Febru-Air Challenge Review, part 1

This month’s challenge standardizes the cost and size: 5 mana, 4/4 flier. From there, our designers could go wherever they want! Plenty of fun designs and great discussion, plus a thorough look into the nature of humanity.

Scryfall gallery of cards mentioned

Topics and Tidbits:

  • most submissions ever!!
  • THAC0 back from the dead
  • batching rules: the final frontier of retro rules
  • imagine most things have split second except that interrupts can still jump in
  • tim explains banding (not for the first time on this show)
  • can serra angels have extra abilities
  • adjusting scoring after all the tests are turned in
  • are zombies humans??
  • only takes 10 minutes of pod for juliet to start talking about cognates
  • emergency dubbing
  • snow washing
  • two classic cat traits: they fly and they create birds
  • snow payoff vs snow cards that can bridge into non-snow decks
  • double snow mana costs
  • juliet unleashes a chilling pun
  • deploying your signature emoji
  • a -1/-1 counter is like being punched every turn
  • constellation and other rewards for enchantments
  • dies vs leaves triggers
  • high heat cards in commander
  • saga tokens
  • finding enough historic permanents to sacrifice
  • helping stabilize with a flier
  • gaining abilities while paired without sharing those abilities
  • always going on terrifying dates with daredevils
  • having relevant/surprising rules at the very end of a rules clause
  • a gentle “lose the flip” clause
  • koffing from pokemon tcg
  • different half bonus point clauses
  • voting and d20 rolling cards as “this or that” design space
  • rakdos as a coin flip faction
  • reverse ward
  • indestructible uncommons
  • 3/3 flying gravedigger seems good
  • mechanical hooks for -1/-1 counter cards
  • killing your opponent before you can steal all their stuff 🙁
  • red exalted
  • “this should be a commander” as praise for a card idea
  • getting your humanity in… other ways
  • board. wipe. every. turn.
  • being critical on numbers when the point is making a new design idea
  • is this a common?
  • tim talks about Play Booster Era commons again
  • double team
  • is a scheme a spell?
  • the power of protection/hexproof/shroud from instants
  • landfall leveling
  • zendikar angels
  • un-set limited
  • are gamers human?
  • caught in the plural trap
  • retail squad
  • juliet’s fave: Destroyer of Histories
  • tim’s faves: Summer Fling and Human Cannonball
  • as we all know: casimir pulaski day

Submissions

Inte

CryptRat

PlumtreeChloe

MissLys

Juliet

Qirn

AuxiliaryOtter

Andrew

YABO

vtbassmatt

khord22

Pat

ChurchWizard


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