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Didn't know that today's B&R was going to include draft boosters, SMH my head. Collectors' boosters are far more meta-defining and are the real culprit in declining game health if you ask me. /uj I'm a big fan of occasionals and this is actually a fairly quick adoption of those by WotC's...

I have the same seven cards in my green section, but I think the biggest difference is that you don't have a lot of graveyard support in G, which makes it so that you need to start from B to get into BG, and starting G will always lean towards a stompy route--no Satyr Wayfinders or Grapple with...

Yeah, if it had trample then it would be rough, but as it stands I'm fine with letting it become a 6/6 on T4/T5. If a deck can't win against that with that much prep time then I don't want it to win.

Scheduling is a hassle and there's always a ton to do. Unrelated, but my biggest cube problem right now is resisting the urge to reshuffling ~20% of my cube to other cards that I like a lot. I don't think it would change too much about how it plays (at least I think most of the modules I'm...

I suspect that a lot of the blandness of the Doctors in particular comes from the fact that they have to play somewhat well and a little synergistically with each companion, which is an absurd number of permutations. They probably decided that they wanted companions to go with any doctor early...

Dinosaurs on a Spaceship What a cute alternative to Assemble the Legion that even poops out Skyknight Legionnaires! This is way faster than the enchantment and also has a big finish, meaning that it still has some inevitability but isn't quite as painful in the "yes I'm definitely going to lose...

Couple thoughts-- Chandra, Hope's Beacon Fires of Invention Alternative cards for 5C Red, which is a cool archetype. This Chandra seems a lot less problematic than Torch of Defiance due to the higher CMC, but since she's able to uptick--double the spell cast off of that ability, she's still...

Shakshuka!! Thank you for the idea, good call there. Serra paragon is a good call and is in fact on my standby list, it was just $20 at the time when I made my last order for cards and I'm not going to order another set of proxies until I can max out MPC's order list! The trick, I think, would...

I stole the idea from Anthony and Andy of LPR! They do a few segments on this, but I can't think of one off the top of my head. Food started at 11, with draft to start at 12 (secretly 12:30). Things worked great! Big ups to this, which is I think my biggest takeaway from this draft.

Narrator: He did not, in fact, write a report on his draft night due to his shameful performance in that particular draft. Turns out that companioning Yorion in a Mardu Aristocrat shell, while a funky idea, is just bad. That said, I do have a writeup from the most recent draft! The winningest...

No love for Scourge of Nel Toth? There's also Waker of Waves, Mirrorshell Crab, and Ore-Scale Guardian in other colors that could work nicely for you, even if they are a little lower on the power level. Scourge of Nel Toth Waker of Waves Mirrorshell Crab Ore-Scale Guardian

Throwing my hat in the ring for Map predictions: they ETB tapped, but can be tap/sac'd to make an additional land drop this turn or something like that.

Sure, but that's expensive. At baseline, this is Raise Dead + mill 3 with "Kicker {2}: mill 3 every turn a creature you control attacks." I think I'm taking the base mode >95% of the time because that kicker ability is so marginal. Plus equipment's whole schtick is buffing the creature that...

They've definitely shown that they're willing to do more one-off mechanics--the definitely-not-Triomes in New Capenna spring to mind. I wonder what data convinced them that this was more acceptable than they thought!

Tbh I don't think I'd ever equip that, I'm just playing it as a cantrip that hopefully gains me life later in the game. Plus it's going to force you to reshuffle your graveyard in what is presumably a graveyard deck. It's a cool set of ideas, but I think it's two cards in a trenchcoat and...

As someone running both Swiftspear and Flameblade Adept, I can attest that they're both synergy pieces until you really commit. I've made the choice that I want my aggro decks to have to be synergy decks of some kind, so I just lean into that by running a pair of Faithless Lootings--do we have...

Another excellent choice! I'm shocked that they never used that one for Ornithopter, tbh.

Claiming the title of resident opera buff, I think it's a travesty that you don't have anything from Madama Butterfly in consideration for the flavor text (yes, it's problematic; most opera are). Might I suggest: "Oh! how many fixed eyes are attentive. How many looks the sky laughs! Ah...

Tasty, tasty full-art lands. The rest of the set can be whatever, I know I'll be scooping these up. Paging @MilesOfficial, fellow basic land connoisseur.

Obvious answer is that it depends on the presence of shocks/triomes in your environment, but those things aside/making it "basic swampcycling" should be fine powerwise. It's a pretty common change to make, but IMO you're just changing out the fiddliness of a DFC for the fiddliness of extra...