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Umm... Mono-Blue Draw-Go Battle Control?

Quick note as I run out the door... If you're uninterested in supporting midrange, the axis you should be looking at is Power vs. Synergy. You want to dissuade people from drafting 5c goodstuff? Make 5c goodstuff suck. Homework: find a way to do so that's actually fun.

The memory issue is a problem, yeah. As for the taplands thing... honestly, blacksmithy probably has the right idea if your aggressive decks have go under other decks to work properly (and aren't based on, say, trading card advantage for snowballing on-board value). ... A kinda-incoherent...

The reason I picked the Thriving lands over the Gates (even though the Gates were the actual cycle that made me think along these lines) is that the Gates might make a drafter go "ah, so this cube has Gate synergies", while Thriving Lands don't.

While this is true, it's important to keep in mind that fetches only achieve that flexibility if you have fetchable non-basics. If you only have basic Islands and Mountains in your deck, Scalding Tarn is basically just a funky Riverglide Pathway. (This is just stating the obvious, sure, but it...

On a different land-related note... I feel like this cycle is the best cycle of dual lands WotC has ever printed, as far as drafting is concerned. Thriving Heath Thriving Isle Thriving Moor Thriving Bluff Thriving Grove You see, each one is secretly four different dual lands, and you choose...

This is arguably the worst idea for a format I've ever heard of, and I've given serious thought to building a Yet Another Aether Vortex cube. :p Like, I know it's a joke, but the problem here is that Cloudpost counts all Locuses in play. If both players make their land-drops on the first couple...

Honestly, the only way I could see that not being GRBS is if you gave them exactly two Cloudposts. Anything less, and it's not worth running over a basic land (unless you desperately need a way to cast Warping Wail or whatever). Anything more, and you need to start severely limiting the amount...

The problem with the Tron lands and Cloudpost in draft is that they're literally just Wastes if you only have one copy. As a result, you're only going to run Cloudpost in your deck if you happened to pick up 2+ copies, and the people who managed that are probably going to highly prioritize any...

I honestly want them to finish this cycle of cycles: Nimbus Maze|FUT River of Tears|FUT Graven Cairn|FUT Grove of the Burnwillows|FUT Horizon Canopy|FUT Yes, I know that we got all of the filterlands... but we only have 6 of the canopy lands, and none of the others have gotten any attention.

I mean, hey, if you want the other alternative that apparently works within the game of Magic: Garth One-Eye

Honestly, I feel like Scrolls could be handled more elegantly if you stole the wording from Legion Angel and did some jiggery-pokery with the Scrolls themselves: Skyshroud Packleader - {1}{G} Creature - Elf Scout Reach When ~ enters the battlefield, you may reveal a card you own outside of the...

Having watched someone play Pauper recently, a thought has occurred to me: One thing to consider when thinking about the complexity of your format as a whole is the relative power level of your enablers vs. your threats. If you look at Standard, you have an environment where your threats tend...

I feel like I missed something here...

At low-ish power (aka most creatures are at the power level where Kicker creatures are reasonable), how toxic is this foxy friend? Eight-and-a-Half Tails

I'm curious. What are your favorite cards, flavortext-wise? They don't have to be good cards, they just have to have sweet flavor. This is honestly probably my favorite: Hold The Line

So... which of the following Kicker cards shouts "wow, I want to cast that" the most to you? Fight With Fire Roil Eruption Urza's Rage (I might end up with Fight With Fire + one of the other two.)

For some reason, I had a brain fart and thought you were talking about Aggressive Sabotage.

These are both VERY GOOD commons. Like, wow. Keldon Strike Team has a floor of being a 3/1 haste for 2R. I have a feeling we're going to see quite a few Strike Teams being reanimated by a Balduvian Atrocity in limited. And I don't think I need to explain why Ghitu Amplifier is sweet. That's...

In order for Arcane Savant to have an acceptable power level, you need to intentionally neuter instants and sorceries in your format. If you look at instants and sorceries in CN2, the only card that's a clear cheat target for Arcane Savant is Expropriate which, conspicuously, is also blue. The...