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I see Wolverine as a more aggressive and reliable Bloodbraid Elf / Bloodbraid Challenger. Mawloc is definitely a better card, but this is a pretty good Flametongue Kavu variant given how aggressive it is and how much harder it is to kill via combat and burn. I think it's night and day compared...

I wouldn't call Iron Man Armor a "worse second copy of Nettlecyst" considering it has / grants flying. Card is much better than Nettlecyst overall IMO since this is generally a better Maul of the Skyclaves that just so happens to have a flying Nettlecyst mode. IMO the best card in the main set...

The wording is consistent with how it's always been with things like this. Examples being things like cycling with Lorien Revealed or tapping a creature + paying mana with Grim Lavamancer. I'll admit the capitalization of Discard does seem weird, but it is consistent with other creatures with...

The delayed triggered ability still happens even if you sacrifice Casey before your next upkeep.

50/50 on this one. On one hand, WOTC is already in bed with Nickelodeon with ATLA / TMNT as products. I don't think TLA will put up LTR / FIN numbers, but I can see it being successful to the point where they'd be talking about a follow up with Legend of Korra. This is one of the reasons why...

Hawkey was pure comedy

I've also been thinking the same thing since FIN. I think WOTC is at its best when they're designing for flavor first like Innistrad / Theros / Kamigawa / Amonket / etc rather than sets that were designed around their mechanics first like Ravnica / Zendikar. Universes Beyond essentially forces...

One person's problem is another person's pleasure!

Anime art Thalia-Mai is low key one of my favorite art pieces in the set! Not sure why, but it just does it for me.

Ah, I didn't know that, thanks for pointing that out. I always just assumed they were stills. I was never a SpongeBob person, but based on what I've been exposed to just on memes alone makes it look like a still on first glance. The fidelity at least looks better than what I've seen on the...

It's a mixed bag. TV stills like Spongebob / Avatar all look pretty awful to me (and I love Avatar). Cruel Tutor looks especially bad with the closeup on Ozai's face. I really should've been Ozai walking up to Zuko while Zuko was on his knees during their Agni Kai. As far as source material...

It's a licensing thing. The license limits what you can do with UB cards in limited events where you're cracking open new packs / cards, regardless of it being a phantom draft or not. Constructed events are fine because you're using cards that you already own and aren't cracking open new packs /...

Considering that WOTC plans their sets 3 years ahead, it probably means that half of Standard legal sets up until the end of 2027 are already locked in as UB. If they will do any course correcting, it probably won't be until 2028. ATLA had a HUGE resurgence during the pandemic when it became...

Full dump is tomorrow (May 30th). This spoiler season was roughly 3 weeks (20 days). I'd imagine it was stretched out due to the timing of PAX in relation to the official set release.

Blitzball seems pretty in-universe to me!