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Yeah, that looks incredibly mediocre. OTOH, this particular creature may just have a crappy Foretell cost because the base body is so pushed. Getting a 6/5 trampler with built-in removal protection on T3/4 is, in a phrase, 'big game.' It's probably less attractive than Lovestruck Beast in...

I totally agree with all these things--she's slow, she's fragile, and she's mana-intensive. However, I think she has a lot higher of an upside than a planeswalker. Sure, she costs mana, but she's essentially reads "Once per turn cycle, cast any [Human] from your library." She doesn't charge a...

It's absolutely not going to come across in draft that it's a card from each set. However, I'm trying to keep a fairly even distribution of cards across time--540 cards and ~110 sets with new cards means that I'm aiming for about 5 cards from each set. I'm starting with one and building from...

...very? All joking aside, looking at your list (edit: assuming that you are your own friend, which I would hope you are! If not, it's a list that's familiar to you as an example of what might happen.) the biggest problems I see are mostly in Blue. (Urza, Lord High Artificer, Snapcaster Mage...

@Brad--the idea sprung from how disappointed I was with Masters 25 when it came out, so originally I built a masters set with the requisite 101 commons, 53 uncommons, 53 rares, and 15 mythics just to prove that I, a bipedal mollusk, could make a better set. I've lost the original version on an...

Argh heck lost my WIP post. Please work with this reconstruction. Erik is absolutely right; Village Rites is a house. Said it better than I could. The Standard Bearer, on the other hand, has been incredibly mediocre for me, as holding up 3 mana is just not great. I might need to play it more...

I'm not sure that different values of CMC will work out nearly as well as 2, 3, and 7 do, largely due to how the numbers interact. For example, you go T1 land, T2 land + CMC 2, T3 land + CMC 3, and then you're left with interesting decisions. On T4, do you drop 2x CMC 2 cards, or do you play out...

Okay, thanks for the feedback! Sounds like while it's possibly a bone to throw to monowhite or Wx midrange/control decks, aggro would definitely not be interested in it. It's the sort of weird card I'll definitely try out, and maybe I'll use it to help sneak in some combo elements. Thanks for...

I don't think that calling it an "unplayable" Shard Convergence is entirely fair; if it survives it essentially doubles your draws and guarantees that you're always getting both a land and a nonland card. Phrase it like that and it's a monowhite Phyrexian Arena for one extra mana without the...

Endless Horizons Is this a passable "curve-topper" for mono-White aggro in a low-powered Cubes? I'm visualizing this as a way for mono-White decks to draw nothing but gas. Obviously, if there's little enchantment removal, this can even help any White-based control decks in the late game, if...

I'm...dubious, but I suppose weirder cards exist. Is that supposed to be a new frame and watermark for snow on Blessing of Frost? If so, that'd be pretty cool. If not, then it's a pretty nice touch. On topic, Vorinclex actually looks like something I'd run, as the body is pretty good without...

Seconding Onderzeeboot, the removal writeup captures a lot of thoughts I've had in a far more cohesive and comprehensive manner! BRB, re-updating removal in my cube.

So, the thing about Lorwyn is that they had a ton of great ideas about overlapping tribes (Benthicore, Bog-Strider Ash) and about including Changelings as glue, but the problem with how they made "overlapping" cards is that they don't serve in their typeline tribe. Take the Bog-Strider Ash I...

Fair point, Heroic is a poor example. It sounds to me like Mill might be a much better example for a parasitic mechanic closest to tribal, but Mill has the benefit of being able to target yourself and become something completely different. I'd love for you to elaborate on this experience at...

<3 Unfortunately, with the whole Party thing and Forgotten Realms, I think we're only going to see more tribal. Hopefully it's the good kind of tribal! You won't the only one disappointed if it's the, well, disappointing kind. I'm curious as to why you find tribal specifically annoying as...

Sorry to double-post, but Halvar looks like a great pickup for an enhancements deck, and, while I'm less happy to see another White four-drop curve-topper engine piece, the modality is going to make this a slam dunk for me. (Interactions with tokens, equipments/artifacts, blink, AND aristocrats...

To the point about tribal being anti-fun: I think that Trainmaster hit the nail on the head. Tribal designs are often miserably lazy. "+1/+1 and keyword" lords are incredibly uninteractive, and they snowball in draft--there's no incentive to run anything different. In a word, they are parasitic...

Blink would eat it up in a heartbeat. If you're playing any instant-speed polymorphs, that's also good. Pod is fantastic, and probably busted with the Stack. (hey, look, I broke Pod!) (oops, crap. Thanks for the catch, Sigh.) Morph becomes possibly better? It certainly becomes different. I think...

Hey, Magic: the Ghostbustering could be a lot of fun. But yeah, she's no Bill Murray--it would take a lot of work to make her fun enough for that sort of character to really shine.

Trade Mage? Tetra Mage? Good for CMC4! Trawler Mage, Trifle Mage, Trebuchet Mage, Tracksuit Mage, Trepanation Mage, Trombone Mage.