Recent content by IanGitax

I’ve found for your average cube singleton makes for better gameplay unless you have a specific reason not to stick to it. It makes games less repetitive and deckbuilding more interesting, and adds an additional strategic layer I enjoy of knowing which cards your opponent can’t have based on...

I think the more likely answer here is that these small sets are going to be more common going forwards, since they want to hit six sets a year. Drafting small sets alone is normally pretty abysmal, and the one time they tried designing around it was Coldsnap and it was terrible. Smaller sets...

Lazav, Wearer of Faces[\ci] I feel like MKM Lazav does what you want from both of these and also is more playable on its own as a draw engine.

Is there any reason you can’t use a buff for elspeth’s +1 and swap the other effect to the minus? Maybe plus for glorious anthem, minus for helping hand? Hexcatcher specifically suffers a lot more than most tribal payoffs since it asks for sac fodder in a tribe that rarely provides much and has...

You’re going 0-3 your next draft.

I was once accused of being part of the Jewish cabal responsible for manipulating everyone’s draws on MTGO.

This is a neat project. Really appreciate the focus on parsimony here; that’s something I’ve felt the lack of a lot in recent magic design. A few cards that stood out to me not mentioned above: Elspeth Ascendant - This card seems really bad. A +1 only really useful against counterspells and...

Love how well this plays with sac outlets. Get in for 2, sac it, do it again next turn.

That’s just how sets were designed back then; a ton of variations on the same design. Mirrodin has four different black creatures that get +1/+0 for each artifact you control. Vertical cycles (similar cards at each rarity) were a lot more common. The planeshift self-bounce creatures have the...

Wall of Water

Staff of the Ages

Misthollow Griffin

Scornful Egotist

Very happy they made goblinslide but actually good this time.

Tsabo Tavoc