Don’t worry, I plan to!

Keep on brewing ! That is how you get to sweet and competitive decks like Colorless Eldrazi ! And keep giving us the thought process behind your brews, it is extremely valuable to any brewer. Thanks man.

Unlike Flamewake, Arclight seemed like it could fit into the kinds of decks I actually like to play. I don’t mind building something less powerful than an existing strategy if I enjoy the mechanics—just look at all the time I’ve given Delver decks! I like messing around with new cards, so that was good enough for me.

Don’t know about much time, but I do proof my articles!

You got me…just teasin’ you.
At least it’s a bit less ubiquitous in the format now, which I always like when a pet card happens to be very good.

By the way, your handle on writing mechanics and economy of words, in your articles, is consistently strong—do you spend much time editing or do you usually nail those things first try?

There are a lot of cards in this set that just flat out don’t pass the sniff test for modern. You hopefully don’t need a few hours with blood operative to know that a 3/1 lifeline for 3 with a slow as molasses recursion engine on it isn’t good enough for modern.

Flamewake Phoenix is a fine comparable. Dies to same stuff as the new one, one less mana for one less power (generally one mana for one power would be considered a pretty bad exchange) a way, way easier condition to satisfy in ferocious and a red mana. We see four power creatures frequently in modern. We only see three instants or sorceries in one turn from combo decks during their combo turn.

I suppose anything can inspire you to try, but enigma drake is probably a better payoff for spells.dec than this. Notwithstanding that just looking at flamewake Phoenix – a niche one deck playable as is – could probably show you this new card isn’t going to make the cut. Barrier too high, payoff too low.

Yes, they were spoiled too late, but neither inspired me to build a deck around them regardless. What I didn’t like about Hollow is that the setup didn’t impact the board, while Phoenix’s can. Either way, my testing did come up short for Phoenix, as the article details! Good on you and others for realizing that without sinking a few hours into discovering why. I personally don’t mind doing the work on the chance I stumble upon something that works.

I would die of laughter watching someone go through all this just to get the bird surigcaled or bolted or pathed or pushed at the end of it all.

Im sure these were spoiled later than you wrote this but the uu surveil snapcaster and new rec sage are far more interesting in this format. Phoenix is about as likely to work in modern as the vraska pw is.

That’s true, one of the decks has Goyf in it!