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AliasBot @aliasbot.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

An empowered Jace token for an Ugin (dealer’s choice of which)

AliasBot @aliasbot.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

“Repeatedly spin the wheel” is also a very Red play pattern: it’s the first color I’d expect for this design, mechanically. (Given the randomness of the output being an answer to the repetition of play issues tied to having a nonpermanent in the CZ, I could see this being text first, flavor second.)

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AliasBot @aliasbot.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

They 100% *should* have, but no, they're not going to. Was a decision made ahead of Lorwyn Eclipsed (i.e. the first meaningful influx of new kithkin cards in 15 years), and they decided to keep them separate.

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AliasBot @aliasbot.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Not anywhere official, as far as I can tell, which does bite. I just thought this was a general summary thread, so wanted to mention the notable one that got left off.

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AliasBot @aliasbot.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Also Prodigy! Animated kids show, following an eclectic group of adolescent aliens that find a crashed prototype ship outside of federation space. Follows up on some of the voyager cast the way PIC did w/ the TNG cast. (Dunno overall fandom reception, though it only got 2 seasons. I quite liked it.)

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AliasBot @aliasbot.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

The fun thing about this one is it batched a class type they'd stopped using by this point (Barbarian, which did not return again until 15 years after Coldsnap) with the two types that collectively replaced it (Warrior and Berserker).

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AliasBot @aliasbot.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Best as in strongest: somehow, still the original Wildspeaker (no story presence *and* no good cards, a true double threat) Best as in personal favorite: Relentless (first DFC walker, still one of the coolest designs)

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AliasBot @aliasbot.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Best as in strongest: of the Veil Best as in personal favorite: Untouched by Death

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AliasBot @aliasbot.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Best as in strongest: Nacatl Pariah (very strong case for the strongest planeswalker, period) Best as in personal favorite: Strength of the Pride

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AliasBot @aliasbot.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Best as in strongest: Mind Sculptor Best as in personal favorite: Vryn's Prodigy

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AliasBot @aliasbot.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Best as in strongest: Torch of Defiance Best as in personal favorite: ...also Torch of Defiance Honorable mentions to Dressed to Kill (both categories) and Hope's Beacon (personal favorite)

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AliasBot @aliasbot.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

They announced (tentative) dates for all seven 2026 ban windows back in November - in absence of an announcement we can probably assume those dates will stand. Next window would be March 23rd.

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AliasBot @aliasbot.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

A creature card that went from one type to four got a recent printing with all of the errata updates, so it's not entirely off the table.

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AliasBot @aliasbot.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

The book takes place a year prior to the set (presumably Lorwyn Eclipsed into Secrets of Strixhaven are pretty close to back-to-back), and these four are first-years, so they wouldn't have enrolled yet.

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AliasBot @aliasbot.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

You're replying to a comment about the Yankees being treated as a power based on past success that doesn't reflect how they've performed since, citing titles from that past success isn't a counterargument. NYY has won 1 title in the last 20 years (in 2009), they haven't been a power for a while.

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AliasBot @aliasbot.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

it made its own mixtape (Legion's iri add-on), so...maybe yes to both?

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AliasBot @aliasbot.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Foundations had Stab, which is a functional reprint of Disfigure.

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AliasBot @aliasbot.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Then you want his brother Jeremy's uniform.

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AliasBot @aliasbot.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Near as I can see from a scryfall search (I also don't play MTGO), Doctor Who seems to be the only non-Secret Lair UniBey product without its mechanically-unique cards on MTGO.

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AliasBot @aliasbot.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Cutter, Rage, Abuelo's Awakening, one of Heartfire/Manifold. Maybe Beanstalk and Hopeless Nightmare, depending on how aggressive you want to be about potential second-order issues and/or general rotation of overstayed archetypes. Hit the most brutally fast decks to allow more room for meta churn.

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AliasBot @aliasbot.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Ahh, Oko, right. Sorry, Kellan.

