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hangarback walker vs marketback walker Anyone played with both of these? How do they compare? I really like hangarback but the new one has cool art and less text and gums up the board less. Which is stronger? Which is more fun?

We also end up with a lot of cards that are technically backwards compatible, but have trinkety text on them that doesn't matter outside the context of the set. Void from EoE is one example, but there's also stuff like Creeping Peeper and the Eerie cards from DSK, where it's like, enchantments...

I think a lot of it was just around making cards feel unique, increasing replayability by making games feel different every time. Jesse talked about how one of the cool things about drafting and cubing is that its not just the same cards over and over, and if you want that you can just build...

Would be interested to hear your thoughts on that!

Train and I were on a podcast somewhat recently talking about singleton breaking where we touched on a bunch of aspects of it, might be helpful: https://usmantherad.substack.com/p/pack-one-slick-ones-episode-13-breaking

wildfire so when everybody talks about how you should only ever play this card as a 2-of, how real is that? are there any wildfire singleton defenders left to weight in on the other side of this debate.

This card is very cool. I love an aggro 1-drop with a downside that's an upside that's a downside and this one adds some really interesting texture to the game. The player putting the 1-mana 2/2 in their deck is likely going to be the player who is less able to crack the lander and take...

I really like fair Dread Return. The floor of just being a zombify is already pretty good for most low power fair stuff environments, and then the occasional splashy moments of flashing it back can be cool and exciting. I think it depends on how easy it is to generate tokens in an environment...

that set already gave us Legendary Artifact Creature - Equipment Jellyfish I feel like they really did not give a fuck about typeline length

Day: 023 Set: Antiquities (ATQ) Release Date: March 4, 1994 Cards: 102 Design & Development: Skaff Elias, Jim Lin, Joel Mick, Chris Page, Dave Pettey Art Direction: Jesper Myrfors All New Cards, Sorted by ELO: CubeCobra Link Wow Antiquities! It kinda sucks but that's okay. Like 85% of the cards...

i was happy to be spared the full chris taylor wrath <3

This card does have pretty funky templating in its oracle text: "Whenever a player puts a nontoken creature onto the battlefield" instead of "Whenever a nontoken creature enters, that creature's controller etc". Weird! I guess it preserves the original wording's intent.

I feel bad that I don't have a sexier answer than Satyr Wayfinder but it really is a perfect card. Could have been the most boring thing imaginable but some absolute genius decided to end it with "graveyard" instead of "bottom of your library in any order". So many awesome hooks with this guy...

the problem with trying to curate old border cube with the new cards but still maintain the "vibe" is that most people are pretty bad at determining vibe haha. ive seen so many lists that claim to do this and then you open a pack and it's got feldon of the third path in it or something.

more like urza's baublefire diamondatoggoblin welder