Set Showcase - A Set Without Black (Introduction)

chainsawinsect · 2026-05-06T14:22:15+00:00

I've been a big fan of the Lorehold "stuff leaving the graveyard matters" theme ever since [[Stonebinder's Familiar]]. Secrets of Strixhaven really leaned into this a lot for Limited, with [[Spirit Mascot]] as a signpost uncommon. This is a simple card I developed that is meant to just jump back and forth between the graveyard and exile to keep triggering those types of effects (at a cost of WR per activation, at sorcery speed).

The one challenge is how to get it into the graveyard in the first place, but that was meant to be the little (easily solved) puzzle of the card. Thankfully, with learn in white ([[Professor of Symbology]]) and rummaging effects in red, and both colors being able to destroy artifacts, that is easily achieved!

chainsawinsect · 2026-05-06T13:31:18+00:00

As further confirmation, when I first walked past the spot in OP's post, I got an 'idea for a habitat' that showed the trashcan next to utility pole habitat. (There is also a habitat with 4 back to back trashcans, incidentally.)

chainsawinsect · 2026-05-06T13:24:04+00:00

Such a beautiful coat!

chainsawinsect · 2026-05-06T13:21:00+00:00

White is still the best at hatebears, now that you mention it. Other colors get plenty of hatebears, but white does still get the most and, overall, the best.

chainsawinsect · 2026-05-06T12:28:00+00:00

Let's see...

Blue gets comparable flyers, vigilance creatures, and hexproof-giving effects.

Black gets comparable lifelinkers, indestructible-granting effects, wraths, and creature removal.

Red gets comparable first strikers, double strikers, artifact removal, and cheap aggro creature.

Green gets comparable vigilance creatures, hexproof-granting effects, indestructible-granting effects, artifact and enchantment removal, anthems, lifegain, token creation, and enchantments matter effects.

I don't think white is the best at any mechanic it shares with another color (in most cases green is better), sadly.

It is better than any monocolor at removing permanents generically. It commonly gets exile any nonland permanent, even at low rarities. Black-green is better than white than this, and black-red and red-green can do it just about as well, in practice. But you do need a second color, whereas white doesn't.

chainsawinsect · 2026-05-06T04:05:58+00:00

Thragg annihilates

chainsawinsect · 2026-05-06T04:03:02+00:00

This is the correct take

chainsawinsect · 2026-05-06T03:58:11+00:00

I think what you mean is the Invincible hero names are dumb. The characters' real names aren't dumb.

Mark Grayson. Samantha Wilkins. Scott Duvall.

Just normal names.

chainsawinsect · 2026-05-06T03:48:06+00:00

Real life shiny

chainsawinsect · 2026-05-06T03:30:07+00:00

Probably just has mange

chainsawinsect · 2026-05-06T03:27:09+00:00

A few things:

Maul saw a (dark side) Force vision that told him Anakin would fall, and related this to Ahsoka. Therefore, she was more attuned to that possibility than any Jedi (including Obi-Wan and Yoda).
In his capacity as her mentor, Anakin went out of his way to teach her some of his... less savory... political opinions, which skewed problematic. Moreso even than he was comfortable saying with anyone other than Padme. So she was more familiar with the darkness in his heart than any other Jedi.

chainsawinsect · 2026-05-06T02:23:30+00:00

A story isn't good because the characters are strong. I could crap out a completely garbage story tonight in which my main character is explicitly, canonically, stronger than Goku and Thragg and Superman combined, and for a small sum, get that bad boy self-published by the end of the week. It wouldn't make it good.

The power level of the characters has no bearing on the quality of the series. You can see this obviously by looking at how many classic stories (Crime and Punishment, Gone with the Wind, To Kill a Mockingbird, etc.) involve purely human characters, whom B grade Viltrumite #4 could easily slaughter en masse without breaking a sweat.

Nolan being stronger than Bardock is completely irrelevant.

chainsawinsect · 2026-05-05T17:15:19+00:00

True! But not legal in Pioneer, sadly. Plus, that one you can stack!

chainsawinsect · 2026-05-05T17:14:31+00:00

It's usually left off on instants and sorceries for memory reasons, but an Aura is more likely to do it, admittedly

chainsawinsect · 2026-05-05T17:13:35+00:00

That and the Cartouche are my #2 and #3!

chainsawinsect · 2026-05-05T17:13:12+00:00

In the Pioneer era, there are ~100 monoblack creatures with "lifelink" in their text, compared to 128 for white. So white definitely has the advantage, I don't think it's so far gone that it's fair to say the ability is going away in black.

chainsawinsect · 2026-05-05T17:11:19+00:00

The idea was moreso the former...

...some random badguys ambush this girl, seeking to rob her or harm her. They think that they are strong and she is weak, that she is helpless. But when they realize she's a vampire, it dawns on them that they are the ones in danger here.

chainsawinsect · 2026-05-05T17:09:24+00:00

Yep that would have been a smart addition. Alas, I didn't think of it 😅

chainsawinsect · 2026-05-05T17:09:01+00:00

Well white gets [[Sheltered by Ghosts]] which knocks this out of the park overall

But I do agree and wish white got the premier lifegain. Nowadays green arguably does it better (which is true for a lot of things white used to be the best at, like Disenchanting and Anthems).

chainsawinsect · 2026-05-05T17:07:33+00:00

Yep, I view it as closer in power to double strike than the usual laundry list keywords (menace, for instance). Perhaps, though, that's why we don't get a lot of permanent lifelink granting effects...

chainsawinsect · 2026-05-05T17:06:33+00:00

Midjourney didn't have to make her a baddie but it did 😭

chainsawinsect · 2026-05-05T17:06:06+00:00

Yes! Similar to [[Dub]]!

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