Recent content by LadyMapi

Ugh I was going to ignore this one but Lessons are here. That said, I'm not a fan of the fact that the four core mechanics are completely different despite having similar names. I honestly like it - Magic is historically really bad about printing subtypes for spells once and then never...

It'd be fun to do this as a cube thing, because then you can curate cards that work well with the tweaked rule (or just make customs of the cards that you like). That said, I think I like the idea of just one extra card instead of two - I've played a bit with Kenessos, Priest of Thassa, and the...

Funny idea: Make a cube where scrying or surveiling are treated as equivalent for any synergies. Funnier idea: Also include exploring. I could honestly see Enhanced Surveillance + Maps being a cool "secret" archetype. Funniest idea: Oh, and any time a creature tells you to surveil it actually...

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 side effect.

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 tutors and card draw, but man. My one annoyance is that we've been getting a bunch of explicit payoffs for scrying over the same period, so the incidental support...

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 guess it depends on if the discard is part of the cost of casting the spell or if it's part of the effect.

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 smell". Astral Slide is cool and fun and adds a new justification for playing with an already cool and fun mechanic, while Start Your Engines! is basically all...

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 Rasmus' feeling that sets have become more gimmick-tribal-y, and I was taking an off-hand stab at a distinction between cards that feel gimmick-tribal-y vs...

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 lego" feel that Rasmus is talking about. Even if WotC had decided to include Manifest Dread in every set in 2024, Paranormal Analyst would still be a card...

I honestly blame this kind of thing on the transition from the block structure to the current seven-completely-distinct-sets-a-year structure, combined with WotC's general reluctance to reuse mechanics. That attitude makes sense when you're designing three sets a year that have to share some...

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, so for me the choice is between the other four. Of those... I think Condescend is the most generically useful, since you always have the floor of it being...

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 each from the main cube, sometimes you do two packs from the main cube and one pack from a side cube, and sometimes you draft one pack from each cube. Shrimple!

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. I feel like we need a term for that kind of thing - stuff like Daybound/Nightbound or Speed aren't exactly parasitic (you can run a single card with the...