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The bigger question about a full cycle of Groves is... what do you do with them? They'd all be untapped duals that punish you for playing aggro, and there are a grand total of two other payoffs for villain gaining life: Wedding Ring Kavu Predator Do you really want to fiddle with your entire...

While I think that fears of the Punishing Fire + Groves synergy are a bit overblown, I agree that making it a full cycle would be a bit much. I kinda want a black one, though, to combo with Needlebite Trap.

Nope! That's only the case if you're doing the Prisoner's Dilemma in isolation. I'm talking about a tournament setting, like the one Prof. Robert Axelrod ran in 1980.

Wait, people post here who aren't game theory nerds? :p Instead of talking about the actual topic of this thread from 2013, I'm going to nerd out about the actually interesting thing about the prisoner's dilemma (or any coordination game, really, but I don't know if anyone's done with with...

I like Young Red Dragon

I meant split up in a story sense, not a mechanical sense. I'm not suggesting that we'd have two sets in a row with identical mechanics (though that would be pretty nice, honestly — it'd give them more time to explore the design space around stuff like Corrupted or Enlist). The reason why I...

I feel like I need to steal that table (OK, the idea behind it, not necessarily the table itself) the next time I fiddle with a new cube...

Thinking about the current plotline a little more... I think that it could've been more effective if DMU and ONE had been split into a pair of sets each. Let's call them, I dunno... Dominaria United/Dominaria Besieged and ONE/TWO (I can't think of a good name for the second ONE set, so sue me...

I kinda skipped over OG Phyrexia because they were a completely different thing — for one thing, they didn't have the oil because Yawgmoth only perfected it just before he died. They couldn't phyrexianize buildings because a Phyrexian was a vat-grown dude called a Newt that got surgically...

I'll give you the gods (though the explanation there seems to be "we compleated all of Heliod's worshippers, and that made them believe in compleated!Heliod", rather than them compleating Heliod directly), but the rest of those are... questionable. Like, I don't think anyone thought that they...

I kinda doubt it? The drones can probably be compleated, but the titans are almost definitely immune purely by being what they are. ... I'm honestly only really a fan of these two designs so far: Faerie Mastermind Moment of Truth One of the first themes I tried building around when I got...

{1} {G} would be absurd, and not even in a fun way. T1: Forest, Utopia Sprawl T2: Land, SSH, hold up some one-mana protection spell. T3: Land, play an 8-drop. Making it cost {2}{G} is probably the sensible approach.

Sorry! I keep forgetting that removal tribal isn't just a joke name for control. :p --- I think your power levels are too high for the sweetest land untapper: Stone-Seeder Hierophant The card is basically just "What if Satyr Wayfinder was also Lotus Cobra?". It's capable of creating...

Secret archetype unlocked? Resurgent Belief Sunblade Samurai Thrilling Discovery Bitter Reunion Forgeborn Oreads :p

A little more seriously/broadly, having White be the Enchantress color would actually be pretty neat. Resurgent Belief

Some less-obvious ones: Izzet Chemister Twinshot Sniper Wort, the Raidmother

Just errata Delirium to Threshold — I'm sure that there will be no weird edge cases that would make that awkward!

This is why I never actually play Magic — it'd taint the design experience. :btg: Dear lord, I get a LOT of use out of this emote...

I'm in despair! Your objectively superior take on a dumb idea I had has left me in despair!

Though supporting five color pairs is so 2019 — clearly the play is to support seven of them, excluding the three worst pairs). :btg: ... More seriously, though, that's probably the correct play. It's interesting to observe that cutting a single color (or making it effectively colorless by...