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Evaluating this as a Rix Maadi Reveler variant that needs to jump through hoops and not a Burning-Tree Emissary variant with an attached mana sink feels a bit off to me.

If I have to pick from the ones that are already there... it's probably Getaway. Outside of that, I'd like to suggest one of the following: General Ferrous Rokiric Radiant Scrollwielder

So... do we want to keep to singleton, or should we include this little guy? Myr Servitor It's effectively a token producer that rewards you for drafting ways to cheat extra copies into the graveyard.

OK, why did no one post this card? The Cabbage Merchant On the one hand, it's a goofy-ass card based off of a joke of a side-character. On the other hand, I really like the mini-game the card creates, where it has a pretty strong hatebear effect that villain can interact with without having to...

It'd honestly be really easy to paint over Appa in this one.

Ironically, I think one of the big reasons for the inflated stats (outside of the most popular Magic format literally having six times the life total to chew through) is that removal has been slowly getting better over time. If you can kill of most creatures in the format by paying 1-2 mana at...

Drafna, Founder of Lat-Nam I personally love this wacky guy, and would like to propose including it in the cube.

Ugh I was going to ignore this one but Lessons are here. That said, I'm not a fan of the fact that the four core mechanics are completely different despite having similar names. I honestly like it - Magic is historically really bad about printing subtypes for spells once and then never...

It'd be fun to do this as a cube thing, because then you can curate cards that work well with the tweaked rule (or just make customs of the cards that you like). That said, I think I like the idea of just one extra card instead of two - I've played a bit with Kenessos, Priest of Thassa, and the...

Funny idea: Make a cube where scrying or surveiling are treated as equivalent for any synergies. Funnier idea: Also include exploring. I could honestly see Enhanced Surveillance + Maps being a cool "secret" archetype. Funniest idea: Oh, and any time a creature tells you to surveil it actually...

I read this as "you can pick up your fixing lands for value (cycling or the free surveil) later", with the tempo loss mostly being a side effect.

Pokemon's absurd card advantage always throws me for a loop. I know a lot of that is Magic being relatively stingy when it comes to tutors and card draw, but man. My one annoyance is that we've been getting a bunch of explicit payoffs for scrying over the same period, so the incidental support...

Huh. That's honestly a really interesting card and I wonder how it'd get costed in Magic. I could see it being a Sorcery for {1}{B}? I guess it depends on if the discard is part of the cost of casting the spell or if it's part of the effect.

Living Lore I love this dumb guy.

My thought is less "extrinsic payoffs for mechanics = bad", and more "a mechanic having a high density of extrinsic payoffs is a design smell". Astral Slide is cool and fun and adds a new justification for playing with an already cool and fun mechanic, while Start Your Engines! is basically all...

Just so we're clear, Onder, I'm not saying that designs like Paranormal Analyst shouldn't exist - I was making a comment agreeing with Rasmus' feeling that sets have become more gimmick-tribal-y, and I was taking an off-hand stab at a distinction between cards that feel gimmick-tribal-y vs...

Oh yeah, they both have a place - my point is that one type of design stands better by itself, and as a result offers more of the "rules lego" feel that Rasmus is talking about. Even if WotC had decided to include Manifest Dread in every set in 2024, Paranormal Analyst would still be a card...

I honestly blame this kind of thing on the transition from the block structure to the current seven-completely-distinct-sets-a-year structure, combined with WotC's general reluctance to reuse mechanics. That attitude makes sense when you're designing three sets a year that have to share some...

There's also Unsubstantiate which is a kinda-sorta sidegrade to Remand?

Well, I always like playing with Remand and Memory Lapse and Misdirection looks pretty nice with Ye Olde Traditional Control/Tempo plan, so for me the choice is between the other four. Of those... I think Condescend is the most generically useful, since you always have the floor of it being...