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"Oh, yes, while this card says Kiki-Jiki on it, it's actually a Mountain."

How much would your calculus change if most of the "engine pieces" for the cube lived in the graveyard (e.g. Pyretic Ritual instead of mana rocks)? Would you still think Grip was the most palatable? (Thinking through which cards work well with retrace is legitimately giving me a bit of a...

I... completely forgot that my brain off-gassed the Aura idea. I think the idea was that I'd essentially be running creature auras instead of creatures, and seeing what happens. Looking at it again... I'm not sure it'd actually be all that interesting? The problem is that vanilla token + Aura...

Restore --- Actually, here's a question - assuming a cube where all instants and sorceries have retrace, which of these cards is most interesting? Invasive Surgery Grip of Amnesia Laquatus' Disdain

Retrace is also nice with Apprentice... but I felt like I had to highlight how nice it feels to turbo-charge Explore. Like, it makes it very likely that your Growth Spiral is effectively a two-mana Eureka Moment. And I love that.

Yeah, I think I'd be perfectly happy with a 5/6 flyer for {1}{U}{U} that I milled over or looted away at some point earlier in the game. It's in a similar boat to Roar of the Wurm for me — casting the "front half" is kinda meh (you're not casting it on T3 unless you've put effort into stocking...

What's even the point of Jumpstart 2, then? Don't tell me we lost sweet themed basics just so that we could get random anime-style reprints. Because that would be very sad.

My problem with Cleansing Beam is that more recent "Pyroclasm, but it doesn't hit your stuff if you build around it" designs have all cost {2}{R}, and they're still pretty meh. For 5 mana, I'd want it to deal at least 3 damage to each target.

She's a solid design, yeah - a weird little combo of Akroan Crusader and Signal Pest.

My only issue with Rally of the Righteous is that it's a gold card that asks me to either run a bunch of gold creatures or splash for it if I want to maximize its effectiveness. Granted, I've never drafted OG Ravnica, so I might be misassessing it.

Yeah, if the Radiance cards cost one less, a lot of them would go from being utter trash to being mediocre. Like, I'd play Incite Hysteria if it cost {1}{R}. Maybe. If I didn't have anything better for that slot.

What do you mean it's high variance? You just need a little bit of this, and it's perfectly reliable! Painter's Servant ... In all seriousness, Radiance is one of those mechanics that sucks because of the double-whammy of being wildly dependent on how good your format is at color fixing and...

I have been awake for... 39 hours at this point? I'm not sure how the hell that happened, but I'm going to off-jet a cube thought (because it makes me less sad than thinking about the slow, inexhorable death of people's love of Magic). Ajani's Chosen cube, where Auras take the place of...

It's kinda amazing how obvious the change in their priorities is. For the first half of the game's lifespan, most products are black, with splashes of other colors. Then there's a period where it's still mostly black products, but there's a relatively even mix. And then, over the past few...

Inscription of Abundance

Quandrix Apprentice I would highly suggest some Explore effects to go with the Apprentice. The synergy feels really sweet.

Oh, right, the 2/1. :p I think I broadly agree with you, but I still feel like you're kinda undervaluing the broader applicability of the 2/1. It'd feel less powerful than the Eternal Regrowth in actual play (because you'd only see the Regrowth in decks that can abuse it to hell and back), but...

@Karshtakavaar, @Rusje, you're both fine. Velrun has a bit of a history of being... particular, combined with a bit of a language barrier. They were weirdly aggressive this time, but I don't think it was because of anything that we did.

A dozen times this. I swear, children are all natural Pox pilots. (More seriously, Jason, I wish you a swift recovery.)