When I first left I still had the desire to click on it every once and a while, but I honestly haven't been there in over 6 months. I think I logged in once to get the PM that Eric sent me that got the whole RiptideLab process started, so I could talk about it on a chatcast.
I do think the...
I find that EDH players have a huge anti-proxy stigma, whereas people who play cubes don't really care. Cube owners care a lot more about the "look" of their cubes, which is one of the biggest limitations against actual design and experimentation. I mean, there's a reason R&D uses ugly ass...
Good point, and killing Gravecrawlers and Bloodghasts all day long isn't bad either.
In the comments somebody else suggested:
Suture Priest
I'll test it. I'm not super optimistic, especially because I don't run army-in-a-can dudes, but considering Pod has been running Blood Artist, they'd...
Uh... 1C hard counter feels like something Blue doesn't even get. Yeah, there's a downside, but... hmm... that would be a pretty premier counterspell I think.
The other problem with the weak card pack dilution thing is that banking on the end of pack drivel actually reaching the right player is bad news.
And one of the biggest benefits of the Utility Land Draft is that you can shove in stuff that is only in demand like 20% of the time anyways.
There's nothing wrong with recording the data. Data is inherently neutral. Conclusions based on data can be disastrous though.
But I do think it's a cool initiative, just something, ironically, that I probably can't be arsed to pioneer.
Is it just my perception or do Wizards employees have an inherent bias against out of the box approaches? Karakas worth a pick in the main draft you mean? No. Worth it in the utility draft? On rare occasion. Who doesn't like chaining Vendillions and Vensers.
Uh, I don't know if linear really applies, but, parasitic, yes. Mechanically isolated. Proliferate was an attempt to tie the Poison and Metalcraft themes together, but I don't think it was particularly effective.