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Not even thinking about powerlevel, but... Madness: Greenseeker Borderland Explorer Floral Evoker Jolrael, Empress of Beasts Dredge: Shigeki, Jukai Visionary Tokens: Dance of the Tumbleweeds Springheart Nantuko Intersecting: Gysahl Greens Turntimber Sower Ramp Target: Ashaya, Soul of the Wild

Mirror Mockery What a weird card. It's both a repeatable flicker engine that's tied to attacking (great if you want to encourage aggression!) and a pseudo-Pacifism because villain probably isn't too keen on attacking into the Mirror. It also very briefly gives you a token to mess with, which...

Auriok Bladewarden Pre-War Formalwear Gift of Growth T3 put a 3/3 vigilant Bladewarden onto the battlefield, then T4 attack with the Bladewarden, tap to make it a 6/6, kick Gift of Growth onto it to untap it and make it a 10/10, then tap it again to make it a 20/20. Foolproof.

Auriok Bladewarden Vigilant Sentry Serra Advocate So many options!

I think it's less a matter of Spike-first design and more a matter of making sure that your best White cards are either support cards or multicolor. Instead of having a strong White core to pull from, the format has strong things to do in the white color pairs that synergize well with what other...

Majestic festivities to all and sundry!

Dredging this up because a muse came to me. Something I tried to do a lot of when I was just getting into Magic was build decks whose central gameplans were actively stupid. We're talking stuff like playing Old-Growth Dryads and Veteran Explorer to make milling people out with Undercity...

I think the fact that it can be an Uproot but can also do other things makes it less toxic. Kinda like Primal Command, which is a perfectly cromulent magic card.

Fires of Yavimaya Hellkite Hatchling Vengeful Rebirth Wort, the Raidmother Fires because it's a classic, Hatchling because it's cute, Rebirth because the art is gorgeous, and Wort because she's just plain fun.

There's also Bloodroot Apothecary if you want to make it a Gruul thing, but the poison might be a dealbreaker.

Collective Brutality Kolaghan's Command

The difference is that the original planeswalkers were a single cycle of cards and that's it. It's not like Chandra showed up in the art for Incendiary Command or the like. In contrast, we're getting Strixhaven students on random cards as part of the "hey, here are some early cards as a vibe...

Alright, follow-up question: if you cut the mana dorks (which I notice aren't on the list of cards you love ;)), what would you fill those slots with. And if your thought is "no, I like the ramp", have you considered leaning more on land-based ramp? If nothing else, it'd be more resilient...

That's a real possibility... which makes it even worse that WotC doesn't seem to know how to handle omenpaths narratively. Like, both DFT and OTJ established that major factions on the planes that got invaded are not only aware of the omenpaths, but have been using them for cross-planar...

Have you considered just cutting green? It obviously isn't sparking joy in its current state the way that other colors are, and it's not like the Cubing Police will kick down your door and arrest you if your synergy-focused cube has a weird color pie. Or, alternatively: if you cut green, what...