Incarnation Challenge Review, part 3

Incarnations embody the feeling of an “exciting cycle”. Tune in for our first “reverse challenge” where our member Xena challenges Juliet!

Scryfall gallery of cards mentioned

Submissions

MonoWhiteBorder

rexxer3

CryptRat

Xena

Larcent

JamesDaltonBell

Qirn

Mark Confidant

Topics and Tidbits

  • wedding talk
  • Persist (When this creature dies, if it had no -1/-1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner’s control with a -1/-1 counter on it.)
  • persist/undying combos
  • does combo come back under control in super high power formats?
  • what keywords would benefit from the “anger”/”wonder” treatment?
  • renown is back
  • the hunger to come back
  • -1/-1 counters as charge counters
  • spending three cards for one creature in play
  • does “pitch spell” imply exiling the card?
  • discarding two cards as upside
  • creatures that behave like planeswalkers
  • warp/evoke parallels
  • warped cards can exist on the battlefield for the whole turn
  • impulse vs anticipate
  • confronting the riddler in the room
  • how obvious should Foundations rares be?
  • the first counter-challenge
  • everyone’s favorite -ology
  • the jesus part of the bible
  • syzygy review
  • “creature” representing body and “creature card” representing spirit
  • jesus gives us two other colors
  • juliet again tormented by nightmares of siege rhino 150 life total standard games
  • if a card has a weird ward cost, what’s the reason for that ward cost?
  • all incarnation deck
  • handwritten notes submission
  • warping turn 2 in limited
  • flavor that can work in foundations vs in specific sets
  • vanishing math
  • what makes a card a good jumpstart card?
  • how many attacks would you expect to get with “Vanishing 5”
  • this is why we need anger
  • conditional haste (on a certain turn, for extra mana, etc)
  • a cycle of weird downside mechanic incarnations
  • how to cycle vanishing burnout
  • eidolon of burnout
  • two different abilities on an evoke card
  • shadowmoor cards are juliet’s responsibility
  • juliet dreaming of the 20 card cycle
  • the tension of designing a clean card vs one that has the right rule text
  • discarding off color cards
  • play value of a 6 mana hatebear
  • juliet’s favorite: chivalry
  • tim’s favorite: sophia

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