The MageLaughlin Group, s1e8

A better comparison might be to Extended or perhaps Historic than Vintage, at least in terms of intent of 'giving old interesting cards a shot'.

Practically speaking, the real danger is in not knowing what random cards might fall under Nostalgic qualifications. Nostalgic <1G> <Creature> can qualify for anything from Grizzly Bears to Lotus Cobra.

Nostalgic 2/1 would be a real mess too. Everything from Snapcaster Mage to Dark Confidant is now legal in your deck!

You'd need a whole team dedicated to finding what nostalgic combinations are okay, unless you all made them extremely restrictive and terrible.

In that sense, I agree it would be an excellent Silver Border mechanic though. I know I've personally found myself wishing that X or Y card was legal in <format> and have wanted to test it every now and then, but getting a playgroup to roll with that can take a bit of time or ruin the surprise. Nostalgic as a mechanic would allow the card to do the tough logistics work for anyone wanting to play their random old cards in a group.

Incidentally, I think this is the first time MaRo's actually posted example cards of this mechanic (he previously mentioned it on a Topical Blend in 2015, but not the cards themselves), so thanks for linking that.

A lot of what Mark says happens to say with the variation called "gatekeeping" also lines up with the presence of Spellshapers in the set. It seems like at some point design or development realized that the idea of nostalgic/gatekeeping was easier to work with if the card in question was explicitly defined.

Has everyone given all of their thoughts for nostalgic? I think I have.

I'd say it might actually be doable in black border, but only a few times, and only with constrictingly tight parameters, like a white 3/4 with flash, or a non-Legendary monogreen creature with deathtouch and base p&t>2, and these parameters would have to be constantly monitored each design and development cycle to make sure that nothing broken fits into them, so it might be more trouble than it's worth to do it.

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Anyway, as is tradition, we have a surprise Fifth Question, this time from foureyesisafish .  So, iiii, take it away.

That being said, what’s everybody’s thoughts on the other color’s “iconic” small, medium, and large creature types. Obviously red is goblins, minotaurs, and dragons respectively. But what about other colors?

Alright, are you guys ready for a b-b-BONUS QUESTION? Because strixhaven has thrown me a curveball.

what are you referring to?

edit: oh urza, it's companions but worse!

I like the mechanic, but I fear that some of the cards will be to powerful (remember companions). so, while I like the mechanic at face value, I am reserving judgement in the case of it being broken.

I'm not surprised they made Wishboards a keyworded mechanic. Arena Bo1 is apparently a very popular format and consequently we've been seeing an uptick in cards like Karn, The Great Creator, Vivien, Arkbow Ranger, Fae of Wishes, and Legion Angel to keep the sideboard relevant in those games. I think WoTC has recognized this is a great way to onboard people to the idea of sideboards and silver bullets. (Personally, I find sideboarding a really tough thing to do well, so I think more incentives to learn it for newer players is great.)

dangerousdice Wishboards are different than Companions for multiple reasons:

1) Companions are a guaranteed 8th card in hand. You still have to draw a Wish first to wish an appropriate card from your wishboard.
2) Historically, wishboards are limited by the power of the things they can wish, which means it becomes a deckbuilding excercise of finding the strongest silver bullets available. I think the initial Lessons shown so far indicate WoTC is being very careful about their power and general flexibility relative to mana cost.
3) On release, Companions (well, mostly Lurrus) were far too cheap for what they did. This was rectified by Companions needing an extra 3 mana to be 'drawn'. Wishes inherently cost some amount of mana themselves, and an extra card to get the wish out of the Wishboard, leading to them being 1-2 turns slower. This generally constrains Wishes to being effective only in decks that can generate lots of mana, i.e. Karn GC w/Tron in Modern and Cunning Wish in combo decks like Omni-Tell/Sneak and Show/maybe some Storm-like brews.

That all said, I'm curious to see if Professor of Symbology will help enable a Boros weenie wish deck where topdecked creatures can keep wishing you relevant cards after you've dumped your hand. Legion Angel already sees play here and there for being a finisher that's also White card advantage.

Same here. It seems they definitely learned their lesson from the last time they pulled this off.

I thought it was a good episode!
*facepalm* the episode is ending marvoni.

what do you mean it's over? you said I could join!

you need to come earlier if you want to join in. the episodes already over!

okay...