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I've been waiting to see TV's in MtG since the first Ravnica set. While I'm not crazy about the fanny packs, and I think the 80's fashion could be made a lot more fantastical, at the end of the day a Multiverse can't just be castles and elves and regurgitated-recannibalized Tolkien stuff. The...

I'm working on mine and I'll submit it to the contest even if it's not finished. Great design prompt!

I guess I think of Hive as a symmetrical zero-variance game in the same family as Chess or Go. To my mind, designing a game like this requires a lot of discipline and refinement, and the final design is elegant and stimulating because complex games arise from simple pieces and rules. Meanwhile...

This contest is really awakening the two Game Design Wolves inside me. One of them really admires games like Hive, and the other really admires games like Necromolds.

Going into spoiler season I didn't think this set would have much for Welder's Workshop because of the emphasis on Energy and {C}, but I was quite mistaken. There's a little treat for every color in here, but Black is getting an absolute overhaul in the creature section that I'm really excited...

Devoid is a weird one. Basically, it's in line with all the game's keywords, which simply define exceptions to the rules that apply only to the keyworded card. Creatures deal combat damage simultaneously, unless they have first strike. Instants and sorceries go to the graveyard when they...

This set is so good for my Peasant environment. Love those "landscape" lands. Really cool how the triple-color Cycling serves as a nice visual shorthand for the fetchable basics available to each one. If they all had Cycling {3} it would be really hard to tell them apart, I think.

Modern Horizons 3 got me like:

Hybrid dual-flipland DFCs are perfect for my Peasant cube, but I will echo the sentiment that these cards could have done without Energy. Honestly, I think they've got enough "tech" on them already. It kind of reminds me of the cycle of 3-color split-hybrids from Mumbles at Murdoc Manor where...

I think you've managed to find the project with the least favorable effort-to-satisfaction ratio imaginable.

I am absolutely thrilled about some of these cards, but especially the return of Bestow. For a long time, Bestow, Evoke, and Suspend were my favorite mechanics. Eventually they got sort of blended together into Adventure, which I think is the perfect "cards that are also other cards" mechanic...

Omg, my dream has come true! I'll have to update the wish to "please print a modern-frame Blast-Furnace Hellkite with reminder text for Artifact Offering." It's crazy how many new cards have been printed in the last few years for this kind of cube. And based on the titles of some of those...

Kind of reminds me of Death-Rattle Oni

I'm literally begging Wizards to make a Legend that turns all creatures into 1/1 Otters with Prowess in Bloomburrow. Please Wizards.

Borderlands of Alara: Jhessian Frontier Along the Jhessian coast, where the foamy oceans of Bant intertwingle with the mathematically managed microcurrents of Esper's 11th Subsea, things are getting a little off schedule. Coastal raiders, always on the lookout for new plunder, have managed to...

Sonic, Sneakered Speedster will create 1d6 Ring tokens whenever a source an opponent controls deals damage to him. Ring tokens are identical to Treasures except they generate brand awareness. One in every 1000 Ring tokens is a reprint of The One Ring. Legendary creatures will be printed on...

Lightning Skelemental This was the moment I knew these Modern Horizons sets were something special. Regarding Chillerpillar discourse: I only drafted this set once and I forced Snow just for this card. But what actually won the game was my Soulherder + Man-o'-War

All of my recent cube updates have been acquired. The cards have been audited and the paper list matches the digital list. Everything is shuffled and back in the box. At this moment, the cube is perfect and complete. Can't wait for more Bloomburrow spoilers

I loved both of the other Modern Horizons sets as well. They have a real "love letter to the game" feeling to them. I think it helps that I don't play constructed Modern anymore, so it doesn't feel like Wizards might be gearing up to delete my $1500 deck from the meta. I'm just looking forward...

Just to briefly weigh in on the framing issue, I actually vastly prefer the method used on the Secret Lair Universes Within version. Vikya, Scorching Stalwart Instead of the inset second name line overlaid on the art, it lists the original SLD collector number in the collector info at the...