Bonus points for how hard she goes "check out this %$#% dophin!" in the showcase art.

Can confirm it was cool to be buying cards in 1999 other than losing my ass on Sea Drakes.

I feel like this would be exceptional even if only had the top 2 or the bottom ability. Having them all is modern MTG design in a nutshell.

As an old grumpy MTG player a Saga has to blow me out of my seat to make the cut and this ain't it.

If I'm going to be thoroughly cynical their decision to drop silver border was another subtle deception intended to get people to buy more of the set who didn't exactly know what it was or how all this works. I don't think there's a technical reason why the silver borders couldn't stay.

Yeah silver border already hit the sweet spot for casual formats IMO. I don't think they needed to mess with the formula at all, other than to try and double dip to get sanctioned format players to buy the product.

The issue is Wizards constant attempts to have their cake and eat it too with the supplemental products (if you can even call them that anymore with the clip they are released). God forbid they release a draft set or casual set that doesn't also appeal to every other vertical. So we get sets like Ba...

The entire premise was insane. Fiddly, combersome, and completely unnecessary. It was like they deliberately decided to ruin Un-Sets for the only people who actually enjoyed them. As the owner of an Un-cube I didn't consider a single card. That's when you know your %$#% up.

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Stickers are banned in legacy and vintage! 🎉🎉🎉

I haven't followed this at all but I assume it was a well deserved death. I can't believe they were ever legal in the first place.

Hrmm. I would consider this for slinging. It would generate a lot of value over the course of the game if left unaddressed, and if you're not recurring or otherwise re-using cards from the yard I like it. I think the tension is that most decks I would run this in are also playing Mizzix's Mastery ty...

Clever Impersonator is as close as I'd ever realistically come to playing this. It will usually have an OK target but flexibility is king.

Ah I haven't cast this in a hot minute. I need to resolve that soon, no pun intended.

As someone who absolutely loves Legacy and Vintage it's always been very sad to me that become progressively more and more inaccessible over time. They are fun formats if frequently absurd and Wizards lack of care for them is unfortunate.

The portrait art showcase cards always make me laugh. I'm not sure if that's the intended reaction. The merfolk on the other hand is just great.

Geeze this is in fact a good card, maybe even a little too threatening. Red zone ability has a very very good failure state. I also like that it works with tokens so you can just make him a wonky goblin commander or something. I would seriously consider this for a RB deck some day.

Pretty good with Rafiq I hear. Being too lazy to fly would be a bigger issue to me if they ever actually attacked, but they're more of a sideline player.

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How's Ajani a pun?

Oddly I got into Berserk after playing the game on the Dreamcast and subsequently watching the original anime. From what I recall the game was quite good even if I had no ideal what the Hell was going on. I've always meant to pick up the manga. Maybe I'll get around to it once it's completed.

YMMV. Puts in work against token lists that don't leverage haste and has some funny applications with various cards (personal favorite is Living Plane or Opalescence). There are places for this guy but I mostly agree he's not as good as he looks at first.

Hey, ya'll hear that the WOTC President tendered her resignation? Crazy. Turns out overprinting cards, designing terrible cards, lowering the quality of cards, and overseeing the absolute debacle of Magic 30th anniversary isn't good for long-term career longevity. I wish I had faith that -- somehow...

My point was that Hasbro using their own property for an AI database is less problematic in the sense that most current AI models use publicly available data and\or stolen works. So perhaps I should have said it's not legally problematic (for now). Damage to job sectors due to AI is without a doubt ...

If nothing else, chucking the entirety of MtG into an AI model has none of the ethical drawbacks of the art stuff - they aren't stealing anything, and anyone designing a card is getting part of the inspiration from previous cards anyway. Excellent point. It's significantly less unethical to have a ...

So realistically how long will it be until there's an AI generated set (at least the card texts)? 2-3 years is my guess.

Oh man I missed Fynn the other day. As one of my primary commanders these days I feel like I need to talk about him a bit. I feel like he's a conundrum. In one sense he's just like any other aggro commander than can be backed up with burn, but I've found that in practice starting out as an aggro dec...