Booster Pack Game

{judgin'}fluffydeathbringer: I think that Progress Marches On is a pretty solid card, and I like the flavor of combining an Opt effect with the flavor of Inexorable in demonstrating progress. Inexorable was a really solid choice for the pack, it flavorfully works well, and I like the aggressive spin on flashback.

Glade’s Captivation is a solid one-sided fog, and I think that it self-combos well with Awaken, as you get a turn of immunity for your creature. Seems pretty balanced to me on both ends.

Reduce to the Mundane is a nice card, and I think it works well to get rid of artifacts in the set, but I think that destroying nonbasic lands is a little too powerful at common for 3 mana, in addition to the flexibility of the other effects.

thaneofglamis: Dwarven Developer feels a bit on the powerful end, especially as a common, as you can generally get cheap artifacts in an artifact-matters set pretty easily. The card, as well as the flavor text and name, honestly give me a more red vibe than blue, although it does work in blue. Overall, it would be a fun card for limited, I think.

Botanical Sabotage needs the wording for the second ability to be an enters the battlefield trigger, and it feels more blue than green. This also doesn’t do anything against noncreature artifacts that don’t tap for stuff, it could just be a “destroy target artifact, create a 0/1” sorcery. Finally, this is also really weak, as it’s a less flexible and worse Naturalize stapled to a Plant - something I think would be priced at 2 mana tops, maybe 1.

For Unleashed Rubblekin, I think it’s a pretty solid and balanced common, although according to Minotaur Skullcleaver the haste should be a normal part of the card rather than a part of the trigger.

quazerflame: Trembling Ground is really weak in it’s non-awaken mode, almost completely unplayable. Renegade Tactics is the same card but it draws you a card, and even then it’s bad in Limited. In it’s awaken mode, it’s an alright card to use, but if you’re going to make what’s effectively a modal card, there shouldn’t be a huge power-level difference between the modes, because you’re effectively just making a card with one mode and extra text.

Engineyard is a good common land for the set that works really well flavorfully, and I love the justification for the Elemental in the flavor text. That said, the flavor text is wayyyyy too much to put on an actual card, and I’m not sure what the best way to keep the message down in size while still keeping that justification. Overall though, it's really cool.

As for Nature’s Alliance, I really like the phrase “Whenever an Elemental creature enters the battlefield under your control or a land you control awakens”, and I think the card is very well balanced to be a payoff for Elementals.

Canyon Cracker is a pretty weird Vehicle. The red ability doesn’t feel red at all, but I really like the second, and I think it works really well for an aggressive mechanic relating to lands.

ameisenmeister: Scentless Infiltrator is a pretty strong take on Kor Castigator, and I think that it’d be fun to play with in the set. It’s not really that creative considering it’s just a Kor Castigator with different types and color, but overall fine.

Stoic Gigantoad is a pretty solid card that dissuades attacking, and I like the flavor of the card you added in the flavor text. It seems like -1/-1 might have been more fitting if you wanted to go with a theme of sickness, considering Nausea, Toxic Deluge, Mephitic Vapors, and Outbreak set that example. Overall, though, a good uncommon.

@doctorstrangelove: Restless Gorge is a really fun card to awaken with, and I think that it fits the theme and flavor of the set really well. Not sure how likely Wizards would print something like this, but it’s a fun thought.

Overall, it was close, but the winner is going to be quazerflame, who I think had some designs that did vary in quality, but the cards that were good excelled.