Tfw u cantrip into a cantrip w Vivi

What’s missing from the Vivi/prowess pattern of play is the interactive sequencing that makes Magic feel like a knife fight. It’s all the airlessness of control with next-to-none of the strategy and an aggro result with a fraction of the risk.

Edge of Eternities quick draft is live

I say this as someone who enjoyed playing it until I realized it’s basically a cantripping autodamage minigame, it’s absurd

Murmurs of a Vivi/Cauldron ban… why not just bring back mana burn :^)

I’m saying like winning is fun (esp profitably!) but playing Magic is fun too! Vivi is Magic-adjacent. Giving my fellow players the benefit of the doubt that they are as conscientious as this.

Recommend watching the Arena Championship Vivi Cauldron mirror matches - boils the deck down to some pretty interesting strategy and tactics around interaction. Still a poverty of actual playing Magic imo. Lantern Control as Cauldron Solitaire.

You have a land to play, and when your grip is low, down to the wire, you sandbag it. It's a little childish and stupid, but then, so are combat tricks.

Live look at me running 23 lands max

Pov all you’ve ever known is 2 mv prowess everything and you show up to actually play MTG

Well done and also the player I imagine behind the 4 removal and a bat opening hand def goes nuts for it

It’s provocative it gets the people going

Any player or creature after 1994 doesn’t “suffer” damage. All they know is Cecil, shock they lands, double, be lifegain, eat hot chip & lie

Rust harvester is too slow by half. 2 generic no-tap once-per-turn would be plenty fair, no cap would be busted. As-is it’s a decent artifacts one drop nothing more. Glad I goldfished it before spending any wildcards.

Universes Beyond: Midsommar when

This is the psychological bit I’ve been on about - sideways 128/128 Mossborn hydra feels like fair explosive Magic, long-ass cantrip-combo turns do not.

Keep the shock, rakdos needs whimsy

Omens shoulda been tribal that is all

Authority of the Consuls: when you absolutely, positively got to draw out every mf game in the ladder