Magic: As Seen by Rabert and Spy
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The card for this week is Seeker of Skybreak. Did you know that she can untap herself as much as she wants, and that some people would do that just for the excitement factor? Those people usually refer to that as masturbation.

Weekly Update: Alexa, A Skin, and more!
By: Chris

Hello again all my readers, it’s me, Chris, here with another update on this little space here on the internet I call my own, MTGUniverse. This week, there isn’t a ton to report, and I am doing this on Saturday, thirty minutes into the day. I don’t want to have to worry about it Sunday because I’m gonna be resting as much as possible. It’s been a long week for me. On to business now…
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Context and Card Design: “Mirrodin was Not Ideal”
By Chaos

Sets and cards should not be designed in a vacuum. If you saw an amateur designer post Arcbound Ravager, for example, on a forum, would you call it broken, format defining, and worthy of meeting the banhammer? Probably not. It earned its strength because of the way Wizards pushed an environment in which it would dominate. On the other end of the spectrum, in the same format, take Shatter. While Shatter is normally a very late pick (and for good reason!) while its brother Terror is first-pickable in most cases, that order was reversed for Mirrodin- Shatter rose to the top and Terror took a plunge to the bottom. Why? Because of the environment in which they were in.
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