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I sold my entire Magic collection last summer (other than a playset of Overwhelmed Archivist, which I kept as a joke), and I've only regretted it once. (I put myself down as "Waning Moon" because I still fire up Cockatrice semi-frequently and still watch some Magic on the youtubes. It has...

Her "+1" is pretty interesting, since it scales with the amount of Counter Nonsense you've got going on in the format. Also... is she the first Planeswalker that just straight-up one-shots people if you play her with Vorinclex out? EDIT: She isn't. You can also one-shot someone with Sarkhan...

Eh, while that's technically true, the boost from D&D's popularity was mostly a thing, like, 10-20 years ago, back then the OGL was first slapped together and WotC was a very different company. Like, for reference, the original OGL (aka the one they tried to sneakily "update") was written at...

This would be exciting if the OGL wasn't just a legal stunt to encourage people to make derivative works instead of competing with D&D directly. :p OK, that's not the original intent of the license, but that's how WotC has been more-or-less using it. (Long story short: game rules aren't...

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Dear lord, new!Lukka really is just Bad Gold Garruk, isn't it?

Honestly, I feel like a bigger issue is that new cards with old mechanics tend to not play very nicely with older instances of that mechanic. I noticed that when I was working on my very kicker-heavy cube — like, it's not super bad, but you can tell that creatures have gotten bigger over time...

Honestly, it'd be fine if they just picked one format and did all of their design targeting that format in particular. Most of the design issues come from the fact that WotC is trying to design for "40 cards from a randomized pool", "60 cards with up to 4 copies of each", and "100 card...

That's because we can ignore WotC's mistakes and just keep their happy little accidents.

I feel like Toxic is... alright? The problem with Infect was always that Infect mixes really awkwardly with creatures that deal normal damage — the only deck I can think of that "splashes" for Infect is Modern Hammertime, and that's just because Inkmoth Nexus is effectively free and Colossus...

Hot take: White already has a ton of really powerful (if somewhat janky) counterspells... it's just that most of them don't say counter target spell. (I admit that Pay No Heed is a stretch, since it doesn't prevent spells from being cast or make targets invalid, but it does tell certain...

Yes.

Ah, Thrummingbird, you've put on some weight I see.

AI-Generated Cubing It turns out that, for whatever reason, CubeCobra's mighty AI really likes Conspiracies.

I see that sneaky "Sphere" subtype on The Mycosynth Gardens! You can't hide that from me, WotC! I wonder if that's going to have any rules meaning, or if it's just a flavor thing? Ooh, I like it.

Skrelv's Hive's honestly pretty cool — I'd honestly be pretty happy with that as a "poison in a box" card if my cube already had proliferate in it. Mercurial Spelldancer is also pretty neat. The body's a bit pushed, but that effect is pure gas oil. The Eternal Wanderer is... hoo boy. The only...

So, something like... Broko, Chief of Clowns - {1}{G}{U} Planeswalker - Broko +2: Make a Food token. -1: Target artifact or creature you control loses all abilities and becomes a 3/3 green Elk creature. -5: Exchange control of target artifact or creature you control and target creature with...

So, here's Green (But Fake This Time) I started it from a seed of ten cards that literally only cared about Green creatures and spells (with Arbor Elf to say that Forests were also important). You'd think that Green would be the biggest section. It is not. EDIT: Apparently there's a lower...

That raises a pretty good question — I wonder what the cube would look like if the "seed" was just a bunch of "color matters" cards?