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Funny idea: Make a cube where scrying or surveiling are treated as equivalent for any synergies. Funnier idea: Also include exploring. I...

I read this as "you can pick up your fixing lands for value (cycling or the free surveil) later", with the tempo loss mostly being a...

Pokemon's absurd card advantage always throws me for a loop. I know a lot of that is Magic being relatively stingy when it comes to...

Huh. That's honestly a really interesting card and I wonder how it'd get costed in Magic. I could see it being a Sorcery for {1}{B}? I...

Living Lore I love this dumb guy.

My thought is less "extrinsic payoffs for mechanics = bad", and more "a mechanic having a high density of extrinsic payoffs is a design...

Just so we're clear, Onder, I'm not saying that designs like Paranormal Analyst shouldn't exist - I was making a comment agreeing with...

Oh yeah, they both have a place - my point is that one type of design stands better by itself, and as a result offers more of the "rules...

I honestly blame this kind of thing on the transition from the block structure to the current seven-completely-distinct-sets-a-year...

There's also Unsubstantiate which is a kinda-sorta sidegrade to Remand?

Well, I always like playing with Remand and Memory Lapse and Misdirection looks pretty nice with Ye Olde Traditional Control/Tempo plan...

Clearly the strategy is to have one main cube of 360 cards, and two side cubes of 120 cards each. Sometimes you draft with three packs...

Yeah, broadly speaking it's fine as a mechanic, but the memory issues push it towards being something that you need to make space for...

"Whenever the ring tempts you, draw a card, then gain two poison counters". :p

The actual lore is that Valgavoth was bound to a single house, but got powerful enough to fudge the rules by making the house expand...