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I honestly think I'm done with Magic. I was starting to get back into things because one of my coworkers is getting into playing and I thought it might be fun to play in paper again for a change... but I just can't justify my emotional investment in Magic to myself anymore. It's been a good run...

Something very silly I've noticed about Inspiring Statuary is that it turns powerstones into actual factual mana rocks. Do with this information what you will.

The one thing I'll say in Riddleform's favor is that it tends to dodge sorcery speed removal and wraths.

Manifest Dread Harrowing Swarm Hmm... ... Part of me is intrigued by some of the cards that conjure specific cards into your hand: Dragonfly Pilot Dragonfly Suit Emporium Thopterist Ornithopter Kami of Bamboo Groves Forest Has anyone given these little guys a try?

I feel like the cards that care about you being the starting player or not are even more transferrable, it's just that most of them aren't worth the trouble. Mapping The Maze I feel like this cycle is doing something cool, but I feel like the blue one is the only one that's actually elegant.

Ah, ok, I wasn't aware that you were drawing a distinction between faction-specific mechanics and broader set-defining mechanics - I'll confess that that seems a little arbitrary to me, but I feel like you and I approach mechanics differently. I definitely hear you on being stuck with OTJ's...

That particular gesture actually doesn't have a formal name, as far as I can tell, so that's as good a name as any. Ironically, the Orthodox version of the gesture is literally "jesus hands", since it's supposed to look like the Greek initials for "Jesus Christ".

I see your point - Brad forgot to put in the Death's Shadow.

You have a very interesting definition of "low power"...

Heck yeah.

Also keep in mind that you're not required to have an even color distribution. Two ideas spring to mind: Take your green section ({G}{G}{G}{G}) and replace it with one pack for each of the green Guilds ({G/W}{G/U}{B/G}{R/G}). Take one pack of each non-black color ({R}{G}{W}{U}) and replace...

Thanks! On a less shitpost-y note, I feel like we're all overthinking how to manage the fixing here (probably because we've got that good fixing addiction). If you've got a twenty pack set-up with two packs of each color and one of each color pair and add in a rule where people can swap one of...

I 100% agree with your general point in this post, but the list feels weirdly mixed. You've got solid magic-y mechanics like Plot and Powerstones that are in the same boat as Forecast and Prowl (where they're cool and feel like Magic... but just don't have the card pool for higher-power formats)...

Look at all you people talking about inferior fixing. Mountain Mountain Cinder Glade Cinder Glade Forest Land Grant Land Grant Land Grant Now that's some fixing. (You'd need to custom up the enemy tango lands, but hey.)

Dang it, the one thing I want to know is the thing missing from the primer - what should the mana curves of each pack (vaguely) look like? A few thoughts before I get my hands dirty: I wonder what the minimum viable number of packs is? Smash Up releasing with only eight packs makes me think...

I think that this is a doomed quest, unfortunately - organizing kitchen table beyond "bring decks built with the cards you've got and don't be a jerk about it" is going to run into people Spiking it up because anyone who plays a bunch of Magic is going to be a little bit Spike-y. Both EDH and...

One thing that annoys me about EDH is that it has effectively removed kitchen table magic from the picture, and as a result there's a much bigger gap between "casual" and "competitive" Magic than there used to be. I used to build a bunch of janky combo decks, but I stopped because I didn't have...

Thank you for reminding me that Blade of the Oni exists. EDIT: I'm also not terribly surprised that Standard success correlates to so well with cube inclusion - given the sheer firehose of new cards, it's easy to forget about cool cards unless you see them all the time in one context or another.

To be fair to the people who keep going "oh, [X] card is outdated"... building a cube using whatever cards are currently terrorizing constructed formats or just chucking in the shiny new cards that you just saw in spoiler season is quite a bit easier than agonizingly picking through the tens of...

It's worse than that - it's a 2/3 for 2 that actively wants to see play in a format with a bunch of "vanilla" 2/2s.