Portal article at MTGNews.com

[dandan]

http://www.mtgnews.com/F/Topic/1087847098009_Opening_the_Portal__Legalizing_Porta.html#CommentsBox

I'd appreciate it if you posted comments there to show there is interest in this. I only wish their software allowed pictures of Zodiac Dragon and Bear Cub.




Pictures from Essential Magic as Toad still hasn't got them up at MTGPics (still my favourite French site).

[Dr. Sylvan]

There you go, dandan. Hopefully WotC watching eyes know my alias so I don't sound like an mtgn00b scrub. :p

[dandan]

Dr Sylvan - I am sure they know that you use that Phil Stanton alias occasionally.

I am constantly amazed that people connect Portal being legalised with how many powerful cards are in it or how accessible the cards are. If Homelands or Antiquities were not allowed in Type I I would argue for their inclusion on exactly the same grounds. Remember people, Type I, as well as being the format with the most broken cards, is the format with the worst cards ever, cards that make Type II cards look uber-baaaaaaaaaroken. Temple of the False God - sucky land? Think again, you are practically a City of Brass in comparison with Sorrow's Path. Chimney Imp - bad creature? No, you a a toothy Togs'right hand man in comparison with Wood Elemental. Vex - bad counterspell. OK, Vex is a bad counterspell!! Far more than any other format, Type I is THE format with bad cards - Great Wall, Erosion, Rakalite, ...

Coastal Wizard deserves its place amongst the elite
Coastal Wizard  Creature - Wizard [1/1]   2UU  
On your turn, before you attack, you may tap Coastal Wizard to return it and any one other creature to their owners' hands.  
(Portal's Time Elemental)