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I'd be willing to try to join you for a NetDraft, if the timings work out.
Good point, I guess - this is exactly like Trapfinder's Trick. It's even a bit better as it's going the reactive/proactive choice.
This card's intended as one of those "horrible maindeck, still mediocre sideboarded" cards. (Hey, Trapfinder's Trick existed, right?) Your point is exactly what we want it to do - show up enough in Limited to bait people into boarding it against opponents, when those opponents don't actually have enough Rifts to logically justify the card slot.
It would be cleaner, but I definitely want this to be one psyche card that does what it does without requiring an investment. A 2/2 for 3 with flying that requires a draw to become a (worse) specter just seems so underwhelming.
Sorry for getting back to you so late, Alex - we've been really busy with other things for the last two weeks or so.
We're still waiting on playtesting until we're finished with the entire set. Currently we're missing about twenty cards (you'll notice green is particularly understaffed). Once we wrap those up, we'll make the set public and put up MWS and NetDraft files. Sealed will be the easiest for our particular group to test, as we don't have eight people to actually simulate drafts with, but maybe someone out there will be willing to try drafting for us?
Thanks for all the feedback. Glad you like the set.
You're probably right. We'll keep an eye on this card.
This is meant to be one of the pushes to make Dementia an alluring draft strategy (like Hand of the Praetors). Given that Dementia seems even harder to draft well than Infect (it's in three colors), I think the rare bomb is fairly justified.
This is a very good set you've put together here. The mechanics seem to be very well thought out; the themes of knowledge and madness come across well through the mechanics; it looks like it'll play well and be fun. Even the costings seem very sensible, and there are a bunch of nice touches like good use of reprints and functional reprints, finding a lot of sensible simple commons that are suitable for common, and so on. I'm really impressed.
What are you doing to playtest the set?
Yeah, as I looked at the set more I saw there were quite a lot of ways to look at the top card of your library, which is very sensible. I think the mechanic needs an unusual set around it, but I think you've created that set excellently.
Bit of a blunt instrument. Also a bit of a pity that as a common it'll show up so much in Limited, when the typical opponent will only have one or two Rifts in their whole cardpool.
Oh, I like it. When it gets to about 3, there's a big game of "who blinks first" / who can stockpile the most cheap instants... Fun. Reminiscent of Water Gun Balloon Game.
Er. This seems a bit overpowered. This is just better than Thran Dynamo, which was too good to reprint (we got Ur-Golem's Eye instead). I appreciate in-set the "drawback" is a bit more of a drawback because of all the dementia creatures, but outside of the set this is just madly good.
Hee. I guess with Garruk Relentless Wizards have opened the doors a bit wider to planeswalkers with triggered abilities. I like this design a lot, anyway.
Lace with Moonglove minus the cantrip. Continuing the recent series of one-mana green instants that grant keyword abilities or similar things (Vines of Vastwood, Withstand Death). Nice.
Hm. The inbetween ground of Sylvan Scrying and Reap and Sow. So fair enough, I guess.
Nice update to Humble Budoka.
You're pushing the power on quite a few of the auras in this set. Which is fair, I guess, because most Auras still don't seem to be quite high enough power to be playable in limited or tournament constructed.
The flavour text on this and Valnoth Dreambane is... erm... iiinteresting :P
This will be a royal pain to get through on the ground. Uncommon is the right place for it.
That's a heck of a utility spell. Expensive, of course, and sorcery speed, but it'll kill virtually anything. I like it.
Nice name! :)
Hmm, Ember Hauler at half the size and cost. Interesting. Quite good for a common.