These: https://scryfall.com/search?as=grid&order=name&q=mastery+set:stx+(rarity:r+OR+rarity:m)
You do realize the game designers think Kicker is too broad, right? Yes, a lot of things can be done by brute-forcing a kicker template, but they wouldn't be as clean or elegant as just being spun off into their own mechanic. According to MaRo, the designs with this new "Cleave" mechanic couldn't have been done well with Kicker.
No, it's not just you. Most of the enchantment cards have been pretty bad so far.
.As someone who's followed MaRo's articles and podcasts for nearly two decades, I definitely *do* get that it's too broad, 'brute forcing' and all of the things you are pointing out.
Funny that you mention clean and elegant. Cleave is neither, split or kicker for these cards would be (at least for me). It is mentally taxing since I have to read it first with the brackets which is a bit hard to grok and then read it while removing the brackets which is again a bit hard.
Yeah, like I made clear before
)), not everything should be kicker or split cards, but cleave definitely should have, in my mind. I don't think this mechanic will go downin history as a success, and I expect it to score really high on the storm scale eventually.
Honestly? This mechanic should have been saved for Kamigawa Neon, and be called 'reprogram' or something like that.
Yeah that would have sold it for me. Obviously we don’t know how Kamigawa will turn out but from what we know do far, it sounds like it would fit.
Obviously, we are Magic players after allYeah that would have sold it for me. Obviously we don’t know how Kamigawa will turn out but from what we know do far, it sounds like it would fit.
We would probably have complained still
[c]leave Britney alone
If you have three creatures when you cast this, you can pay 8 mana over 3 turns to draw three cards. That doesn't seem all that exciting at all, to be honest
You've got some hoops to jump through, and then it's still slow and expensive. Mazemind Tome is also slow (if you want to draw), but at least it's reliable, and it can also just scry if you don't have the mana to spare, and it gains 4 life when it hits the bin.draws 4 in your scenarioIf you have three creatures when you cast this, you can pay 8 mana over 3 turns to draw three cards. That doesn't seem all that exciting at all, to be honest
If it helps you to think about it like this, it kind of says "create X clues, where X is 1 + the greatest number of creatures a player controls". Of course you can only "sac one clue a turn" (except at the end), but the total mana investment is effectively not applicable in the same way one wouldn't decry having 5 clues because "it would cost 10 mana to sac them all". Basically, if a format can afford to take time to sacrifice clues, the only question that needs to be asked is can my format afford to spendIf you have three creatures when you cast this, you can pay 8 mana over 3 turns to draw three cards. That doesn't seem all that exciting at all, to be honest
generating some "clues". Same basic question for Tome.Relatively efficient sac outlets in blue are a rarity, and Geralf here doesn't diminish your board when he sacs (most sac outlets convert creatures into not-creatures). Pretty nice.
Geralf here seems pretty interesting. Not super powerful, but being able to turn Wall of Omens into (essentially) an Angel token is nothing to sneeze at.
Oh man, I wish that this is actually what the card did. Spending 2 mana to make a bunch of artifact tokens would be wild.
having too much text isn’t really a “modern” problem, i mean, you’ve seen Chains of Mephistopheles right?
