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Does anyone with a better eye for art know why the art is invariably bad on the Alchemy cards? Do we think it's just rejects from the regular set, or is it something about the saturation/aspect ratio being slightly squished/different font sizes necessitated by Arena? Also, Seek X and Cascade...

galepowder mage >this weird wizard on a pair of bongo drums with wings shows up >threatens to smack my boss around >offers me this powder >says it'll feel like flying >surewhynot.bmp >it sends me to the shadow realm >like I leave this fucking plane of existence >when I wake up he's nowhere to...

Neonate feels disappointing to cast 25-50% of the time, whereas I always feel like I get my money's worth out of Epicure. I would go to two Epicures before I added a Neonate unless Aristocrats really need a boost or something.

Judge's Familiar Hard Evidence The Blackstaff of Waterdeep Lantern Bearer Siren Stormtamer Hypnotic Siren Enclave Cryptologist Depending on what you want to do and your definition of "1-drop," I've found these to be reasonable creature and creature-adjacent cards that mostly get played on turn...

Maybe this is heretical, but could Lizard Blades be the cut for the helm? It's a similar slot and if you squint they're both aggro cards. +2/+2 is an awful lot like double strike on critters that are 2/2 or smaller, after all.

It's a very fun card, but it's also $65, so . . .

Cards look cool! Are the names going to get changed? It seems like a very decisive decision to use the same name and artwork as existing cards while retaining a similar effect.

I drafted Alpha once (online, not IRL) which is and isn't the same as what you describe. My deck was nine Circles of Protection spread throughout all five colors and forty-two cards so that I could win by mill. It was about as fun as you'd think for the first couple of hours, but when we got to...

Okay, that's totally reasonable lol. Definitely not a high-powered card, but if it doesn't do anything in kitchen table games then it's not going to cut it here. I guess I should have figured that out from it being cheap as dirt.

Brine Shaman Has anyone ever tested this strange, strange card? I feel like it has to do something.

Necro, but I just realized that we may have been asking the wrong question here. Instead of percentages of spells dedicated to removing other permanent, I'd like to pose the following: what is the ratio of spells that can remove creatures to the number of creatures you have? No need to take into...

Agree to disagree on Linarch Veteran, I guess--its performance in MID was definitely not because of the lifegain deck--and agreed on Covetous Castaway not quite getting there. I really wish that card had an ETB trigger rather than a death trigger. Time for customs, right? As for the Hermit, I...

I feel like you're looking at the "wrong" Disturb cards for consideration. Specifically, I feel like Lunarch Veteran and Malevolent Hermit might be more your speed than bulky finishers or combo pieces. Lantern Bearer is my other pick for a flagship Distrub critter, but you're not supporting that...

No, but I was considering him. I've always thought that cards like this just needed a keyword or two to be viable, and this sure is. Maybe there's something cute to be done with Memnite? It seems tricky to have a deck that both modifies creatures and cares about recursion while wanting to attack...

No, cool as it is. You can't even use it to stabilize the board because killing any nontoken creature on the opponent's side ends the effect, meaning that decks have be okay with either using the zombies as resources or waiting for a single attack. That makes it incredibly narrow while requiring...

Ramunap Ruins Barbarian Ring This might just be splitting hairs, tbh. I think I value the simplicity of Barbarian Ring most of all, followed by the ability to hit creatures. But does anyone else run it over the Ruins? Is the prevalence of Ruins just due to it making bigger waves in standard?

Sure are :oops:

No no, an Emblam is what Deadeye Jace, the first gun-themed Planeswalker, makes when he ults. :texas:

Arcanist is the more interesting card because it requires you to enter the rumble zone and thereby changes your play patters, whereas Magmatic Channeler is a Saga with a bunch of chapters that give you an option to cast a variant on Tormenting Voices and then you get a 4/4 as the last chapter...

If I ever stop posting about this card, please assume that I've been replaced by some sort of android. More or Less This card does it all. Silly combos, serious combos, combat tricks, counterspells, a kill spell for X/1s, this thing is only limited by your imagination. I truly believe that...