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The trailer made me flash back to my orientation, and the painfully earnest video about how consent worked. Through the metaphor of sharing hats. Yeah.

This is a straight-up draw engine for Landfall that encourages you to dump a lot of lands at once, but doesn't require it to be good. It's less powerful than Omnath, but it's also way more interesting.

Strixhaven reminds me of one of the things that frustrates me about Magic's design: non-permanent subtypes show up, are a big part of a set/block, and then never show up again. So any Lessons we get this time through will probably be the only Lessons we'll ever get. ... Now part of me is...

That's entirely fair.

I just thought of something blindingly obvious. If you squadron together a card with Learn and a Lesson, a lot of the issues of ensuring Lesson density in draft just kinda... go away. On top of that, multiple Learn cards end up synergizing in a pretty natural way, and you could balance things...

If you end up running enough of the colorless Lessons, it looks like there's already the potential for a low-powered toolbox deck centered in White:

I love that I sent you down this rabbit hole entirely by accident.

Turntimber Sower

I'm cautiously optimistic about Lessons, at least for a low-powered cube. At the very least, the colorless ones might be interesting? Let's take this card for example: I could see drafting this Lesson in a few different situations: I'm in a cube where removal is generally this expensive...

Abundant Harvest is, sneakily, a card from Modern Horizons 2.

This might be the best art for Counterspell, just through sheer "hold it up and show it to your opponent, Yugioh style":

Conspiracies might be a bit on the nose, but I might as well bring them up. Some cards I really like the idea of for this cube: Winnow Medomai's Prophecy Mitotic Manipulation Search the City Echoing Decay Infernal Tutor Grim Reminder Secret Salvage Tibalt's Trickery Verdant Succession Failure...

Don't typecast me just because pretty much every post I've made has been about jank. :p

Yes! It looks like Strixhaven will be giving us enough toys to support spell-slinging in colors that don't traditionally dabble in that kind of thing, like Green and White. This is basically perfect for a future rendition of Afternoon Delight. That third ability on Augusta is pretty cool...

Behold, perfection! m<WWWUUUBBBRRRGGG{W/U}{W/U}{W/U}{W/B}{W/B}{W/B}{U/B}{U/B}{U/B}{R/W}{R/W}{R/W}{B/G}{B/G}{B/G}{G/W}{G/W}{G/W}{R/G}{R/G}{R/G}{U/R}{U/R}{U/R}{B/R}{B/R}{B/R}{G/U}{G/U}{G/U} cmc=3 -is:split -is:mdfc That should hit everything at cmc 3 with three pips, skipping over split cards...

First off all, let's also list all of the alternate ways to make villain lose. I'm going to skip the pacts/enchantments that make you lose the game/Red extra turn spells, because those are all solidly F tier (unless you give them to everyone). Reasonable: Angel of Destiny Almost Reasonable...

That makes me wonder about designing a cube with a very different win condition. What do decks look like in an environment where keeping four creatures on the board for a turn wins you the game? How much removal do you need for that not to be bullshit? Or hey, what about cubes that start...

Hello, fellow citizen of Hondenuras! I live a bit further south, in the quiet region of Alternítas. It's the dense blue bit — we have nice quiet winters, but the spring really has a kick to it. Out of curiosity, do the colors mean anything? EDIT: Will this be maintained for any future cubes...

I love how there's an "Innistrad island" off in the corner.

So... Cipher?