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Wow, Ravenous Robots really is just Young Pyromancer for Artifacts, isn't it? I guess that's one more thing to put in the Ninja Turtles Review! (Sidenote: I am surprised the Ninja Turtles set is cool enough to warrant a review episode).

I disagree. Who the hell wants to do unnecessary algebra and exponentials while playing Magic? I get it's easy math, but like, come on. Not cool.

This set looks like a marked step up from Spider-Man! It still suffers slightly from the "there are a bunch of similar looking characters on legendary creatures" issue Spider-Man had, but not nearly to the same extent. I think the Villains are actively quite interesting: I know nothing about...

I doubt they regret it, but I don't think they would reprint it into Standard. They have really toned back the quality of removal spells since Scars block (even though they realistically need stronger options to deal with contemporary threats).

Honestly, this might just be a case of poor card evaluation on my part, I'm not entirely sure! I just don't understand why they're so careful with fixed-value Savannah Lions variants in a post-Ragavan world (that is also full of snowballing 1-drops with other statliness). It seems like a place...

Based take?? Honestly, I think Venser is mostly still popular due to nostalgia and LSV glaze at this point. I think most Cubes could do better (unless they're specifically looking for the nostalgia hit, of course!)

It's hilarious to me how conservative they are with giving Savannah Lions new abilities. We get Snowballing Threats and Looters that become Ancestral Recall Creation Devices at one mana now, but for some reason, they're afraid to give the Savannah Lions variants compelling use cases for when...

Yavimaya Ancient Really cool for a "Toughness Matters" theme. I like how this can also trigger ferocious if you need it to!

Given that the Strixhaven students are central to the story for Lorwyn Exlipsed, I'm wondering if there will be Lorwyn stuff bleeding into Secrets of Strixhaven later next year.

A Whistlestop, you say?

Living Lore is sweet, and definitely a good example of the type of card that would work well with the "big spell" component of the Cube.

I'm working on a Cube where I want the following to be awesome: Brilliant Restoration Tooth and Nail This leads me to wanting: –A somewhat slower environment (minus pixie ninjas squirrels) –A Monocolor or Hybrid* Inclination –Some sort of rampy subplot? Some cards that might fit this bill...

This card is like... aggressively ok. It reads well, but in practice the type of deck that would want a card with this set of synergies at this cost would prefer a card which is better at pushing damage like Dragons Rage Channeler.

I don't really agree with you here, I think there are a lot of cool big green threats you're not playing that match or exceed the other colors. Vaultborn Tyrant is the one that immediately comes to mind, you have to ramp into it a little harder than some of the other top-end cards, but it's...

Honestly I thought it was banned too because ti fell off so hard after the other pixie peices got the gun. Glad to see Sokka's Boomarang was able to revive the deck card!