Forgot about a lot of cards in Strixhaven!

  • Technique Cycle: I love all of these, and they're obviously a multiplayer mechanic, so naturally the whole cycle gets in, obviously.
  • "Mastery" from STX: Ok, I don't think all of this cycle is as good, though. I feel like the Black member of the cycle is uncommon at best - for it to be a good removal spell, giving a third player the card draw is still fairly rough and the black section of the cube is already mostly removal or sweepers, right? The blue card feels awful a lot of the time, especially since decking oneself out is a legit lose condition. Fervent... isn't made for playing. IT just isn't. Meanwhile, Green and White are pretty awesome actually! Play some politics with the right player and both of them are just great 4 mana cards that on occasion you just play on 6 for them to just do their job anyway!
  • Curse of Thirst/Curse of Misfortunes: AKA, lets give a curse deck a wincon! Bitterheart Witch isn't good enough to play, but I think sometimes these will just kill someone. They're fun and I just fancy playing them for a bit.
  • Bite of the Black Rose: I am intending to cut Unnerve. Bite is going down to common as it's usually the side of it you don't want it to be. But it still feels better to draft/resolve than Unnerve does. This will leave space for a future black card to be added.
  • Rip Apart: A worry of mine is that the more enchantments there are in the cube, the worse not having copious enchantment removal is going to feel, obviously. Artifacts are easier to remove, frankly - there are good cards which have "kill an artifact" as random upside - but enchantments are harder. Rip is just a great card! Losing the politics of "Ride Down my opponent's blocker, now two players can swing in and deal them lethal" sucks, but Rip Apart is just the perfect Boros uncommon a lot of the time. Great utility card to have in the cube.
  • Minion's Return: AKA the Unhallowed Pact that DOESN'T COMPLETELY SUCK. This is actually super political once someone realises the black player has access to it, I love this card! Flash is just... just a straight upgrade? Just miles better. Time will tell whether it's strong enough to need to be uncommon, though. Might be too frustrating to play against at common.
  • Skyline Despot: Ending on the easy comment here. Despot was only absent because I didn't have a copy. It's a legit way for red to win a game in Conspiracy draft and now it's a legit way here too. Welcome.