MLD being automatic bracket 4 is tragic.
#FreeMLD

said nothing about non-token!

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net even german foils? smh

but it doesn't go in no-color/mono-colored decks! (i mean, why would you run it in mono-color?)

in the case of chains, the oracle text isn't that much better.

Their way of spelling it out leaves less room for interpretation, even if it is a bit harder to parse.

But then again, Magic hasn't always been the easiest game to parse in the first place. Have some examples that may take a few read-throughs to parse. In hard to hardest order:

The people at WotC are incredibly deliberate about how they spell things out in order to have the rules function correctly, so I get why they did it this way.

I can also see the argument for both your, and their wording being reasonable in this situation. However...

The sooner you learn how to deal with having the game not go your way, the better suited you'll be to handle the social aspects of the game.

I haven't shielded any of the people I've gotten into magic from any of the "rude" strategies, and they're actively enjoying them.

Attacking someone's resources is a strategy to win the game, regardless whether those resources are creatures, artifacts, enchantments, planeswalkers, cards in library, cards in hand or lands.

Normalize mill, discard and (mass) land destruction.

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While what you're saying is true, the distinction is made to avoid confusion with both discard, and the fact that we have tokens be represented by physical cards.

Yes, it is a bit wordy, but it does assist in making the language of the game rules clearer to less enfranchised players.

Thoughts?

surely by 2040...

WOOO! this is FANTASTIC news!

Now we're missing:
the 4 remaining horizon lands
the 3 missing "Urborg, tomb of yawgmoths"
the sorely missing 9 missing bretheren of Krosan verge and riftstone portal
and the last 2 put x card on top of library for green and red.