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Staff of the Storyteller is seeing play in at least one of Legacy and/or Vintage. It looks weak, but clearly has enough juice to make something happen so I wouldn't dismiss it out of hand for being underpowered.

If you want a flex slot, Sailor is definitely better, but it doesn't scream bluggro the way Shadow does. They're both fairly comparable, tbh, though I'd say that Shadow is less likely to be anything other than a Flying Men. Which brings me to my question--is the problem one of deck strength or...

A big part of the problem is that there just aren't that many options. It's Reanimate, Animate Dead, Persist, then Necromancy and then what, either Victimize or Resurrection? I'd advocate for the 2- or 3-mana options to split the difference, even if they're a little clunkier. Persist is...

Welcome is . . . difficult to make good. I struggle to think of situations in which I'm happy to steal a creature for likely 2 more mana than was used to cast it. If you want something less powerful per pound than what you have going, that's a good option. May I suggest Beguiler of Wills as a...

I think a lot of these come down to whether you think the color pair needs fixing or a little extra juice. My instinct is to make the lands all about fixing, so my vote would be Copperline Gorge, Fetid Heath, Simic Growth Chamber, and Temple of Epiphany. Cool choices! That said, if you're...

Hmm, you're right. The link I posted *used* to be the best way to make it, but a little digging makes it clear that that was probably changed due to a copyright issue. Thanks for the catch!

https://cardconjurer.com/creator?copyright= ^this specific link removes (edit: used to remove) the WotC copyright notice. It's pretty good! (more edit: looks like that left when they got hit with a copyright thingy. Use Chris' link below.)

I'm with Onder on this one. Throne is strictly more mana than Gilded Lotus, comes with a divination you can cast every turn, and doesn't come into play tapped, meaning that you can do funky things with it. The One Ring this is not, but it'll still go off with things like Circle of Teleportation...

Smaller games in a can!

The loopy bananas in the Eldraine fruit basket weird me out, but otherwise that art is really good. Do bananas ever look like that, or is that just canonically what they look like on Eldraine? (In Eldraine? Gosh, what a mess.)

Easily the LotR food for me, then actually the weird Unfinity theme park food. Something about a meter-tall burger and a Ben and Jerry's factory sundae just speaks to me.

Yeah, if you think I'm not going to slap an uncomfortably lifelike Redwall cover on this bad boy then you are sorely mistaken.

This looks incredible, and the names are precious, but I wonder if we're seeing so many good mice and rats in part to set things up for a typal deck or three in Bloomburrow. Same thing with the weird preponderance of otters, which would work well for a Redwall world's blue-aligned type.

Sorry to kibitz, but shouldn't Teysa be the creditor? If she's the debtor then she's the one who owes something and that doesn't seem very Orzhov to me.

Hopeless nightmare This has gotta do something, right? Apart from look great? This set is going to be great for attrition strategies. I wonder if this + Braids, Arisen Nightmare could be a Standard deck--probably not, though. Does exciting work with Kor Skyfisher! Brave the Wilds It's a lot...

To take a decisive stance, I like the cards leaked thus far but they're definitely pushed. Many of them would be in the top quartile in my cube, and so I can't include too many of them without upending a lot of other things I like. However, two thoughts: 1. I'm happy to make a background cube...

Gfd why do these cards all have to be so good. The UG mainland looks the best at the moment--5/5 is pretty good and shrinking/growing a critter is big game. I feel like UG should have gotten a decent mainland a while ago as it's an intuitive color for lands, but maybe this is it? Heck yeah. Art...

Missed one! Faerie Dreamthief looks like a better Unwilling Ingredient, which itself is a card I've been begrudgingly running. Food Fight is . . . definitely a build-around. Restless Bivouac might be enough better than Raging Ravine due to the earlier start, but I doubt it. My read on the new...

Heartflame Duelist is definitely interesting, but I think it's more of a constructed plant as it truly gets nuts in multiples. Nothing wrong with a 3/1 that can be a removal spell when needed, though. Between that and Imodane it seems like there's a burn theme to RW, which is novel! Another...