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I thought this set would be much more science fiction in terms of theme, but more of the humanoids seem to be carrying swords than guns. The tyranids don’t look that different from phyrexians to me. I could imagine playing a card from this set, if we get one that is mechanically appealing.

I didn’t know. I thought Strixhaven was near the village of Hogsmeade.

Proxy/sharpie the humans to be other creature types. Or run no humans apart from Champion of the Parish just to mess with your drafters.

Worst card to win with might be Pack Rat. The “correct” play pattern is just so repetitive and inevitable feeling. Best card to lose to? I’m going to go with Palinchron. It constantly surprised me with the combos it could enable.

As well as all these reasons from a cube design perspective, it feels odd to me having a single tribal card from a drafter’s perspective. If I take it I have to consider an otherwise irrelevant creature type in all my subsequent picks.

Would this be in addition to Cast Out for you? I’d prefer the cycling to the incidental life gain, but your mileage may vary.

Is it carving? Looks more like pyrography to me (not a criticism, just an observation. Burning the image seems very appropriate for dragon themed art).

I think the original “shade in which to fight” quote was from Herodotus’ history, which was released about 2500 years before Alpha.

Shamizy: for the sake of the rest of us who also enjoy magic art, and for humanity as a whole, please stop buying art prints. Thank you.

Like Mown, I enjoy flavour text that contributes to worldbuilding for a set. The Love Song of Night and Day showed that the setting did not just contain heroes and monsters, exotic locations, and strange magic. It could also contain poetry, fable and love.

Resolute Reinforcements Aether Channeler Haughty Djinn Cult Conscript The Raven Man The Elder Dragon War Phoenix Chick Squee, Dubious Monarch King Darien XLVIII Resolute Reinforcements is an interesting alternative to Raise the Alarm for token/go-wide decks that exchanges spells matter for...

This is an intriguing design. Chapter 1 is almost a “sideboard” card: excellent against certain decks but irrelevant against others. I would love to see other read ahead sagas with similarly niche chapter 1, for example destroy target enchantment or artifact. It also reminds me of modal cards...

And while I know it isn’t strictly better than Callous Bloodmage, it sure feels like it.

The first 47 King Dariens (Kings Darien?) weren’t worthy of a card, and the Phyrexian invasion is putting the bloodline in jeopardy. I’m considering the card as a go- wide, counters and tokens signpost: he hits all my three colour archetypes containing {W}{G}.

I’m guessing your MtG fanfic is for mature audiences only.

Fair enough. If you limit the design scope to Conspiracy then I can’t see any complaints. Cube is the only other format where it is playable, and I think it’s too format warping, having played it in both powered cube and mid-powered cube.

The term “glue card” has been used to describe those cards in a cube that can work across multiple supported archetypes. I’m interested to learn what card in your cube is the most adhesive, gumming together the widest assortment of strategies into one sticky blob. For me it is Angel of...

Would you care to explain why? safra’s argument seems to be that Arcane Savant piles degeneracy on degeneracy, which is an issue for any card designed for eternal formats. We can’t know the designer’s intent for sure, but outside CN2 drafts, Cube is the only format I can think of where Arcane...

Griselbrand’s potency is because he is both Baneslayer and Mulldrifter: his draw 7 can be used immediately but if he stays on the battlefield he’s also a massive flying lifelinker. Chimera would gain every part of this value. But you would still only have a 1/3 chance of turning Chimera into...

I’m not bothered by the length, but I think your signature should be about you, not a list of upcoming sets. If you had 11 lines of links to your cubes, your blog, your Twitter, etc I’d be okay with that. If I wanted to know the next 11 sets I’d go to a WotC marketing page.