Recent content by ravnic

Oh right, heard about that one on LPR. That's enough encouragement for me to go down that rabbit hole now...

I have a new cube idea, but I still have some rest of doubts. So my inspiration was to have a cube that feels much more like constructed. I've been eagerly following the MTG Goldfish Best Standard Deck Ever series on YouTube, and it reminded me that constructed magic can be really cool...

Oh, please tell me which part of The Hobbit lore is responsible to give that bear reach! :) Ask Lumra, Bellow of the Woods. Or similar earthbound creatures with random reach like Dusyut Earthcarver or Fecunt Greenshell or Fang-Druid Summoner.

Ask Large Bear. Exactly. It's fine to be critical of UB but attesting every change to it is stupid.

I don't think that's true. This set has a few fishermen as a 6/5 with ward and Ordinary Bear who eats Smaug the Magnificient in combat. Actually, I wish they would do bolder top-down designs and not hold onto mechanical needs that much.

I don't know if I underestimate the fail case of you not having anything relevant to bounce, but this card seems kinda decent to me. If you support both a blink and a landfall theme, this can work in a variety of decks. I don't think this would be like a high pick, but it could be a solid...

This could actually be an interesting role player. It kind of fits into all my red archetypes. It's a goblin or even two. It's decent if you discard it. It's a non-creature spell. I kind of wish this one was hybrid because it's so flexible, yet low impact, but I think the rate might be just good...

Yeah, Faldorn is kinda perfect. It's a discard outlet that adds board presence and even does so when you madness something from another outlet. One nitpick: it might not be clear to everybody that a madness card is actually cast from exile. Especially the older ones don't mention it on the...

It also helps that we don't get these ugly metallic ub frames anymore

Honestly, I sometimes forget that the set is UB. Cards just look like magic cards to me. Unlike Aetherdrift or Outlaws.

Screw you, wizards! I support prowess and goblin type. I have done a few scryfall searches on goblins that care about non-creature spells, and so far I found essentially nothing. Now they print this, and it's kinda perfect, but I really don't like amass. It's a unique token, and it's also...

Oh, lifegain! I am supporting lifegain, but I have cut down on it over the years. The reasons are obvious and have already been mentioned. If lifegain as an effect is too prevalent, it will lead to sloggy games that take forever. It's also inherently less interesting than something like "discard...

I'm still not sure if I want to commit to have prepared spells. It's not that they're too similar to adventures, I think that's kinda obvious being on the other half and everything in the text being about preparing. But it kinda feels like cheating to have an activated ability, essentially...

spoiler season started today. Clean and simple, cute art. Chapter III and IV give you plenty time to bounce/blink/reset this.

I like boB, he doesn't seem crazy even at lower power levels. If I were to happen upon a copy (maybe of the fractured mirror art) I would give it a shot in the CCC as an occasional. Btw, lookin forward to these actual Magic sets of 2027. Nauctis seems dope, as does Zhalfir. And Kamigawa vs...