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They told us we'd be "winning so much we'd be tired of winning." If this is what winning looks like, I would like to be a loser. RIP America as a global power, 1898-2025.

Wanderer actually only does the Silent Arbiter effect for herself, so if you really want to impact the full board, you still need Arbiter or something similar!

Doubling the cost of something makes the variation a little bit more harsh than a smaller price jump (like 5 to 6). It’s going to be a lot easier to fit 1 mana into a turn sequence in a lather number of environmental contexts than it would be to first 2 mana for the cycling. This is especially...

It's been kind of frustrating for me how unimpressive the big thicc creatures have been. I want my 8/8 for 5 to actually feel impactful, damnit!

It's not quite worse since you don't have to pay the echo cost to keep the creature. 4 mana > 8.

I think The Hobbit is more likely. There's not nearly as much going on in the background of The Hobbit's story compared to The Lord of the Rings, most of the people, places, and events in the book revolve around individual named characters and locations. Outside of the Battle of the Five Armies...

It kind of depends on your power level, right? Cards like this don't necessarily need a ton of synergy to make it into a final 40, but they benefit immensely from drafters who build around the things they're trying to do. A good recent example of something similar to this is Up the Beanstalk...

Honestly, I think Avatar is actually a fantastic fit for Magic. It’s one of the most fully realized fantasy worlds of the 21st century — elemental 'magic' systems, distinct nations and cultures with deep lore, mythic heroes and villains, clear philosophies and aesthetics — all things Magic...

Au Summon @Chris Taylor and get a proxy without the party text!!

Probably because it was contained to a single card that only gave itself -1/-1 counters sometimes. Modern Horizons 1 and 2 also had a mixture of counter types, and Murders at Karlov Manor had a Wither card in the form of Massacre Girl, Known Killer

Honestly, it looks UB or RB. Maybe we get the whole cycle?

Lorehold was frustrating, because even though it was supposed to be a "control deck," it was actually spirit aggro bullshit. Not to say that there weren't cards that could go into a more controlling strategy, it's just a lot of the low-rarity creatures and spells lent themselves to an aggro deck...

I think it has just been almost 20 years and they wanted to change the art direction a little bit to match the new "light and dark" theme.

This is making me want to create a new format! Good Magic: The Format! Sets Legal: Zendikar Dark Ascension Return to Ravnica Gatecrash Dragon's Maze Magic 2014 Theros Born of the Gods Journey into Nyx M15 Khans of Tarkir Fate Reforged Dragons of Tarkir Magic Origins Amonkhet Hour of Devastation...

I also think the number of games played is a huge factor in formats becoming "solved" as well. Thanks to Arena, Standard gets more gameplay within the first month of a new set coming out than some formats will see in a year! It's entirely possible that something niche like premodern hasn't...