Rules Clarifications
Most cards should work as written, but if clarification is required check the below:

• Any time you view your entire library you must shuffle afterwards.
• "a player" is chosen by the spell/ability's controller.
• Cards which say "Other" or "Others" refer to cards which share a type.
• Returning a permanent/card:
  ** 1. From the graveyard returns permanents to the battlefield, and non-permanents to hand.
  ** 2. From the battlefield returns permanents to it's owner's hand
• Any spell which says "Target" with the target type redacted can be pointed at any of the following as long as the resolution of the spell is possible:
  1. Permanents
  2. Spells on the stack
  3. Cards in the graveyard
  4. Players

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Design scratchpad:

THEMES:-
- Wide / Aggro / Equipment
- Control / land disruption / combo
- Discard / Reanimation
- Aggro / Burn
- Ramp / Cheat-into-play

BALANCING PRINCIPLES:-

CARD DRAW

• Card draw anchored at roughly 1 mana per card.
• Extra single cards per turn available in colourless for cheap
• Burst card draw primarily in blue and black, with blue having further upside

REMOVAL

• 1mv: conditional removal
• 2mv: unconditional removal
• 3mv: unconditional removal with upside

Discard

• 1mv single selected card with upside. or 2 cards no upside.
• 2mv 2 cards with upside.

Tutors

• 1mv specific card type direct to hand. Any card type to top of library or other significant downside.
• 2mv any card type direct to hand.

P/T AT MV
1MV

• ~4 stats (3/1, 2/2, 1/3) + good ability
  2MV
• ~4-5 stats (3/1, 2/2, 1/3) - (4/1, 3/2, 2/3) + good ability
  3MV
• ~6-7 stats (4/3) + good ability
  4MV
• ~
  Stats improved in
  Bad ability = better stats for the mana value
  Great ability = worse stats for the mana value

Counters moving/removing.
Moving under one or more of these conditions:

• requires an additional costs (tapping/paying mana etc.)
• requires moving a specific counter
• has a modest benefit
• doesn't enter with lots of counters already on it

misc;
Aggro/burn should be incredibly threatening to punish durdling strategies. All decks must have some way to interact/prevent.

Tagging:
Interest levels
L1 (boring) Same card function just cheaper.

• Reduce cost of spell and/or ability
• Remove downside. e.g. "lose 2 life"

L2 (Interesting) Change to card's function

• Remove restriction or condition
• Remove cost that impacts play pattern. e.g. or "return to hand"
• Card plays in a new manner, but not as unique as L3

L3 (Unique) Significant change to how the card plays.

• Resulting gameplay is significantly different from original card
• Novel play patterns

TODO:
Slots to address:-
Black 2MV creatures - Add
Red 1MV creatures - Trim
Red 2 & 3 MV creatures - Add

Add some more ways to tutor to top of library for various library top combos.
(tagged with "top". cards added to Cardmarket Wishlist)

Things to spend colourless mana from new fetches on?

Good options for granting haste?

Figure some ways to generate infinite mana for combo kills with cards like Fascination (redact to say "a player")

Include some combat trick that grants power plus evasion for electrostatic pumeller.

Include some more costly cheat targets. The current 5mv houses are castable.

More ways to sculpt the top of library for cheat from top.

get more hellbent/discard payoffs

get some static +1 counter combo enablers. Metallic Mimic, Good-Fortune Unicorn, Rhythm of the Wild,

Get some cards that care about ETB and LTB or creation of tokens to combo with the likes of Ruthless Knave looping

Add some non-creature spells which create creatures to combo with Blessed Reincarnation style cards.
Also find other B R type cards!

Fetchland alternatives.
Mh3 landscapes deceptive landscape with phyrexian cycling cost? Could make them 2 colour fetches with 2 colour phyrexian cycling.
Panoramas bant panorama
Slow fetches? Flood Plain

Blighted woodland grabbing any lands could be interesting if pushing any land related strategies.

Buy list:

• agonising memories
• feast of sanity
• mystic redaction (cost single phyrexian)
• bag of holding
• borborygmos enraged (cheat target, allow discarding any card)
• Chandra's regulator - copying all abilities.
• daring saboteur as a neat 1mv unblockable looter?