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It's an interesting idea! My first thought is that the best way to rank cards for power level across formats would actually be price, once you adjust for date/rarity of last printing, format legality, etc. That data is maybe even a bit more granular than ELO or EDHREC rating, and forces voters...

To get people excited about cube, I draw comparisons between it and Masters sets, or talk about it being like the MTGO cubes without the broken stuff (that said, it's important to not actually list what broken stuff you're leaving out so that people can pick and choose what broken stuff they...

Fuck yes. This is what I wanted Murder to be all along. It hits creatures and planeswalkers, it's rough but plausible to run this in control decks, it encourages building around the discard. Love love love this card. I'm immediately swapping out my two Feed the Swarms for this, never mind the...

Unfortunately, commons are tomorrow. Fortunately, as Miles pointed out, these commander decks have a few sweet cards. A lot of them are commander nonsense, but, well-- Mmm, free equip triggers for a +2/+2 menace! I run 2 pirates at the moment, but might add more with this set. That said...

But more importantly, it's a cheat target! If you think I'm not going to draw T1 and discard to hand size then T2 Helping Hand it into play at some point in this season of limited then you're nuts. This is kind of exactly where I want cheat target to be: semi-castable but still fairly valuable...

Bloodthorn Flail Dusk rose reliquary Free discard outlet that's best in aggro and a 1-mana artifact/creature sac removal card that's not ass?? Be still my glass-encased beating heart! Real talk, I don't think either of these cards quite get there for me--there are only so many times you can...

I'm strongly considering adding a Bargain package after drafting this set a bunch. A lot of the pieces from outside WOE seem self-explanatory, like Demonic Pact. However, I found this card: Perilous Research With the explosion of trinket tokens, I think it's a lot more viable than it was the...

Regex is a fucking magic system lmao.

Recommission I think I'm probably still on Recommission, especially because it helps get back a lot of the artifact synergy pieces in graveyard decks that somehow wind up in the graveyard and screw me over by not otherwise being recoverable (yes I'm looking at you, Crucible). But this is a nice...

Trouble is, these cards kinda suck--I run both and they're just fine. They're not bad, but they're nowhere near p1p1 material because they get stonewalled by midrange sides of beef like Bannerhide Krushok most of the time and that's not something you can afford in my environment. To my real...

I'm also looking at Zoo--I love just how creepy Kird Ape's art is--and Cenote Scout caught my eye too. Lots of goodies in this set! I will say, my biggest concern between this and WOE is how many 2-for-1 cards there are between adventures, craft cards, etc. I've found myself having to be really...

For the record: Same here. I just don't think that there's anything much new to be said except that I, like Miles, think that this was inevitable once it became apparent that Universes Beyond sets make a pantload of money for everyone involved.

Insert obligatory Marvel crossover doomposting here.

I think it's optimal for Wizards to do both and I think that they are trying to do both. Things might skew one way or the other depending on how trends are looking, but they're always going to do both. Looking back at the last almost two decades I've been playing (yikes!), it's been clear that...

I think either one is a real possibility, but my money is on "cascade into XYZ." It's something that WotC already kinda does with Seek and is something they've mentioned wanting to do in the past.

Not at the tippy-top levels of power, but Flaming Tyrannosaurus Chandra, Hope's Beacon Thunderhawk Gunship Glorybringer Nesting Dragon Dragonwing Glider Scavenged Brawler

I would not have guessed this. Time to update my heuristics! Oof. This hurts. This is interesting to me because I started right around Time Spiral and I remember loving how funky these cards were--same with Kamigawa. I guess I've forgotten this reaction, or maybe the Magic audience has grown...

Tbf, this turns absolutely anything into a threat and so can kind of be considered a threat in and of itself in a way that something like Trade Routes can't; but yeah, that's a really good way of looking at it.

Sure! But the downside seemed particularly useful in Death's Shadow-centric sections, and I don't think many (any?) of those used in in that specific context.

Vampire Lacerator People have been really into the whole Death's Shadow thing recently and I saw one of these in my bulk box yesterday. Might be worth a try! It's also a lot easier to get your opponent to 10 with the rise of double/triple shock/fetch manabases virtually starting games at 14-16...