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especially when it comes to comparing to other people too, sometimes play styles just factor in, like i play in a very polarizing way when i play games so it's hard to use the "i did better therefore they are shit" mentality when i might have just high rolled, so if you can approach it with empathy

it's tough! it's hard to see yourself objectively in competition and it's often the most validating thing in a competitive setting but it's important to zoom in to well made individual decisions, some of my best "results" were the product of things that weren't under my control when i competed so

i've done it twice now and haven't looked back since

assassin's creed i'm assuming did poorly and despite me constantly loving individual cards designs, having a group of niche players of the largest paper format like the cards is a great way to not sell product, which ofc is sadly the goal, not making a better game 😔

i think the problem is as much as i fully agree (most of the egregious annoying shit is at common), from wotc's perspective (🤮 i know), you're losing the people who draft and the people who just want to keep competitive in standard. too many different things pulling too many ways sadly

i feel like final fantasy had that problem too, these two together also feel a little rough

Defensive Formation {W} Enchantment Rather than the attacking player, you assign the combat damage of each creature attacking you. You can divide that creature’s combat damage as you choose among any of the creatures blocking it. “Your enemies will pound upon the door of your defenses, but only you shall have the key, and it is the key of life.” —Song of All, canto 873

very good with the new damage changed, and effectively negates trample

Combat Calligrapher {3}{W} Creature — Bird Cleric Flying Inklings can’t attack you or planeswalkers you control. Whenever a player attacks one of your opponents, that attacking player creates a tapped 2/1 white and black Inkling creature token with flying that’s attacking that opponent. 3/3

i think it's to denote who makes the token, same wording as combat calligrapher.

yup, this was before that one was spoiled so we weren't 100% sure

that's the alt art which assuredly won't have reminder text, the normal version will maybe have it

pretty big on spider manifestation myself, but Carnage does have aura

god forbid we have unmask but it's okay for vivi not to tap for mana 🙄

maybe it's just me but just have unmask in standard then, ik it's a strong card for the environment probably but it's also a very different axis than most standard decks are on so

what they do for this is the collector number, for any UW sld card it has a collector number that is = the other card. i will say i haven't run into people trying to play like Wernog and Will the Wise in the same deck so i'm sure people realize it to some extent

as much as i love rk post art, i hate this. it's nice he's doing art for a card that isn't gonna be some alt art reprint but why is this card referencing unmask aside from a similar name, they have nothing in common mechanically, just reprint unmask or have a mechanically similar card tbh

sadly the end step on parker luck makes it feel a little bit better than tutelage is, tutelage unironically seems worse than phyrexian arena unless you specifically are trying to avoid drawing cards to avoid feeding something like a smothering tithe or faerie mastermind

shout out to it's contemporary in cards meant to evoke old powerful cards in Timeless Lotus that are way more expensive than useful

yeah and that's where i'm maybe underrating the fixing since i'm rarely in mana bases that require it

that's fair and maybe i'm underrating it to some extent, but even in budget i can think of at least 10-ish ramp pieces i'd go to before it, especially since they might have synergies with other things on my board, whereas unless you're in g/x spells matter, you're not getting synergies

cultivate is honestly super overplayed in general. it's not a bad ramp spell but it's probably the 20th best or so and your deck probably has better synergy with the other ones

Char-Rumbler {2}{R}{R} Creature — Elemental Double strike {R}: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn. Elementals flourished as Dominaria healed and new forms of life adapted to the land’s reinfusion with mana. -1/3

Yep! future sight was a quirky block, you had stuff like that and char rumbler among other oddities

yes it does LMAO

Elves of Deep Shadow is also one of the extremely few cards that were fully drawn and designed by the same person, the only other one i'm fully aware of is Look at me, I'm the DCI

u got left in the gregzone

if they are at uncommon they wouldn't effect pauper right?

it's weird bc i hate how bad the diamonds are compared to talismans but 2 mana untapped indestructible rock that makes colored mana with an upside is so insane lol

Temur has blues removal which out of the context of 20 life is good and blue/simic wipes such as rift/march/phasing/oversimplify

also in cedh of the top 20 highest placing decks, only 6/20 are less than 2c, with only a single mono color deck (Magda) lol, most are 3c+, furthering the slop point

i'm saying in general 3c+ trends way higher towards slop compared to 2c, restrictions breed creativity and aside from those two (very telling they both don't have green), most shards/wedges don't super have big weaknesses (like maybe mardu sucks at ramping but lol not having green coming up again)

i mean i run stuff like druid of purification for the sole purpose of at worst i'm getting an overcosted rec sage and at best i'm killing the most important thing and 2 rocks which has been very good, and stuff like vandalblast is a regular occurrence in commander games

it also doesn't get hit by incidental artifact removal which is generally a drawback of artifact ramp, the only way you're getting rid of this is with a mass exile and generally people don't like it when people run farewell so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