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Folks, I thought you'd want to see these gibbons, which are somewhat hidden in the photo here.

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Nice upgrades! I was thinking more of a card like Telling Time. You would end up with two extra cards and not know where to put them.

Yeah, that's irritating. They went for a lot of scry cards in LTR and WOE, before they seemingly made the switch. They could do "whenever you look at or reveal cards from the top of your library, look at or reveal two extra cards." That would buff lots of effects. It's probably best as a...

I'm probably late to the party on this one, but who else noticed that they've cut way back on printing new cards with scry? They made Surveil deciduous starting with Brothers War (Oct 2022), but I didn't realize until now that they've nearly stopped printing new cards with scry in retail draft...

I'd love to see what the community comes up with. Here are some of my favorite things to do with artifacts. These can't necessarily all go in, but this is the stuff that comes to mind for me. Master Transmuter flipping big ETB effects like Sharuum the Hegemon or Spine of Ish Sah or Duplicant...

I've been studying the Foundations products as I think about cube updates, and I decided to check out the word counts of each product. Product No Reminders Full Oracle Text Beginner Box 13.6 17.3 Jumpstart 18.2 23.8 Starter Collection (Duplicates Included) 18.2 23.1 Booster Draft...

I really like the concept of a core cube with occasionals and putting carefully chosen duplicates into the occasionals. That would change the odds, and provide some levers to customize the odds. I think it can be managed to create an interesting level of variability within an acceptable range...

I like the idea of some variance in which cards get duplicates. I'm reminded of this post on Japahn's blog regarding duplicates of build-around cards. https://desolatelighthouse.wordpress.com/2021/01/26/cavalcade-of-calamity-and-build-arounds-one-card-a-day/

I agree with the design smell sentiment, and with your other posts earlier in the thread. A few times, I've played a board game and wondered if I'm having fun or if I'm just moving a lot of little cubes around. Sometimes it really is fun to move the cubes around in service of whatever type of...

We did another 4 person draft with a slightly different group and had another fun night. Let's look at some decks. All four drafters went for red, which doesn't surprise me a ton based on the people involved. Once again only one drafter went for white. Three of us did three color decks, which...

Number Crunching This cube is 231 cards, allowing it to be drafted in 11 card packs by 3, 4, or 5 people. This is carefully chosen to allow packs to only be seen twice by each player, and for each pack to have approximately 2 cards of each color. No gold cards and only 4 colors makes the 2...

Cool! If this was in a normal frame, this is something I'd be pretty interested in, and it's the type of win condition I have in mind. It really has three modes since the kicked version can save your army from a wrath or get rid of all of the blockers for the win. I didn't think of that - I...

I like Felidar Retreat and Mirror Entity out of your suggestions - thanks! That's also my worry. Maybe Celestial Armor is more suitable at the cost of a couple lines of text. I do like the instant speed combat trick part of it.

Q #1: Does anybody have opinions on this card? Eerie Interlude I'm thinking about it as a fun card that you can setup to deal a knockout blow in the end game, similar to Overrun or Living Death. It doesn't deal the winning damage on the spot, but it could generate enough value to essentially...

That helps. Thanks for shedding some light on that for a guy who doesn't keep up with the lore very much.

Ah, I totally missed that it was a reprint. It's weird flavor for MOM, too, the set where every plane is at war with the baddies. I also don't understand how performer flavor c0nnects to surveil enters/dies triggers. It's very random. I'll go ahead and get over it now.

Wary Thespian I'll try this card as a two drop that an aggressive green deck could use, and also a card that the graveyard decks can use. I like smoothing bonuses on simple cards. But what's up with the flavor of this thing? It seems like a weird thing to throw into the Foundations set. Are...

Thanks for the suggestion. I tried it with a single picture and it threw an error, so I ended up writing them out by hand for now. The photo had overlapping sleeved cards with all of the card titles visible. Is this the type of picture the app is supposed to interpret?

I'm very interested to hear how the 4 player pick two format works out, and how the set is designed differently to accomodate this format. The multiverse land is cool. Glad they fixed the bad border, so maybe I'll find a few cards I like here after all. It will depend on flavor and art, and it...