Mark! My birthday was yesterday, and I hereby invoke the right of birthday trivia. Could you please tell me something about one of my pet favorite Un-cards, Toy Boat?

That card came about because I liked the idea of a cumulative upkeep effect that made you say the name of the card and it was a tongue twister. I then wrote down all the tongue twisters I could think of and Toy Boat was the winner.Happy Birthday!

The reason I specified Toy Boat was to say that it was silver-bordered. As such, it is possible to deal only half a point of damage at a time.

You cannot assign half damage unless a creature has half power and then only a single half can be assigned.

The way to make any card, silver border or otherwise, cube playable, is to make it powerful enough to draft. Blast from the past and Booster tutor are particularly sweet ones. And while there exists a large varieties of cubes, players tend to build powerful ones, so as funny as toy boat is, I would never include it in my cube.

Do people include Incoming! or Richard Garfield PhD? Those are both very powerful.

Ha, to clarify, I really do like the concept of the Un-sets, I was just saying that anecdotally, I think the cards themselves really shine alongside regular magic, and make for a confusing/diluted play experience when everything is a Cheatyface or Toy Boat or something. I'm sure you guys will figure out the third Un-set when the time is right. :)

We always advised players to mix in Un-cards with normal cards. The metaphor I used is that the Un-cards are like icing. They go better with cake rather than a bowl of icing. (Now I will get letters from the icing lovers that eat their icing in a bowl.)