More recently I have gone upto 7 equipment with Embercleave, Ancestral Blade and the returning of Feast and Famine (which was due to Gilded Goose being great with Swords, although I am fairly close to cutting it again and returning to 6 equips)
While the game uses a mana system that gives you one Energy per turn, the best decks have a way of accelerating this using specific cards
Mallia95 April 8, 2025, 1:04pm 3 Thanks wisewailmer April 8, 2025, 1:04pm 4 Charizard is too wisewailmer April 8, 2025, 1:04pm 5 Assume that whole binder is Mallia95 April 8, 2025, 1:05pm 6 Thanks its not mine was going to trade been a while out of the collection now getting back at it thanks martin April 8, 2025, 4:24pm 7 Sometimes I wish 1st edition base had this shadow like the other wotc sets
(If it annoys you that Pact of Negation can target creature spells when Negate and Force cannot, I sympathize Pact unfortunately predates Negate, which messes up this neat bit of Magic taxonomy.) Force of Negation is effectively a compromise with players who begged for free counterspells to hamper the ultra-aggressive combo decks in Modern
Both images are beautiful and scary in different ways
Now, I have in the past advocated for the fact that I don't think Theoden is as bad as people think he is, most notably in this old blog post: wardenofarnor.wordpress.com However it is important to point out that there is a wide gulf between "not as bad as people think he is" and "good compared to the majority of heroes"
