[Trick]

Trick discusses why Necropotence was so good and the dangers / powers of Engines in Magic. What did you think?

-- Trick

[Lythand]

Nice article. I fear however every once in a while an "engine" will fall through the cracks. Sometimes they "have" to make a card broken. It provokes people to buy the sets. Sometimes they don't learn at all from thier mistakes. After all they made Yawgmoth's Bargain.

[Chopperdave]

most engines are much more easily disrupted now.  I've test swans alot and come to the conclusion that its no where near the best combo deck in the format.  I mean look what it has to compete with:  Revilark, Project 420.5n and Dragonstorm.

Swans is nowhere near as resiliant as you claimed it to be as the deck really has no plan B like the other combo decks.  I'm not trying to be an ass but if I were you I would have looked at card mechanics as an engine over a single, easily disrupted card.  FYI dredge is more powerful than necro and *gasp* it was a mechanic not a fragile enchantment.

[Trick]

Chopperdave, I never said that Swans was awesome. I never said it was good. I noted that it was an engine and that it's strength was yet to really be seen. Perhaps I could have phrased it in a more negative manner if you prefer.

As to your thoughts on Dredge. I can't disagree, however it's apples and oranges. Dredge was an entire mechanic. Was any one Dredge card stronger than Necro? On top of that, Dredge wasn't an engine. The decks that built around Dredge used it to move cards from library to Graveyard for various purposes, but it wasn't an engine in the sense of converting resources.

-- Trick