[Premium Article] City of Brass - When is a Card not a Card?

[TheBrassMan]

"Cards are great, but getting them or denying them has a cost. For paying that cost to be correct, it has to be less than the value of those cards, which means you have to know how much those cards are worth. "

http://www.starcitygames.com/magic/fundamentals/20310_City_of_Brass_When_Is_a_Card_Not_a_Card.html

Was an article I wanted to write for years, but never forced myself to.  I hope I did the topic justice... though I've gotten pretty positive feedback so far (<3<3).  Hope you can get something useful from it!

[Klep]

I'm pretty sure this is one of the most important Magic articles ever written.  I knew a lot of this stuff after having spent years talking with BrassMan, but I still feel like I leveled up after reading it.

[voltron00x]

Fantastic article.  I particularly like the way you looked at both Eternal formats in this one. 

[Killane]

I'm pretty sure this is one of the most important Magic articles ever written.  I knew a lot of this stuff after having spent years talking with BrassMan, but I still feel like I leveled up after reading it.

I completely agree with the non-personalized aspects of this statement. This is a hell of an article. The discussion surrounding Ancestral was particularly enlightening.

[SiegeX]

This article is now free.

[Delha]

Just read this, loved it.

The lesson here is something I try to apply to my life as a whole. It bothers me greatly that people often take a piece of conventional wisdom and follow it blindly, rather than taking the bigger picture into account and considering whether said wisdom applies to the particular case.

[AmbivalentDuck]

Solid article.  I wish more people follow the discovery of anomaly to a thorough dissection of its source.  Not only do you tell us how you went about it in a readable way, you also include a clear statement that these anomalies are actually quite common and we should pay more attention to them.