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Oh, I totally agree; it's like a combined total of less than half a card with no significant rules text is being treated as some bombshell reveal. Social media hype factory bad.

Bigger lore focus is good! The best part of Ixalan block (and the only reason I have a somewhat positive view of it retrospectively) was the story. The writing was good, and the character development was perfect. It was an all-around good story. When I compare Ixalan to the writing quality of...

I don't think turning Gingerbrute into Triton Shorestalker is breaking the balance meta, but it might have some serious ramifications for the meme-meta!

Oh you're right. That concept is significantly less exciting than I thought.

One of the Commander decks is going to be called Food and Fellowship. I think we're going to be getting at least some food goodies!

Is 9 mana not a sufficient cost to work around?

White Remand

So I've been thinking about your post for the last couple of days. I love and fully agree with the overall point here that some cards enable specific play patterns beyond their reward, while other cards only contribute their reward to the deck. However, I've realized something in the process of...

I like what you're saying overall, but I think it could be expanded upon further. I think building a Cube can feel like building an EDH deck: you're trying to shape whatever you want the deck//Cube to be into a specific outcome. If I want a spells matter archetype in my Cube, I'm trying to...

Cube gameplay and deckbuilding tend to skew closer to constructed than limited because of the pre-determined and lower variance nature of the card pool, along with the design sensibilities of most Cube builders. In retail limited, players are forced to use what cards they get, even if they don't...

In singleton? I'm skeptical. In nonsingleton? Almost certainly.

I think it's only Ravnica and 9th Edition cards (hence the terribly shallow card pool).

My guess is per precon. Otherwise, that would break down to three new cards in half of the decks and two new cards in the others.

I think blink decks end up feeling a little anemic in singleton environments. A lot of the good blink creatures have really weak bodies, so even though they can generate a lot of value, this is often squandered when they are forced to chump-block larger creatures. Additionally, a lot of the...

Me too; he seems pretty mediocre at any other price point. Unfortunately, the people who did the development for this set are the "casual play design team," who are notorious for over-costing cards and nerfing things into oblivion to keep them from being impactful. They're basically trying to...

I just had Chat GPT tell me about this battle box in the style of George Carlin. Here's what it wrote: Sure, I'll give it a shot! TrainmasterGT's battle box is a unique and fun way to enjoy the game of Magic: The Gathering, and it's definitely not your typical format. This battle box is...

Start here and work your way down...

My favorite team-up is Mega Lopunny & Jigglypuff.

If you had said this 16 years ago when these cards debuted, I would have agreed. However, since they're continuing to finish the Horizon Canopy cycle in supplemental sets, and have already finished the Graven Carins cycle, I think Burnwillows is not an unreasonable request. The cycle will...