Cool thematic cards replace flavorless known quantities.

Note to self: Still need to find room for Treasure Dredger, Stitched Drake, Stitchwing Skaab.

Foundations is mostly looking like a flavor miss for this cube, but I'll reconsider soon, since I otherwise love the set.

Trying to streamline how card advantage is accrued in this format (Surveil, Explore, Investigate).

Pulp Nouveau is going to Steel City Cube 2024! See you in a few weeks, Pittsburgh!

Still looking for a few Novice Inspector types before this is fully complete.

Ultimately decided not to pursue Disguise or Suspect as supported mechanics.

A couple of concessions here for a new audience: cutting Sinister Concierge (suspend confusing), cutting Treetop Village and Gavony Township for better symmetry, cutting Concealing Curtains and Smoldering Egg to nearly eliminate DFCs. I expect to re-add these cards after the con.

These cards are mostly too weak, but a few (Chun-Li, Ken, Turn the Earth, Blessed Alliance, Rise of the Ants) are cut for play pattern.

Do intend to shrink overall cube size, but haven't identified cuts yet.

In our last draft, we noted how 4/4s are pretty enormous creatures in this format, and that statline is kinda scarce. That makes cards like Ryu and Wall of Omens into egregious defensive roadblocks.

I'm also trimming several elements of lifegain and durdling, in hopes of speeding up the format. I don't want CubeCon rounds to go to time, after all!

Scooze and Cleric were too much sledgehammer, too little scalpel.

discussed here: https://riptidelab.com/forum/threads/pulp-nouveau-mystery-madness-magic.3686/post-122646

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