Should you be able to flicker the City of Brass Lands? These are, of course, face down cards from your hand that have been played as lands. Thus, flickering them would 'cheat' them into play. Could be fun. Also low-key land destruction.
I'm not touching the Spaceship Supplies because those feel right, but I would add support for flicker in the 99.
Thoughts?
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- Jhoria draws cards...But Tameshi draws cards and recures things. Power Creep.
- The Redacted Citanul was taking over games to easy. Phial encourages the top deck trust, which I like.
- Crypto Bro felt pretty slow tbh. Clever can be anything right off the bat...which I like better.
New House Rule
- If last card of the
99is drawn, the Planet (the99itself) wins.
Turns out folks didn't think the Relic hit the mark, even though everyone is scrambling for colored pips.
Vesuva is a beauty and fits well in the 99. How wouldn't like to draw this.
Played some intense games last night. The initial 21 is really cooking hot with lines that feel extremely hot and weirdly balanced. Incredibly it does come down to game decisions and how to maximize the top bombs and interaction.
OUT : Rebuild the City is just to expensive for the effect.
IN : Wellspring basically does the same job and is hilarious.
OUT : Idol has consistently made a 10/10, but the slight feel bad of not using it to draw cards makes it...a feel bad.
IN : Dire Mimic is going to be a good trick and I think the extra colored mana will matter with Void Mirror stuff.
OUT : Etched also has a feel bad of how hard it is to get the draw going.
IN : Voltaic is going to absolutely SLAP! Why wasn't this in here. lol.
OUT : Stroke could be amazing for the Tron player...but then it's a weird win-more, which I don't really want.
IN : Twiddle does a lot here and is cheap.
Also...I'm actually liking Thespian Stage in the 21. And, if I get a Vesuva, would probably put it in the 99, swapping out another Tower.
Gotta cut down on the overall token amounts.
I know things have escalated a little bit. So I might walk this one back. But the theory is...that it's balance out the Tron fuckery
We're really digging into the 21 now, and folks are feeling like fatties don't have a line.
Maybe this'll help keep Kill Switch in check, and Trawler can help with the Disk and recurring some rocks.
Time Walk was too lit. Duh. Sure it's fun to top deck the proxy, but the blow out isn't fun for other folks.
Gleeful Demo is a beautiful card...but I'm trying to cut down on the tokens.
Drawbridge, I think, is going to slap really hard. That's my prediction. Hard slapping.
Ancient Grudge basically kills two artifacts. Awesome.
maybes
Howling Mine was fun...but maybe not full blown Spaceship Supply material. So, I'm thinking about even more crazy artifact mana to race the Planet.
Some small tweaks for artifact destruction and haste possibility options too...
Lifelink drags out the game in not fun ways. nuf said.
Little bit more flexible and interesting
It is very difficult for me not to just replace all the reanimate effects with multiple copies of Exhume.
Exhume slaps in this meta because the caster gets first dibs at the shared grave, then it goes around clockwise. Which leads to some really fun and sweaty moments digging through the yard.
I. Cannot. Wait.
I've got to be honest. In the Brass Land meta, I like these artifact creatures that also take some pips. Means Chaos Defiler probably costs you a couple life, which it should. Also gives more relevance to the dorks.
I'm not really going to miss Phyrexian Colossus. He just got wickedly out classed, as this meta leans really hard into bombs.
After, apparently, an insane journey across America, Likeness Looter has finally arrived from @aibretty !THANK YOU!
The looting effect, plus the crazy ability of cloning something in the yard is going to pop off in this meta.
Also I'm just going for it and swapping in Skyclave Relic for Fellwar Stone. Feels right.
Also I'm axing all the rest of the maybes because it's time to get this whole thing in the mail and kick off the Battle Box by Mail campaign! More details soon!
Probably a good swap for Fellwar Stone tbh
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The following day, Bioy tells Borges he has found the chapter they were looking for in a different reprint of the same encyclopedia. The chapter, although brief and full of names unfamiliar to Borges and Bioy, entices their curiosity. It describes Uqbar as an obscure region, located in Iraq or Asia Minor, with an all-fantastic literature taking place in the mythical worlds of Mlejnas and Tlön. Afterwards, they keep searching for Uqbar in other sources, but are unable to find any mention.
Special thank to @couchlife for send over Cursed Mirror for this wild project
