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You look me in the eye and you tell me that if you had an opportunity for Fire Juggler to be a reasonable card in an environment you were designing you wouldn't leap at the opportunity! Seriously though, I actually really love how much Fire Juggler "yes and"s the mechanics here. Like sure, red...

Cool design and technically fits the restrictions but I think it's just way too cracked in a way that's not very interesting here. Getting to six mana is just not that hard to do and this card simultaneously removes a threat, puts you way ahead on cards and puts the life total race out of reach...

Some thoughts on card advantage tamiyo, inquisitive studentragavan nimber pilfererocelot pridepsychic frog You guys seen this shit? Pretty crazy. Another one of my little frustrations with modern magic design is that card advantage just doesn't feel like it matters anymore. There are so many...

Some further thoughts on gameplay I'm very proud of the way that this cube plays in a way I'm not sure that I've felt about any other project. I made a lot of big bets during the design process that all of these like stacked gimmicks, the no deckbuilding, the tight curation of numbers on cards...

Some further thoughts on land count My initial draft of this cube had 140 Mountains in it, or 17.5 lands per player. My rationale at the time was that I didn't want it to be too difficult to hit your desired land count, so I wanted lands to be somewhat easy to come by. It only took one 8 player...

It's like this is some kind of hobby for you instead of like a constantly forgotten wretched beast you keep in the woodshed and feed raw meat twice a year. Odd.

Did you learn how to execute a minimalist artifact theme?

You can't say this and not tell us which post it was.

Goblin Game 320 card mostly red no deckbuilding desert bar cube. 6x Goblin Piker. goblin piker The Draft Players draft 4 packs of 10 cards and play a 40 card deck. No basic land box. No sideboards. You draft 40 cards, shuffle them up, and play them. 5 packs of 8 with smaller groups. The...

train some day i would love to spend a day inside your mind so i can finally understand the mechanisms by which you decide that a card is cool or not

I think a lower power environment where you're pretty stoked on getting a 3 mana 2/3 flyer that scries on attack would actually be a much better environment for this card than any of the high power cubes where it actually tends to show up lol.

I think this card is pretty bad and I've always been surprised by how many people include it in cubes (or in their decks in arena cube lol). Like yeah sure, you can high roll drawing time walk or ancestral and then you're probably feeling good, but I have never seen that happen. This card adds...

Not getting any Evoke creatures at common is definitely the biggest bummer of this set (which looks pretty good fwiw, probably the first retail set I'm gonna bother drafting irl in years lol) but c'mooooooon where's my evoke Man O' War. Instead we got "Man O' War but it's a 3/2". Snooooooze.

Yeah I've found the most valuable thing that temporal spring offers is that it can buy you a whole turn vs a big threat in a UG deck that otherwise can't really answer a resolved creature.

I think Temporal Spring might be able to hang in ravnic-rate-land, although in order to love that card you need to say "oh boy!" instead of "ew gross!" when you realize that it can be half a Plow Under :p