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Writhing out of the grip of a Black Vise or three cast on turn one could be quite a task in the days before easy ways of dumping your whole hand – and even more so when combined with lots of land destruction. This week Sancho salutes a card restricted twice in Vintage and banned in Legacy for most of the format's life.

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Having joked about it for a long time, Sancho finally makes good on his promise to dedicate an installment of our Art Appreciation series to Douglas Shuler. And on closer inspection, the works of the most misspelled of the original 25 Magic artists as it turns out, include many iconic pieces that indeed are no jokes.

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In this new series, Sancho examines the many useless Magic cards printed through the games' history. And what better place to begin than with Alpha, the set that saw the ultimate power cards being printed literally side by side with some of the most godawful pieces of cardboard you have never heard of.

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With just a few months to go before the quarter century anniversary of summoning his first Serra Angel and with the release of a planeswalker card for the creator of the iconic angels scheduled to coincide with that celebration, Sancho merrily hums his own version of British glam rockers Smokie's greatest hit while looking at all things Serra.

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The Modern ban list is a maximum security prison with 34 inmates, some of which could potentially pose a serious threat to the meta. In this ongoing series, we're reviewing each of those offenders to see if they're eligible for parole. This time it's the turn of the green storm enabler.

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