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It does when it enables other Ninjas! Honestly, enablers are really what the archetype needs, especially those that double as actual payoffs later on. Great card, great design.

Sideboard cascade! It's like cascade, but you pull cards from your sideboard instead of your deck. As a draft-centric format with a very low number of duds, I think we're especially well-positioned to experiment with this and other sideboards-matter cards. In a similar vein, draft-matters cards...

Feldon has been on the cusp of being good for far longer than he has any right to have been, but he's always just a little disappointing. Maybe this time...!!

I like the designs a ton, but I'm worried about the names being too similar. Would it be too much to make them something like Tilling Nidoran (M)/Harvesting Nidoran (F)? I can see myself confusing them very easily, especially since they show two halves of one art and include a bit of the other...

Sorry, do you mean that as in this combos super well with Village Rites, that it's super strong and would have been a 6-drop not that long ago...? Just curious! I would agree with both, for the record.

I guess we're evaluating things entirely differently, because having extra mana during an opponent's turn when they don't expect it, especially in a deck with countermagic, seems backbreaking to me. It's like getting a Lotus Petal but with flash during an opponent's turn that can also be played...

@Mown -- Oh, Green is absolutely a flavor thing. In that movie, the jungle both spreads very rapidly and spews poison that explicitly kills humans but not animals, so I thought it would be a nice reference to that while curbing some of the power that you noted. Good change otherwise for that and...

I like lands. I like Studio Ghibli. I like the Planar Chaos frames. This is the result. ------ It's hard to find lands that generate mana in a way that significantly changes play patterns, and these are some first drafts at addressing that problem. Green--you're guaranteed to hit your land...

@sigh sure, there's no reason to be mean spirited about it, which is why I said that Brad shouldn't be mean-spirited about it and that maybe it would be better if this stayed as just a thought exercise. I'm still not sold on the idea that beating someone in a game is mean-spirited, but to each...

Yeah, but that's precisely the idea--give them a very short window to win in because it sounds like they aren't even playing instant speed removal. If you're up against Craw Wurm.dec, then you probably want to make the jump a little smaller than going straight to a T0 win. Plus, Battle of Wits...

Heck, if you want something dramatic, just make a Battle of Wits deck. It gives them a turn (if you want) to do something about it, and it looks super impressive while doing it. 1x Battle of Wits 2x Elixir of Immortality 1x Reprocess 200+x Swamp 200+x Island 1-5x interaction of choice and/or...

Sure, I can think of several off the top of my head. First, it's interesting to see these unintended consequences, and will likely help them explore things they never even considered. There'll probably be outrage at this unfair deck, but I bet that at least one of the kids is going to think...

Oops, that totally explains it! Should've known that you'd thought of him. As always, they look fantastic.

I'm sorry to nitpick, but Mononoke doesn't feel like a soldier to me at all--she's way more of a warrior, and for that matter is definitely red-green. I feel like Ashitaka is more white-green, if you want to take the unsolicited advice of someone on the internet. Offerings of pictures, because...

Buried Alive Runner-up: Debtor's Transport To be honest, the Orzhov are pretty freaking terrifying if I stop and think about them for too long. They're the scariest people to me.

Also sorry for the double-post, but I'm starting to feel like one of the ways WotC is going to mechanically tie in the "new vs. old" theme is by making this not an artifact set, not an enchantment set, but an artifacts vs. enchantments set, which I've been wanting for forever. If the whole...

All I'm gonna say on the DJ is that I hate it so much that I love it. It's so over-the-top tonally inconsistent that it becomes rad again, kind of like the whole Power Armor thing. Bring it on. Also thanks for posting the high-res art, Trainmaster! You're absolutely right that it's gorgeous...

Except wouldn't three fetch lands be a nonbo due to the shuffle? :texas:

The 27th, fwiw. Release is February 18.

That name is also what happens when you realize that Gone With The Blastwave is going to be old enough to vote next year.