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Pokemon's absurd card advantage always throws me for a loop. I know a lot of that is Magic being relatively stingy when it comes to tutors and card draw, but man. My one annoyance is that we've been getting a bunch of explicit payoffs for scrying over the same period, so the incidental support...

Huh. That's honestly a really interesting card and I wonder how it'd get costed in Magic. I could see it being a Sorcery for {1}{B}? I guess it depends on if the discard is part of the cost of casting the spell or if it's part of the effect.

Living Lore I love this dumb guy.

My thought is less "extrinsic payoffs for mechanics = bad", and more "a mechanic having a high density of extrinsic payoffs is a design smell". Astral Slide is cool and fun and adds a new justification for playing with an already cool and fun mechanic, while Start Your Engines! is basically all...

Just so we're clear, Onder, I'm not saying that designs like Paranormal Analyst shouldn't exist - I was making a comment agreeing with Rasmus' feeling that sets have become more gimmick-tribal-y, and I was taking an off-hand stab at a distinction between cards that feel gimmick-tribal-y vs...

Oh yeah, they both have a place - my point is that one type of design stands better by itself, and as a result offers more of the "rules lego" feel that Rasmus is talking about. Even if WotC had decided to include Manifest Dread in every set in 2024, Paranormal Analyst would still be a card...

I honestly blame this kind of thing on the transition from the block structure to the current seven-completely-distinct-sets-a-year structure, combined with WotC's general reluctance to reuse mechanics. That attitude makes sense when you're designing three sets a year that have to share some...

There's also Unsubstantiate which is a kinda-sorta sidegrade to Remand?

Well, I always like playing with Remand and Memory Lapse and Misdirection looks pretty nice with Ye Olde Traditional Control/Tempo plan, so for me the choice is between the other four. Of those... I think Condescend is the most generically useful, since you always have the floor of it being...

Clearly the strategy is to have one main cube of 360 cards, and two side cubes of 120 cards each. Sometimes you draft with three packs each from the main cube, sometimes you do two packs from the main cube and one pack from a side cube, and sometimes you draft one pack from each cube. Shrimple!

Yeah, broadly speaking it's fine as a mechanic, but the memory issues push it towards being something that you need to make space for. I feel like we need a term for that kind of thing - stuff like Daybound/Nightbound or Speed aren't exactly parasitic (you can run a single card with the...

"Whenever the ring tempts you, draw a card, then gain two poison counters". :p

The actual lore is that Valgavoth was bound to a single house, but got powerful enough to fudge the rules by making the house expand until it completely filled the plane from top to bottom.

I think it was just this set of posts from earlier in this thread?

I think the idea was to reflect the infinite sprawl of the House more than exploring the House, if that makes sense. If it wasn't An Enchantment Set, I fully expect that Room would've been a land subtype.

Oh, I'm sure - I was just flashing back to brewing with Surging Aether and man, "I'm going to put you back a completely random number of lands" is complete nonsense, especially if you have ways of shuffling used Ripple cards back into your library.

As someone who doesn't have draft experience with them... I'd love to know who OK'd Surging Aether. (I do find it funny that they specified "Ripple 4", like this is a mechanic that they were going to expand on and fiddle with.)

God I love Rooms. I've been long-term fiddling with a Pauper brew based on using Etali's Favor to Discover Ancestral Mask, and Grand Entryway giving you a 1/1 enchantment creature is actively perfect for the deck. Rooms also have some pretty nice play patterns - I like that bouncing them and...

There were actually quite a few cards that showed the "warning signs" of the incoming invasion before the "main event": Furtive Analyst Preening Champion Nezumi Informant Placid Rottentail Portent Tracker It's the same issue Streets of New Capenna ran into, where they shoved an old-school...

I know, right? Personally, I'm a little curious about how this "new" drafting method is going to mess with drafting odds. Assuming everyone values the cards equally (which I know isn't true, but let's pretend), you're going from getting the 1st and 9th cards of your packs to getting the 1st...