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Those are really nice songs, thanks!

Yeah, I wouldn't mind spending money on release if they did a proper update of Shandalar and ported the concept to modern age Magic. It truly is a great game, only held back by its lack of new content and its graphics.

Only 97? I might have wasted a bunch of time on that game as recently as three years ago :')

Shandalar, such a gem of a game!

Broken? Maybe? It's really, really good with fetches, cycle lands, and discard outlets, but that was the point. Maybe it should have a mana payment attached to it? Names and art, yeah, placeholder :) I appreciate your eye for flavor though, and I do agree these should be reflavored if I really...

I've heard Power Play is insanely overpowered, though I guess it depends a bit on your interpretation. There are a lot of players who interpret this as you going first every game. Edit: This reading is confirmed by the rules (and by Matt Tabak, then rules manager). So, yeah, completely busted.

Trying my hand at some less powerful, build-around conspiracies. Art credits Altar of Life: https://www.deviantart.com/lappixx0/art/Lizard-Altar-302366571 Cycle of Life: https://www.deviantart.com/mlappas/art/HEX-TCG-Shards-of-Fate-Unbury-710114418 Fires of Truth...

I don't think the "you just have to be lucky to open them" argument works, since that is true for any bomb in any format, but I find the follow-up reasoning persuasive. I think conspiracies add a lot of spice to a draft, but you are probably right that most are not balanced in a high playables...

So, I've got a bunch of conspiracies lying round, and some are just too good for my tastes, or very format warping (I'm looking at you Worldknit!), but I thought, is there any merit to running the lower power ones? I mean, these are all basically free cards in your deck, so they should be pretty...

I run Ravos, Soultender, and it's a great card, despite the annoying partner. I think we shouldn't let ourself get distracted by the extraneous text, if the card fits, it fits. I have never met a drafter who had any problems with ignoring the partner part.

Actually, here's a great blog post on the topic of rating cards by both their role as a supporting piece and their raw power, and then getting a composite score. All on a scale of 0 to 5! http://mtgcube.blogspot.com/2013/03/card-rating-system.html

Yeah, I like Safra's suggestion. It also shows how relative these rankings are, because Forsake the Worldly isn't a 0.5 in my environment. I think it's closer to a 1.5, maybe even a 2.0. By the way, he regularly updates his examples. Here's the list from his recent Ravnica Allegiance Rakdos...

Well, the mana is supposed to be terrible, since you're drafting a wildly unsupported shard :) Only Orzhov is a supported guild, so there's no Boros or Rakdos lands at all ;) Still a cool deck!

Also, Scapeshift

I think Sea Drake only really works in decks that can mitigate the drawback. Setting yourself back by two lands is a downright disaster! I mean, it's a great play off of a turn one Black Lotus, or off of a Mox Sapphire plus an Ancient Tomb, but I wouldn't want to touch it otherwise without any...

I run the Trapper in my cube, and it's much better than I thought. For one, it's fairly easy to get a decent number of legendaries into your white section, meaning a good chunk of your creature base can trigger this. In addition, this is a human, which is great for the human synergies in white...

D'avenant Trapper Teshar, Ancestor's Apostle Daring Archaeologist

Follow-up: Thanks to the drama on the other side of the Channel, over 70% of the Netherlands is now in favor of staying with the EU. Well, at least there's some upside to this whole mess!

I really don't know. Despite coming up with the wording of scroll and the MSE template, I've never had a scroll custom in my own cube :) I still love the idea of scrolls, and sincerely hope WotC discovers the idea themselves :D

All my mana rocks start at three mana, and even I don't play any of these. Maybe that's wrong? The lockets are nice for early ramp and late card advantage, but I already have two Hedron Archives in my cube. I like having different effects on my mana rocks anyway.