Mirrorworks I think 4 would've been fine. Though i never ran it, it's still a cool card. Goes infinite with Mana Vault , Grim Monolith , Basalt Monolith , Thran Dynamo , Gilded Lotus , Coveted Jewel and Dreamstone Hedron . It doesn't go infinite with any of those cards, though it does synergizes st...

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You can't even control it by bouncing something back to hand with an Unsummon

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(Moving this to a separate post since it's a lot of content and I didn't want to sign Wally up for liking something lol:) Jokes on you, I liked it anyways :P But yeah, basically agreed with all of this. While it's unlikely that they will need to make any banning decisions based directly on those so...

Ok, I have to mention the game I just had. It was t7-8. My opponents (Osgir, Ikra/Prava, Hans Eriksson) were trying to destroy each other with their big boards, (my board was practically non-existant after they killed almost all enchantments the turn before) leaving me with just my Zedruu, 2 Servos...

Sneak attack for 4 mana per activation is a vastly different card than sneak attack at 1 cost activation. This puts me more into the mindset of Impromptu Raid than sneak attack. By the time you're "cheating" a creature into play, you've invested at least 8 mana (1 for unblockable duder, 3...

Satoru Umezawa seems really interesting. Actually maybe just grossly OP now that I think about it. Half 1-mana unblockables, half eldrazi? Seeeeems goooood. I think people are underselling how powerful it is to have Sneak Attack in the command zone in Dimir color identity. It's more expensive but i...

It's in the Volo, Guide to Monsters deck I am building. Question, if you copy token made by Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker or Mimic Vat does it still get sac'd end of turn? It depends on the specific wording of the token creation effect. The two you quoted won't be exiled/sacrificed because the sacrific...

That Gitrog is sweet. I hope they'll someday print something functionally similar in paper, but the "perpetually" bit definitely will make it tough. If you don't mind losing the ability to recur the land and keep the ability, you could use Obsidian Fireheart style templating, complete wit...

1) If you have trouble remembering who went first... I Consistently play in 4 man pods and it is pretty easy to remember who went first. Even several games into the night i am able to keep track. Its not that tough to remember. 2) Slayers bounty, the wording alone is confusing. How do you look at c...

Yeah, Forsaken Crossroads doesn't work quite as well in paper because it's difficult to track who was the first player beyond the first few turns. ...I do wish Slayer's Bounty was in paper though. A legendary Clue I can fetch off Trinket Mage ? Want ! 1) If you have trouble remembering who went fir...

3 to equip is a death sentence for equipment outside of a dedicated equipment deck, imo. One or two mana to equip can be okay, if still a bit of a tax, but 3 mana is hard to manage for anything but the most impactful of equipment. And +2/+0 and protection from a color of your choice... isn't the mo...

Yeah, the short version is that there does not exist a (printable) version that lives up to D&D expectations, so I'm happy they just printed a big good one.

I guess that's true, gemstone caverns already cares about who went first but it only matters at start of game. But mechanically it's fine. Maybe they're testing the space out, to see if it's good or not. With just one card caring people might forget turn order, but if there were a bunch of cards th...

Varina, Lich Queen is proably your best bet? I would think you'd want white, both for ease of access to lifegain effects (which turn into draw effects) and the occasional Angel's Grace effect to not instalose to enchantment Wraths. Also you get enchantment tutors as well. Plus blue gives extra card...

Yeah, the biggest mark against forsaken crossroads is the requirement to track who the first player was well into the game. Similarly to Skyshroud Ambush , it's a card where it *could* be non-digital, but the ability to have the computer handle the tracking for it makes it much, much easier to print...

He's actually talked before about why he dislikes multiplayer. His basic stance is that magic was not designed to be a political game, so if he wants to play a game with politics, he'd rather play one that was designed with it in mind, such as Diplomacy. That said, he's also talked about the type of...

I'm purely going off public statements from Mark Rosewater. He's explained repeatedly that having more than one type of border on a sheet is logistically impossible. I believe it does have to do with the process of cutting, and that borderless cards have special requirements for that that make that...

I went in depth on it earlier, but the basic gist is "yes, they theoretically can print both, but it's logistically impractical and design wise nearly impossible". In order to have two different borders, they need two different sheets, which means two different sets of "slots". ...

And I also have a hard time believing they couldn't figure out a scheme to print some sheets of black border and some of silver border if they wanted to. I went in depth on it earlier, but the basic gist is "yes, they theoretically can print both, but it's logistically impractical and design w...

Kinda skimmed the article because I mostly dislike unsets after the fiasco that was unstable draft, but does this: If a card has an oval security stamp (or no security stamp at lower rarities), it's legal in eternal formats (which includes Commander, Legacy, and Vintage). Mean that UB is equivalent...

I'm super confused by which cards are legal and which ones aren't. Is it literally just the little holo watermark at the middle of the bottom of the card? Because that will be super annoying for new players especially. I mean why can't all the cards be silver bordered? Is it a simple question of re...

Silver Bordered cards are, by definition, not tournament legal. They cannot print tournament legal silver bordered cards. And as I went into above, mixing borders inside a product is... difficult at best, especially at the scale they have to work with. So their options are A) print more silver bord...

One concern I'll call out is that the power level / testing of previous Un-sets has been pretty inconsistent. The most recent batch (Unsanctioned) seemed to be pretty well-balanced - I'm not aware of any issues with Alexander Clamilton or Acornelia, Fashionable Filcher . However, the Unstable batch...

I'm super confused by which cards are legal and which ones aren't. Is it literally just the little holo watermark at the middle of the bottom of the card? Because that will be super annoying for new players especially. I mean why can't all the cards be silver bordered? Is it a simple question of re...

I especially like it going black border-acorn instead of silver border. This is what I hate. I'm glad they are making the cards that can work be legal. But that acorn looks pretty subtle for the "should be silver bordered" cards. Unsets are great fun. I've developed bruises on my hands fr...