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Garruk is also one of those planeswalkers where getting them off the board by attacking them isn't unreasonable., so you might not even need to increase your planeswalker-ok removal density all that much.

Garruk's a solid lad. I think that playing him as a three 3/3s in a trenchcoat or a slow overrun is totally fine — having a card that's a completely different roleplayer in a bunch of different decks is fun and cool. That could actually make a good thread, honestly — just a list of solid...

Clearly you need to include a squadron pick of Stomping Slabs as an alternate payoff for topdeck manipulation. :p --- As for actual manipulation, may I suggest Cream of the Crop?

It's looting because Innistrad's vampires have a strong mechanical connection to discarding and the graveyard alongside the more normal life-total-stealing stuff. If Blood had been introduced on another plane, it probably wouldn't loot... but we also probably wouldn't have gotten it as a token...

"Derailing a bit" assumes that we're ever on rails around here. :p

You'd usually stick the reminder text at the end of the text block, like on Voldaren Estate

I mostly skipped tokens that are only produced by a single card. Well, other than bringing up the mighty ROCK as something I want to see again, but even if I wasn't doing that... I probably would've skipped out on Scrap anyway? It doesn't do anything, so there's not much to talk about. I hear...

I wouldn't complain. :p ... Fun fact: while two-colored vampires pop up on a bunch of planes, Innistrad ({R}*) and Ixalan ({W}) are the only planes where we see mono-colored non-black vampires. So if they decide to make Blood a vampire staple from now on, the next visit to Ixalan would be a...

I'm a bit bored, so I thought I'd go over the different types of artifact tokens (Blood, Clues, Food, Powerstones, and Treasure... actually, let's throw on Incubator//Phyrexian tokens too, though they're a bit borderline) and how useful I think they are for cubes. Powerstones ({U}{R}{c}, maybe...

I agree, though I wouldn't just restrict it to cube content — I hate the way that content creation in general grinds to a halt to talk about the New Hotness.

Yep! It's actually arguably better than Remand because it doesn't counter. Personally, I feel like it was a long time coming, and hope we see more white counters/pseudo-counters coming up. It'll be nice to be able to support some Wx control decks that can fight on the stack.

Nah, I can see it too — turns out Taylor Swift is a) blonde and b) had a similar haircut at one point (2019-ish?). If you look at the elf more closely, though, the similarity disappears, and the face just looks like Ye Olde Generic Fantasy Elf Lady.

Not the most impactful saga ever made, but...

I'm not even sure your drafters would necessarily notice if a guild was missing until they got a few drafts under their belt.

It's from the Food-themed Commander deck, so Modern can breath a sigh of relief. :p

Yep. It's a Commander card, so that's not too off-rate.

Not only is it the only complex mechanic in the entire set, it's the only new mechanic in the set (if you don't count Amass Orcs as "new").

A part of me really loves the Scry subtheme — it's a shame that one of the coolest payoffs¹ involves being tempted by the ring, but then you get sweet designs like: Council's Deliberation Elvish Mariner Elven Chorus Arwen Undomiel (Elven Chorus is an Enchantment for {3}{G} that's Earthcraft +...

That's a valid counterpoint... but there's a reason I called for disposable cubes that will only see play a few times! We have an expectation that cubes are going to see a ton of repeated play, which is incredibly daunting for a new designer — in contrast, going "it's pretty normal to throw...

While I feel like this article is pretty insightful... I feel like it misses the biggest reason why cubing isn't a super mainstream thing. And that's that cubes are hilariously huge. The standard size for a cube is 360 cards and assumes 8 drafters, which is actually, legitimately absurd. If we...