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That's actually an excellent point. To be honest I hadn't even considered it. I think when my playgroup "grows up" a bit that's probably a great way to go. At the moment though these folks are seeing wasteland for the first time (and they'll continue to undervalue it until I learn to properly...

@CT I like the ideas behind the first two cards, but the triggers don't feel simic to me (but the effects definitely do). Ula's Chosen definitely feels perfectly simic, but I have no idea how to evaluate the card at all. I think I'd have to play with it to get a good idea. The trap feels off...

okay okay fine I'll try it :P

That sounds fun :) Maybe I'll give TtS a go! I just put in a couple of Fertile Ground-like customs in. Sadly, I customed it up as being Enchant forest instead of enchant land to make up for it granting hexproof. With the omnipresence of wasteland in my cube with this experiment I'm running, I...

Raveborn, what sorts of things are you seeing people do with those? The only applications I can think of are trinket mage and UB tezz

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I lol'd

Again, no issue with your other lines of reasoning "it doubles this list of cool spells in control decks that can afford to be slow etc". But I still disagree that a comparison to Firebolt has anything whatsoever to do with goggles. They're simply two entirely different effects. Firebolt does...

I think this line of reasoning is a bit of a trap. Firebolt is awesome because you get a shock now and the option on an expensive shock later. It's also awesome because you get that out of a single card. Goggles does neither of these. I wish the card were good but I'm just not seeing it. At 3...

This, plus Phyrexian Tower - the argument is that sacrifice effects are way too good in our cubes now for this one to be a freebie, but hey, maybe I'm wrong

I'm bout it! Just put coco in and haven't gotten to try it yet. Now I'm psyched to try. And yeva definitely might be bad.

Probably not, but I might play them if they were modded to be double hybrid cards.

@OZB I was thinking it over a bit more and I'm actually not sure I want this to be hybrid. Are we okay with giving (non-green) blue control decks a better-than rampant growth effect? I'm thinking no, but UG seems like kind of an oppressive cost (although probably fine in my cube with fetches...

I feel like it's a fun direction to take the pairing. What else do we have to go in the direction? Blue has tons of flash guys/instant goodies. We can run Mystic Snake. Yeva, nature's herald and boon satyr both help. I love briarhorn but I feel like it's a little bit simple and it clogs up that...

cranial cantrip (crantrip?) seems workable :) It starts to feel a little more UB than BW in that case though. Do you just want this effect or are you working towards a BW design specifically? I guess it might help overall if I knew what your goals/needs are with the design. While we're at it...

Double entomb seems like it might be a little on the too-good side. Especially if I can play it in nonblack decks. I also worry that the cranial extraction effect is a trap (because those effects always are)

@CT I just realized I never replied to this, yeah, that kinda misses the point of what I'm trying to do. It's not meant to be a mill thing (though I guess I wouldn't be mad if that happened). Finally rendered and printed it up last night and will be testing this weekend. And now a new idea...

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Kinda makes me wonder about reexamining unplayable heroic designs and seeing if just changing them to "whenever you cast a non-creature spell". I think there's some mileage there.

...now to go over to the board game thread and see if I can pull off a sick riptide forum combo