White Adds

Dog Umbra is another one in the list of “wow, Pacifism is outdated” cards for white. We do want to monitor what the experience of players is. Whether this is mostly just a Pacifism with flash or winds up saving your creatures more often will factor into how we view this card in the future.

Aerie Auxiliary besides being a real tongue twister is just a generally great rate for the amount of body it comes with.

Mandibular Kite is another card in the series of cards that confirm living weapon is a silly keyword. This one instead of past ones also adds some very useful evasion on. While that 4 mana equip cost might seem high, we’re pretty sure that this is gonna contribute at least a few games in the win column.

Thraben Charm is exactly what you want to see in a charm. The first mode will more than likely be a Murder a good amount of the time, tacking on the ability to deal with a niche card type as well as some incidental graveyard hate is all great.

Cuts

Realmbreaker's Grasp and Cooped Up are both getting cut for the two pieces of removal we’re bringing in as they were deemed the least unique/useful.

From feedback we’ve gotten, Recommission has not been performing as well as some hoped. It’s getting pulled as a result of this.

Seraph of Dawn is an older inclusion that isn’t quite as good as it used to be, but on top of that pretty much makes any 3 power or less creature a fraught proposition.

Blue Adds

Serum Visionary continues to demonstrate that we keep getting better and better Phyrexian Rager variants printed.

Deranged Assistant is the first move into introducing ramp back into Simic’s tool kit. In addition this plays into various cards that want to either have other cards in the graveyard or themselve be put into the yard.

Cuts

Faerie Duelist has been mostly deeply forgettable, not serving its role as well as we had hoped, and also is running counter to our hopes for more proactive gameplay.

Mnemonic Wall is getting the cut here as well since we’ve been hearing rumblings in the discord that folks feel the flicker deck is maybe getting a bit too good to be enjoyable. We’ll continue to monitor the state of the deck and your feedback, so make sure you let us know how you continue to feel about the deck.

Black Adds

Wither and Bloom is another in the long line of Last Gasp with upsides, We’re excited to see how a version that helps buff creatures later plays out.

Retrofitted Transmogrant is a Mons's Goblin Raiders that then when it dies draws you a Hill Giant which when it dies, draws a Hill Giant, which, you get the point.

Accursed Marauder is getting a test to see if going down to 2 mana is what the Fleshbag Marauder effect needs to really sing in our limited environment

Scurrilous Sentry should surprise no one as at worst this thing is a flow of looking at more cards and best case it keeps growing to keep the pressure up. We’re hoping Wizards continues to view the “Titan Style” triggers as something to help buff common power levels.

Cuts

Persistent Specimen is mostly just worse than transmogrant and the committee didn’t feel we needed 2 of that effect.

Ruthless Ripper trades with a lot of the cube for 1 mana, mostly just punishing attacking into it.

Drown in Sorrow despite getting in fairly recently is getting the axe here as we feel it’s doing far more to hinder aggressive leaning decks from doing what they want to than we’d like, being only 2 mana.

Mold Folk has just not performed as well as expected and is getting cut as it’s always a slightly below rate creature that requires spare material to be used to keep it even close to on curve.