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Guess it depends on how many spirits we expect in boros I suppose? Maybe there's a mechanic about creating spirits, like how we had that one from ravnica for orzhov.

I can't see this being true. "They" aren't a monolith, the people who are funding the product is interested in money of course, but the people designing the cards are probably just trying to do the best designs they can.

Here's the completed land cycle we were promised! The second half of the "show duals" from Innistrad 2

Man I just don't know how you'd have time to recoup all that tempo loss

I was thinking more like, it'd be a one time thing, so nothing like cypher at all. I'll be curious to see what all this copying nonsense is about!

Really cool!

Hm okay how about this for some wild speculation, what if there's some kind of flavor in the set were you "teach" a creature how to cast a spell by you casting your spell first, and that creature then copying it?

I find it interesting that magecraft implies that we'll be copying spells on the regular in that set?

Liliana as a wizard professor has broken my mind

Fleabag is so good!

I wonder how a manabase like that would pair with including some really high-powered gold cards? Stuff like Uro

I think I might be warming up to that card actually :) Seems like it's actually possible to craft an environment where Forcemage is a "one card archetype".

At what point does this stop being a stone soup? :p Wouldn't a hasty RG deck potentially cut this card? I'm saying this as a person who has definitely also looked at this card before! While +3/+3 is a lot of extra stats, it happens occasionally, and the rest of the time you have a grey ogre. I...

Hmm I wanna see the 40 card example deck, this seems very much like a fun penny dreadful deck rather than something that's actually possible to assemble in a cube draft as a player rather than a designer ;)

Hm the card does seem pretty sweet in a ninja deck though

I've played it a lot in arena, hoping it'll get a bit cheaper in paper after rotation.

I think it depends on what you want to do with your cube, Kytheon is imho definitely an "expert card".

Eh, you can still blink and bounce and sacrifice and do a lot of things with creatures left behind with one of those cards even if you don't have enchantment removal. It's good but it's not busted!

I agree! I think you can kinda have your cake and eat it too, because it's good to have a powerband that includes both a lot of "good" cards but some excellent cards. If you want a format mostly devoid of ETB effects, you can always include only a few to really give players those "bomb" cards...

I think part of the tension comes from the player role wanting to maximize the performance of their particular draft deck, whereas the designer has to balance all potential decks simultaneously. The shift from designing for every player, and being one of those players later on, might be why...