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I could happily play Magic circa Future Sight for the rest of my time with the game. I miss Skeletal Vampire and Firemane Angel being good :(

The main targets for prereleases - casual players with only very loose ties to organized play - seem to like the casual packs, so I guess they work as intended.

My prerelease was sweet! I stayed home and did something fun instead.

Mirrorweave I love this card way too much.

I think most of us rejected it before Theros, so let's see what's been added: Chained to the Rocks Font of Fortunes Font of Fertility Skybind Ordeals Gods (Purphoros being especially relevant) Weapons Gnarled Scarhide Aegis of the Gods Hopeful Eidolon Hypnotic Siren Mogis's Warhound...

Ghor-Clan Rampager Rubblebelt Maaka Skinbrand Goblin Slaughterhorn Wrecking Ogre Thoughts on Bloodrush? I like Rampager/Goblin/Slaughterhorn because you can play them as creatures without feeling totally embarrassed about it, but idk if they're worthwhile.

also Frostburn Weird and Nightveil Specter matching up well against 2/1s and 2/2s, Tidebinder Mage locking down lots of creatures in a format full of hybrids, Jace AoT if the game goes that long The lesson is that if your guys' stats compare favourably to the baseline P/T of the format, you're...

That doesn't have to be true - note how Mono-Blue Devotion slaps aggro around in Standard.

Also, GRBS is only GR or BS if your other cards allow it to be. Your midrange deck is probably losing to Grave Titan or Wurmcoil Engine, but if your midrange deck has a Grave Titan it doesn't care as much about a Wurmcoil Engine (and vice versa). Obviously stuff like Channel -> Emrakul is going...

Yes, but you could say the same thing verbatim about the white/red aggro cards and people seem to treat their presence as a given. Maybe that's because there are few other things you can do with those colours while blue has an embarrassment of riches, but unsurprisingly aggro is more interesting...

Squadron Hawk Life from the Loam Gush

Because I just won't take a hint: Ways of converting creatures into cards: Edric, Spymaster of Trest Bident of Thassa Sky Hussar Ninja of the Deep Hours Cheap creatures: Cloudfin Raptor Judge's Familiar Wingcrafter Nivmagus Elemental Nephalia Smuggler Hypnotic Siren Dakra Mystic Escape...

the other one I sent him should be up soon

Good cards: Hypnotic Siren Prophetic Flamespeaker Temple of Epiphany Temple of Malady? Cards I'm intrigued by and will try to make work in some sort of Cube: Skybind Tethmos High Priest Launch the Fleet Battlefield Thaumaturge Dakra Mystic Daring Thief Dictate of Kruphix Font of Fortunes Hour...

I really like the +1 - it's very healthy to have a cheap, card-drawing planeswalker that doesn't create an avalanche of card advantage if not dealt with. I agree that the -2 is very out of place though.

The last bit might be true in ideal world where the win percentage is exactly 50%, but if it's slanted even 1% in favour of playing first it's basically never correct to draw.

Definitely tempted to revisit Harm's Way now.

If you push aggro and (in/)directly punish control by cutting down on cheap removal, games will naturally come down to the die roll a lot more. Planeswalkers are the biggest offender here, since it's much easier for the advantage they create to 'snowball' into something insurmountable.

Safekeeper is good if you have the typical non-kosher creatures to protect it with. If you're guarding a Baneslayer with it, great; if it's next to an Acidic Slime, not so much.

Profane Command