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Papers, please! is excellent, but for me is more of a thought-provoking example of game-as-art than a fun activity. The best distillation of MtG I have encountered is Mindbug which has similar gameplay but instead of having a resource system each player has two free Control Magic. This creates...

I hope Wilds of Eldraine is a great draft set but over the last months I have found retail draft to be a real rollercoaster. Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty, Dominaria United a March of the Machine have been some of my favourite draft formats of all time. Lord of the Rings has also been very good. But...

Original Jens for me. I even remember drafting my foil card at a friend’s house, first picking it over a Crystal Shard (which was the correct pick in the draft).

Both Recruitment Officers look so happy! Most magic card folk seem to have their faces set to grim determination, so it’s nice to see these two taking joy from their job of encouraging others to die in a brutal and senseless war. I prefer scroll-waver over flag-hugger.

I voted for Magali Villeneuve’s art as my favourite, though I am quite happy with the M14 art in my cube.

Original Kev Walker art for the Titan: it really captures the heat coming from the lava from which it is emerging. RKF Arcane Denial with orange fireball. Though I do give credit to Mark Zug for depicting magic as slime and goo rather than ethereal energies.

“Number of different mana values in your graveyard” seems like a tedious thing to keep track of, particularly if you already have delirium cards, cards that track instants and sorceries, etc.

I also liked the previous minus ability, though assumed you would be supporting an aggressive WR artifact deck, similar to Modern Horizons 2.

@TrainmasterGT stays on the rails so the rest of us don’t have to. @burymeinmsg’s post reads like a manifesto for fully proxied cubes.

Bloodthirst was a Gruul mechanism with a sanguine theme, so there is history. An alternative to shamanic magic is that the scent of blood sends predators into a frenzy, either rushing through your deck with the rummage ability, or rushing into combat (e.g. “Sacrifice a blood token: target...

You missed out Scrap tokens. One of the failings with the implementation of Powerstones was, in my opinion, the lack of specified secondary uses. All of these tokens have their primary function as written on the card, and a generic secondary use as disposable artifacts, but I enjoy throwing...

@Velrun here are the Kamigawa islands in order to show the full panorama (seeing them out of sequence in your post bothered me more than it should).

Legendary enchantments make sense. It’s been a while since I read LotR, but wasn’t there some elf magic protecting Lothlorien from Sauron? That could be a legendary enchantment.

Yes, though waggro is actually green not white.

Or the classic combo of goblin sharpshooterbasilisk collar

Exile already messes with graveyard synergies, so having the triggered ability be retained with exile feels like a positive to me. That’s why you need phasing.

Unfortunately most flicker effects only target creatures, and Yedora, the Explorer turns you creatures into lands.

Are you referring to the 1981 BBC Radio adaptation? I have fond memories of taping it from the radio as a child, and was pleased to find that it still held up when I downloaded it to play in the car on road trips with my family.

Doesn’t it make a land vulnerable to Wrath, as it animates it until your next turn? Or do you mean that you’ll still have lands to send in as hasty beaters?

I have been running the old 4-mana Saheeli, but now I’m thinking I should try the new one... No, I will stay true to my original plan, as Iconoclast and Sublime Saheeli are nice bridge cards for spellslinger and artifact decks.