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Oops :P Yeah I gotta find better examples for my "this had a worse version printed recently"

White: Leonin Squire It draws a card! Sort of...

Honestly I don't think mana leak and co are too strong for standard the way counterspell is. They garnered a lot of attention when they brought back lightning bolt in M10, and mana leak is waaaaay less format warping than that. Not something that never rotates out of standard, but something that...

Like I said: It's bad Rapid Hybridization saw play in standard. Beast Within is a star card in commander. Hell, Proteous Staff is a decent commander card. This kind of effect isn't untenable, this just isn't a great version of it :P Emerge Unscathed One of these cards can kill opposing...

Yeah morph (or manifest) is a not insignificant complexity cost, and really plays badly with ETB stuff. You get blowouts when you flip a first strike creature, but that's...just a combat trick. Hell even if you could flash in a sower of temptation, she doesn't untap things, you can't exactly...

You know what Polymorph is when played fair? Beast Within be aware that you evaluate cards way way better than the average magic player, and know that there's better options that are more consistent, and better options that are cheaper, and better options that get rid of the creature without...

I will say I seriously doubt they think Arcane Sanctum is WORSE than dimir guildgate. It's just not filed in their brain under "Fixing for me" the same way dimir guildgate is. How are they with the old Arid Mesa in GW concept? I somtimes have difficulty teaching my drafters about that one for...

Yeah mana leak was recently printed, but it was also deemed "too powerful for standard" not too long ago, so I figure I'd give it the benefit of the doubt. Counterspell in standard would be miserable, make no mistake. Mana leak was a strong card and you could play around mana leak, playing any...

Kinda? You miss out on people playing white black and splashing blue though, and I'm not sure there's a way for that to work well unless you literally have like "Choose 3 colors" on the land somewhere o_O Maybe you just need to draft more with these people! :p Eh, yes and no. We draft A...

Yeah I'm trying to judge based on cards that really evoke Beta to Tempest Block and cards that really evoke like... Alara forward. Maybe lorewyn forward? There's a huge chunk in the middle missing, but to me everything from like Invasion to Time Spiral doesn't particularly evoke either of those...

Given how successful Dig Through Time has been in generic cubes, I wouldn't really call it a home run for design. It's nice if you have graveyard stuff going on, but just playing magic it's basically Fact or Fiction with a bit of mana upside. Fine card, but uninspiring. For Soulflayer: looking...

Maybe something like the vivid lands would accomplish what you want? Vivid Tundra Land ~ ETB Tapped unless you pay 2 life. T: Add :u: or :w: T: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool. ~ deals 2 damage to you. Adjust that second one as you want, I just don't like my lands having charge...

Back on the old vs new train, I'm actually curious about how many of the spells in my cube are oldies and how many are recent. (My cube is not a perfect sample, and I'm approximating customs where I can) White is mostly new with the exception of Swords to Plowshares I'm going to count Path to...

I actually like butcher ghoul better: He actually lets you cast gravecrawler on the backside. I kinda wish there was B1 2/1 > 2/2, but alas

My brain shortcutted it to Bio-vac so quickly I only now realized it wasn't so.

I just want to point out they made a fair polymorph and everyone went "WHAT? WE CAN'T EXPLOIT THIS TO CAST EMRAKUL? USELESS CARD, WHY DOES IT EXIST?"

Make it a bear! BW, 2/2, lifegain deals 1? Seems fine to me

Phantasmal Bear Unstable Mutation Sweet Deck Brah Also for Disdain: Circular Logic

Nah I went looking for everything that mentions vamps I do mah research!

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