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Way off topic, but @ravnic I think we love a lot of the same things about the world. In my basic lands box, I have 40 lands of each type, 10 each of 4 different arts. Kamigawa is the only set with a land in each color for precisely that reason...

No, sorry, I'm not talking about the money they make at all. I'm talking about Wizards's willingness to try new things. If the price of making good new things is making a lesser number of bad new things, I'm okay with that, and I'd rather that they continue to experiment rather than fade away...

Sure, but they have to make money somehow and I'd rather they do this (edit: continue to offer products that appeal to a wider range of audiences) to find the (edit: guarantees of) financial success they need to keep the game innovating (edit: trying new, radically adventurous mechanics and...

I dunno about you all, but I'm straight-up jazzed for all of these. Unfinity is the one I have the most questions/doubts about, but frankly if there's anything I trust Wizards to do right at this point it's Un sets. Kamigawa has me especially excited because it was my first set. I loved how it...

Shard Volley This card is just bad, right? It's not a decent pickup for a lands deck or anything? For context, my average burn spell is {1}{R} for 2 damage and upside at sorcery speed. It almost seems decent in this context as a Bolt but only in the late game.

Pack it in, we've found something too strong for @blacksmithy 's cube. /s :texas: <3 In all honesty you're absolutely right, but I feel like the line between "good" and "absolutely busted" is really, really close with squadroning this one. Two might be the sweet spot, especially if the...

Haven't played with it in Cube, but it's really nice in constructed. I guess the biggest question is not whether to squadron it when you include it but how many you plan to squadron when you do. I'd expect that your cube could handle 4 or more. Heck, for you the right answer may be to only offer...

Can I interest you in a Delina, Wild Mage?

For sure, paying {2} to cycle is a fine rate for non-explicitly-cycling decks, but if you're in a deck that's actively trying to cycle as much as possible I feel it becomes prohibitively expensive to do so at that rate until you have 6+ lands in play, at which point you are usually solidly in...

Krark-Clan Ironworks is a fair card that allows you to do some fantastically dumb things like sacrifice Scrap Trawler and Myr Retriever at the same time and use their abilities to get the other back. Edit: The B&R sums it up pretty well and probably better than I do, though it doesn't go into...

Perhaps more than agency per se it's a matter of predictability. Generally speaking I'm fine if someone bluffs a lack of removal and takes out the lynchpin of my strategy just when I decide to go shields-down; when they rip the same answer off the top of their library it feels less earned...

The thing for me is that cycling as an archetype is really hard to support. I'm only actively looking to cycle cards that cost {1} to cycle; any more and I want to be casting them for the card the overwhelming majority of the time, as the rate becomes pretty bad. However, most of the cycling {1}...

Astral Slide Astral Slide and friends just do not work without really warping your cube around them, unfortunately.

I'm going to go back to a set of classic arguments here--I voted for Kiki, Tendrils, and Warp World, for three different reasons. Kiki and other two card combos, especially with cards that just aren't excellent on their own, are not my cup of tea because they're overly centralizing. In...

Jumping on the bandwagon to vote for Rankle on the grounds that he has a higher floor and a lower ceiling and so can't really ruin games the way Yawg can.

You're welcome! Something like Lazotep Reaver or Grim Initiate can support some of those strategies as well. Also, context matters--Orzhov Enforcers can play as an aggro card if you're running Ninjas, for example. But again, I want to emphasize that these recommendations are just...

I think that what's going on with the "aggro problem" isn't that you don't have enough one-drops per se; as in retail limited, aggro decks starting on 2 are perfectly viable, provided that you build the format with them in mind and are looking at the correct power band to support that, which you...

I'm with Sigh, cup stacking was really big for about a month and I don't think things get much simpler than placing cups on top of one another. Maybe it would be harder for chess to break into the zeitgeist now than previously, but it's also so hard to separate what portion of that is due to...

Iirc it was because he was declared elf-friend by Galadriel. My personal opinion, however, was that Legolas simply refused to leave without him and threw a big fit until Thranduil caved.

Flash is a good keyword. How many of your cards are engines? If you have few of them then Flashifism can be straight up better than Silkwrap. But generally speaking Silkwrap is a cleaner answer, as blacksmithy said.