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True... but as a result, I'd probably see Sailor's Bane and go "oh, you're signalling that there's a lot of Adventures/Delve/Flashback/etc in your cube". Whereas Tolarian Terror makes me think you have a Spells Matter archetype.

Yeah... unless your cube has a ton of cantrips or self-mill, you're probably only going to have, what, 4 instants/sorceries in your yard? I'd take a 5/5 with Ward 2 for {2}{U} over a 7/7 with Ward 4 for {3}{U}{U} any day.

I feel like the jump in complexity between Shock Three and Shock Four is undercut by the fact that Shock Four is so needlessly complicated that you get distracted trying to figure out what it actually does, to the point where I mentally checked out for a bit. :p I also feel like showing people...

It's a board-wipe in the wrong colors... but I will say that Read Ahead is interesting. I'm not sure if it's going to play well, mind you, but it seems interesting. EDIT: Part of me hopes that there's going to be some way to give other Sagas Read Ahead, but the rest of me knows that it'd be a...

May I introduce everyone to our new evergreen counter? I dunno how I feel about it.

HAHAHAHA yes. Gold kicker is basically exactly what I wanted.

Hacker vs. Deep Hours is also an interesting one because Ninja of the Deep Hours is actually simpler than it initially looks if you're an enfranchised player, since it falls under the general umbrella of "card you've seen many times before, except it has a set mechanic now". Moon-Circuit Hacker...

Fun fact: Gaddock Teeg doesn't actually affect Shock Three, since kicker doesn't change the mana value.

I'd honestly be kinda happy to see an expert set dedicated to iterating on existing mechanics.

I'm also not seeing how Shigeki is a discard outlet — it's 100% a discard/self-mill payoff, though.

I'm excited for Kicker. I will be very salty if none of the new Kicker cards are 2-drops or 3-drops, though.

Do any of the other Incarnations (other than Genesis) ever see inclusion in people's cubes?

That's the main reason I suggested it as a design experiment, and not, like, your main cube. That said... I'm pretty sure that you could get reasonably-complete cubes with just White or Green at this point, with Blue, Black, and Red needing a bit of extra design consideration. Actually, White...

I was actually going to suggest that... but making it mono-colored also makes it very obvious to drafters that everything is playable. Like, you might rationally know that you can, say, always curve Counterspell into Benalish Marshal... but it's not going to be as immediate as seeing that you...

So, this is going to sound like one of my normal, shitpost-y ideas, but... I feel like everyone should take a crack at building a mono-colored cube at some point, even if it's just a quick, probably-unplayable rough sketch of an idea. Because then you, as a designer, have to deal with the issue...

Vile Redeemer, tho. Also... Champion of Lambholt Evolutionary Leap Primal Growth EDIT: Oh, right, how could I forget the best sac fodder in Green? Veteran Explorer

To be fair, I'm fine with this. (Granted, I'm probably the only person 'round these parts who prefers the kind of slow environment where taplands don't matter that much...)

I honestly wonder if "16 card packs, two of those cards are Cryptic Spires" would be a good way of handling fixing?

I'm just going to chalk my bafflement down as "my brain doesn't process stuff properly", because apparently the fact that my brain processes cards in this rough order (with stuff in brackets happening roughly simultaneously)... is really weird. Yes, before you ask... alternate frame...