Recent content by LadyMapi

That's a Reno and Rude variant and you know it. :p I think you're both skipping a step - UB sets are primarily aimed at people who don't already play Magic, and who in many cases are probably buying them as collectibles instead of as game pieces. Introducing stuff like Mayhem and Sneak has...

I want to suggest Powerstone Shard but it's one of those "middling unless you're actually breaking it" cards that we all know and (presumably) are fond of so it wouldn't be fit for purpose. Put me on team Coalition Relic, which I think fits the specific niche you need it for best.

Yeah, my only real gripe with the land is that it's a 3/3 Robot Villain named Doombot instead of just being a 3/3 Robot. (Actually, would it have killed them to make it a Construct? We've gotten almost a hundred Robots over the past couple of years and I'm still not sure why they aren't just...

Am I the only one who feels like a lot of the designs are just kinda... bland? Maybe it's my aversion of Hero and Villain as card types that makes me less interested in the designs, but man it feels like a lot of stuff we've seen before. Some cards that are kinda neat, I guess? Shuri, Wakandan...

I feel like Putrid Detonation would actually be more interesting if it didn't target, like an inverse Devour Flesh. Does villain sac a token to maintain their board position, or do they sac something bigger to counter-fling?

I love how you don't even acknowledge the 3 life option. :p I'd lean towards Charming Prince, because when I look at Ennis it gives me the same "here's a signal of what White's good at" vibes as Warden of the Beyond.

The Biblioplex, maybe? It's probably too limited to work out in a format that's not hardcore focused on instants and sorceries.

Molten Psyche You know, I only just realized that copying this thing potentially gives you a weird little combo kill (it hits villain for 3 damage for each card in their hand). I wonder how viable it'd be to set that up as a hidden archetype in cube? I don't think I've messed around with Forks...

I'd say that the issue with putting Force of Will in a lower power cube is less that it's too strong (I think it's actually pretty bad in fair magic, since you're 1-for-2-ing yourself and there aren't the kind of threats that actually merit doing that) and more that it signals that there's going...

If you have to pick one, I'd go with Bone Shards because of the synergies you mentioned. Sheoldred's Edict is potent but kinda boring, since it just does the thing - part of what makes edicts fun in my opinion is the work you need to put into making them good, if that makes sense. I'd personally...

Can the voucher card be added to the voucher? I ran the draft sim on Thermal Expansion (my "AI generated" cube that I built using Storm Crow, repeated iterations of CubeCobra's cube resizing feature, and no further human input) just because, and it also converged to 13 draft archetypes (which...

And that's before you get to the real upside, which is that you get to read off the cool flavor text whenever you want. Like, I'm only half joking - the flavor text gives me the same fuzzy, mild sense of poetry as Silent Attendant or Chariot of the Sun.

Commander once again ruining everything for the rest of us.

On the topic of dual lands that discourage 5C decks, the following ideas just slammed into my dang brain (I'm pretty sure none of them are good as-is, but they're good enough as a starting point for iteration) Crimson Copse A Land Pay 1 life, {T}: Add {G}. If this mana is spent on a red spell...

If "take a peak at villain's hand" isn't a big deal in your format then Probe is fine - the real power comes in when you're using it to check villain's hand to see if it's safe to go for your combo. A Street Wraith that happens to trigger prowess isn't *that* big of a deal, especially if you...