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Ascension: Chronicles of the Godslayer might be a good starting place? The cost of a card would be the cost to acquire it, the aim of the game can still be to get your opponent from 20 to 0, creatures are the monsters, other cards types go into your deck. Include spells that kill or deal damage...

I'm guessing that's what they meant with the "(254 total)", i.e. the five basic lands are the only cards in the set that are not new to modern.

I don't ever play modern, but the folks here who do seem to like it plenty.

Oh yeah, I would love it, but they're not truly useful for Modern :)

Anyone want to make some (re)print predictions? either Fireblast or Chain Lightning Oubliette the full 10 card Grasslands cycle (imagine that, 10 budget fetchlands, aren't you glad now Modern players? aren't you glad?!!!) Standstill Psychatog Counterspell Cabal Coffers Mother of Runes Sulfuric...

Oh, I know. But I run (for real) Personal Tutor I like my tutors to be at the "decent enough, I guess" level, a line Mystical Tutor definitely crosses. Personal Tutor is useful enough in certain decks (combo, spells matter, to a lesser extent control (it does find you that Wrath effect after...

I'm referring to Play Design, which is the team currently responsible solely for testing sets with a competitive mindset, i.e. their only purpose is to keep game wrecking stuff out of Standard (and now Modern, I presume). The Felidar Sovereign combo was actually the direct reason to form this...

Also... Serra Aviary Serra Angel Worship That's pretty neat :) (PS. Does anybody know of a way to get a specific printing of a card? Cause this is the Worship I was looking for! Apparently the c-tag works differently from the ci-tag?)

I'm assuming the new and improved FFL has extensively tested the new cards in modern. I'm not terribly concerned stuff is going to break, and I completely agree with Velrun, for cube we get to choose any card we do like! I expect this set to be full of cool commons and uncommons that would be...

I feel like Karsten's numbers are more useful by ignoring the probability you're drawing the card. They're two different odds that are both important, but I feel your mana base should be based not on the probability that the card is in your hand, but by what turn you want to be able to cast the...

Not if they're this efficient, but I do like the art :) Enlightened Tutor, especially, is gorgeous!

Well, naturally he answers the question: "How many lands do I need to run to cast this card on curve." I don't think the chance to actually have that card in hand should play into his calculations. Of course, if you only splash a single black one drop in your deck, his calculations seem off, but...

The opposite, actually. The cheaper the card, the earlier you need a specific color, the more lands you need of that color. In other words, the slower the format, the easier it is to splash for an extra color. I'll link to my favorite author on the subject, and let him do the explaining :) (And...

1CC cards as in Glorious Anthem-style costs? It's true that including a lot of double mana symbols in casting costs makes splashing harder. Murder needs a dedicated black deck, Dark Banishing can be splashed for. Also, be aware that CC cards (like White Knight) are hard to cast, even in two...

Or with any free token maker, like... Bloodline Keeper Elemental Mastery Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker Krenko, Mob Boss Splinter Twin Thraben Doomsayer

Green and white are probably the colors with the most overlap: tokens, pump spells, life gain, artifact and enchantment removal. On a lot of mechanics, one of the colors is more efficient, or has more powerful abilities available, but there's still design space in the other color. White has...

That's why I liked you post first :)

Destructive Tampering is neat, it gets occasionally picked up in my experience, but usually ended up in the sideboard while I ran it in my cube. I like the idea of (but haven't tested): Smelt-Ward Minotaur I imagine it would run a bit like D'Avenant Trapper, which has been excellent in my cube.

I wouldn't go that far, but thanks for the sentiment. It did serve a nice set-up for a punchline :) Well, first of all, I don't feel that's what WotC was actually trying to do in Ixalan. In my opinion what they did was create a format with four archetypes in which every color was equally...

Hahaha, that Thelonite Hermit is spicy :D