Recent content by Brad

Try telling that to the aggro deck... Is this even better than Tidings?

environmental scientist paradox surveyor ETB draw a land. I'll take it.

Kinda hate Channel. It's either nothing or totally broken.

mind into matter Thoughts on this in mid-high power? It's bad Explore meets At Least Urban Evolution meets Genesis Hydra. I like it as a ramper plus ramp payoff, but I can't tell if the flexibility is worth the variety of slightly subpar options.

There's almost no way they put Learn in this set with the Avatar lessons around unless the Learn cards are really bad. We've seen a lot of cards already with no Learn.

virtue of persistence

I think you're right. The words "sent" and "graveyard" have never appeared on a card together. It would specify how they were sent to the graveyard like "put into your graveyard from anywhere" or something.

I was just thinking that it's surprising no one made a Charms post. They're all really cool. Love a good modal spell and all of these are decently appealing.

Just play 3 creatures, bro.

Really hoping to see a strong cycle of Paradigm cards. That's right up my alley. I bet the white or green one sucks.

call in a professional Other cards with reminder text specific to interactions within that set?

mutiny trial of agony How good are these? Seems like they're "kill their second best creature" for one mana? Trial especially might be good in an aggressive deck?

demonic pact The success of Boomerang Basics got me thinking of an old fan favorite. Quite a few efficient ways to get rid of your own permanents in the last several years. nurturing pixie sunpearl kirin fear of isolation boomerang basics get out ice out farsight ritual this town ain't big...

Ok. That's what I figured. Which is good because it means my intuitive logic is on the right track. I saw a lot of the Elf cards in ECL and it seemed clear that every draft would have 2-3 people forcing Elves after a BG first pick uncommon bomb. I suspect that making the payoffs monocolored...

Once you have the over the top 6+ drop, any synergy gets exciting because the base card is already so cool. All you had to do was add trample because you had a 10000/7. As another example, annihilator is awesome and it's even awesomer if you give the dude haste, which is a low bar. Can...