Someone in a Discord server I’m in pointed out that this is a potential turn 4 kill with Bloodletter of Aclazotz. Requires the opponent to have no removal or blockers, but still.

Duplicate of Wary Thespian aside from the creature type. A fine draft pick with no prospects for Constructed.

Maybe (probably) I’m missing something, but I don’t understand why you’d want this effect on a Leyline, since you can’t use it in the early turns of the game. At best you can spend turns 1 and 2 ramping and then cheat out one expensive spell on turn 3, and maybe that spell is some Eldrazi or other, but is that really a better plan than the existing Sneak Attack or Goryo’s Vengeance decks?

I’ve got an Azorious Flash deck for Standard in which I’m currently running a 2-2 split of Malcolm and Plumecreed Escort because neither of them are exactly what the deck wants. This might be worth an audition… although the lack of flying is a strike against it.

Who ya gonna call?

I initially read this as “Whenever an enchantment you control enters a room”. Shortening “enters the battlefield” to “enters” was weird enough, but it’s extra weird now that they’re introducing something else that could conceivably be “entered” in the very next set.

So the opportunity cost of including, say, Floodfarm Verge in a slot where you would otherwise be running a Plains is low but not nil. Considerations:

• Are you running fetchlands such as Fabled Passage, and if so, is this dropping your basic land count low enough that you might run out?
• Are you running enough basic lands that you can reasonably expect to turn these on in most games?
• Are nonbasic hate cards like Furnace Punisher or Sunspine Lynx common in your meta and/or particularly good against your deck?

Overall I think I probably like these better than most of the rare duals that are currently in Standard, although that’s “like” in the sense of “want to play with”; I’m not necessarily saying they’re stronger in the abstract.

Interesting to note that the cycle depicted here is only allied colors and only goes clockwise (on the color wheel) when adding the second color. There is potential for three more cycles like this one if Wizards wants to make them.

That demon clearly sees that guy. He’s not staying hidden at all.

Red aggro in Standard sometimes runs Felonious Rage. This is probably an upgrade. It doesn’t grant haste but most of the creatures you’d be casting it on already have haste anyway.

I have to say I don’t love that Manifest and Disguise are going to be in Standard at the same time. I mean as an Arena player I guess it doesn’t affect me, but it complicates paper games.

The cycles of “big common creatures with landcycling” in several recent sets have been playable and balanced in Limited. I’m on board with it.

It would have been so much simpler, for purposes of keeping track of the game state, if this said “if Acrobatic Cheerleader is tapped and doesn’t have a flying counter on it” and then didn’t have the “only once” clause. And it would have made the card slightly stronger, which is totally fine because I can’t imagine it seeing much Constructed play in any case.

Reminiscent of Pauper powerhouse Kor Skyfisher; too bad this one’s uncommon.

I played a few games just now to figure out the answer to that question, and it seems like it’s usually “build a big Dreyleader”, although one time I pulled off the Throne-into-Bodyguard trick. But I haven’t seen Squirrels in ranked games in a while. It seems like people agree with you that they’re not really competitive. I do think Ygra or Viper are probably good fits mechanically if somewhat disappointing thematically.

You sure could! I don’t know how long it will take but I feel like I need to see it happen at least once.

Massacre Girl with ninjas

That sounds like the kind of deck I would enjoy.

Okay, maybe something like this…

9 Swamp
4 Island
4 Darkslick Shores
4 Underground River
2 Restless Reef
1 Drannith Ruins
4 Spyglass Siren
4 Mockingbird
4 Skullcap Snail
4 Unscrupulous Agent
4 Kaito, Bane of Nightmares
3 Enduring Curiosity
4 Ashnod’s Intervention
2 Not Dead After All
3 Cut Down
2 Bitter Triumph
2 Go for the Throat

Ashnod’s Intervention/Not Dead After All can help make it okay to attack with your 1/1s. Mockingbird can be just a 1/1 flyer on turn 1, and later it can copy your Snails or Agents. Kaito and Enduring Curiosity generate card advantage. I don’t know… it feels like this deck needs things to go just right. But I’ll probably still try it.

Somebody’s going to take it as a personal challenge to get a prime number of lands that isn’t printed on the card. Not me, but somebody.

Actually, I just remembered I can cross-post, so I did that.

Starting to think about maindecking Rest in Peace.