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AliasBot @aliasbot.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Two, off the top of my head: Teferi (Niambi) and Urza (Harbin). Angrath is a dad, but neither of his daughters have cards (yet). I guess depending on how you count Ugin's relationship with Tarkir's dragonstorms, he's kind of the dad of at least the dragonlords, but that's fuzzier.

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AliasBot @aliasbot.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

This one's been done! Just under his actual Phyrexian name rather than his sleeper agent cover name:

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AliasBot @aliasbot.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Most of the names I'd bring up have already been mentioned (Hekara, Tacenda, Leshrac, Rat, the Unluckiest, Shadowblayde, Ms Highwater...), so I'll spotlight Spindlewright, the first leader of the Beasties: Keep Them Alive was a lovely little tale that merits recognition, and he was its center.

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AliasBot @aliasbot.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

oh, also the four uncarded paruns

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AliasBot @aliasbot.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Top 5: Spindlewright, Tacenda, Leshrac, Shadowblayde, the Unluckiest. Honorable mentions: everyone from Like No Other Beast, Hekara, Rat, all of the missing Nine Titans (especially Taysir and Bo Levar), Royse, Ms Highwater, Kallist, Grete, Sifa Grent, Isabough.

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AliasBot @aliasbot.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

MEM wouldn't have been involved in the tiebreaker: they finished 48-34 (w/ a win in their last game), the other 3 would have all finished 49-33. It was the Nuggets that could've caused a 4-way tie (with the result of MIN 4, LAC 5, GSW 6, DEN 7, as far as I can tell).

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AliasBot @aliasbot.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

I'm just saying not to mistake correlation with causation. That's the window where things would be happening regardless of which set happens to precede it.

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AliasBot @aliasbot.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Technically correct, in that the first ban window after FIN releases is the right-before-rotation window where they've said they'll "consider more nuanced changes"; but it'll be bc of rotation, not bc FIN in particular isn't hacking it. (SPM/TLA won't get special treatment distinct from EOE/Lorwyn.)

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AliasBot @aliasbot.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Also, the 4 Mono-Red players that lost, lost to the mirror. The deck went 10-0 against everyone else.

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AliasBot @aliasbot.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Did it in my head rather than typing it out, so not gonna retroactively post it out here, but I made it back to Lorwyn. Would've been Invasion (was proud of myself for getting the Otaria sets right, those are a morass for me), but I guessed wrong which blocks Coldsnap was between.

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AliasBot @aliasbot.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

let it wash over you like the ar-kansas river

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AliasBot @aliasbot.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

how else are you gonna template a split spell/permanent where you can cast either half from hand? (also adventures have the "looks like pages of a book" stylization, omens don't.)

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AliasBot @aliasbot.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Spree was a mechanic they thought they'd likely want to reuse in other contexts, so it wanted a more generic name that could support that. SYE was understood to be a pretty narrow mechanic that one set would mostly exhaust the effective space of, so it didn't need to be re-adaptable.

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AliasBot @aliasbot.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Scars of Mirrodin block is definitely the first (as other replies said, was originally going to be a Reveal than NP *used* to be Mirrodin). For the second, best guess is Theros? Was supposed to start prehistoric and have big time jumps w/ each following set, but don't remember the planned endpoint.

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AliasBot @aliasbot.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Vampire -> Pirate -> Dinosaur -> Merfolk, I think? I remember it started as vampires vs (what would become) the sun empire, then added a 3rd faction, and at some point dinos were added as their own faction before being folded into the sun empire (prompting a new 4th), but the exact order escapes me.

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AliasBot @aliasbot.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

that man has tremendous weasel energy

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AliasBot @aliasbot.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Archery, Baseball, and iirc Cricket - Throne of Eldraine, Theros Beyond Death, and Ikoria, respectively.

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AliasBot @aliasbot.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

(one scryfall search later) nope, Zombie Master was Alpha, Zephyr Falcon was Legends. (and various other Z cards also predate Zebra Unicorn, but they still postdate every other letter I can think of,.)

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