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chivalric alliance is nothing like pack rat. the problem with pack rat is that getting them to zero pack rats is the only way to turn off the possibility of making more rats. chivalric alliance does not put the other player in nearly the bind a Pack Rat does and honestly post-MH2, these days, I...

i don't think there's a way to cost that spell-doubling effect that isn't either incredibly broken or unplayable

i think it is very strong and easily worth 4 mana. static ability means you can crack a clue on turn 3 when you play Nahiri which means she has two immediate impacts the turn you play her. i also think at 1RW the minus ability should not be repeatable without +'ing - how about, like, 1RW 3...

NGL that sounds like a real mess. here is how i plan to do Seek in paper if i think i want it: Hero cuts her deck, 'cascades' into a valid target, reveals it. Villain shuffles

orteil42's a good designer. i really liked his early "nested"

it's another chromatic star -- awesome! -- but the slowtrip thing isn't just 'strictly worse'. the ability to sac it for multiple colours of mana, as well as at x=0, are both really cool and valuable things you don't get with your factory-issue stars and spheres. helps fix for one key spell in...

Lingering Souls

Stern Scolding Reprieve Wizard's Rockets Orcish Bowmasters Boromir, Warden of the Tower Grey Host Reinforcements

i played UWx legacy stoneblade for years and feel like I can say a few authoritative things about stoneforge/batterskull together. even by the mid 2010's in legacy 'cheating out a batterskull' was not very good; you tutored for batterskull in matchups where the ability to 'gate' the equipment...

and just what exactly is wrong with casting Lingering Souls in a game of magic? what a joy!

I'm closing this thread, as it's almost ten years old and I've grown significantly as a designer. My new thread is here. (mods plz lock thread)

View the Cube list Playtest (draft) against bots I began this project on a mechanical level, with the intent to bridge the gap between "blue's historical dominance over the game engine" and the 'legacy-lite' gameplay I want. Blue's broken old spells have been able to 'pitch to force' broken new...

invasion of gobakhan is violently powerful and "goes in" every deck with creatures and a plains in it

nope.

Poxwalker !!! love this duder also you have to be exactly my Cube but big ups to a 3/3 flying zero mana recursive threat (so handsome in foil!)

Thragtusk first and foremost, but rhino with haste also very good card more gooder card than other three cards

Strong starting place here for some good theory. I like the essay! (I particularly enjoyed the distinction between the two builds of UR Ensoul - maybe there's actually more to discuss here?) You write that you've long wanted "to support some sort of Blue/Red artifact deck", and that you "still...

I like opponent scry

this post brought to you by: everyone who's had to buy 1x full-art Jegantha in the past few years. it's so true.

i don't even remember the last time I had nine mana.