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Historical landscape paintings are a great source for land arts. I mean, they are landscape paintings after all. I'm personally a big fan of the Hudson River school style. Probably less suited to the "prismatic vistas" being sought after rn, but great artworks in general. Susie M. Barstow might...

I think they are leaning on his archeologist side, which I think is captured decently well in a sort of "going through hardships to uncover important things" sort of Indiana Jones take on archeology. He did do that, btw, finding the Golgothian Sylex (which maybe he wished he hadn't).

Yeah I'm more talking about the game role. It does not play the role of a top-end archetype finisher*. It is not the Titanoth Rex of the reanimator deck. It's a three mana role-player that is very sticky. I don't think it's fair to evaluate it like it has to be cast multiple times and stay in...

Yeah of course it has conditions. But "having conditions to cast again" isn't "lose the game". Unless, like I said, it's literally the only thing you've got after the bounce. But in that case murder is just as potentially game-ending, and unlike the vast majority of other creatures the ruinator...

You don't lose any more than any other three drop creature, unless those creatures it exiled were an opportunity cost for some other effect and/or it's literally the only option left for you to cast. It's only a three drop, yet it's being treated like it's the decks lynch pin. It's a three drop...

Jace is fine. He runs himself, so isn't the most interesting variant, but perfectly serviceable as a draw engine. Which may be a detraction here. How about that merfolk?

oough I'd love to see somebody brew up something in The Custom Lab with that name lol

Seems like an alright idea*. Not sure I'd be sold on "summon"; as at least for me that's basically synonymous with "cast", which could lead to some headaches with new players. "whenever a X enters the battlefield" -> "whenever a player summons a X" "whenever a X enters the battlefield under...

I don't think 3 casts is the right metric to weigh it against. Do we expect that of any other creature? I've had ruinator played in my cube in a UW tempo deck that otherwise had little to specifically do with the GY, and it ran perfectly fine. If I remember they got two casts off it in one of...

I would strongly guess that MaRo also did not see it coming those 10-15 years ago :\. Feels like WotC has really let Jesus Hasbro take the wheel on direction (profit) recently. Which as a subsidiary I guess they basically have to do.

I remember having this exact feeling! I was sitting next to the fire at my parents house when Kiora dropped, and it was a very hype moment. She ended up taking spots in my Bant standard brew(s) I had all of RTR-THR. I literally have not stuck with it. I do not play MTG any more (xcept every now...

Here's the secret lairs added in not as one lump. Secret lairs man. At least you can mostly just ignore them for discussions, planning, etc.

Note the secret lairs all smashed into one number there lol. 48+ secret lairs?? I had no idea.

oof

ahhhhhhhhhhh Wrenn and Six

Yeah exactly that. Regrowths are part of a toolbox for a specific set of purposes. A 2/1 billy bob is good in basically any deck that wants to rumble with creatures.

I think that's a really cool feature of the card actually, that you can legitimately want to play this in some eg. BUG long-game deck as a recurring board piece you can keep out late game with all the extra lands you are drawing off your Thirst for Knowledges etc. Kinda like a manland in the...

Yeah a few baubles won't do much negative and will certainly help in the ways you mention, but I think a full trinkets archetype with Teshar, Scrap Trawler etc. etc. and then also a full artifact creatures archetype will be really hard to devote space to, unless you make it a full theme of the...

I feel like you have to either commit to an artifact creature package or a bauble-style package if you want to run this, not both. Both will just muddy the waters, and probably not have room in the brown section for everything you'd really want anyways. If you go the creatures route to get the...

yeah that's basically the main design flaw with retrace. If it's good you'll just want to do it any time you have the option of doing it. On a creature it's less bad, because it typically has to die/be sacced in order for it to be repetitive in the first place. I think Gravecreeper would make an...