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"Derailing a bit" assumes that we're ever on rails around here. :p

You'd usually stick the reminder text at the end of the text block, like on Voldaren Estate

I mostly skipped tokens that are only produced by a single card. Well, other than bringing up the mighty ROCK as something I want to see again, but even if I wasn't doing that... I probably would've skipped out on Scrap anyway? It doesn't do anything, so there's not much to talk about. I hear...

I wouldn't complain. :p ... Fun fact: while two-colored vampires pop up on a bunch of planes, Innistrad ({R}*) and Ixalan ({W}) are the only planes where we see mono-colored non-black vampires. So if they decide to make Blood a vampire staple from now on, the next visit to Ixalan would be a...

I'm a bit bored, so I thought I'd go over the different types of artifact tokens (Blood, Clues, Food, Powerstones, and Treasure... actually, let's throw on Incubator//Phyrexian tokens too, though they're a bit borderline) and how useful I think they are for cubes. Powerstones ({U}{R}{c}, maybe...

I agree, though I wouldn't just restrict it to cube content — I hate the way that content creation in general grinds to a halt to talk about the New Hotness.

Yep! It's actually arguably better than Remand because it doesn't counter. Personally, I feel like it was a long time coming, and hope we see more white counters/pseudo-counters coming up. It'll be nice to be able to support some Wx control decks that can fight on the stack.

Nah, I can see it too — turns out Taylor Swift is a) blonde and b) had a similar haircut at one point (2019-ish?). If you look at the elf more closely, though, the similarity disappears, and the face just looks like Ye Olde Generic Fantasy Elf Lady.

Not the most impactful saga ever made, but...

I'm not even sure your drafters would necessarily notice if a guild was missing until they got a few drafts under their belt.

It's from the Food-themed Commander deck, so Modern can breath a sigh of relief. :p

Yep. It's a Commander card, so that's not too off-rate.

Not only is it the only complex mechanic in the entire set, it's the only new mechanic in the set (if you don't count Amass Orcs as "new").

A part of me really loves the Scry subtheme — it's a shame that one of the coolest payoffs¹ involves being tempted by the ring, but then you get sweet designs like: Council's Deliberation Elvish Mariner Elven Chorus Arwen Undomiel (Elven Chorus is an Enchantment for {3}{G} that's Earthcraft +...

That's a valid counterpoint... but there's a reason I called for disposable cubes that will only see play a few times! We have an expectation that cubes are going to see a ton of repeated play, which is incredibly daunting for a new designer — in contrast, going "it's pretty normal to throw...

While I feel like this article is pretty insightful... I feel like it misses the biggest reason why cubing isn't a super mainstream thing. And that's that cubes are hilariously huge. The standard size for a cube is 360 cards and assumes 8 drafters, which is actually, legitimately absurd. If we...

This is one of those "it's up to interpretation" things, since Tolkien tended to be pretty vague about what his magic does. However, the way I interpret it is that the Ring itself has only one drawback (the fact that it's sentient, malicious, and desires to be reunited with Sauron). Everything...

I've read the books, some of the supplementary materials, and The Silmarillion twice. So yes. I have.

On a less gloomy note... Friendly Rivalry is just cute, and it's probably one of my favorite takes on Legendary Tribal in the set so far — it's already pretty solid if you don't have any legends on the battlefield, but gets stronger if you do. Good show. Mostly posting Simic Legolas: Wait...

I've been thinking about "The Ring Tempts You" (henceforth TRTY), and it just makes me sad. Not the mechanic itself, necessarily, but the fact that it's gotten such a massive backlash for reasons that honestly aren't the mechanic's fault. In practical terms, it's effectively just an upgrading...