Hippo Genocide 3 – No Witty Title
August 7, 2011
Welcome to Hippo Genocide #3 : The hippos didn’t have a witty title.
Combo players in EDH are assholes.
I shall repeat: combo players in EDH are assholes.
If you’re playing EDH you know it’s a broken format, it’s full of the most powerful cards and it’s easy to abuse them, so easy that unless a card is destructive to the format, it is just left alone to run havoc (drawing 6 cards off Skullclamp in one turn comes to mind). This is fine and dandy until you come up against that guy who is running nothing but tutors and combo pieces.
Hippo Genocide 2 – If Only They Had Hugged God
August 7, 2011
By Stephen AKA Astray Penguin
Everybody loves group hug decks, drawing extra cards, having extra tokens or a million other freebie effects. But have you ever considered what your group hug deck is really doing?
Welcome to Hippo Genocide: If only they had hugged God.
Many people like the idea of having some group hug cards like Howling Mine or Gate to the Aether which helps out everyone on the table and is a good way to speed up the game. But these cards only make the game even more imbalanced towards people running the high end ultra competitive decks, so is it really a good idea to be including them in your decks?