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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...

The second one - the flower he's carrying is glowing purple. ... I'm a little confused by the decision to make a bunch of Strixhaven students on a field trip (maybe) important to the set's story? My only guess is that someone on the story team went "new!Lorwyn's setting is so weird that we...

If you don't mind the additive distraction, there are these guys: Jaheira, Friend of the Forest Halsin, Emerald Archdruid

Another possibility would be to use the Godzilla frame treatment to add a little "based on" line? I dunno what's available, I haven't touched custom card software in 5+ years.

I really love these guys with the Magma Opus vertical cycle (and, to a lesser extent, expensive spells with various flavors of cycling): Living Lore Torrent Sculptor Flamethrower Sonata Torrent Sculptor is probably the better of the two cards, but Living Lore's got more pizzazz.