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My impression is that this is still mostly the case (which is perfectly fair). It feels like you're trying to rationalize it, but the reasoning behind it doesn't seem to me to be very internally consistent. I'll address them in some semblance of order, but the third part is the most relevant...

Should be noted, a large number of which are drawbacks.

There's nothing particularly surprising about this. Yeah, I really don't want to play with UB cards. That doesn't mean I especially want to play with a universes within Lembas either, most cards just aren't desirable, realistically how many people would actually want Cecily, Haunted Mage, in the...

I feel like Attune With Aether deserves some more respect than being disparagingly called a "Lay the Land variant". 2 energy translates to a +1/+1 counter, +2 spell damage or an entire card, which is a pretty significant upside to staple on a 1-mana card. Seat of the Synod is also really just an...

yes, although that's not really any different from a modern horizons set, or a standard set for that matter.

If Wastes was a land type, the card Wastes, a basic land, would presumably also have the type, which would make it a sixth basic land type, resulting in there now being 6 in the game.

If they intend to have as many crossovers as they do it's ultimately just not feasible for them to provide in-universe alternatives for all of them either, not only do they have to source artwork and do creative work to retheme all of them, they also have to actually release them in a product...

Ajani seems kind of gross from a power level standpoint.

Suggesting that not supporting the ban of those cards necessarily makes you racist was part of it, yes, but it was more so aimed at train's post who further associated it with people who dislike Universes Beyond which, regardless of what the actual intent was, reads like an attempt to poison the...

sure are some interesting insinuations being made here

Exactly that, yes.

Is this something I want to encourage? Also idk how to resize images on mobile.

I think it was in during the very early stages, but I think this card is probably too easy to interact with for how much it asks of the player. I also don't have very deep archetypes, so I need my semi-replaceable cards to be more generally desirable than a card like CRV. I could be underrating...

Yeah the best way to break the asymmetry on Godhead is not relying on creatures. That does mean your opponent will have a lot of removal spells to point on your 5 mana creature though so it works better in theory than practice.

Let me get back to you in half a year when I've hopefully gotten a chance to play that now that I've actually started the process of acquiring the list I've been mulling over for however long I've been on riptide now. Supporting storm symbiotically is one of the four major design goals of my...

I try to keep things low-curving and my current selection is pretty format specific so they're probably not of much help, but Beast Attack Aeve, Progenitor Ooze Stampede Surfer from the latest clue set is kind of cool.

I mean, if I ended up picking it and had it in the sideboard I'd play it in the appropriate matchup.

I think this is the more reasonable approach to the topic, and there are a lot of tools to combat it. Wotc has realized that interacting with creatures is a core part of the gameplay that every deck is encouraged to be able to do, and therefore has given it much wider distribution than it had...

Well, yes, true, but why does that distinction matter? Do aggro decks have drastically different incentive structures in limited that makes cantrips more appealing to their gameplan? Do cubes, despite the infinite variety of environments they provide, all necessarily encourage cantrips? It's not...