If I do expand the set further, I should consider making a cycle of "Cards your opponent watches like a hawk, but out of the corner of their eye so as to not tip you off"

I wonder why official design never explored this as an answer to the whole "I forgot about that, ugh." problem?

So ... all done barring the artwork.

Who wants to try and make a boat-murdered theme deck?

Hmmm, not sure I can fix an overly weak design by adding more weak cards.

And not sure I can trust myself to not accidentally make the lands too good.

Right - top down time.

Craft. Evoking the sense of building stuff into other stuff as a thing that dwarves DO. In DF crafting is based mostly around stuff you dig up whilst making rooms. (Some stuff from killing things) Some dwarves and it improves the quality of things you can make anyway and makes dwarves happier.

Mechanically - it needs to be a cycle of cheap support commons, and in keeping with the rest of the set wants to aim at about 4th pick in every other set desirability wise.

Crafting is SO flavourful it deserves a keyword - but at this point that keyword only lives on these 5 cards so it doesn't need to be a mechanical one.

It also needs to support the "Put your lands into the graveyard", or some other set of cards needs to do so, because right now the hate triggers don't happen enough.

Yeah, ok, writing it all out like that it's pretty clear I'm trying to hang too much on a single mechanic - I need to split it up, and the 'lands into your graveyard' part isn't a bad plan.

Off the top of my head:

Common white wants a creature removal spell

Common/Uncommon white wants a protection spell like Rebuff the Wicked or Shelter

Common blue wants a conditional counterspell (like Mana Leak or Thoughtbind)

Common or uncommon black wants a Raise Dead or Zombify card

Common red really wants an artifact destruction card

Common white or green wants a lifegain card and an enchantment destruction card

Uncommon white could have something to grant lifelink or first strike

Uncommon blue seems to be missing a card already (ah - this is because the Crane is a common in an uncommon slot), but badly wants a couple of noncreature spells; bounce, counter, -N/-0 or "becomes 1/1", tap and/or doesn't untap, etc

Common or uncommon black could have a player-loses-life card

Red could have a +1/-1 creature or spell (like Flowstone Blade, Flowstone Crusher etc)

Uncommon green (or artifact) wants something to grant trample

Common or uncommon artifact really wants an equipment that grants a power bonus! You have none so far!

All colours want more noncreature cards, particularly instants - you even commented on this yourself.

And flavour-wise, you haven't got much by way of:

• Armourers / weaponsmiths, and in fact armour and weapons
• Nobles making irritating demands
• Haggling over prices with traders, or traders bringing useless stuff to sell
• Meeting halls, graveyards, refuse pits, storerooms
• Pumping water around to (useful/useless/terrifying) places (although there is Floodgate)
• Unlikely constructions demanded by a crazy chief architect
• Strange/fey moods - you've got some skeleton slots marked "Fey" but they don't seem to have ended up that way
• Master chefs creating legendary meals which get packaged and sold for vast quantities (it always seems to characterise my DF games)
• Attacking goblins (the only goblin is Goblin Mountaineer)

There ought to be enough there for at least 20 more cards...

Since there'll certainly need to be tweaks made: Here's a note from QQs use of Stifle to kill fetchlands. Blue doesn't get to destroy your lands directly - but it does get to turn them into islands and trick you into killing them yourself.

Note: The skeleton view is the best view for the whole set. Unaddressed comments is the best view for what is being worked on.

I choose this member of the cycle to highlight it exists.

The only flying creature in the set. (Though blue gets a mass-jump)

I randomly pick this one to highlight the cycle. They interact with the minerals. Slightly fiddly way to do it, but should still be ok (though clunkily worded) outside of the set.