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The wording is absolutely awful. First part completely fine, but then there are so many qualifiers to finish it up. Oh man, I can add colorless on card exile? Let's go with this Eldrazi or artifact. Oh wait, can't do that and I need to pick a colored spell. Sweetest thing I can do is Villainous...

This is one of the ugliest cards I've ever seen. Good god who greenlit this before sending it to the presses?

I'd say that the more generic a card's effect is, the more it has potential to end up in a goodstuff pile. You want some overlap in cards to avoid the cube becoming a draft on rails scenario ala retail drafts that feature tribal, but you have to know where to draw the line. Just having the...

The two factors that would most impact this are your drafters tendencies and your current power level. Is there an opportunity cost to playing an off-color tri-land in a deck? How high are your drafters going to value premier fixing and their manabase when drafting? Due to the abundance of...

Barring something crazy being spoiled in the next 24 hours, my includes from the two sets are the following: I'm honestly not a huge fan of the mechanics of this set. Mutate is messy, keyword counters are going to be annoying to keep track of, and Partner get a big no from me in terms...

I'm quite happy with fetchable Tri-Lands. I run a handful of squadron land picks in my cube where drafting a card gets you an associated land with them. Regular ETB tapped lands have been okay for tri-color, but they've been lacking in many scenarios. Gameplay wise they kind of suck unless you...

Usually the spoilers from CMDR versus regular sets are mechanically distinct enough to keep separate, but this one is tied in with Ikoria with a ton of overlap. Not really worth the effort to have two different threads. Also too late at this point :p

What a great card for W/x decks. 3/3 first strike is nice defense on the ground, relevant creature type, and it's a great play on the draw allowing you to clear out lands off the top of your deck. For aggressive decks it can clear out dead draws off the top of your deck while for grindier decks...

That card is an excellent design. Relevant creature typing, good body for cost, strong but fair ability, and in the worst case scenario you just cycle it away in the late game for something more impactful.

Holy shit, this is the perfect BW Humans card. 3/3 on curve, pumps the board, serves as incidental graveyard hate when necessary, AND it has a weird removal mode. Pumping up Champion of the Parish by two, sacking Bloodsoaked Champion and another piece of fodder to shoot down big boys, and giving...

I really don't like this set so far. Mutate cards feel really messy.

Gales Night Flame = Thorns Dawn All are similar in power level aside from Dawn, but it comes down to need. Gales is an amazing curve-topper for U/x decks at 5 with a huge flying body, Brainstorm ETB and a good death effect, and it can recycle itself later in the game. Black has a lack of great...

If I had to choose one of them, I'd choose Courser since like Onder mentioned it's a form of pseudo card advantage letting you potentially go one deeper every turn. The Dryad might be the best version of that multiple land drop effect we've had on a creature as far as body + cmc is concerned...

Mesmeric Orb is excellent. It creates a weird milling subgame, fuels entire archetypes, and it allows you to apply pressure on an axis that is not usually available. I don't remember who it was that first ran it here, but after they gave a glowing review I decided to try it out in my cube around...

The idea of Skaab Ruinator is usually better than the average case scenario. The idea is an undercosted beater who will get there by applying evasive pressure, but the reality is usually that it gets removed early or it gets chumped by 1/1 forever. The cost of exiling 3 creature cards is pretty...

The big issue with Walkers and ETBs are the power creep and how things have shifted over the past decade. Walker designs used to be more limited and specific, but nowadays the trend for the pushed walker of a given set is to dial it up on most axes and make it generically powerful. That's how...

It's similar to mass land destruction in Commander where if you're going to play it, you'd better have a way to close out the game shortly thereafter because it'll be miserable for all parties otherwise. If you can't flip the advantage in your favor after resolving, it'll be a bad inclusion in...

Seems okay to me, but wouldn't be my first choice for inclusion if I'm looking for aggressive 1 drops. The firebreathing creates a weird bottleneck where you can't really utilize it early to grow other guys and punish your opponent until T3 at best which is a little slow for me. I wouldn't...

Yeah, you could call a judge, but that seems like an unnecessary hoop to jump through each time. Especially if it's each card in your deck, seems like a ton of work. Maybe if it's checking only for things currently on the battlefield? That would make a little more sense to me. Having to verify...

For the first batch containing commander cards it's kind of disappointing to me as an avid EDH player, but seems about right power level wise. The only thing that throws me off is that Whiptongue Frog because that card already exists and is in completely different colors than the pre-con it's...