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Zur's Weirding|ICEIvory Tower|3E

Please, keep making fun of these mashups. I love it. I will see what I can contribute. Edit: Edit 2 and then I'll stop:

That one did catch my eye. I find it the +1/+1 bonus on a 2/1 creature to be kind of weak since it still dies to most things in combat and it trades with 3/2 creatures with or without the buff. But it might be worth the while. (I like Swooping Lookout, too.)

These two cards appeal to my simple tastes: Chrome ProwlerBlazing Crescendo I would have hoped for a nice generic artifact payoff or two, but the ones from this set are all so weak that even I am not interested in them.

I just wish every product didn't have to be a commander product, and I wish every standard set didn't have to invent three new mechanics. Those two factors give us a lot of crap text on cards that soil the designs of otherwise nice cards.

The main benefit I had in mind was that you could more easily interact with your opponent's cards if there wasn't an enchantment type that most decks can't touch. I think that would make Oblivion Rings more interesting, for example. As they are now, they could usually just be a sorcery that...

What happens if you replace every instance of the words "artifact" and "enchantment" with "artifantment?" Does it make MTG better for cubing?

To find burn spells with "any target" instead of "target creature or player" you can search for cards printed at least as recently as 2018. c:r o:"damage to any target" (t:instant or t:sorcery) year>=2018

I think a person building this sort of cube would want to think carefully about what sort of aggro they want to support. The aggro decks in this sort of a cube can be aggressive shades of mid-range, right? As long as you give your aggressively minded drafters the opportunity to be the beatdown...

It's nice to see green getting in on artifacts more and more in recent years. Being the "we hate artifacts" color has been a downer for green in the past. Making a cube with an artifact theme across all five colors is more and more possible. I think the card selection is still a little spotty in...

If this card didn't have the last sentence, I'd love it. Still a cool card.

Night of Souls' Betrayal

Interesting! I wasn't reading Herodotus in junior high school (unless there was a reference to it in Sid Meier's Civilization somewhere), so it was better late than never when I saw this on a MTG card.

https://scryfall.com/card/3ed/193/elvish-archers

The themes in those articles keep getting recycled. I don't know what else I should expect, because there's always going to be a tension between conflicting goals, and they'll swing one way and then swing the other way. He often talks about making good connections between the sets over the...

I'm exploring 1967 right now, but without the benefit of LSD. I'm still enjoying myself. If an alien browsed this thread, they wouldn't know that humans ever had rock music.

I'm excited for you and your wife - best luck with the baby! What are your thoughts on the problem of five colors for only two players in the draft?

You might have to help me interpret this. Is this a "kicker was a mistake" and/or "everything is kicker" cultural reference? I like to see more cards with recurring old mechanics like kicker, cycling, and flashback. I hope we get a couple of simple, elegant kicker cards that can go into some cubes.

Yeah. But I think this card makes some sense. If green is the creature color, make it the creature color. I don't love power creep, but how much weaker can you make this before it's unplayable in anything besides retail draft?

I've finally gotten some decent MTGA drafts in, and I'm inclined to agree that this is a really great set to draft. The archetypes can blend together in many ways, and drafting and deck building decisions are interesting and challenging. I think they've found a solution to a fundamental flaw of...