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Time to bring back this guy? Basilisk Collar

Is this a card?

Anybody have a list of other redirect damage effects / similar cards?

I don't think it's possible for ETB tapped fixing lands to be game breaking. Even if they're fetchable. I say do it.

Maybe I should just make 5 monocolor decks.

Somebody wants me to teach them Magic, but all I have are cube cards. I will not acquire new cards. Anybody have advice?

Uh... 1C hard counter feels like something Blue doesn't even get. Yeah, there's a downside, but... hmm... that would be a pretty premier counterspell I think.

The other problem with the weak card pack dilution thing is that banking on the end of pack drivel actually reaching the right player is bad news. And one of the biggest benefits of the Utility Land Draft is that you can shove in stuff that is only in demand like 20% of the time anyways.

There's nothing wrong with recording the data. Data is inherently neutral. Conclusions based on data can be disastrous though. But I do think it's a cool initiative, just something, ironically, that I probably can't be arsed to pioneer.

Is it just my perception or do Wizards employees have an inherent bias against out of the box approaches? Karakas worth a pick in the main draft you mean? No. Worth it in the utility draft? On rare occasion. Who doesn't like chaining Vendillions and Vensers.

Uh, I don't know if linear really applies, but, parasitic, yes. Mechanically isolated. Proliferate was an attempt to tie the Poison and Metalcraft themes together, but I don't think it was particularly effective.

The only people who force the same thing all the time do terribly here. Things aren't always open by virtue of competition, order in which bombs are opened, somebody taking your overlapping support. I also consider 8-player drafts to be of substantially higher quality than 6-mans. I would...

Eric can you change the default settings to not send any emails except for when you get a PM?

Was this post satyr satire? No, really...

Not any more, but I ran it for a long time. I run Pillage currently. My land destruction package used to be much higher, but mostly I've outsourced that to Wasteland now, which also isn't ruining games. I mean, you see what the curves of my cube decks look like.

Yeah, I just don't know if Madness is a mechanic with a ton of play to it though. Maybe I'm wrong. It is fun, I've played Madness Pauper decks, but conceptualizing it to a draft setting seems difficult without super nerfing the format as a whole.

Uh, I will say that Ramp is pretty fragile if your finishers don't have inherent protection, so in a way I agree with Alex's sentiment. It's one of the problems I had when designing the Eldrazi cube. That said, I will appeal to environmental factors and say that neither Jace nor Stone Rain...

I imagine the only reason they don't use the more elegantly sounding "Poison Principle" is because Rosewater loves that mechanic so damn much. "Silo'd" sounds atrocious.

You'd have to take some pretty extreme measures to make madness less poisony. You'd probably need to make it your cube's primary mechanic.

Creating archetype diversity is mainly a function of: 1) compact anchors that can pull a deck in a unique directions 2) wide overlapping support that can be combined in lots of unique ways This is more an issue of card selection, and not size, but inherently, there are a few main changes that...