Highly efficient fetching did kind of jack up the dynamics of playing 3+ colors, I can't really argue against that. I guess that's cool if you're only concerned about efficiency but not great if you care about there being some kind of incentive for limiting yourself to fewer colors.

I think the main problems with planeswalker ultimates and emblems are generally related to stuff like Doubling Season and proliferate that let them be reached without giving opponents an opportunity to attack. Those methods deprive opponents of their primary method of counterplay by removing combat...

If this cost 4 and hit all opponents we might be talking but as is it's virtually unplayable.

I'm a Yuriko guy so I'm a Deep Hours guy, but beyond that I'm very fond of him from budget decks back when he was first printed. A+ in my book, although limited usefulness in EDH

There was a time when I would have picked this guy up immediately and made a decisively un-fun deck that lasted all of 2 weeks. I guess I'm getting old because I just don't have the Naya bloodlust I once had.

My favorite card in the set is probably Case of the Locked Hothouse . Slogurk, the Overslime has become my signature deck as of late and it's a slam dunk there. I see you fellow Slojerk enjoyer. Every once in a while, probably twice a year or less, I see a card that necessitates me making an online...

Cool to see a Nexus shout out in there.

Nods in Titania.

Another "up to no good" card. Nobody outside of draft is playing this fairly.

Spellshapers are generally underplayed in this format if you ask me, but this guy has the same problem as all R mass artifact removal in that your R deck is more likely than not playing more artifact mana than anyone else at the table. I stick with targeted removal or stuff like Vandalblast whenever...

Pretty crazy common, with an impressive amount of flexibility.

Thanks to the tokens not being able to block this doesn't have the flexibility or power level I would be looking for in either defensive or aggressive decks. Stax has better options too.

Marvo, Deep Operative made me smile. I know the deep sea denizens have gotten a lot of love in various sets over the last couple years but none of them are Octopus Rogues. The little guy got a job, I'm so proud of him.

Borderline griefer card. Never seen anyone play this without bad intentions, including myself.

Jon Irenicus, Shattered One feels like the crappiest and therefore best option.

Even Tivadar's Crusade thinks this is a little narrow.

My gut reaction is this is a defensive piece for decks playing utility land packages. Making sure Cradle or Sanctum have inevitability sounds pretty good to me. One Amulet of Vigor and you're all set.

I was a Bolas guy back in the day, although I didn't start playing the format until the Invasion dragons were legal. I'm not even sure if that was an official rule or something we house ruled now that I think of it.

To be honest wildly overstatted is probably an overstatement for modern MTG but the stats definitely stand out. I think this is one of those instances where it's balanced via legends rule.

Yeah I'm not too concerned with infinites because they're a dime a dozen but this guy being a wacky mix of relentless assault and lure plus wildly overstatted draws my attention.

So we're just printing 8/4s for 4 with upside now. Noted.

is this dumb? I feel like they leaned too heavily into the detective theme... the card names and the names of the mechanics go together but they sound so messed up as magic cards. getting the same feeling from this as I did from Capenna - everything seems like it's still using its playtest nomencla...

Uh yeah Case of the Locked Hothouse is a banger. I haven't seen a card I like for Sigarda more than this in a long time.

I think any deck that would try to leverage this is going to be playing the better sac outlets. That being said I don't know that I would even consider building around this because it's not red so your threaten options are severely limited. Seems like one of those thematic D&D cards that isn't r...

If you told me The Price of Hull Clade was birthed by ChatGPT I would 100% believe you.