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Mardu Heartpiercer {2}{W} Creature - Human Archer Lifelink, Reach When Mardu Heartpiercer enters the battlefield, if {R} was spent to cast it, it deals 2 damage to target creature or player. 2/3

Update: He actually has a site! https://arjanvanhouwelingen.com/ One of his games (Tricky Dungeon) will be published this year, and another one (name not officially announced yet) was accepted for publishing. I've playtested Tricky Dungeon multiple times (back when it had another theme), and...

Man, you should have made this in mtgcardsmith! Would have been perfect for http://whymtgcardsmith.tumblr.com/ :D Anyway, despite the obvious trolling in my previous post, I do think milling as a cost is more intuitive here.

baloth null This one has always been overperforming. Relevant creature type, relevant stats, and rebuying two creatures is super strong in the late game.

Strength of Night Aw yeah! That's a seriously big buff though, at instant speed o_O

Why not word it as a cost? "{T}, Put the top card of your library: Add {G} to your mana pool." Aligns nicely with Millikin for wording.

Mazirek is super sweet if you run enough sacrifice effects. You really need to be able to draft enough of them to be worth it though. You aren't going to be happy with the card if you can't realistically trigger it more than once. Stuff like fetch lands (or even Evolving Wilds from the ULD) and...

I think they're probably comparable in power level? The good thing about Trade Routes is that it doesn't punish players for playing their cards. You can happily slam every land card you draw, because if you draw Trade Routes, you can return them to your hand anyway. So either you use those ten...

Well, giving every card in your deck cycling is super strong in the late game alright. Whether Compulsion is too strong probably depends on how reliably you can get to the late game in a given cube's metagame. The ability to sacrifice Compulsion for a card isn't that important, except in...

I run Panharmonicon, and in the right deck it's super sweet durdle value :)

I bet maintaining a basic list of high powered cards takes about 20% of the time of maintaining the average Riptide cube. The Pareto principle strikes again!

Compulsion !

I believe one of his games got picked up by a Dutch publisher, but I don't know if it is close to publishing though.

That certainly sounds like you're designing a game. A friend of mine has been designing games for years now, and man is it a lot of work to see a game from conception through to a final satisfactory design.

I once cast an end of my own turn Boil against an UR Delver deck in modern (this is a few years back) in response to one of his instants, which prompted a perfect look of dismay. Turns out he was playing the super-heavy fetch density manabase with only 6 actual targets or something... all of...

On second thought, I uh... wonder if that that works? Discarding a card to cycling is a cost, not an effect, right? Edit: Yup, I'm sorry it doesn't :( Source: http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=202455

I actually have delirium in {g}{w}{b} in my cube, which is a better fit I think. There's actually playable delirium cards in white, and the new split cards in those colors have two card types as well.

That name, love it :)

Grillo, I love your posts, but it hurts and offends me how easily you are dismissing the time and thoughts I put into my own posts here. I thought I was pretty clear, but judging from your first sentence we were arguing from different vantage points after all. The entire conversation may have...

Woah woah woah Grillo. Relax! No one said t1 Thoughtseizes don't happen, people were arguing that the t1 Thoughtseize that destroys an opponent who mulliganed doesn't happen enough to warrant not including the card for that reason. That's not the same and you know it. Also, yes it's best in...