The Simic is Combining Things

I’m almost willing to bet on Ravnica

Ravnica is a pretty good and well-hinted at bet! It wouldn’t surprise me. Are there any dark horses that people think could have a shot? Theros? New Phyrexia? Lorwyn? A new plane entirely?

It wrinkles my brain that Jupiter’s moon Europa has oceans that are sixty miles deep, while Earth’s oceans only reach seven miles deep at most. I’m willing to bet good money that there’s life in Europa’s oceans. Like five bucks. You hear me, NASA? I bet you five bucks that there’s life on Europa… Now that there’s money and reputation on the line, I bet they send a mission there real quick.

I have no idea when this was originally posted, but NASA is working on their Europa mission RIGHT NOW to look for alien life! But get this, they theorize that because of the depth, gravity, and composition of the oceans, any organisms that lived there would be waaay bigger than aquatic life on Earth. So far everything’s going well with regards to their Europa mission so they should have a spacecraft on its way to look for giant sea monsters in space in only a few years. (The planned date is in the early 2020s.)

So now that we can talk about it, what did people go with for the question about which card is most likely to be reprinted in standard? This is the one I felt like was the biggest thinker and was just curious about getting some more people’s opinions on it.

See this was exactly my thought process as well. It was close between Elves and Bolt, but the fact that they very recently announced that they will no longer do one mana mana elves really pushed me towards Bolt.

7 or 8. There were lots of straightforward ones that many players and designers know the answer to, but the ones that were thinkers were super tough and required some deep research to find a solid answer.

It’s not a combo it doesn’t do anything to create an easily winnable gamestate or create a non-optional loop, it’s just synergy between the cards… Now add something that actually has an impact on the opponent when a creature dies or enters the battlefield and it could become a complete combo. As it is it is just a synergy or an incomplete combo.

It actually is a 4 card combo. So if you have a Bontu's Monument and all the creatures, you sacrifice the vampire to Yahenni, which nets you a treasure. You use the treasure to cast the vampire from your graveyard, which drains your opponent for one. Rinse and repeat.

Wizards tries to fix standard...again.

YEEN COORSES THE DOUBLE DIPPERS HWHITH A HECKS

You killed it with this one.