December the Titans Challenge Review

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Another hefty design review ep for all of you! Hear our reactions, feedback and insight on the latest crop of submissions. This time, we’re getting cards that (mostly…) have the “enters or attacks” titan text. This is the souped up merger of the “value now” and “value later” angles to creature design, and it leads to some powerful cards.

Scryfall gallery of cards mentioned

Topics and Tidbits

  • it takes 30 seconds into the first card before Juliet is reminded of shadowmoor
  • riot as a trigger
  • “flying; other creatures you control have flying” redundancy
  • giving riot (and haste) post-combat
  • flash with the titan trigger changes the meaning
  • tricks so good they’d blow out opponents who knew about them
  • common vs uncommon 2/3/4 drop creatures
  • tight zoom on the shoulder
  • black creatures with huge toughness?
  • titan trigger is last decade magic, now we get dies too
  • legend rule-ing for tons of surveil
  • novelty of making a 2/2 each attack
  • making tokens bigger than yourselves
  • snickerdoodle makes sugar cookie worth it
  • gum isn’t food but gumdrops aren’t gum, right?
  • sudden outpouring of food and life
  • finally pushing holiday cards
  • dragonlord guessing game
  • godlike businessman
  • reading a commander card as a one on one card
  • even more reminder text
  • using impending to dodge removal
  • tim’s sacrifice rant
  • the gap between impending costs and mana costs
  • removal spells you get to cast twice
  • goth vampire girls doing work
  • boggart goblins worshipping an elemental
  • why we go deep on design reviews
  • 2050 titan triggers
  • how do you snuffle truffles
  • if a card gains a lot of life, it should maybe not also be hard to kill and also easy to bring back
  • food bumper cars collusion
  • defender titan!?
  • lots of raw treasure, even at a high price
  • paying adventurers up front
  • describing it as bujillion
  • zero toughness
  • submitting cards that don’t fit the challenge
  • untap step nonbos
  • secret white deathtouch
  • snowballing snowballs
  • snow basic devotees
  • uncommons competing with mythics
  • forgetting your work
  • gun lore
  • reconfigure vs equip
  • how much does “creatures without abilities” mean “1/1 tokens” in practice?
  • “can’t gain or lose abilities” what counts??
  • when do cards gain abilities?
  • classic theros titans
  • escape titans power ranking
  • titans in commander
  • hey now
  • snumissions

Submissions

vtbassmatt

JamesDaltonBell

CryptRat

AuxiliaryOtter

Andrew

Inte

PlumtreeChloe

MissLys

Xena

SpiceDuchess

Qirn

Juliet

Khord

YABO

Toasty


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