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Order of Midnight is pretty sweet, but my soul demands big Timmy creatures. Hence BIG GIANT PLANTS BEANS! FARMER DUDE SHAKES FISTS IMPOTENTLY, WHILE HIS WIFE WEEPS IN AWE! EDIT: I'm sorry the image is massive, but it could not be otherwise.

I mean, unless you're running Boggles.

My favorite adventure creature is Beanstalk Giant

Vanish Into Memory is at its best when you have creatures to target with higher power than toughness. Bear in mind that that can be temporary - putting a Bonesplitter on a piker turns Vanish into an instant draw 4 discard 1 for {2}{W}{U}.

My guess is that it's a new term that's going to replace converted mana cost.

I kinda love Lorehold Command as the top end for some kind of Boros midrange archetype.

So... Strixhaven spoilers: First off, I notice a new term "mana value" on two of the cards. I'm guessing that that's going to be the new term for converted mana cost moving forwards? I guess it's way shorter. Also wow these are solid spells. I really like Quandrix Command, personally.

Chainweb Aracnir Bower Passage Evolution Charm Forced Landing Trophy Hunter Sandwurm Convergence

I think its role as a finisher is that cycling mode.

An incredibly dumb idea for an archetype: Defy Gravity Plummet

Yeah, that's like... adding a new layer to the tech tree? I think it'd properly be power creep if you could trivially refine netherite from iron (or whatever).

If you wanted to power creep Minecraft, you could do it by adding things to the game that are strictly better versions of old things. For example, maybe torches made with oak are suddenly twice as bright, or they add a new way to get iron that involves just picking it up off the ground. But even...

Thanks for going through the trouble! Reading through, I'm not sure if the Zynga example really fits, since it's not a design slip. If WOTC sent someone to your house and they threw away all of your cards, I wouldn't call that power creep ;). I did have a thought about your "Magic is...

My counterargument (which ain't great) is that the observable difference between "we started printing 3/3s for {1}{G} in our sets" and Oko/Uro is that the latter are much greater outliers. If I want to use cards printed after "monogreen Watchwolf" is printed in my cube, I'm going to have to...

That's valid, but I don't think solely looking at cost vs. power as a one-variable thing is particularly useful. But now we're getting into my disagreements with how EC (and other venues) define "power creep" ;) . I'm also not sure that "high-power mistakes irrevocably creep the average power...

The part I'm arguing against isn't that power creep is somehow inevitable, it's the feeling that Zynga-style "burn everything in one go"-style "power creep" is inevitable. Because it really isn't, and it gives people with predatory business practices way more leeway than they deserve. If I...

Normal power creep is a slow process. It's a side effect of the fact that only a small-ish subset of your provided options are actually usable, so the designers have to aim slightly above the average if they want people to use their designs. Over time, this pushes the average upwards — it's like...

I honestly don't think we can blame this on normal power creep. The problem here is that FIRE design lines up distressingly well with "print GRBS", because the consistent meme in Magic design is that "fun is a zero-sum game". No, fuck that. You can't think that way when you're the designer...

Of those two, I prefer the Zombie. Some other cards to maybe look at: Aethersnipe Atemsis, All-Seeing Commence the Endgame Jetting Glasskite Shimmer Dragon

OK, so this is my final pile...