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Yeah it's pushed for a common as it's easily splashable and should almost always be a 2-for-1. That said, I don't really care for explicitly multiplayer mechanics in a 1v1 cube.

Beastly in sealed, heh.

You essentially hit card parity with Sovereign's Reign once you've essentially skipped the two lands you would've drawn in a normal deck after having enough in play. Mulling to five cards but having perfect mana and always drawing gas in the mid-to-late game seems like a reasonable trade-off.

I'm genuinely curious - what makes Promise of Bunrei a top-down card? I get the rough flavor matchup of getting spirits because a creature died, but why four of them? Is there something from Japanese folklore I'm missing?

Hurloon Minotaur Goodnight, sweet prince

Jar of Eyeballs Eye Gouge Djinn of Wishes The elegance thread and Maro's recent podcasts on resonance and piggybacking have reignited my interest in getting more top-down design and otherwise flavorful cards in my cube. Strong flavor and resonance is what allows Akroan Horse to move from being...

That might be the least elegant card from that cycle. It's flavorful if someone spells out to you that each mode represents a season, but otherwise it's just a strong toolbox card with lots of text.

Yes.

I hope that name came from a top-down brainstorming session.

It's a Reduce in Stature variant.

Maro has been pretty clear that he thinks Song of the Dryads was a mistake and should not be in green's color pie. It only got by him due to being a Commander card since he doesn't work on those.

I always thought of Simic as predominantly a ramp pairing. While it can use some tempo cards; they're not there to press an early advantage like the other U/X tempo decks. Instead they're there to delay the opponent's plan long enough to overwhelm them with card advantage and/or expensive...

"I heard you guys like board stalls, so I put board stalls in your board stalls!"

Fair enough! I should have read your OP more thoroughly! I stand by running double Cogwork Librarian though!

I think the idea is that this effect is okay as a unique 1-of in a given format because it's weird and stands out, but as you get more of them it just turns exile into a second graveyard. Even if you're okay with this from a flavor standpoint, part of the point of exile is that it's a zone you...

The end times are upon us! Red finally gets a vanilla bear!

Honestly anything more than just making sure there's at least one of each monocolor card per pack seems like too much work and micromanagement for my tastes. Past that I'd rather just double up on Cogwork Librarians or even start everyone out with a free one in their draft pile.

I like Sensory Deprivation and Agoraphobia quite a bit. The latter can also be used to get "free" prowess triggers in a pinch.

If they were designing a game from the ground up to capture the feel of cosmic horror, I'd agree, but I think the story works well enough given the constraints the creative and R&D teams have to fit into. Tropes from various genres have to be bent to fit into a serialized story shoehorned into a...

You'd think people would learn that it is unwise to troll the emperor! ;)