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Testing in the main cube: Mage's Attendant Raffine's Informant A Little Chat Make Disappear Majestic Metamorphosis Extract the Truth Big Score Goldhound Rob the Archives Sticky Fingers Jewel Thief Prizefight I don't love how ETB Connive isn't a "may" ability. It just feels bad sometimes...

My thought is that the sac is more so that when/if it falls off it's not as dead as another small critter, i.e. that the sac is a fail case more than a plan A. But it'll do work in a RB Aristocrats shell, RW artifact aggro, RU artifacts--heck, you can probably make it do something in storm. It's...

Continuing the trend of busted red artifact 1-drops is this good boy. What the heck? Why did they sandbag this card so hard? Obviously, this is an amazing target for counters or equipment.

priest of ancient lore The nice thing is that priest already feeds into lifegain, lol.

Well. This works nicely with a lot of things, but all I have eyes for is a busted Pod combo. :edh: Apart from that, though, I don't see much of a reason for this to be green.

Treasure discount added in.

Correct! But I don't think it's necessarily bad for Magic to get more complex as it matures.

Uh. Gang? What the heck? As my guess is that this is going to do stone-cold nothing without a Planeswalker, the question is how many you'd need to make this a reasonable candidate. I'd guess four to make this card not dead and maybe seven before it gets good? I don't think it's worth it unless...

Mmm, I think comparing it to Pod is the wrong way to go about this. Instead, think of it as a Worldly Tutor once a turn every turn if you can set up a way to get free tokens, which isn't an impossible ask. That seems pretty good to me. Obligatory :edh:

Short answer: kinda? Long answer: I don't run a rarity restricted anything, but I like buying cards when they're not outrageously expensive because the people at WotC deserve to get paid and rarity directly influences those prices. For example, I'll either proxy or forego anything that's too...

Oh gosh you can get it back with Abiding Grace. I take back what I said, this should be good anywhere.

Yeah, I was thinking for your type of cube precisely. If the curve is low enough that you can always play the card then it's very very good. If not, being able to control the timing is probably more important. I love how 1/1 for 1 is becoming a relevant sizing again.

Speaking of which, damn. I'm loving this tendency to let aggro grind a bit. Is this better than Voldaren Epicure? It might be in a vaccuum, but I think the discard/artifact synergy is more important than the sac synergy for me, plus the control over the timing is more critical than the precise...

That's your problem right there--gotta go at least to Somerville for the good shit. On topic, this is a fantastic writeup. It's always great hearing about testing methodology, and I think we tend to sweep failed experiments under the rug, so getting to read about your removing removal trial is...

Did someone say...Kess substitute? Also Spiderverse is freaking fantastic. I've seen about 25 minutes of Arcane, but it was a good 25 minutes, so I guess I'd recommend it, lol.

Another set, another crappy land cycle. Why couldn't it have come into play untapped? Why couldn't it grab a non basic? As it stands it's pretty much strictly worse than an Evolving Wilds (for our purposes at any rate. Yes, 1 life is not nothing, but I think we can agree that it's a negligible...

Sorry to double-post, but we've also forgotten the last two Crime People, who I actually think are the best of the bunch. Ziatora turns your critters into damage even better than Korvold and gets you a mana refund instead of a card refund. And it starts the same turn cycle! Falco (lol) on...

It's because this isn't the NNC spoilers thread, silly! But I completely agree, and now that we're here, I want to talk about Perrie, my BOY Granting trample and being a fascinating new counters lord seems really, really solid. I want him (and shield counters by extension) to be good enough to...

Elspeth is ramp in white!! :edh: She has the potential to be okay, depending on how good a shield counter winds up being. I suspect a return of Proliferate in the near future.

It seems to be about the natural transition from life to death, what with the flavor text on Elvish Mystic reflecting the middle ground between Death's Shadow and a literal symbol of birth in the Mother. The carving in the forest is a bit harder to interpret, but it seems to me to represent how...