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Lmao, love the implications of this typo. Agreed that Nettlecyst is very strong and that two is likely egregious here. I've found one to be borderline in my own midpower cube.

Thragtusk has the fewest words by a fairly large margin and the most interesting edge cases.

I agree intellectually that keeping sets mechanically distinct is important, but I'd rather seem some "honorary evergreen" mechanics like Surveil, Cycling, Madness, etc. made officially evergreen rather than have to suffer through things Kogla and Yidaro trying very very hard to not have the...

Delirium again! It missed the mark a little bit in MH2 apart from DRC, but it's always an interesting puzzle. Cycling doesn't need mechanical support, it's just good on it own. Needs more cards, though Dash is another fun puzzle. Adventure just needs more good cards. Seconding Retrace and...

I imagine that you can go infinite with Fentwig in some way. That's a good thing; I like my aggro 2/1s for 1 to have uses outside of aggro decks. Blossoming courage is an interesting one in that it really changes how an opponent has to time their spells. If you have other free/free-ish spells...

I didn't even know that that was an option!

Hey mods, can we lock this thread? It's generated some good discussion, but it's been almost a week since we should have moved on to the April of the Machines thread.

Sac cards that don't suck!! This looks like a fun middle ground. Mmm, green cantrips. This is almost Mental Note+? I'm always a fan of colors other than blue getting these options, and now it seems like green has half a dozen good options to choose from. Edit: Masterful Ninja'd. Now...

Book thread book thread book thread Fantasy is hard to recommend because a lot of it is genuinely crap, much more so than SF. That said, I'll throw the following ones into the ring: Redwall by Brian Jacques (echoing Bootman, it's nothing groundbreaking but it is heartwarming, kind of like Game...

Is this a playable 3-mana Threaten variant???

Sorry to double-post, but they fixed Lethal Scheme and I couldn't be happier! That card was super dumb in execution, but the idea was definitely worth salvaging. Lethal Scheme The art isn't nearly as cool, but that's the price you gotta pay for balance, I guess.

I squared this circle by envisioning it not as "attacking the battle" but as "attacking the opposing side's creatures within the battle/contributing their prowess to the battle." But I agree, they're very clunky cards and I'll only run them if they're sweet enough on their own merits (which...

I run the Prowler and can attest that a surprising number of decks are actively happy to see this show up as their 13th pick. Solid B- level card. It also plays really nicely with equipment and any auras you might run.

Why did 3 mana get all the good cards this time around? This one is a lot of text but it seems pretty reasonable, all things considered. At any rate it forces you to think a lot to get maximum value out of it and it's doing something new for UR within the spellslinger slot, so I'll be jamming...

I'm pumped for these, tbh. The combat step is by far the most interesting part of the game outside of the stack, and these create some neat decisions. I wonder if these are going to be better in midrange decks or if we might get funky creature-based control decks out of them. Is Invasion of New...

Okay, but please make this little dude a Crab Wizard or I will riot and crash cube artisan again.

If you do occasionals, I'd recommending mainboarding one and having the other as an occasional. Saheeli seems like the more interactive game piece to me in the sense that you have to actively defend her despite her having a much higher "life total" than the iconoclast (i.e. there are more...

Makes sense, thanks for the review! The more I think about Mathas the more he seems a fun bridge between aggro and control. I'll give him a go based on your recommendation!

Great write-up! I've been meaning to ask you for a while about Mathas--do you think he'd be good in a somewhat low-powered format, or do you think that his stock really depends on how cheap removal is? As a member of Team Excellent Mana Fixing At All Levels Of Power, I'm not too concerned about...

I'm wondering if this is how they'll insert stories from the Silmarillion. There could be a Song of Beren and Luthien, a Sundering of Numenor, a Stealing the Silmarils--thr more I think about it the more natural it feels, especially with the recurring theme of music in the books.