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For the primary effect, you have the choice to cast it or not. If you don't cast the spell, you are not going to gain the life. If you cast the spell, presumably you want to gain the life, since that's the only thing the card does when you cast it. The triggered ability is tied to the cycling...

Jeez, did we really need this?

People, please! It's CDO, the letters should clearly be in alphabetical order!

2/2 is so, so much more relevant than 1/1, though I'll concede that the unearth ability is nice. Still though, a 1/1 is so useless in combat.

Miasmatic Mummy {1}{b} Creature - Zombie Jackal When Miasmatic Mummy enters the battlefield, each player discards a card. 2/2 That's actually a pretty decent enabler in cube. The stats are right, it helps reanimator plans / graveyard shenanigans, it hinders the opponent, and it's a good...

All of this is what I think is amazing about this design. Of course it doesn't make the card any more readable :)

I like that they updated the creature type of Loyal Retainers to Woman Advisor! Ok, that font is pretty miserable indeed...

Love it! They're really pushing the limits on these designs. Bet the foils look gorgeous :)

It's explained in the preview article actually (emphasis mine). "To activate an embalm ability, simply pay the embalm cost and exile the card. You do this any time you could cast a sorcery, meaning during your main phase when nothing else is happening. When the ability resolves, you create a...

The problem with electoral reforms is that the ruling party is disincentivized to push for them, knowing they wouldn't have been the ruling party if these reforms had been pushed by the previous ruling party. It's a pity ruling parties can't see the revelatory paradox in that truth.

Here, let me help you. Probe There's a proper kicker cost! I'm not even kidding by the way. Probe is probably better then both of your options if you can kick it.

My apologies. It's easy for an outsider to critique the US political system. Please don't think of my opinion on US politics as anything but that, an opinion on US politics. My dislike of the FPTP system and gerrymandering doesn't mean I dislike the US in general, and it's a critique that is...

From my Dutch point of view, the real problem in US politics is that the first pass the post voting system and gerrymandering both reinforce the status quo of a two party system. It's very hard for a person like Sanders to rise through the ranks of the big parties, in part because those parties...

Uhm... I'm turning 36 this year, my childhood was awesome, I totally have nostalgia for the past at times, and that still didn't turn me into a conservative? I don't think you can reduce the whole progressive / conservative leanings to people's childhoods.

Actually, WotC stopped adding cards to the Reserved List after Urza's block. Anything from Mercadian Masques forward is guaranteed to *not* be on the Reserved List. Astral Slide (or anything from Onslaught) couldn't be possibly on it.

Actually we will. Well... Humankind will. I'm not convinced any "world" war will actually go global, so there's bound to be places where we, humankind, can and will survive. In any case, I think it's far more likely guerilla terrorism will continue to dominate "warfare" for the forseeable...

I've got a long-term project for a cube where every player starts with an emblem that reads "Spells you cast cost {1} less to cast." I'm (very) slowly populating it with all manner of commons, uncommons, and even rares, that would be awesome at one mana less, though never (blatantly) breaking...

in 50 years some hacker will dig up a copy of Shadowrun and wonder how they were able to so accurately predict the future (he said with a half-smile) Either that or humanity learns that profit is not the holy grail.

Yeah, it's been a while they made a Skullclamp-like glaring gaffe :)

Sam Stoddard was uncharacteristically frank in his mothership article today, basically admitting Standard is not where they want it to be. Apparently they were unsure though if further banning would have had a net positive effect on Standard, which is why they did nothing instead. That is to...