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You're totally right. The base case as a grounded-but-menacing Skyknight Legionnaire at X=1 makes it seem a lot more palatable, so although Menace is a lot worse of an evasion ability I'm wondering if the scalability will make this interesting enough as a modal control finisher/aggro 3 to offset...

I love the designs and the concepts, but I hate the idea of sacrificing babies. Maybe Happiny couple be rephrased somehow? Make it go to the command zone just so you don't, you know, kill a baby for personal gain? Is the Baby superttype mechanically relevant? If not, I feel like the squick...

:btg: Thanks for the catch! I had completely forgotten about that. But yeah, no bushido confirmed.

I would be neither surprised nor sorry to not see Bushido return. My call is that they'll probably include at least one card with the same ability as Bushido as a callback but they won't have it as a named mechanic because it's not good in large quantities. I'll miss the flavor, but in terms of...

Oh, absolutely, you have to be very careful with this one. That said, I've been on the receiving end of an armadillo polycule smackdown and it's just EDH enough to feel absolutely deserved. Ridgescale Tusker Relief Captain Together Forever While this isn't the most absurd thing that can...

I know it's not what you're asking for, but Together Forever can be pretty sweet as a way to get a similar effect if you mostly want to be recurring creatures (i.e. aren't as interested in the combo bit). Goes great with WG counters, obviously.

Machamp kinda has to get double strike, so maybe they should get a combat ability to go with it? Saboteur triggers simultaneously do and do not seem appropriate for fighting types--what do you think? Alternatively, it could just be an on-attack trigger. If you're including treasure tokens, they...

Moltres seems a little weaker than the other two, as Articuno's text is likely Time Walk against nonreactive decks and Zapdos is a guaranteed +2 cards, whereas Moltres will go up 2 only against a deck with at least one 1-toughness creature on the battlefield, which likely isn't the most...

Is Ivysaur really supposed to be 2GG for a 4/5? I feel like that's fine in regular Magic. What power level is this supposed to correspond to, roughly? Also, what type of pokemon experience are you hoping to capture--a five-year-old playing the card games? A twelve-year-old playing the video...

Am I missing something, or can you evoke Angel of the Final Seal and return itself if you stack the triggers right? Apart from that, I like a lot of these conceptually. If you want to buff something further (especially for tempo or control!) I'd recommend adding flash. It's just rude on taxing...

Sorry, my point there is that the rate at which you'd be able to get access to this ability would make this a color pie break, same as the other cards listed. Fetching an artifact is fine for me, but I think that reducing the CMC isn't the appropriate solution. Maybe make it a 1/1 for 3 with...

Thankfully this is the alternate art for the Nezumi! So you'll at least get one more go at it.

I think that that part of the reminder text gets left off for clarity as it's not relevant the overwhelming majority of the time--there's a precedent of reminder text emphasizing clarity over accuracy, with Obsidian Fireheart being the prime example. Regardless, I'd expect that these...

Ingenious Artificer seems absolutely broken (it's a Rampant Growth with a 2/2 body that adds an additional storm count if you have any of the Moxen, and that's just the beginning) and I feel like Avacyn's Altar really just reads "2WW Sorcery: Search your library for a creature card and put it on...

Curse of Verbosity Actual character? Probably either Tibalt or Oko if you're talking about someone who wants to annoy you, Tyvar Kell if you mean someone who just doesn't know when to shut up.

As you said, this is a great perspective that we don't see much of, as a lot of people tend to gloss over the card-by-card evaluations. Also, when we're drawing from all 22k+ magic cards, we just don't have the luxury of crunching the slot-by-slot comparisons as they become so unwieldy. RE...

He feels like a very fair way of incorporating a cheat strategy--he's both resistant to (toughness-based) removal and has a few interesting hoops to jump through, so I'm going to try him out. Traditionally, these enablers have either come out of nowhere (Reanimate) or been really hard to attack...

Great writeups, I've been loving reading through your process! One thought is that Parish-Blade Trainee is really, really bad in it's home environment, and I seriously doubt it'll improve here to the point of playability. The Ambitious Farmhand seems a lot more solid to me as a critter that...

Respectfully, I must disagree. But if I'm being honest:

Talking about the set's aesthetics, this one has got to be absolutely top-tier between these lands and everything else. The super duper rare neon foil variants are cool but can go &@^$ themselves. (Found in less than 1% of boosters? And with three subtiers of rarity?? Seriously?!?) But...