Next year's alleged leaks, per Reddit: Marvel Super Hero, Hobbit, Star Trek sets in June, August, November
more importantly here's 4 leaked Lorwyn cards from that post that could all make it into cubes (of higher power level, except the first one):
oh my god, that's why, wakka's ultimate weapon is World Champion
why does that break but It'll Quench Ya! not send you to Quench?!
e: because Quench sends you to the search results, so you can see Quenchable Fire again, the burn spell you can't play in your Torbraan, Thane of Red Fell edh deck
You're missing out if you don't at least try Heroes' Hangout (which, by the way, is honestly probably the better of the two names over Fire-Brained Scheme)
It's very good in Constructed!
By which I mean:
-It's obviously better if you can pay the kicker, ideally off colorless ramp so you do it early enough that a Caustic Rain matters (remember that card?!)
-It's obviously better as the things you fetch scale upwards - getting a Sanctum of Ugin, or...
No... but also yes, they could make it happen. Storytime!
I don't know if MTGO's ever implemented "starting with an emblem". They haven't done the random stuff like the Theros Heroes (The Champion), they don't do Arena-style Midweek Magic fake formats with rule changes...
BUT Vanguard was a...
That really surprises me, I have perfectly cromulent Selesnya cards (looking at you, Kudo, King Among Bears), but not one that I'm like, I'm never cutting this.
oh my god yes please put Crypt Champion in your cube I love that cycle so much
...actually, I guess I can just brain dump some "weird stuff that I'm not doing, but you might want to", of various power levels, from the last few years:
Stella Lee, Wild Card
Eris, Roar of the Storm
Emet-Selch of...
Same about Azorius, but I'm actually pretty happy with Boros - Warleader's Call and Anim Pakal, Thousandth Moon are really obvious signposts, but they've got interesting synergies with things.
There's also Showdown of the Skalds, Banon, the Returners' Leader, Winota, Joiner of Forces... there's...
oh, you know if I played Premodern it'd be 75/75 new frame
actually, this is a lie - if I ever won the lottery and played Premodern, I'd Oath of Druids into 1996 World Champion and dare them to disqualify me
edit: what on earth is going on with card tags that I have
1996 World Champion
and it...
Battlefield is funnier, because then you want to leave their bomb alive and kill them through it. Graveyard you'd just swap pairs of "removal and target" and so on.
Battlefield also makes countermagic worse!
If you don't need it to exist in paper because you're okay with proxying it, they made a red Garrison Cat but never printed it outside Arena starter decks:
Tin Street Cadet
(technically it's even better because it might get blocked and not die, but it's way worse because if it dies to wrath you...
Sometimes the threaten does not last until end of turn!
(...you kill them with their creature, then make sure to shuffle it into your deck, then kill them with it again. Got 'em!)
I don't know if I've told this story on this specific forum before!
Back in 2013?ish, I was at PAX East and Dave Humpherys was working the "play against a WotC employee, get a free booster" spellslinging table. I stood in line, sat down opposite him and pulled out literally his World...
After literally one game against it on the MODO beta, I'm more interested in
Cheering Crowd
than I was before.
It's strong. Being a bear at the start goes a long way cause you're bashing for 3 minimum, 4 if they take the mana (which is good for them, don't get me wrong)
Is it time for Myr Superion again?!?!?!?!?!?! ...no? okay.
Casting a wide net here, but hopefully you can see how anything in particular ended up on the list to maybe spark future ideas:
Warlord's Elite
Guardian of the Great Door
Mardu Outrider
Vesperlark
Shigeki, Jukai Visionary
Haakon...