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While you're at it, can you get them to stop asking me if I agree or disagree with "ability to purchase at the prerelease"? And can you explain what it means for a set to be more or less "unique"?

I've seen this episode of The Resleevables too recently to get this wrong.

Gaddock Teeg and Niv-Mizzet might be from very different planes, but I still understand them as parts of a shared multiverse that operates on mana and magic. Seeing them in the same game feels perfectly narratively sound to me. Soundwave and Sephiroth do not.

Another competitor (possibly the previous champion?)

Hard to beat a crisp 7ED foil.

Happy Akron Legionnaire day to the non-Americans.

It's too bad Fallen Empires didn't have a fourth art to complete the playset.

This is a near miss if you count a partial name!

Legal?

The pacing of Roreca's Tale suggests that a turn lasts on the order of minutes. The participants are continuously engaged in the duel, so no days or weeks between turns. But the creatures have to walk some distance to reach the opponent, so no split-second back-and-forth.

It's interesting that Tabernacle was errataed back to its originally printed "destroy", but this has not been.

Inquest's Killer Deck from June 1998.

I think the situation is that Wizards views Sol Ring in EDH as handed down from on high, but do not view any of the design constraints that made Sol Ring okay as being similarly sacred. And like you say, Sol Ring is defined by the cards around it, so as they change, it's no longer the same Sol Ring.

Where did Nekrataal land?

Like a Baloth, apparently?

Inquest's Ultimate Magic Set (1997)

Inquest casts the Magic movie.

And now for a live check-in with Weatherman Grunk the Blue:

Compare to the Mirari (also briefly a grand prize for a sporting event in the story), which I remember as living up to its theoretical coolness.

A near miss...

Age of Dreaming, a fan-made expansion from 1995. None of the URLs are captured by the Wayback Machine. Lost to the sands of time?

The Duelist had an insert with actual creature tokens, but I don't think I'd count them as "creature token *cards*"

I feel like there is a very cool set hiding in the background. The cards that are just set on one of the three planes without a racetrack running through them tend to look great. I just wish these were the foreground of the set also.

That was still Mark's view as of 2023, and as far as I understand is still his view today. Maybe the line on White card drawing will move again, but Mentor and Inspiring Commander don't fit in White's slice of the color pie as things stand now.

The part that allows it to draw multiple cards per turn. Here are some explanations from Mark Rosewater:

I think it's unlikely outside of like a Mystery Booster thing, since it's a color pie break.

One day this is going to come in absolutely clutch.

My wife and I enjoyed Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon with 2 players.