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? Constructed (in a deck of 60) 1) uses 10-19 unique cards. 2) has 15+ duals in non-mono colour decks. 3) has a very large cardpool draft: 1) has often a big power band these days 2) tend to have 1 dual/fixing in a booster (when multicolour is a theme) 3) has a limited card pool. cube: 1) has...

I think it is quite cheesy to use pauper to make a point that common duals with drawbacks are used outside their limited environment. Ofcourse, they are used in pauper, since that is all that can be used. But how often in a non-pauper (or a non-block, yes that was a format in the days) setting...

Hmm, I miss the part where the ring chooses to abandon its owner/tries to seduce another one. Maybe: The one ring 1 Legendary artifact enchantment- aura Enchant a creature you own. Whenever enchanted creature becomes blocked roll a 6 sided dice for each creature blocking it: 1: attach ~ to the...

I play a lot with the og cycling lands and I think that the fair basilica is better since you can just play it and sac it later. Yes, when you are in turn 8 and you draw it, then the og cycling one is better. But most of the times with the cycling ones you have to play it and then you flood...

Well, all your examples have one thing in common. They do not leave your opponent a choice. As much as I love browbeat Book burning Barbarian bully , they have an issue with all information on the table and the opponent can choose. Always the worst option will be chosen. Most invasion block...

Nice one! However, what if an opponent switches strategies? More on point and as said above by others. Iterative is sometimes not possible. Thank you all for such a beautiful thread drift into game theory!

I am sorry, but in the prisoners dilemma, without consultation/side agreements, it is always best to defect. Period. No matter the amount of timeyou play it, it is always better for you to defect. You are right about that something only becomes interesting when you have to find out what your...

Teferi was not time travelling in visions. He phased whole continents out. Those continents could not interact anymore but it was not time travel. First time travel I am aware of is in urza’s saga block. Karn was made to time travel.

I also studied game theory (but a bit longer than just ago) and my point was that poker is not comparable to a nash-equilibrium, and hence not to the prisoners dilemma. Maybe a simplified version of poker, but not the true poker. That is as you correctly point out due to the hidden information...

Yes, it has had time travel. However, with the caveat that it could only go back a couple of hours. When pushing it Urza overloaded the Time Machine in urza’s legacy and created time rifts on Tolaria. I think, but am not sure, these time rifts were part of the great mending/retcon/bullshit they...

The prisoners dilemma is as follows: 2 prisoners have the option to stay silent or to be a rat. If both stay silent each will be jailed for 3 years. If one of them rats, that prisoner gets a reduced sentence of only 1 year. The silent one gets 10 years. If both of them rat then both get 5 years...

I meant indeed the instant super type. The amount of colours I do not care about at all. The problem with some of the colours is that they are quite bland flavour/strength wise compared to the others or that a certain one has received all the goodies. The more colours the harder it is to support...

I meant more an updated magic with 4 or 6 colours. No sorceries, other improvements, and no phyrexians. In an alternate universe where Yawgmoth never existed.

Well, they could retcon it back to weaken it… Or let phyrexia rule everything and start mtg 2.0

Close, but no banana. Mmq was on mercadia. Nemesis on rath. Prophecy on Dominaria. Squee is from dominaria. As is Crovax, as is volrath. Linn-sivi is from rath, although from rath is likely coming from something else. edit: mercadia is if I remember correctly populated during the thran time by...

All nonsense aside. I would expect some mechanical relation between the pair and the two parts and that the sum is more than the parts. Otherwise, why pair them? That said, it is cheesy/lazy to just pair them and be done with it.

Well, I find the conditional ones like Academic rector or defense of the heart also quite palatable. When a player works so hard for it, then it is fair. The portal is hugely expensive, but also repeatable. The following is also quite fair: citanul flute

Izzit? If you are tutoring for an answer than I am a tad confused. I am used that the tutor is used to find your bomb… The problem is that the tutor scales with your power level. When 2 mana added (or spread over 2 turns) is painful then it is the right power level. Any other and it is as strong...

It is already possible right? Sleeper enchantments, enchantment creatures, pacifism variants, oblivion rings, pariah, enchantresses, tutors, return, Opalescence variants. Just do not have mass enchantment destroy and you have an archetype. You could then add other enchantments into white, e.g...

Thank you for this great piece. Most of the times a designer starts with an idea, builds a cube, iteratively improves the cube, sometimes gets a new idea and adjusts the cube. Your evolution parallel is spot on! There are some drawbacks to evolution/this type of cube curating: one is left with...