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No you don't. You have to accept that the subset of players who financially speculate on inked cardboard lose their money, which is a different thing. You're conflating them with players in general because those people tend to be very vocal about it. If I purchase cards for this nerdy card game...

Embrace the Unknown is a sick card alongside Loam itself. It's also not two full paragraphs of text, so... A couple others I kinda like:

That's a baby Fomori... who apparently Jace and Vraska are adopting.

I think it's less that the power level of removal has necessarily gone up and more that people are running more removal due to how must-answer the creatures are. Which of course means that less immediately impactful creatures get squeezed out, pushing the power of threats and making it so people...

2009, if we're talking about commons. Why do you ask? Kor Skyfisher Jokes aside, I feel like Dust Animus encapsulates one of my big annoyances with the stat creep from the past few sets (which, let's be honest here, has less to do with competitive than it does with EDH, where raw stats are...

Dust Animus is probably the best take on this kind of card that they've ever printed. Contrast... Martyr's Soul Nantuko Shaman And, hey, you could always just play it when you have 7+ lands out! I can kinda see that happening in Limited...

Yeah, if you want to be tricksy about it, a sac outlet turns the hydra into a weird ramp spell.

It's not that it gave us better stories, really, it's that... while Magic sets are bad at telling a traditional linear story, they're great at vignettes and setting. Blocks were a way of stringing those static pictures together into a sequence, kinda like a big comic. I've got a definite hunch...

To go back to the block thing a little bit... it's less that I want blocks back, and more that I really wish that we still got sets that were "here's this cool new place we're visiting!" without any overarching plot or movement. Nothing gets a chance to breathe anymore, ya know? ... Spoilers...

I thought WotC stopped printing Suicide Black cards?

Slick Sequence is nice — in general, I really think that they've done a great job with the Plot-enabled themes of the set (though I kinda wish that Geralf and Gisa didn't make yet another new Zombie token...) Setting-wise... I feel like WotC made a bit of a devil's bargain when they got rid of...

Not entirely sure who started it, but it's been a meme around these parts basically forever?

People were saying something about on-the-nose references that feel kinda jarring? On the other hand, look at this thing. Look at it! Cheat out a pair of chonky lads at instant speed and in a manner villain will have problems dealing with for a mere {5}{G}{G}. Just ignore that it's yet...

As a side note: one thing that I'm always a little annoyed by is how they don't like to spoil Green's non-creature cards until later in spoiler season. I want to see what a Green Spree card looks like!

Train, I apologize for being short yesterday. I've been a bit stressed. ... I feel like the cowboy hats feel egregious because we just got finished with "all your favorite Ravnican characters do a murder mystery party": the set. It also feels like we're getting a frankly silly number of...

One of my pet peeves is when people use "Cube" as a synonym for "the specific kind of Cube I like building/curating". It comes off as kinda egotistical.

Leyline of Anticipation

If I didn't explicitly set "no free value engines" as a rule for building my silly constrained cubes, that Jace would be pretty cool in a 237 cube. Some other cards that stood out as pretty cool: It slices! It dices! It's kinda absurd. Yeah, sure, a free Karnstruct with each creature if...

What card type are guns? I'm wondering if I should pack Defabricate when I play at your table...

That certainly looks like an... *ahem*... "motivational device".