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Yeah, I think I get what you're saying. My suggestion is directly at odds with the core game tension you are trying to achieve, I gather?

Oh, I just thought of a very "simple" default rule. What if you can exchange any three cards for two ingredients of your choice?

That is really one you ought to test to get a feel for it. It sure does sound more complicated, and in game design often less is more. The question is whether you want to invest complexity points into this part of your game. Other ways to tackle this would be to introduce ways to get rid of...

Another way to deal with this problem is to give players an suboptimal alternate action they can fall back on if the cards in their hands don’t match up with what they want to or can do. Ideally it would be something like trading a card from your hand to draw a random card from somewhere so you...

Some people chwinga both ways, y’know!

According to same source of the ban rumor: “Decision to transition to three year Standard was made a while back, but Midnight Hunt and Crimson Vow were completed prior to then. They considered waiting another year to make the change, but decided to move forward this Fall and just deal with those...

I heard this through the grapevine: Ban & Restricted discussion on Tuesday (5/16) episode of Weekly MTG. Fable of the Mirror-Breaker likely being banned.

We all are, we all are.

That was delightful @MilesOfficial :)

Because the serpent is quite a bit more impactful and can't really be called a "curve filler" (even though it technically is).

Don’t forget about Endless One if you fancy Common Curve Filler!

I mean, there's a reason people call the parent company Ha$bro. If anyone doubted their motivations, surely the price point of Magic's 30 year anniversary edition and the huge D&D OGL debacle should inform you otherwise...

This was an incredibly comprehensive post. Not sure I share the exact same sentiment, but well put shamizy!

I mean, Standard has effectively spanned 2 years of products for the longest of times, there just have been different ways to determine which sets where legal when. Going to three years is a really impactful change, and one that gives cards a longer lifespan! Thumbs up :)

You get a like for the conclusion alone :') Yeah, I do agree that the bar for including mechanics that require additional explanation at the start of a draft is higher than mechanics that just explain themselves on the card, and even for those I try to include at least a handful. I do support...

Oh right, the artifact menace. I forgot about that :oops:

How old are the Extended lists you are looking at, because Damnation is quite a bit newer than Pernicious Deed. In fact, there's six years between them! Since Extended as a supported format ceased to exist in 2013, Damnation got half as much time in the format as Deed.

Barely? Aphemia is cool though, I ran her for a long while!

So, I don't currently support Abzan in my cube, so this is a bit of an academic discussion, but in my mind neither Gloomshrieker nor Pharika, God of Affliction are enchantment support. They certainly add to the density required to run an enchantment theme, but a proper support card interacts...

That's quite a bit higher powered than I envisioned. One of my opponents had this at the prerelease, and it absolutely owned me.