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I liked this card a lot more when my mind read it as "Delve" not "Convoke". I haven't been too impressed with Convoke cards in cube. I tried to make them work in Eldrazi Domain, but even in a token-heavy environment they left something to be desired.

Broken images? EDIT: Gatherer is down.

I will say, even in retail limited, the most threatening aggro starts I've faced have dropped, say, a Turn 1 beater (that G/W hybrid 2/1 from RTR comes to mind). Part of the challenge in a lower-power environment is that your beatdown decks need ways to force through 20 points of damage...

Could be that we have years and years of double strike cards and only one block of Heroic cards. Also, most (all?) cube-able double strikers are playable without further interactions, and the interactions that do exist also have value to other creatures. Not sure the same can be said for Heroic.

What's the upside on the avatar? a syngergy-based Tarmogoyf type of creature with reach and trample? Geist also works with +1/+1 counters, so that's not necessarily a big tick in avatar's column.

Luigi has a terrible recovery. Most players have an Up-B that has some sort of range and horizontal movement to it, but Luigi just has this dinky jump that goes straight up and hardly anywhere. As a result he has to use his Side-B, which is even dinkier and sends him flailing like a retarded...

There's apparently a new Blood Bowl-esque game that came out on Steam. It's by the makers of Frozen Synapse, which sounded great on paper but I thought was actually pretty balls to play (in a bad way), so I'm not very optimistic, despite Penny-Arcade plugging it.

I've been playing too much Smash, because I read "misfire" as a good thing.

Is "change > staleness" the first Riplab meme since xXathrid Necromancer?

Is there more to that wall theme? I like the card, but as a draft build-around, I would want some more redundancy in effect.

I meant Butcher Ghoul. I know the upside is a little higher... well, it depends on whether you care about +1/+1 counters I suppose. Manifest misses at 2/3rds of the time, and the manifested 2/2 is no longer a Zombie for cards that care about that.

Isn't this very similar to that very terrible 1/1 Undying Zombie that nobody plays?

I played Melee last night, which is still about 5x more fun than Smash 4. It's not even the wavedashing, the faster startup on moves and the ability to actually edge guard make it a much more enjoyable game.

I wonder how you actually design mind games into Magic. They come naturally to something like Netrunner, but Magic doesn't have a lot of inherent room for trickery. Does anybody have examples of dynamics / situations we could seek to recreate?

I don't know, it always took up a dreaded 4-slot and was so fragile. Courser was a godsend.

Possible land mechanic: every turn you can put a basic into play tapped. Reveal your hand: untapped instead this turn.

Notes for myself: Telling Time Extirpate Pact of negation Ratchet Bomb Thought Scour Cabal Therapy Starting life: 5 At the beginning of your upkeep, if you don't have five life, you gain one life. 1/1 Pridemate for W Shared library and graveyard. Shrine of white tokens. 30 card deck, 2...

Is this perhaps a false dichotomy?

It seems like a matter of taste / intention now.

Human recursion (Raidcrawler, dash guys) seems like a legitimate aggro angle now.