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It's a fair point! But, of course, I happen to disagree about the dragons. So much of Magic story and lore is about the Good Guys Working Together to Defeat An Ancient Evil. I find Sarkhan restoring the dragonlords really interesting because to me, uh, and I don't know if this was clear in DTK...

I like Pick The Poison. I was already running Run Afoul so to me this is just a straight upgrade.

Congrats to everyone who won. My first eligible year not on the list. Gonna have to up my game.

and I adore an Orcish Lumberjack. There's something very real IMO to the idea of 'untap your karoos, orcish lumberjacks, and tolarian academies'.....

storm needs big mana! there are some delightful ways to blend 'big mana' and 'your manabase'. long long time ago grilloparlante innovated on ravnica karoos + untap effects to not only reach parity on mana in:mana out but actually generate even more mana, also. in my own cube i do some of this...

I've really been adoring this. I think it's pretty different from Historic; at this point, Historic has a curated banlist and gameplay patterns that couldn't survive some of these Timeless-legal cards. I'm so happy to be able to play an Arena format with brainstorm and ragavan and treasure...

it's also a much better game piece than secure the wastes etc. Awaken the Woods at small X ramps you into your bigger X spell, and if you don't have a bigger X spell, it's a really solid fireball also

"lore bible" edit: DRAGONS IN: Treasure Sorter, a tweak to Dragonstorm OLD TARKIR IN: Rally the Ancestors, Treasure Cruise (replacing Ancestral Vision), Disdainful Stroke, Alesha, who Smiles at Death

DRAGGIN' ALONG NEW NUMBERS: dragons in: Scourge of Nel Toth, Ugin, the Spirit Dragon (does this count?), Scion of Draco big lizards that aren't dragons in: Marauding Raptor, Thrasta, Tempest's Roar, Swooping Pteranodon, Ghalta, Stampede Tyrant 4 packs of 12, 6 drafters, leads to the following...

As part of getting Sharzad v4 together, I wanted to make sure I was paying enough homage to the original three sets that I liked so much. Without any cards from what I’ll now call (nearly a decade later) “Old” Tarkir, my Planar Chaos of Tarkir cube would be a less honest, less loving, less...

i think no matter what you're going to have to get several heuristics and build a formula that combines them in a way whose output you recognize as legitimate

DRAGGIN' BEHIND DRAGONS OF TARKIR (AND HOW AND WHY I SURPASSED IT) dragons of tarkir has 26 dragons and an as-fan of less than one dragon per pack of cards opened. 19.25% of its creatures are dragons and the OVERWHELMING consensus is that this wasn't enough. Partially this is because many of...

it can't have worked that well or you would have named one of the actual enchantment creatures lol

re-transcribed from a discord conversation so please excuse me that it's not as laconic as usual. not editing it beyond what i've done to add a frame narrative. sorry thanks one day, a student asked Gutei Oshõ about small games. the wise master Gutei Oshõ wastelanded him. On another day, a...

oh and here are some yard-cards

I don't agree. I think "the first time [this turn]" is actually way more computationally complex ("inelegant") and feels worse. Most instances of either gating condition are on activated abilities (most of which don't cost mana and therefore need a limiting condition), neatly solving the issue...

jinxed idol brings a new texture and tenor to gameplay that I enjoy more than the inevitability of spawning pit. with the idol there are real moments of panic and fear for both players IMO

yeah i need a new playgroup also

the card is so funny....goes off with Force of Will, Gush, Fury, Scion of Draco, affinity cards, delve, adds a fourth card to your Lorien Revealed because hey why not, justifies playing Misdirection in Vintage again...so much of the past decade of Magic design has led to Beanstalk actually being...

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