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I think bringing up Pauper is also a good reminder that card viability is format dependent. It's easy to discuss cards in a vacuum and go "in comparison to every card ever, this card sucks/is fantastic/makes me want to scream", but the only time that we actually look at cards in a vacuum is...

But Toxic is centered in {B}{G}{W}? :marofl:

Two comments: 1) Last I checked, CawGate ({W/U} Gates) was T1/high T2. 2) ONE adding more Proliferate to Pauper means that there's a bunch of brewing involving the depletion lands right now.

You'd be legitimately surprised at how many common lands end up seeing play in Pauper, purely because most of them suck out of control. --- On a slightly different topic... A cube where mana of one particular color is paid for by gaining poison counters instead of through spending mana is...

Ah, so it was a specific term that I didn't know. Gotcha.

Is this lady not good enough for you? Jaya Ballard, Task Mage (I might just be misunderstanding what you mean by "Magic year 05/06")

Don't forget the nice interactions that blinking has with Morph and Unearth: Maelstrom Djinn Akroma, Angel of Fury

Desert-style cube where you have the Kamigawa exertlands in the basic land box and the actual cube gives you real lands? I like it. --- The poison lands just need to be something like... Obnoxious Bayou Land ~ enters the battlefield tapped unless you have 3 or more poison counters. {T}: Add...

I was really hoping that ONE would give us a black-border version of Noxious Bayou and friends. That would've lead to some really interesting tension in Limited, and would've resulted in Corrupted cards sometimes being worth drafting on their own. But sadly WotC were cowards.

Barbarian Bully How playable would this guy be if we took a sharpie and crossed out "at random"?

The bigger question about a full cycle of Groves is... what do you do with them? They'd all be untapped duals that punish you for playing aggro, and there are a grand total of two other payoffs for villain gaining life: Wedding Ring Kavu Predator Do you really want to fiddle with your entire...

While I think that fears of the Punishing Fire + Groves synergy are a bit overblown, I agree that making it a full cycle would be a bit much. I kinda want a black one, though, to combo with Needlebite Trap.

Nope! That's only the case if you're doing the Prisoner's Dilemma in isolation. I'm talking about a tournament setting, like the one Prof. Robert Axelrod ran in 1980.

Wait, people post here who aren't game theory nerds? :p Instead of talking about the actual topic of this thread from 2013, I'm going to nerd out about the actually interesting thing about the prisoner's dilemma (or any coordination game, really, but I don't know if anyone's done with with...

I like Young Red Dragon

I meant split up in a story sense, not a mechanical sense. I'm not suggesting that we'd have two sets in a row with identical mechanics (though that would be pretty nice, honestly — it'd give them more time to explore the design space around stuff like Corrupted or Enlist). The reason why I...

I feel like I need to steal that table (OK, the idea behind it, not necessarily the table itself) the next time I fiddle with a new cube...

Thinking about the current plotline a little more... I think that it could've been more effective if DMU and ONE had been split into a pair of sets each. Let's call them, I dunno... Dominaria United/Dominaria Besieged and ONE/TWO (I can't think of a good name for the second ONE set, so sue me...

I kinda skipped over OG Phyrexia because they were a completely different thing — for one thing, they didn't have the oil because Yawgmoth only perfected it just before he died. They couldn't phyrexianize buildings because a Phyrexian was a vat-grown dude called a Newt that got surgically...

I'll give you the gods (though the explanation there seems to be "we compleated all of Heliod's worshippers, and that made them believe in compleated!Heliod", rather than them compleating Heliod directly), but the rest of those are... questionable. Like, I don't think anyone thought that they...