Time to update everyone’s podcast evaluation

I vote to abolish the game changers list (in name) and create a “rule zero” list of cards to mention you’re playing at pregame discussions. Then you could do away with restrictions and say “players expect to see ~X (number of) cards from the rule zero list”

What unannounced set? I only see 3 sets here

A candidate from each color / colorless
Vesuvan drifter
Overwhelming remorse
The eternal wanderer
Roiling vortex
Avenging Druid
Damping sphere

Design is the problem. Players not being able to restrain themselves is natural.

Huskburster Swarm

Players are losing sight of intent. Design pushes power and the newest best-in-slot cards to a point where some of my bracket 2 games are ending on turn five!

The bracket system needs clear, concise heuristics to guide player intent. Pregame conversations are useless as they always miss something.

Great video. Funny, though… I see the Metagame as an unstable equilibrium (where one or the other extreme is favored). Green ramp succeeds because it’s the best at what the meta pushes.

Consider how gramp would fare, though, at a table with 3 aggro decks that skip ramp and put out early threats…

Let’s check back in when the bar graph of sales data arrives and tells the real story.

Trubbish is current Labubu quality as they rush production to meet demand. No offense, Trubbish.

Yeah WotC keeps leaning into one of the most busted archetypes and prints ~0 answers 🤷‍♂️

Now add some early game light stax to punish land ramp, something to the effect of: “Whenever an opponent taps one or more lands for mana, if they control more lands than you, put a stun counter on target land that player controls.”

Then we are cooking

Key suffix: “-oid”

Blossoming tortoise, step aside!
New friend for Grist, the Hunger Tide…

Yep I have foils from Urza’s Destiny that are in better condition than out-of-the box EOE foil cards, I’ll wager

Keep these coming Dana

Here’s an idea:

“Whenever an opponent taps one or more lands for mana, if they control more lands than you, put a stun counter on target land that player controls.”