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I appreciate the thorough response, and I agree, communicating is much easier when it's done in person! I feel your pain, but if we are going to compare this to programming, kicker is like a function 'math' that just does everything math-related. That would make using it so hard that it's better...

That's not the point I was making. Inkling Summoning summons an Inkling, Elemental Summoning summons an Elemental, Pest Summoning summons two Pests, Spirit Summoning summons a Spirit, and Fractal Summoning summons a Fractal. Each of these five cards summons a token with the exact same name as...

Uh... wow. There's a lot to pick apart here. Just because it works for you (or you think it works for you), doesn't mean it's better if they called everything kicker. Yes. The word "kicker" conveys no flavor at all. It's a word that mechanically describes what happens (using this meaning of the...

MaRo has gone over this in his "everything is kicker" explanation. The problem is that kicker is too broad, and it helps the flavor and design of a set when a more narrow variant is used. See here (scroll down to Kicked When You're Down). Note, this was written in 2007! And people are still...

The pattern in Strixhaven is "<creature type> Summoning" creating tokens of type <creature type>, so it should be called Faerie Summoning. Finding art for two {u/b} faeries is hard, and I'm not about to commission some for my cube. I love Brian Froud's art, and this is just a good excuse to use...

Art link I think I'm in love :)

Actually, Nightmare Summoning creating Nightmare tokens would work just fine. It's just that this token doesn't gel with any of the themes present in my cube. I've actually looked at existing tokens, I could try to work with what there is, I suppose, but there just isn't a lot that I really need...

Not that I'm a big fan of Vex, but it is the only unconditional hard counter for {2}{U}. Just to be clear, would you call something like Thoughtbind a hard counter? It can't target everything, but there's no escape clause if it can target. Also, what about something like Lapse of Certainty? It...

I agree, that's what I was looking for, but finding art isn't always that easy :)

Andy and Train have my favorite headliner pairs :) Can't wait for the trainwreck card pool that tries to support an xR aggressive deck with an {g}{w}{b} card helming the other deck :D

My bad, I was at work, and thought Reunion was a random discard one. I still disagree with the notion that rummaging doesn't give you an informed decision, as you can (and indeed have to) still choose which card in your hand you want to get rid of. It's obviously not as informed as actual...

That would be a shame about the flavor text though :D And yeah, I was just making summoning spells for the two allied color guilds in my cube (Dimir and Gruul).

Another one! This is a minor variation on Pest Summoning. I changed the trigger to 'leaves the battlefield' so it works with ninjas. Art link I think this needs some tweaking, because the tokens should probably not have the creature type Floating Skull, and I think it looks better if the...

Not at all: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/X1rly I see that the hybrid lessons actually don't have colored bars behind the name and types, so I think I have some more tinkering to do to get it right... Edit: There, fixed! (In the original post) It's not entirely the same, but close enough.

That's not entirely accurate. While all your examples are valid ways for red to "draw" cards, WotC is also perfectly fine with printing stuff like Thrill of Possibility, for example, which gives a player way more agency than the cards you mention. The problem with Flooting is that it ticks too...

This is a simple one that I just needed to colorshift for my cube. Art link

I never trust Rosewater to be entirely straightforward in these new set hint posts of him ;)

Not yet. For the record, I think this lesson is too strong at 4 mana when compared to what the other lessons do (even the rare ones). Edit: I think I am going with Stir the Grave, which is somewhat underwhelming and conditional, but sometimes the right (or even a fantastic) card to fetch (which...

So much prettier!

Leeches There has been a way, for the longest time ;)