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Nice one! However, what if an opponent switches strategies? More on point and as said above by others. Iterative is sometimes not possible. Thank you all for such a beautiful thread drift into game theory!

I am sorry, but in the prisoners dilemma, without consultation/side agreements, it is always best to defect. Period. No matter the amount of timeyou play it, it is always better for you to defect. You are right about that something only becomes interesting when you have to find out what your...

Teferi was not time travelling in visions. He phased whole continents out. Those continents could not interact anymore but it was not time travel. First time travel I am aware of is in urza’s saga block. Karn was made to time travel.

I also studied game theory (but a bit longer than just ago) and my point was that poker is not comparable to a nash-equilibrium, and hence not to the prisoners dilemma. Maybe a simplified version of poker, but not the true poker. That is as you correctly point out due to the hidden information...

Yes, it has had time travel. However, with the caveat that it could only go back a couple of hours. When pushing it Urza overloaded the Time Machine in urza’s legacy and created time rifts on Tolaria. I think, but am not sure, these time rifts were part of the great mending/retcon/bullshit they...

The prisoners dilemma is as follows: 2 prisoners have the option to stay silent or to be a rat. If both stay silent each will be jailed for 3 years. If one of them rats, that prisoner gets a reduced sentence of only 1 year. The silent one gets 10 years. If both of them rat then both get 5 years...

I meant indeed the instant super type. The amount of colours I do not care about at all. The problem with some of the colours is that they are quite bland flavour/strength wise compared to the others or that a certain one has received all the goodies. The more colours the harder it is to support...

I meant more an updated magic with 4 or 6 colours. No sorceries, other improvements, and no phyrexians. In an alternate universe where Yawgmoth never existed.

Well, they could retcon it back to weaken it… Or let phyrexia rule everything and start mtg 2.0

Close, but no banana. Mmq was on mercadia. Nemesis on rath. Prophecy on Dominaria. Squee is from dominaria. As is Crovax, as is volrath. Linn-sivi is from rath, although from rath is likely coming from something else. edit: mercadia is if I remember correctly populated during the thran time by...

All nonsense aside. I would expect some mechanical relation between the pair and the two parts and that the sum is more than the parts. Otherwise, why pair them? That said, it is cheesy/lazy to just pair them and be done with it.

Well, I find the conditional ones like Academic rector or defense of the heart also quite palatable. When a player works so hard for it, then it is fair. The portal is hugely expensive, but also repeatable. The following is also quite fair: citanul flute

Izzit? If you are tutoring for an answer than I am a tad confused. I am used that the tutor is used to find your bomb… The problem is that the tutor scales with your power level. When 2 mana added (or spread over 2 turns) is painful then it is the right power level. Any other and it is as strong...

It is already possible right? Sleeper enchantments, enchantment creatures, pacifism variants, oblivion rings, pariah, enchantresses, tutors, return, Opalescence variants. Just do not have mass enchantment destroy and you have an archetype. You could then add other enchantments into white, e.g...

Thank you for this great piece. Most of the times a designer starts with an idea, builds a cube, iteratively improves the cube, sometimes gets a new idea and adjusts the cube. Your evolution parallel is spot on! There are some drawbacks to evolution/this type of cube curating: one is left with...

Well, do not run it anyhow. Strong tutors make games boring. They always find the strongest answer. WotC fucks up many times, but they are right to ban strong/repeatable tutors. It is boring and scales, i.e., they are the strongest cards. The real question is: at what mana cost is a(n...

It is not broken at all. That each part triggers only once makes it balanced, maybe a tad weak. It is a a card which does not do anything on its own. The treasure bit is nice to have, but the draw is what makes it strong. Having to discard 2 cards before it triggers makes it a lot of work (but...

Yes and no. In a superman/pillow fortress I rather have the keg. In black red I rather have the bomb.

That’s what I have been saying all along. Cater to the playgroup! Thank you for also pointing out the other side.

Yuuuuup. It is fun, kills also manlands. The joy is that you can tick it up, but not down. Your four drop is a number of turns safe