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Not every single card in every cycle will see play, but if you're looking at the playability of cycles that way, you're being pedantic anyway imho. If you instead look at how many of the cycles and individual designs were adopted in Pauper at some point in their life cycle, I'ld say your...

You would think that, but I assure you it does work. I used this trick in Peasant a long, long time ago, crafting a deck around Dreams of the Dead and unearth creatures. It's an unintuitive rule, but the crux is that while the text on the card makes it sound like it always replaces leaving the...

I’ll say that even I was surprised at how many of the common lands see play. There’s really only a couple of complete misses, and they are few and far between. Also, Like Mown pointed out, some of the ones that didn’t get to see play in Pauper actually got played in other formats, so there’s...

That's a bold demand you make Velrun! I mean, there's only 200 lands to go over, so... I'm definitely ignoring the commander-specific cards and other weird stuff like Cryptic Spires. It's been an age since I played Pauper, but there are resources I can consult to shore up my knowledge ;) And...

Add in a dash of (non-repeatable?) proliferate, so the number of poison counters you're safe at is not deterministic and you have the trappings of a cool format? You might also want a mono-color section just to entice the players a little bit more. Kill most creatures with Go for the Throat...

The One Ring {1} Legendary Artifact - Equipment (M) Equip {2} Equipped creature has hexproof, can't block and can't be blocked except by Nazgûl. You can't equip The One Ring to another creature as long as it is equipped to a creature. Alternatively... The One Ring {1} Legendary Artifact -...

I don't disagree with that particular point, I was just questioning what WotC would stand to gain by including additional drawbacks on taplands. Of course you take the bad fixing if there's no decent fixing available, but why wouldn't WotC include decent fixing?

Fair, sorry for misinterpreting your post! I couldn't see a format where tapped poison duals would be a warranted downgrade to simple taplands, so I didn't even consider that interpretation :oops: I do think WotC has come far enough with their (un)common duals that we are never going to see the...

Yes, it's quite obvious that it is literally possible to print the poison duals with an "enters the battlefield tapped" line. Similarly, you can literally have it etb untapped. That design even exists, though not in black-border Magic. It should also be obvious that my post literally makes no...

I can recommend Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World if you want an accessible recap of (mostly Western) philosphy. Good book, good pace!

to really make it tick, I think you need payoffs other than etb creatures. Something like Soulherder worked really well in its format.

Yeah, you can’t have it etb untapped, because then it has no downsides 99% of the time. But you also can’t have it etb tapped, because then it’s just straight up garbage compared to even a Coastal Tower.

Yeah, that is what I was saying! Wat I thought was black and white, is in fact black with the universes beyond diagonal stripes looking like white, but those same diagonal stripes are visible on Aragorn & Arwen. The only thing that doesn't explain is Gollum's high collector number.

I was pretty confident, thinking it surely had to be the custom frame, but you are completely right about the pinlines. Those are clearly mono-black. If you look at Aragorn & Arwen's border, you can see the same border pattern, with stripes running diagonally. Very weird that the collector's...

Looking at the border, Gollum is 100% {w/b} hybrid!

Gollum can be anything from amazing to unplayable, depending on the casting cost. One observant individual noted that Gollum's collector number is higher than Aragorn & Arwen's, so maybe it's {w/b}? Aragorn & Arwen seem sweet for a slower cube, like Penny Pincher.

A lot more playable. It easily represents massive amounts of damage already, but when you can make sure your first discard is a rootwalla instead of that Lightning Bolt you were sandbagging, that’s going to make a noticeable impact!

The thing is that the gainlands literally have no downside in decks that don't care about villain's life total, plus it makes games go longer instead of shorter (like painlands). Even though Grove of the Burnwillows is a cute mirror of Karplusan Forest, I think it's a bad design for the game to...

That’s the old Doctor Who ;)

I heard Teferi is the new Doctor Who ;)