I'm just wondering how the mine hasn't played out already? It's been what, 200 years or so since the events of Onslaught and Legions, right?
You're giving the goblins down there a lot of credit if you think they recognize that.
And yeah, wow, I was surprised enough at the Warchief; prospector is a huge (and pleasant) shock. Time to brew.
I was going to make a coal miner joke, but that's just contributing to political and economic myths that annoy me, and I'm from the same party that spreads them.
Yeah, Warchief, Prospector, obviously getting Piledriver in Standard would be too much. It has been reprinted, and I'm starting to think "tribal decks beat blue" has become WOTC's thing, but they've going away from protection at least since Origins, I'd argue since Tarkir or even Return to Ravnica. The last block with any landwalk (which, along with protection and fear/intimidate, was a color-hosing keyword mechanic) was Innistrad, and Core Sets starting with M14 only had landwalk on the fringe.
And it kinda makes sense. Color hosers shouldn't be keyworded, and landwalk breaks two of the rules of color hosers: It doesn't hurt monocolor decks more than multicolor (If I have one swamp out, your swampwalker can't be blocked, just as much as if I have five or six.) and most swampwalk cards hit the same color (which makes them less relevant in draft) rather than enemy colors. Protection didn't break as many rules, but it's more confusing (largely because it's not all good, and it does four things: Shroud, Inviolability, can't be blocked, and can't have cards attached to it.), and, TBH, for monocolor decks, it's basically Invisible Stalker. Remember the hate Stalker got when Innistrad was first released? That's this, with immunity to most red boardwipes (and a few black and green ones). While fear/intimidate generally hosed four colors. (I say generally because there were some multicolor cards with intimidate, and green typically got intimidate in sets like Scars of Mirrodin where it was less relevant.)
But that's a lot of design notes.
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Card advantage is not the same thing as card draw. Something for 2B cannot be strictly worse than something for BBB or 3BB. If you're taking out Swords to Plowshares for Plummet, you're a fool. Stop doing these things!
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I was going to make a coal miner joke, but that's just contributing to political and economic myths that annoy me, and I'm from the same party that spreads them.
Yeah, Warchief, Prospector, obviously getting Piledriver in Standard would be too much. It has been reprinted, and I'm starting to think "tribal decks beat blue" has become WOTC's thing, but they've going away from protection at least since Origins, I'd argue since Tarkir or even Return to Ravnica. The last block with any landwalk (which, along with protection and fear/intimidate, was a color-hosing keyword mechanic) was Innistrad, and Core Sets starting with M14 only had landwalk on the fringe.
And it kinda makes sense. Color hosers shouldn't be keyworded, and landwalk breaks two of the rules of color hosers: It doesn't hurt monocolor decks more than multicolor (If I have one swamp out, your swampwalker can't be blocked, just as much as if I have five or six.) and most swampwalk cards hit the same color (which makes them less relevant in draft) rather than enemy colors. Protection didn't break as many rules, but it's more confusing (largely because it's not all good, and it does four things: Shroud, Inviolability, can't be blocked, and can't have cards attached to it.), and, TBH, for monocolor decks, it's basically Invisible Stalker. Remember the hate Stalker got when Innistrad was first released? That's this, with immunity to most red boardwipes (and a few black and green ones). While fear/intimidate generally hosed four colors. (I say generally because there were some multicolor cards with intimidate, and green typically got intimidate in sets like Scars of Mirrodin where it was less relevant.)
But that's a lot of design notes.
On phasing: