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I'm not really sure these two are comparable outside of size/cost. Prime Time is just insane at ramping and has trample encouraging attacks. Meanwhile Woodland Bellower tutors for a small creature, meaning that it isn't necessarily a card encouraging any course of action other than maybe "have...

That card is a lot better but then you run the risk of having it be broken in Burn decks and with Cantrips and the like. Granted, you can't just pitch a land to this and have it function as intended. Maybe make the change you suggested, but make the sacrifice ability only work on your turn...

I think this card is weak at 3cc, but I'm not sure how to make it better without reducing the cost to {2}.

Standard has been a mess since well-before 2017. Everything went to hell back in October of 2015 when Theros Block left standard and Battle for Zendikar rotated in. There hasn't been a truly great standard format since then, in my opinion. Guilds of Ravnica standard pre-Ravnica Allegiance was...

Yidaro is vastly superior to Rorix Bladewind for sure, and I like it more than Magmatic Force, Zealous Conscripts, and Goblin Dark-dwellers. *I know conscripts is in the cube for Splinter Twin support, I still like Yidaro more because it's applicable in more decks.

I probably shouldn't have used Kaladesh as an example. The set caused a -lot- of problems in standard, but those were all development issues and not design issues. I just remember Magic not being particularly fun to listen too or talk about during that period of time, largely because of the...

That's one of the reasons why I'm looking at Yidaro. Giving players insurance that they're not throwing away their finisher when they cycle is a good way to get people to use all of the parts of the card.

I mean, People Play Lots of Cycling Cards just for the cycling ability. Having a cantrip in your deck is not a bad reason to play a card. I agree with you that the body is the actually good part of Yidaro, but I'm not sure my control player valuing it for the cantrip is a reason not to include...

It absolutely matters where the problem lies. Design's job isn't to make something balanced, they're job is to make something fun. They're the ideas people. They come up with cool cards and hand them off to other people to make them presentable. The development team's job is to make sure that...

Yidaro, Wandering Monster is the pick, hands down. Drakuseth, Maw of Flames is just a big idiot creature that probably wins the game if he attacks and sticks. He's the definition of a swingy card, and is definitely not something that I'd really want running around in my cube. Yidaro, Wandering...

I think you're way overreacting. F.I.R.E philosophy is not the problem here. Rather, it's the same problem WOTC has always had: poor playtesting results. For those of you who don't know, F.I.R.E philosophy is an acronym standing for "Fun, Inviting, Replayable, Exciting." They adopted this...

It entirely depends on consistent your ramp decks are. If ramp can slam it as a 10/10 on turn 6, then it's kind of broken. If ramp can't, it ends up just being a "fine" midrange card that you play if you're already blue-green but probably don't go out of your way to make work. Krasis X=2 or 3 is...

I do not think these companions are good options for cube designers. The fact is, many of these cards are trivially easy to build around in cube. It's not hard to meet any of their restrictions, especially if you as a designer are thinking about making them work. Even Kaheera, The Orphanguard is...

For the first time, elegant, non-rarity restricted cubes are making it on to MTGO! This is a great day for the cube community!

Conqueror's Flail is fine, but I'd rather my Vulshok Morningstar always give a consistent power/toughness boost and not hose control. It's a good card, but I think it's ability suite can create a lot of negative variance which has an adverse effect on gameplay. Unless control is dominating your...

I think decks that have the most to lose from mana burn would only be punished by it if their controller was playing poorly. If you're losing a game to mana burn by making 27 mana with Gaea's Cradle, you've done something horribly wrong.

Sorry I've taken so long to reply to this, I wanted to think about what you were saying here before I just replied. I did a poor job explaining what I meant by "Strategy VS. Synergy." However, you said what I was trying to convey in my post, so I'll just quote what you said: ...And that's...

I used to play Faith of the Devoted but I cut it for space a few months ago. The floor of 3 mana do nothing is just a little too low for me, and unlike Drake Haven, you can't get more than 2 damage out of 1 mana. However, since you have a life-gain matters theme in your W/B section I could see...

Digging Through Time, Part 1 While Coronavirus is shutting down the world, I'm hard at work creating my Ikoria update for Highball. After all, there are only a few short days until the new set is released, quarantine restrictions will be relaxed, and I can start cubing again. Luckily, Ikoria...

That is cursed. I really hope that's not what their intent with these was.