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The Cavalry/Haakon/Inti synergies are also pretty sweet. (As a tangent, I've always kinda wanted to make Exsanguinator Cavalry + Call The Bloodline + Madness a thing, but I feel like the power band there is a bit too wide.)

I mean... the "new" Sultai culture is actually pretty realistic. Consider: Khans of Tarkir Sultai: The Naga took control at some point in the past, and were running everything on brutal oppression and propaganda. The humans explicitly used ancestral necromancy in an attempt to keep in touch...

Vampire Spawn -> Skirmish Rhino

I'm not surprised that dropping a few 4/4 flyers with Prowess on T3-T4 is a solid plan.

Kinda? We've only actually had one draftable UB set so far. So if this was designed like the LotR set... yeah, sure, it'll have draft archetypes. We just have no idea what they might be until spoilers come closer, because they prioritize showcasing the Ooh Aah Shiney cards over stuff like draft...

That's why they invented the sharpie.

Elemental Eruption Stormscale Scion Someone at WotC remembered that Dragonstorm was a deck at one point, but didn't quite remember how it worked. Nah, you just need Dragon Tempest out, storm into Stormscale Scion, swing out, cast Dragonrage to get a ton of mana, and then Quicken Dragonstorm...

I don't think this is a good comparison because a Nintendo Direct is showcasing multiple distinct products. If you tune in and see that they're making a game that you aren't interested in, you can ignore it and just move on with your day. For Magic, on the other hand, every single set is part of...

I literally don't know what counts as a pushed card anymore. It's a problem.

Given that Fearless Fledgling and Glyph Elemental exist, I don't think that Sazh's Chocobo is really that pushed in 2025. Of all of the cards I've seen so far, the only one that makes me go "huh, that's an interesting design" is Summon: Shiva. I hope we get a few with reasonable costs...

That's why we keep Chris around. Can't have them learning our secrets, now can we?

Go for it! It's one of those ideas that really gets enabled by the tiny cube size, since the pool of cards with off-color activated abilities is surprisingly shallow once you get rid of stuff like Akroan Phalanx.

Act on Impulse In all seriousness, just do what I did - skim ellogeyen's summaries, see which cubes grab your attention for a closer look, and then just go with your gut.

One of the unfortunate side effects of giving players a card at the start of the draft with a hard 72-card limit like this one is that you'd need to either figure out how to fairly draft an irregularly-shaped grid or give them way more cards. I had a lot of wheel-spinning on how to draft the...

I don't think you're crazy, but I'm not sure I trust WotC with designing more Energy cards at this point. I feel like Start Your Engines! isn't a bad mechanic in theory. It fills a similar mechanical niche to kicker, where you can play the cards for less value early on and then build up to...

The thing is that there are other examples of cards that omit the reminder text in newer printings but still have it as part of their full oracle text. My guess is that it's a screw-up on WotC's end, since Scryfall pretty much just scrapes that kind of information from Gatherer. It's just...

I knew that... the real question is why they removed it? ... Something I noticed today: Skaab Wrangler I love what this card's flavor implies about Innistrad. Necromancy is so easy on the plane that you can pick it up as a fallback career.

Wow, I just discovered another interesting Scryfall "glitch" - the full version of the oracle text only has reminder text if the card itself has reminder text. EDIT: no, wait, that doesn't seem to be consistent. If I didn't have work I'd do some more digging... kw: lifelink fo:"(Damage" c=b...

The worst part, for me, is that it's just a less cohesive card than Rabblemaster. Rabblemaster is effectively a Goblin Assault on legs, and just feels ultra-goblin-y. You also don't get the full value out of the card unless you attack with it, which introduces potential counter-play. He's just...

A shining bit of good news! To summarize: Scryfall had some extra hosting space and is now hosting an ad-free fork of the MTG wiki. Look at it! It's so pretty!