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Oh that's my bad, I wasn't trying to say that FIRE is to blame for issues since 2017. I had moved over that section from a different part of that reply before posting to avoid repeating myself, might have been a little confusing. Those were entirely other problems in R&D stemming from a lack of...

Oh I'm not saying that FIRE is to blame for Standard being terrible in the last few years or even that raising the floor has been the main issue; R&D has had issues with Standard every since 2017. My view is that FIRE has lead to an R&D process where they feel the need to push cards to reach a...

I think FIRE is an issue if it's what allows for format-warping cards to escape notice at lower rarities in the interest of "fun". I'm talking cards like Veil of Summer or Arcum's Astrolabe where they didn't understand the potential impacts of what could happen in other formats. I don't think...

Sure, I'll give you that. Development needs to be fixed because their play design team has been terrible at identifying problem cards and at making the necessary adjustments. However, I'm not willing to give Design a free pass and move blame to the 2nd team since they're the ones that pushed...

It doesn't matter whether the problem arose in design or development; it's all encompassed within whatever their current system is in R&D. I don't know enough about specifics of how things are worked on day to day or passed between various departments, but I do know that their current workflow's...

I think they're a design abomination, the latest failure in this era of FIRE design and development.

Whatever their design/development processes have been in R&D over the last two years need to be drastically revamped. It's one thing to miss things every now and then and warp a format, it's another thing to do so every other set. They clearly never learned the lesson of what a "free" spell is...

Blood Artist > Zulaport > Bastion of Remembrance > Falkenrath Noble. Blood Artist triggering on any creature dying makes it the most powerful, Zulaport being your own creatures makes it weaker but still decent at 2 cmc. 3 cmc is rougher to work with, but the new card has a hard to interact with...

This card is great. It's just a better version of Evolving Wilds in almost every scenario. No T1 play? You can use this to fix your mana. Need to hit your land drops? Just play it as a colorless land. Need more live draws later in the game? Thin your deck with one fewer possible dead draw by...

The wording is absolutely awful. First part completely fine, but then there are so many qualifiers to finish it up. Oh man, I can add colorless on card exile? Let's go with this Eldrazi or artifact. Oh wait, can't do that and I need to pick a colored spell. Sweetest thing I can do is Villainous...

This is one of the ugliest cards I've ever seen. Good god who greenlit this before sending it to the presses?

I'd say that the more generic a card's effect is, the more it has potential to end up in a goodstuff pile. You want some overlap in cards to avoid the cube becoming a draft on rails scenario ala retail drafts that feature tribal, but you have to know where to draw the line. Just having the...

The two factors that would most impact this are your drafters tendencies and your current power level. Is there an opportunity cost to playing an off-color tri-land in a deck? How high are your drafters going to value premier fixing and their manabase when drafting? Due to the abundance of...

Barring something crazy being spoiled in the next 24 hours, my includes from the two sets are the following: I'm honestly not a huge fan of the mechanics of this set. Mutate is messy, keyword counters are going to be annoying to keep track of, and Partner get a big no from me in terms...

I'm quite happy with fetchable Tri-Lands. I run a handful of squadron land picks in my cube where drafting a card gets you an associated land with them. Regular ETB tapped lands have been okay for tri-color, but they've been lacking in many scenarios. Gameplay wise they kind of suck unless you...

Usually the spoilers from CMDR versus regular sets are mechanically distinct enough to keep separate, but this one is tied in with Ikoria with a ton of overlap. Not really worth the effort to have two different threads. Also too late at this point :p

What a great card for W/x decks. 3/3 first strike is nice defense on the ground, relevant creature type, and it's a great play on the draw allowing you to clear out lands off the top of your deck. For aggressive decks it can clear out dead draws off the top of your deck while for grindier decks...

That card is an excellent design. Relevant creature typing, good body for cost, strong but fair ability, and in the worst case scenario you just cycle it away in the late game for something more impactful.

Holy shit, this is the perfect BW Humans card. 3/3 on curve, pumps the board, serves as incidental graveyard hate when necessary, AND it has a weird removal mode. Pumping up Champion of the Parish by two, sacking Bloodsoaked Champion and another piece of fodder to shoot down big boys, and giving...

I really don't like this set so far. Mutate cards feel really messy.