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My vote is for trollbred because it's the only card of the three that really fits well in a deck that doesn't care about +1/+1 counters, by virtue of just being a big body that can turn even bigger (at instant speed!). Tuskguard is a bit slow and Crowned Ceratok doesn't enable itself.

Cackler probably actually fits aristocrats better just due to the applied pressure

You know what? I don't even think this would be that bad as a 1-2 of in the mono black pauper list? 2 life swing per turn is actually quite a lot, and black already has some ways of draining life in this way to try and close out the game while stabilizing.

Wilderness Reclamation seems kind of fun in conjunction with flash / instans in an UG list with some bounce lands or enchantments like utopia sprawl

+1 to the suggestions of making deck lists and practice drafting against bots. I would also suggest maybe taking some deck lists you're particularly keen on for a spin against a friend in an actual game! I think people would be more down to play with proxied cards if it's for testing design...

I'm mostly surprised we even get a "season finale" in MTG. Really big fan of the set code "WAR" :p

Very enjoyable article, well put arguments. Here's a scryfall link for anyone curious about what 3 cmc 3/2s have been printed throughout magic history: https://scryfall.com/search?q=power%3D3+toughness%3D2+cmc%3D3&order=color

Rhythm of the wild After having played against Rhythm of the wild on the MTG Arena sealed event I can tell you that card is real. It works perfectly in a more aggresive midrange deck, like gruul! The flexibility of making your early game creatures more beefy and your mid- to lategame threats...

So if I understand you right, you sort of rochester draft the card pool for the face down part?

I'm pretty sure this is unchanged, but it used to be that rares and mythics got fairy dusted into vault progress earlier. Now it seems like they're making the rewards for getting all rares/mythics better.

Someone sell me on Triskelion! I'm in the market for some more robots in my big cube update, and Triskelion seems popular around here. Is it the modal spell of killing a bunch of little guys or getting a 3/3 into play? It just seems so expensive!

My vote goes to Rhythm as well. Seems like a more rewarding card!

They look a bit like round Bolas horns?

Wow!! A fun rakdos gold card that isn't just a pure aggro card. This seems like it would fit great in those removal dense bolt/doomblade midrange decks. Trade some of their guys, then reanimate the best one.

This is kind of neat, life pain matters?

U Creature - Salamander Drake Flying 7U: Adapt 4. This ability costs 1 less for each instant and sorcery card in your graveyard. Now this is a blue one drop I can run! In a tempo deck it doesn't seem that far fetched to get a good chunk of instant and sorceries into your graveyard pretty quickly.

That's a very lovely and eloquent post about the subject! Really like the term "tempo-phase" and "reach-phase". I'll keep those in the back of my head :)

Do you feel like Clan Defiance is worth the gold slot over say, Fireball?

YES!! I love this card! It's a nice fireball plus it helps the cast multiple spells a turn decks!

Are we about to maybe have enough gruul +1/+1 stuff for Naya counters tribal?