First thing I see is that there aren't any one-mana options. Akoum Hellhound can get some early pressure, or Jaddi Offshoot gives you time to develop. And Lightning Bolt is an option, too.

This is more of a personal preference, but I would use Ash Barrens or Evolving Wilds/Terramorphic Expanse over Promising Vein.

Still, this is going in a good direction. I can't call myself a Pauper expert yet, but this looks very solid.

I'm just going to do something super simple, which I might have even done before, but I don't remember, so here are Deserts with basic land types.

Scoured Hamada

Land - Plains Desert

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"Relentless sun, cutting wind, and rocks. You can't drink from a rock." -- Mestos the Cartographer

Brine Playa

Land - Island Desert

(: add .)

_"Water, but it's useless. And the salt cuts your feet to shreds." -- Mestos the Cartographer

Decaying Cienega

Land - Swamp Desert

(: add .)

"Finally, clean water! Too bad it smells like sewage." -- Mestos the Cartographer

Scorched Buttes

Land - Mountain Desert

(: add .)

"Very pretty. Very colorful, like walking through a sunset." -- Mestos the Cartographer

Bushy Chaparral

Land - Forest Plains

(: add .)

"I was surprised to see such lush growth. They even don't taste horrible." --Mestos the Cartographer

Create a card that would go in your favorite set.

Havogh the Gory

Legendary Creature - Minotaur Warlock

When Havogh the Gory enters, create two Blood tokens and two Food tokens.

Whenever you sacrifice a token, put a +1/+1 counter on Havogh and a +1/+1 counter on up to one other target creature.

3/5

Create a Sheepfolk.

Kellan, the Kid can give Falco some extra board advantage, and depending on how you feel about Doctor Who, The Thirteenth Doctor and Sisterhood of Karn make topcasting with Falco a lot easier. See the Truth is another draw option. Any of these sound interesting?

That's another nice touch! I've been kind of workshopping Yarok Energy for a while, but this is more complete than anything I got so far. Can I take some ideas from here?

How do you feel about kinda janky infinite combos? I discovered yesterday that Yarok, the Desecrated + Priest of Gix + Chthonian Nightmare + any mana value 1 or 2 creature gets infinite black mana and infinite energy.

Maybe make the mana cost of the enchantment's activated ability instead of as a limiter on utility, rather than power.

This is great! As long as you're having fun with this, keep it up! It's a huge help.

Wanted to check on whatever I did to your average score by upvoting everything. Anything I can do to fix it?

Next thought is mass removal. You do have some key creatures, so I wouldn't add too much, but you can recover quickly from any "Destroy all creatures" effect. Instead of Pacifying one creature at a time, you can ultra-Pacify all of them. Creatures in the graveyard can't attack.

How much does your meta rely on enchantments? The combo and control decks might be tempered with some enchantment removal, depending on the specific strategy

My first thought here is to slow down your opponents' mana production. Imi Statue and Kataki, War's Wage shut down mana rocks. Kismet, Thalia, Heretic Cathar, Loxodon Gatekeeper, and Archon of Emeria shut down lands for a turn. Winter Moon shuts down nonbasic lands.

You can also get your opponents' creatures to work for you with Martial Impetus, Bloodthirsty Blade, and Redemption Arc. If they're forced to attack each other, they can't attack you.

StarRushford Happy to help! First questions, before I look:

• If budget is a concern, how much are you willing to spend on this?

• What sort of decks do you face regularly?

StarRushford I know Arena better than MTGO, but as I understand, MTGO is literally the paper game on a digital client. Arena has a couple of changes: Alchemy cards are rebalanced versions of paper cards (Geological Appraiser got added to its mana cost to make A-Geological Appraiser, for example), there are more randomization abilities, semi-permanent stat changes, and ways to add cards from outside the game into your deck. basically stuff that's easier for a computer to track. It also doesn't have any cards from before Amonkhet (or somewhere around there).

If you want to play paper M:tG on a computer, get MTGO. If you want to get more formats and weird cards, play Arena.

Overthink

Instant

Counter target spell unless its controller pays for every spell you have cast this game.

Sorcerous Cavalier

Creature - Human Knight Wizard

As long as you have cast four or more spells this game, Sorcerous Cavalier has first strike and vigilance.

As long as you have cast eight or more spells this game, Sorcerous Cavalier has double strike and ", : This creature deals 2 damage to target creature or planeswalker."

3/4

Create a Monkey Warrior. Bonus points if it's exactly Sun Wukong. Extra bonus points if it's not at all Sun Wukong.

I strongly believe WotC did not, in any way, engineer the handover.

I do think that they had a list of priorities in the event of them receiving control, and that they're working through that list right now, but they were content to leave the status quo as it was and focus on other things.

What does "WotC was secretly behind this" actually mean? What would WotC do to bring this around? Encourage people to directly and graphically threaten their employees' friends and associates? Deliberately sabotage the reprint value of some of their most sought-after cards? Alienate a huge chunk of their customer base? Sure, some corporations have done more for less, and there's a solid dozen reasons to legitimately dislike WotC/Hasbro's policies and practices, but I don't see this happening.

Eventually, at some distant point, I think there was potential for a peaceful and mutually agreed handover, occuring on the RC's terms and probably with similar results to what we are seeing now. So I don't think the Rules Committee was going to last forever, but the way it ended was the worst possible way.

I just gave the first-person hands collection a big update. If you find anything else that fits, please let me know!

Balaam__ Nice pick! I think that one's almost from the viewpoint of the golem or whatever's being summoned, going off where the leg shadows are coming from. It doesn't show hands directly, so it's an Honorable Mention, but it's perfect for the theme.

Unkillable feels like a digital/Arena ability. (That's not a bad thing.)

Gavadey, Chaos Charger

Legendary Creature - Elemental Warrior

Flying, haste

Unkillable

When Gavadey, Chaos Charger enters, draft a card from Gavadey's spellbook.

5/5

(Spellbook: Disperse, Fire / Ice, Flame Discharge, Fog, Frost Breath, Giant Growth, Hydrosurge, Lightning Bolt, Pit Fight, Pyroclasm, Windstorm, Creeping Trailblazer, Lightning Stormkin, Risen Reef, Song of Creation)

Create a Giant in a color pair that doesn't have a Giant.

Wait for the Aether Drift set to come out. That set's looking like Motor Sports: the Magicking.

Temple Mosaic

Artifact

Clerics and Knights you control have vigilance.

: Target Cleric or Knight you control gets +0/+1 until end of turn.

: Temple Mosaic becomes a 2/2 Knight creature in addition to its other types until end of turn.

Create a Legendary Snow Creature - Elemental.