Quote from"Saproling" seems to be a generic term for small plant/fungus creatures rather than a specific species.
Indeed what a Saproling is varies from plane to plane - sometimes even within a plane; on Ravnica in the old days Saprolings differed from guild to guild; Selesnya Saprolings are small creatures consisting of vines wrapped around crystals (as can be seen in the artwork) - the vines are based on plants which is why the Selesnyan Saprolings use seeds and pollen; Golgari Saprolings with the guilds focus on lightless subterranean rotfarms are classical fungal beings; Simic Saprolings are open to interpretation, though they are cyan/green-blue globules and seem to consist entirely of their trademark Cytoplast.
Guildless Saprolings could follow either style guide or none at all.
Remember: A Saproling doesn't need to be fungal. If anything its root tells us more about the fact that it likes death and decay. It can be (and sometimes is) a plant and apparently sometimes part gem.
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Now you don't only seem to have a problem with Saprolings being not depicted fungal enough, but with Saprolings depicted too much like a Fungus. For example the "earthstars" are not there for there own sake. Those are the Saprolings that Vitaspore Thallid tosses around. Look at the mechanic and art and tell me that "every now and then it throws a new creature onto the field" isn't what the Thallid mechanic is actually reads like.
You can see similar depictions of Saprolings on Thallid cards again and again e. g. a big "white" Thallid in front of a few smaller "green" Saprolings on Pallid Mycoderm; maybe now you also understand the boring palette of colors: When an artist gets told to paint a "green" Fungus it will end up being green more often than not.
less to play for each Dragon or Demon permanent you control." would be preferable.
I wonder, whether name stickers are even going to work in eternal. It requires quite a lot of effort being put into how you can alter the names with them. Can you only add to the name? Can you overwrite a whole word? Can you reproduce another card's name with the right combination of sticker and word? Can Phyrexian Tower become Urza's Tower or is the "Urza's" sticker to short to cover all of "Phyrexian"?
I would not be surprised if they rule name stickers to have no effect in eternal games, just because there inclusion in black-borderedrules opens a can of worms you don't want to: The location of the sticker on the card could matter.
They have consistently used a different wording for these kinds of effects. It's entirely possible they changed the template for Dominaria United, but the current wording is not in line with precedence.
Note, that while the rules can handle certain situations they do use slightly longer wording to remove ambiguity in player understanding, even when there is no ambiguity in the rules.
Also an important distinction with these trigger-limited abilities e. g. might be the timing. Do you choose which of multiple creatures simultaneously dying creatures triggers the ability as the creature dies ("when the multiple triggering occurrences happen during one event") or the next time priority is checked ("when the abilities try to go on the stack")? With the "one or more" wording no such ambiguity exists since simultaneous events create only one triggered ability and only that one goes on the stack.
The rules may have an answer to my question, but I doubt more than one in ten people even consider that there is a time delay. Many will not have an answer to the question of "when to choose" if made aware of the delay once a more complex spell destroys multiple creatures and then continues to do things before the ability goes on the stack.
"The rules handle this, so it can be done" is only part of the truth "players (maybe?) can't handle this, so it can't be done" is a counter here - and it's why the ability's wording is suspect.
When a seven novel series catches you with the first line.
The accurate umbrella term would be gunslinger, no?
Carnival Carnivore allows you to put a sticker on a nonland permanent you own, not just itself.
Wicker Picker would be an even better example since it grants sticker kicker to all creature spells you cast.
Alternatively you could Clone Carnival Carnivore or create a token copy of it - that would even work with cards that can only sticker themselves.
From the "Worded document":
"You bring ten and randomly pick three per game" sounds to me like this is something you have to prepare before the game starts - something that would be part of your decklist. If you have not prepared your own stickers cards (whether "actual sticker sheets" or "slips of paper"-proxies makes no distinction), what happens if you find out your opponent has a sticker-providing card that you can gain control of during a game e. g. Wicker Picker? Do you get to retroactively provide a list of ten sticker cards and draw three (maybe using the online tool)? Or are you locked out of using any sticker cards, because you have missed the opportunity before the start of the game?
That's the issue with optimal play and extra decks: You have to prepare as though you might encounter a situation where this side-deck suddenly matters.
The big obvious problem is that it becomes optimal to have a deck of ten sticker cards to have stickers available in case you gain control of a card that allows you to put out stickers. Same as Contraptions. Extra deck mechanics do bring that along.
A cowboy is an animal herder. Could be a Peasant; or a Ranger for the more "Lone Ranger" type.
I want stickers.dec in the next Legay top 8.
Seriously though, the rules seem straightforward enough. The tickets are covered by the energy rules. The stickers are very similar to counters from a limited pool. The "free" stickers will have almost no rule relevance in eternal... except maybe for naming cards e. g. Runed Halo!?
They will obviously count for other Un-cards that care about stickers specifically.
Consider this: It took 5000 years for mankind to put a person into space. Now we do it multiple times a year.
New Phyrexia is standing on the shoulders of a giant here: They have all the technological advances of Phyrexia gifted to them. And they aren't starting at zero exactly. "Five years ago" they already successfully conquered Argentum after incubation in its hollow core.
Good to see some transparency.
These lands are in so high demand and going to Dominaria for two planes in a row just asks for reprints of all ten cards of this cycle with plane-specific names.
Nothing about the samples of new cards that doesn't inspire joy to me.
The design tech I like most from what we see is the new use of a finite number of kicker costs with multikicker-like scaling.
Finally seeing Sheoldred pushed back all the way from Eldraine feels good.
I'm intrigued by Braids possibly filling out the power vacuum left by Liliana slaying Belzenlok as leader of the Cabal.
Dominaria's themes will include legendary creatures and multicolor, it seems. Quite fitting.
A spell that is already a copy, e. g. if you cast a spell with casualty, the second spell you get from copying the first spell, but you only cast the first one. So the main use of this in the set is getting a third spell from a single card with casualty rather than just the second.
The best, of course, would be D&D: Dominaria covering both modern Dominaria and the Brother's War.