Recent content by LadyMapi

Resident scryfall master here - what you want is because Scryfall uses the type "Card" for art cards, gameplay trackers, and other stuff that doesn't have an explicit type on its typeline. Fun fact: there are exactly two tokens that get excluded if you filter out the Card type - the F18...

Aang also has the excuse that those 9 cards are technically split across two sets, but still. (I feel like spoiling TLA and TLE together was just too much.)

I think Avatar specifically works because the way it does its worldbuilding fits really well with how Magic has historically done worldbuilding, which is that it tends to revolve around broad factions with most legendary characters being exemplary of the faction they're from. Take Stitcher...

The funny thing is that a couple other cards that work well as cheat-y Unearth targets effectively use unkeyworded waterbend: Guardian of the Great Door Warlord's Elite It's honestly one of the stand-out cards from this set for me. That said... Unyaro Bee Sting Earth Rumble (Ezuri's...

I somehow missed that 30 toughness on the wall. Huh. Some fun designs from the Jumpstart packs: I like this design quite a bit. At its floor it's effectively a hasty 2/2 for {1}{G} that makes a Food on ETB, which isn't something to sneeze at, but I feel like any deck that likes making Food...

I'm normally not a big "support cards for stuff that's already good" kinda person, but this thing seems pretty wild: Fire Nation Occupation

Earth Kingdom General As much as I kinda love this being a new take on the Gallant Cavalry thing, I find it funny how much worse this is than two other uncommons that also Earthbend 2 on ETB: Earthbending Student Toph, the Blind Bandit

Airbender Ascension Bloodbender's Rise Firebender Ascension This is a cycle I wasn't really expecting to see again. Will I cube with any of them? I dunno.

Isn't it a Walking Corpse, not an Erg Raiders? Or am I misreading the card? A few really interesting MB2 cards that aren't in the above list: Lifening Elemental You Compleat Me Penumbra Umbra Starting Town NPC Fetching Garden Slumbering Waterways

"Earthbending is primarily Green but shows up more broadly in Jund, and cards portraying the Earth Nation are in every color other than Blue" is still way better than "Earth Nation and Earthbending are Green", which is what I'd expect out of an Avatar fan set. But yeah, I feel like the...

I honestly like both of the three-mana Waterbending sorceries they've spoiled so far, and kinda hope we get a white one. Spirit Water Revival Foggy Swamp Visions Also, I'd like to make an appreciative comment about how WotC didn't make the mistake of having each element be a single color...

I'd be down for WotC doing a deep-dive year where every set has to pull from the same pool of mechanics, kinda like how 2021 went hard on double-sided cards.

Firebending Student is honestly a really cool, clean design. I also appreciate that it's a 1/2 and not, like, a 3/1 or something. Foggy Swamp Visions This seems like an honestly insane reanimation spell? Badgermole Cub Huh. I like the design, but I feel like it's going to end up being more...

I was kinda exaggerating a bit - I do think it's kinda annoying that Painter's Servant is pretty much the only card that can make a spell multicolored. I'm personally excited for Flotsam Cast Flotsam to plot Jetsam! It's foolproof!

It's also kinda weird hearing arguments like "it dilutes color identity" and "it will homogenize decks" from people who play a format where a bunch of color breaks are staples, people generally play 3+ color decks, and where (from my understanding) significant chunks of decks are copy-pasted...