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Honestly, this just showcases one of the things I don't like about the current Phyrexia storyline — they've buffed Phyrexia way too much, to the point where it actually loses some of its impact for me. They went from "scary inevitable threat that's contained on a single plane, but the seeds for...

Vanish Into Eternity Dang it, Elspeth...

Cat Hacker is from a Spanish game called Exo 3464. It's a charming monster built on a 2d10+1d10 system (you roll 2d10 under a target number, and the third die is your degree of success — sometimes the game calls for a more normal 3d10 roll, though, so be ready for that). You want to create a...

I sold my entire Magic collection last summer (other than a playset of Overwhelmed Archivist, which I kept as a joke), and I've only regretted it once. (I put myself down as "Waning Moon" because I still fire up Cockatrice semi-frequently and still watch some Magic on the youtubes. It has...

Her "+1" is pretty interesting, since it scales with the amount of Counter Nonsense you've got going on in the format. Also... is she the first Planeswalker that just straight-up one-shots people if you play her with Vorinclex out? EDIT: She isn't. You can also one-shot someone with Sarkhan...

Eh, while that's technically true, the boost from D&D's popularity was mostly a thing, like, 10-20 years ago, back then the OGL was first slapped together and WotC was a very different company. Like, for reference, the original OGL (aka the one they tried to sneakily "update") was written at...

This would be exciting if the OGL wasn't just a legal stunt to encourage people to make derivative works instead of competing with D&D directly. :p OK, that's not the original intent of the license, but that's how WotC has been more-or-less using it. (Long story short: game rules aren't...

Guttural Response

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Dear lord, new!Lukka really is just Bad Gold Garruk, isn't it?

Honestly, I feel like a bigger issue is that new cards with old mechanics tend to not play very nicely with older instances of that mechanic. I noticed that when I was working on my very kicker-heavy cube — like, it's not super bad, but you can tell that creatures have gotten bigger over time...

Honestly, it'd be fine if they just picked one format and did all of their design targeting that format in particular. Most of the design issues come from the fact that WotC is trying to design for "40 cards from a randomized pool", "60 cards with up to 4 copies of each", and "100 card...

That's because we can ignore WotC's mistakes and just keep their happy little accidents.

I feel like Toxic is... alright? The problem with Infect was always that Infect mixes really awkwardly with creatures that deal normal damage — the only deck I can think of that "splashes" for Infect is Modern Hammertime, and that's just because Inkmoth Nexus is effectively free and Colossus...

Hot take: White already has a ton of really powerful (if somewhat janky) counterspells... it's just that most of them don't say counter target spell. (I admit that Pay No Heed is a stretch, since it doesn't prevent spells from being cast or make targets invalid, but it does tell certain...

Yes.

Ah, Thrummingbird, you've put on some weight I see.

AI-Generated Cubing It turns out that, for whatever reason, CubeCobra's mighty AI really likes Conspiracies.

I see that sneaky "Sphere" subtype on The Mycosynth Gardens! You can't hide that from me, WotC! I wonder if that's going to have any rules meaning, or if it's just a flavor thing? Ooh, I like it.