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Time for a trickier one - here's a pack from Gaslight, Gatekeep, Green, my contest cube with all of the Forest duals in the basic land box and 30 copies of Land Grant. Arcbound Tracker Land Grant Woe Strider Exquisite Firecraft Kudo, King Among Bears Binding the Old Gods Cling To Dust Spara's...

Scalding Tarn I feel like first-picking fetchlands is the thing to do in formats where they're on offer? I dunno. I'm tempted by the Goyf and Demonic Tutor, but they feel like much riskier bets.

Yep! ... Some more cool designs: Blurry Visionary - {3}{U} When Blurry Visionary enters, look at the top two cards of your library, then put them back-to-back in the same sleeve with either card in front. They become a modal double-faced card for the rest of the game. 3/2 What a trippy idea...

MagicSpoiler has some of them up. Not sure where they got them... EDIT: Dear Scryfall devs: could you possibly make it easier to search for playtest cards? Currently, performing a search that gives you playtest cards and only playtest cards requires either a pretty convoluted search string or...

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Wrenn and One is... certainly a card. I appreciate the commitment to the bit. (That futuresight Gush is pretty, though.) EDIT: Of the cards I've seen so far, some of them are clearly jokes (Indicate is a {0} cost sorcery whose full rule text is "Target creature"...), but there are also some...

Good analysis! I do think, however, that you're not applying enough of a discount, since part of being an experienced Magic player is knowing what words actually matter. To use an example from OTJ, let's look at... Dance of the Tumbleweeds If you take a naive count of all the words on the...

It depends on how straightforward the card/mechanic is, to the point where the only generalization I'd make is that my recall drops if a card does more than two things (or has a bunch of exceptions/timing restrictions). To give a dumb example... let's look at good ol' Cryptic Command: Cryptic...

It's less concern and more that I think there's more nuance to the gameplay experience when "creature that generates value" and "creature that meaningfully advances my game plan" are separate, on both sides of the table. To put it a different way... Malcolm's a card that promises that it will...

I'm going to mostly agree with Train... except I'd move Malcolm below Looter il-Kor because I don't think I'd want my card advantage critter to also be a true threat.

Bloomburrow bringing the type back made me thing that it could be kinda cool to make a class cube. The idea that springs to mind is an emblem cube where everyone starts off at level 1 in the same class (or different classes, but then it'd be trickier to design around and balance). Then there's...

In defense of Master of the Wild Hunt's wordiness, there are two kinds of wordiness. Compare the following cards with eight lines of text: Master of the Wild Hunt Questing Beast Questing Beast is that wordy because it does it has three keywords and does three other things on top of that...

I solve this problem by mostly ignoring anything over uncommon unless it has a really cool design.

Not really? If your format has narrower answers/hate pieces, you might want to shove a wish in the maindeck instead of card that's fantastic in some games and shitty in others.

That's honestly part of what makes it elegant - most decks can forage once (meaning that they have a reasonable chance of getting an off-curve 4/3 for {1}{G} or an on-curve 4/3 + 1/1 for {3}{G}), but a dedicated deck is rewarded with either an early 4/3 for {1}{G} or a 4/3 + a 3/3 for {3}{G} "on...

That's honestly what makes the card interesting. It gives you an incentive to speed up and villain an incentive to slow down. ... That Abbot vs. Challenger comparison is... I'm not sure that the cards are comparable? Like, if a 2/2 hasty prowess critter for {1}{R} that impulse draws you a card...

Literally at the last minute, too. I'll be honest - I don't really have any use for physical Magic cards. Regardless of how the tie is broken, I'll happily give the prize to Miles.

Oh hey, it's a Ninja deck in a can. I will say, I appreciate that most of the classes we've seen so far have been generically good, and not... Barbarian Class. Am I alone in thinking that this is really good? Ottersports - {1}{U} Instant Create a 1/1 red and blue Otter creature token with...

Impeccable Recycling - {1}{G} Instant Gift a card (You may promise an opponent a gift as you cast this spell. If you do, they draw a card before its other effects.) Return target permanent card from your graveyard to your hand. If the gift was promised, return two target permanent cards from...

I honestly appreciate that we seem to be getting a bunch of pushed french vanilla creatures this set. The Moose seems especially mighty.