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The goal is to do something similar to what this thread explored vis-a-vis Gates — you start with five specific lands in your "hand" at the start of the game, get two land drops on T1, and don't have any land cards in your library.

It's not as strong, obviously, but I like the play patterns of Maps more than Treasures.

So, nearly a year later... Lost Caves of Ixalan has given us another land subtype (get hyped!), and it's a pretty interesting one. Caves! And the question that came to my mind is whether or not there's potential for a Gate Format-esque mana-base, with sequencing and everything. My first idea...

From some testing, Fanatical Offering is absolute gas.

Legolas's Quick Reflexes Aphetto Alchemist?

Yeah, but it's telling that you have to make him oppose literal Nazis to make what he does remotely "heroic".

Lara Croft is less annoying because at least she's openly just some rich person doing some graverobbing for fun — she's morally reprehensible, but eh. Indiana Jones is aggravating because he's basically what you'd get if you turned the British Museum into a person, and the movies try to...

Color me unsurprised — after all, Explore is basically Surveil 1 with some pretty large upsides.

Oh, yeah, it's definitely lazy. Though I will say that: Describing the Conquistadors as "bloodthirsty religious fanatics" is actually fairly accurate, though the consensus is that their religion helped put the brakes on the worst excesses. The Sun Empire is the one that's an Aztec/Quechua...

The one iffy thing about the design is that it doesn't cost any cards to Escape. I know that that's because the Delve makes it so you have a customizable Escape cost, but I think I'd be happier with the card if it had "Escape - {3}{R}{R}, exile two other cards from your graveyard" or whatever.

Just as a head's up, landofMordor — referring to the indigenous cultures of the Americas as if they were one big cultural block is, itself, a form of erasure, since it's implicitly very... "noble savage". In reality, there were a vast and diverse range of cultural beliefs, language families...

It amuses me that, despite Green being the BIG DUDE color... a lot of the iconically Green creatures are tiny little guys. Though I have so much love for... Krosan Tusker But yeah, when I think green dudes I think 2/1s for 1GG: Eternal Witness Jadelight Ranger Yavimaya Dryad

To be fair to Velrun, Theros was a decade ago. Master of WavesNimbus Naiad

I'd honestly reach for Goblin Cavaliers as my base size for morphs before I reached for Grizzly Bears. Though that gives me an (overly cute) idea: a morph-focused cube where you can draft alternate stats for your morphs (in the form of vanilla/french vanilla creatures). The details of how...

I don't like "this only triggers once a turn" because it's way less elegant/easier to forget than making it "the first time you [blank] each turn..."

Spelunking This is a card that I missed when I first saw it... and it piques my interest as a reasonable buildaround that kinda-sorta feels like Amulet of Vigor if you squint a little. It really only costs 2 mana (1 with bouncelands), makes any ramp cards that slap tapped lands onto the...

The first version of Explorer's Bane seems like it's in the right spot — I'm not a fan of 1/turn things and (as you pointed out) exploring on discard is self-fueling.

I might if I have time — Maps are kinda pertinent to my interests.

It feels a bit odd that this doesn't have defender (it's an egg!) and I'm not sure it's good, but EGG.

SKELETON PIRATES.