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I run token support as an explicit theme in my cube, and this card will be going straight in. The storybook version is terrific: I love the four wide-eyed bunnies in the background.

Regrettably… SHOWCASE ADVENTURE TREATMENT In Throne of Eldraine, we introduced our first official Booster Fun treatment: the showcase Adventure treatment! These cards have a special frame that looks like you're reading out of an old collection of fairy tales. This frame returns in Wilds of...

Palantir is certainly very good in retail draft, though LotR is a relatively slow and low power format so that may not be transferable to many cubes. The landcyclers also increase the average mana value of cards to a modest effect. I think it’s definitely better than Phyrexian Arena because of...

I voted for original Rob Alexander art. The low, vaulted ceiling looks more crypt-like than the other Ravnica themed art, and to me feels more appropriate for a grave. Rob Alexander is also a master at creating a mood and sense of place. Minguez’s shipwrecks are my second favourite, as an...

This seems to be a pattern started in cyberpunk NEO and art deco SNC. I suspect WotC are moving away from more traditional fantasy settings to make their Universes Beyond sets seem less anomalous.

Papers, please! is excellent, but for me is more of a thought-provoking example of game-as-art than a fun activity. The best distillation of MtG I have encountered is Mindbug which has similar gameplay but instead of having a resource system each player has two free Control Magic. This creates...

I hope Wilds of Eldraine is a great draft set but over the last months I have found retail draft to be a real rollercoaster. Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty, Dominaria United a March of the Machine have been some of my favourite draft formats of all time. Lord of the Rings has also been very good. But...

Original Jens for me. I even remember drafting my foil card at a friend’s house, first picking it over a Crystal Shard (which was the correct pick in the draft).

Both Recruitment Officers look so happy! Most magic card folk seem to have their faces set to grim determination, so it’s nice to see these two taking joy from their job of encouraging others to die in a brutal and senseless war. I prefer scroll-waver over flag-hugger.

I voted for Magali Villeneuve’s art as my favourite, though I am quite happy with the M14 art in my cube.

Original Kev Walker art for the Titan: it really captures the heat coming from the lava from which it is emerging. RKF Arcane Denial with orange fireball. Though I do give credit to Mark Zug for depicting magic as slime and goo rather than ethereal energies.

“Number of different mana values in your graveyard” seems like a tedious thing to keep track of, particularly if you already have delirium cards, cards that track instants and sorceries, etc.

I also liked the previous minus ability, though assumed you would be supporting an aggressive WR artifact deck, similar to Modern Horizons 2.

@TrainmasterGT stays on the rails so the rest of us don’t have to. @burymeinmsg’s post reads like a manifesto for fully proxied cubes.

Bloodthirst was a Gruul mechanism with a sanguine theme, so there is history. An alternative to shamanic magic is that the scent of blood sends predators into a frenzy, either rushing through your deck with the rummage ability, or rushing into combat (e.g. “Sacrifice a blood token: target...

You missed out Scrap tokens. One of the failings with the implementation of Powerstones was, in my opinion, the lack of specified secondary uses. All of these tokens have their primary function as written on the card, and a generic secondary use as disposable artifacts, but I enjoy throwing...

@Velrun here are the Kamigawa islands in order to show the full panorama (seeing them out of sequence in your post bothered me more than it should).

Legendary enchantments make sense. It’s been a while since I read LotR, but wasn’t there some elf magic protecting Lothlorien from Sauron? That could be a legendary enchantment.

Yes, though waggro is actually green not white.

Or the classic combo of goblin sharpshooterbasilisk collar