches basically reducing the deck size, it’s a card slot that gets another card directly out of the deck, further increasing the reliability of subsequent draws by removes lands from the remaining cards. Shuffling with brainstorms and other similar effects is just icing on the cake!

Titania, Protector of Argoth loves fetches.

He can't keep getting away with this

@@TheSpikeFeeders every game with this ..can u guys play decks without blue

If you mean pretzel snack, likely Combos

@@alexmcgregor8658 no. It said pretzel stack for the Magda intro

Then I misspelled Snack, meaning Combos

@@alexmcgregor8658 I see. In addition, your profile image looked eerily like the guy who played Pako Any responses before this comment resolves?

It does resolve but does nothing, as you cannot exchange the permanents. 701.10a A spell or ability may instruct players to exchange something (for example, life totals or control of two permanents) as part of its resolution. When such a spell or ability resolves, if the entire exchange can’t be completed, no part of the exchange occurs.