That's re balance or power-level thoughts on the card, at least.

The community reaction to the ban inclines me to think unbanning it (at least any time soon) would be a mistake, though. Imo it would feel less like addressing format health or balance than it would vindication for awful behavior.

I think the we should embrace the fact that Sol Ring as EDH's mascot is basically license to be ridiculous. It's the format for doing huge, splashy things, and huge, splashy enablers can and probably must come along for the ride.

What Lotus et al power out is for r0, the card itself feels fine.

Brave to wish for new minions in this particular moment of the game's development.

Agreed. The *vast* majority of balance or play pattern concerns can and should be resolved through rule zero conversations. The more aggressively the format is managed, the weaker r0 gets, which then demands more aggressive format management.

"Pool's huge, get weird, have fun" is close to enough.

No, they've been very popular. Patrons sometimes have trouble finding a particular character in the PAC, but I think that's more on the PAC than the items themselves.

We have both in our children's collection as part of our library of things.

I think that's part of the point. The more distance there is between the party line and obvious, undeniable reality, the broader the license they grant.

"Don't trust your lying eyes" serves as both carte blanche for state violence and chills anyone risking their life to document their atrocities.

They're why I became a librarian.

I tailspin a bit thinking about how many new/digital library services catapult exactly that data into the private sector, as if that's somehow safer.

"You don't know me yet.

But you're going to."

This would be embarrassing enough even without the Sephiroth impersonation, oof.

We're at least one SL away from *everywhere*

Sorry, nearly meaningless mechanical text. What I've heard at least has been folks saying that the legend rule should go to increase the playability of legends outside of edh.

Make it trinket text, with how legend-dense UBs are

I think the idea here is that Standard gets one annual B&R, and an "emergency" standard B&R would be stitched onto one of the other scheduled B&Rs, as opposed to just randomly dropping say, today.

Recency Bias: The Listicle

I introduced some of my MTG club students to Dandan and the Timeline Culler variant I've been brewing this week, and they had a ball. They immediately started kicking around other ideas for microformats/games to play through Magic-as-system.

Third shot's a hell of a doom metal album cover

The first take I saw on it was "not much value if your opponent just exiles a surveil land" and I felt myself turning to dust.