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As cool as that would be, that would require Scryfall to expose the tags to API calls, which they currently don't. :( Even if you did have that, you'd run into the fact that Scryfall's set of tags isn't always going to be useful for cubing purposes (unfortunately). For example, let's look at...

Hmm... I'm not entirely sure that I like Harmonic Prodigy here — it pushes the "Wizard" micro-archetype into another color. Not sure if I want that. What if I try a different Wizard build-around? Ooh, look at how that links to so much stuff! That said, there's something to be said for adding...

Weird tinkering time! I'm fiddling with a mono-green cube, and I've hit on fights, fogs, and combat tricks as substitutes for traditional creature removal that feel pretty green (it also means that Hunt the Hunter is on the table, which feels really cute). However, I'm unsure as to how many...

I'm glad the cubing world doesn't have this problem — if an archetype in one of our formats is dumb garbage, we can just rip the whole thing out and be done with it. Meanwhile, WotC has to power-creep themselves because they have a very minimal ability to remove cards from constructed formats...

The funny thing is that Skurry of Gremlins could totally just be a one-off card for the "have a lot of dudes" theme. Energy feeling super gross and parasitic is honestly mostly a side effect of Temur Energy and friends being a thing in Kaladesh standard, where "go all in on Energy" was one of...

I thought that was heterosexual cisgender mournwhelk?

As someone who quite literally cannot listen to podcasts due to hearing problems, thank you for the summary! (Stuff on audio is generally not the greatest for accessibility. Also we're on a text forum with multiple users who don't have English as their first language, so...)

This guy is pretty cute: Watchful Radstag And, unlike a lot of the cards in this set, it doesn't clash super hard with Magic in general! ... I'm actually kinda surprised at how put off I am by Fallout's aesthetic. Like, I'm not a big fan of it at the best of times, but there have been...

Please tell me that they just haven't spoiled the Golgari one yet...

Curses, my rustiness at designing cards is my undoing!

It's unintuitive, but reducing the number of dedicated archetype slots can actually increase how many cards are playable in each archetype. Think of it this way: if you took six cards per color (one per archetype) and converted them from dedicated archetype slots to broadly playable cards...

just make a cube with no red in it problem solve

There's also the synergy with Master of Waves Casting the Master with the Godhead out gives you a 1/1 and at least six 2/2s, and you need to kill both the Godhead and the Master in order to get rid of them. Nasty.

Really not sure how I missed that it's a 3/3 not a 2/2... That said, the Troll eating your graveyard is what makes it interesting to me, because it actually has a cost associated with it being a 5/5 trampler by T4. On the flip side, it also has more play against graveyard hate (since it has a...

It's a cool card... but I feel like it's going to cap out as a 4/4 trampler for {1}{G}{B} with a bunch of text on it unless the game goes really long? Compare to... Charnel Troll

Oops, yeah, it's not a common term or anything. It's named after 237 Magic. I also have a more recent take on the concept called Late Night Musings that I haven't posted about much. It's honestly a pretty fun design challenge, especially if you're also focused on making it still feel like...

Debating revisiting some older cubing stuff, and I'm curious if you guys think that the following cards can hang together at the same power level: Serra Avenger Guardian of the Great Door Bayou Groff Talara's Battalion (Thinking of doing a mini-reanimator theme in a 2-3-7 cube using...

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As a legitimate question... how long would it take for your players to notice the difference if you swapped the extra Doom Blade for a Cast Down? Both in the sense of "how much do people actually notice when you break singleton without telling them you're doing so?" and in the sense of "how much...