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No, you're correct, the cards on the right are leaders. I'm not entirely following what definition Train cooked up where Third Path Iconoclast qualifies, but neither of the enchantresses do. I've been thinking about doing a write-up on categorizing build-arounds lately as well so I was...

You made an offhand suggestion of making a cube where you draft a deck that has to use a different companion each game. I'm not sure why I associate it with Pokemon.

I don't want it to be an insane consistency tool where you can put your high-variance build around in your sideboard and curve into it every game. But I also don't want it to be primarily utilitarian, which realistically I think is what would happen. And the idea of someone having a Mana Leak...

And what do you suppose happens when Unearth forces you to you exile the creature instead of exiling it? Answer is it changes nothing. Replacement modify events, they don't wholly supplant them. As a fun fact, most blink effects don't even require the card to actually go to exile. Before they...

Perhaps not in Pauper, but a playset of Sunscorched Deserts won a pro tour in Standard.

On the topic of companions and not so much occasionals, an idea I've been tinkering with since Jason off-handedly pitched the Pokemon cube idea he's probably already forgotten about; after your draft, you choose three cards to designate as... let's call them signature cards. You start with your...

The One Ring :1: Legendary Artifact :t:: The Ring tempts you. You lose 1 life for each time the Ring has tempted you this game.

I don't think I would put Displacer Kitten next to Teleportation Circle. It requires some investment, but if you untap with it, it becomes extremely difficult to deal with extremely quickly, and its ability helps it get there. I like Phantom Steed better personally though, as a kind of blue...

I don't know if you can say they will "always be worse" when those fun synergies got a card banned in modern. They're also trilands for supporting colorless, which isn't as relevant any more, but would have been very significant for some decks before they got power-creeped. Regardless, Velrun...

Magic's had a lot of time travel. Teferi looks into the past in Brother's War, there's time rifts in Time Spiral (one of the sets are literally called future sight), I'm sure Teferi was up to some time-travel shenanigans during the original Dominaria story-line as well, and Fate Reforger is...

Accepting the premise for a second that storytelling in mtg has always been bad and is inherently doomed to fail, they could just elect to then not focus on it, instead of shining a big spotlight on it. Lorwyn, Alara, Kamigawa, Innistrad, and whatever else are great sets that primarily focus on...

Big Score seems like a strange comparison to me. It's a ca-neutral card-filtering spell, this is a potential 3-for-1. I'm not sure where I stand on the card, but if you shaved off 2 mana and cut the treasure part I would consider it about the same as Hymn to Tourach. In value oriented games it...

I don't know how to feel about the juxtaposition of "a place where imagination becomes reality is under the control of the multiverse's greatest evil" and "lmao what if thalia rode on the gitrog monster into battle xd" also slightly bothered that the Theros god isn't doing the Theros god thing...

make it a cast trigger for flavor

Most of them are bad outside a degenerate context, like Energy Tap, Burnt Offering and Metamorphosis. There's Slobad, Iron Golem, and you could do things like Birthing Pod, Oswald Fiddlebender and Eldritch Evolution. I try to support some similar gameplay patterns with Ascendant Packleader...

Finally I understand why you're so high on the card.

Preposterous. If I had a reason to keep Topplegeist I'd hold on to it for dear life.

I've got three, two already mentioned. Breya's Apprentice is an artifact incentive with a pretty solid floor-rate, Goblin Engineer gets the gears turning about how to use it with Chromatic Stars, Scrap Trawler, artifact tokens, Triarch Praetorian and other nonsense, and Gut, True Soul Zealot...

Know what's crazy? Gatherer also supports it.

just wait until you see the regular expression ones