Recent content by Lady Lynn

It's been a while since I've been around these parts, but I thought you guys might be interested in a concept I've been using when thinking about strategy and synergy composition - a concept that I've been referring to as "workhorses". And so we get the idea of a "workhorse". A workhorse is a...

Thank you for the reply! I appreciate both the uh, appreciation, as well as the critique. I think you raise a very good point about the the jargon mapping pretty well onto existing Magic terms - I honestly hadn't even thought of those terms, so there's definitely a bit of "reinventing the...

Alright so I came up with something of a mental framework for analyzing cards that I think helps a lot with understanding things like parasitism and synergy! I will first lay out the three functions, which are the ways in which a card or mechanic can be useful to a player. Afterwards, I will...

I think that you can easily shift the power level of the lands in a cube without breaking anything. Lands, in the majority of cases in both constructed and limited, do not need to be balanced against nonlands, only against the other lands in the environment(and i think you can break even that in...

Indeed! Those three are basically just several existing lands combined, either letting you choose between traits from the components or combining them. Astral Church = Tundra + Azorius Chancery Moonlit Fields = Tundra + Irrigated Farmland Moon Temple = Hallowed Fountain + Temple of...

Here's a manabase I think is cool: It's like the bounceland manabase, with similar interactions and similarly providing a lot of gameplay agency, but it is a lot more aggro friendly. They can also be fetched, so you could also run some or all of these in place of shocks in a traditional...

I think I'm pretty much done designing my cube. I've hit the point where I'm basically never going "i should change this" and instead I'm just going "this might not work but i need to playtest it first". I assume there's a point where we need to stop altering our submission and say "this is the...

You're just envious of the clearly superior colors. Green with envy, even.

This will be my submission: the Party in Amonkhet Cube! The cube is pretty much done and so is the primer, all that's left is making some final tweaks. EDIT: I also now realize that this is the first cube I have shared on this forum. Huh.

Thanks! I wasn't intending to say Goblin Matron has more value than Gravecrawler just because it checks a larger portion of the deck, by the way: I was trying to bring up "the amount of cards it checks in your deck" as an important factor among many, not as an end-all be-all.

First time posting on this site, here goes nothing... I'd like to bring up a seventh recipe for reducing parasitism: which is reducing the amount of critical mass required for a synergetic card to work. For example, compare the aforementioned Lord of the Accursed to Gravecrawler. When you...