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I played Melee last night, which is still about 5x more fun than Smash 4. It's not even the wavedashing, the faster startup on moves and the ability to actually edge guard make it a much more enjoyable game.

I wonder how you actually design mind games into Magic. They come naturally to something like Netrunner, but Magic doesn't have a lot of inherent room for trickery. Does anybody have examples of dynamics / situations we could seek to recreate?

I don't know, it always took up a dreaded 4-slot and was so fragile. Courser was a godsend.

Possible land mechanic: every turn you can put a basic into play tapped. Reveal your hand: untapped instead this turn.

Notes for myself: Telling Time Extirpate Pact of negation Ratchet Bomb Thought Scour Cabal Therapy Starting life: 5 At the beginning of your upkeep, if you don't have five life, you gain one life. 1/1 Pridemate for W Shared library and graveyard. Shrine of white tokens. 30 card deck, 2...

Is this perhaps a false dichotomy?

It seems like a matter of taste / intention now.

Human recursion (Raidcrawler, dash guys) seems like a legitimate aggro angle now.

If I'm on a R/B Sac deck, I want my 4-drops to be Hellrider / Koth / Skinrender / Redcap / Persecutor. I probably wouldn't put that card in my deck.

Yeah, like, if for some reason you had to cut cards like Life from the Loam from your cube due to space, bring in stuff like that. Something that's not "yet another Rampant Growth" variant. I mean, as a thought experiment, say you had your drafters draft 4 15-card packs, and build the usual...

I like a diversity of effects that have play to them. Can anybody speak to the power level of that Raid recursive 1-drop compared to Gravecrawler?

I didn't actually see the match live, but Chelsea losing after playing against a 10-man side for 90 minutes is pretty embarrassing. I have high confidence that Arsenal will crash out too, but this at least softens the blow. As an Arsenal fan I know I'm supposed to dislike Tottenham, but I...

I'd like to add this to the framing: our cubes already run 24 more cards than retail (14 card packs + basic vs 15 card packs), and no unplayables. I have to make tough cuts regardless of how many lands I draft. Tension drives drafting. When I draft aggro, I am always concerned that I'm not...

Eidolon seems similar in power level to Oracle of Mul Daya, which didn't really cut it in most cubes. But maybe I'm wrong.

So the suggestion is to give fixing for free and shove the utility lands into the main draft?

Anybody care to admit to being a Chelsea fan?

I don't think they speak this language in the Netherlands.

Eh, it can work, you just need to be able to use the cards at that velocity too. I don't know, doesn't Netrunner have some pretty strong card draw?

When I had it in my cube, it usually didn't work that way exactly, but it was never a very "interesting" card, so I'm fine with chopping it. The two most common cases (packrat overrunning the board / dying to 1-for-1 removal) aren't all that compelling.

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