In this live-design episode, Tim and Juliet tackle a templating question based on the precedent of Party, with some help from Banding and Domain. Along the way, they examine the role that lands, dual lands, and 1/1s play in the sequencing of Magic’s gameplay, and how all that’s best of dark and bright (Shadowmoor and Lorwyn) meet in the aspect and eyes of novel designs.
Scryfall gallery of cards mentioned
Topics and Snippets:
- party mechanic
- getting credit for individual cards rather than multi-type cards
- “atlas”
- “as long as you control another mountain and another forest”
- “and a third land that”
- throne of eldraine lands
- “at least two other mountains and/or forests”
- “when this enters you may pay 1, if you do, create a lil guy, and add RG”
- raise the bar from needing 2 to needing 3 lands? (“halfway to eldraine lands”)
- “when this enters, you may be RHG, if you do create a 1/1 red and green goblin warrior and add RRGG”
- merfolk cleric, of course
- ouphe ouch
- becomes a creature
- add colorless but one-time colorwash
- tough to start colorless and only gain colors if you already have them
- “when this enters, you may pay RG. If you do, this land becomes a 1/1 Mountain Forest Goblin Warrior and you add RG”
- the risk of having your early land drop get murdered
- ETBT land with different-size vanilla creatures?
- kindred land goblin warrior “when this enters, you may pay 2RG, if to you do, it becomes a 3/2 Mountain Forest Creature in addition, and you add RRGG”
- project hint! M99 – Endgame future core set
- “what ridiculous, but doesn’t break the game?”
- novelty and callback
- tim’s re-revised
- Magic as Garfield intended