Rakdos Cackler

Color Design Challenge

Point of order: every colour has had at least one 2 power one drop. The blue one was Phantasmal Bear (dies when targeted). So it should be possible, at least in theory, to complete the Rakdos Cackler / Dryad Militant "cycle" - you would just need to make four bluebrid ones have drawbacks. (And having ten such creatures extant would be good for cube building options)

Monocolors having clean one-drop 2-power designs (and I would argue not every color has great designs in this space) and those things all existing in hybrid space is not the same thing.

Bear Blue Colors Creatures Cube Draft Dryad Dryad Militant Hybrid Monocolor Phantasmal Bear Rakdos (B/R) Rakdos Cackler

Guilds and Four-Color Cards

Re: 4-color design (Nephilim). Could a blend of two Ravnica guilds be conceived us as four-color design? Like a WUBR "Odd Couple" (think Tibor and Lumia) that represents a team of an Azorius arbiter and a Rakdos cackler?

Two guilds banding together is the best idea I’ve come up with to make a flavorful four-color card.

Azorius (W/U) Banding Colors Flavor Four Color Nephilim Rakdos (B/R) Rakdos Cackler Tibor and Lumia Two Color

Standard Guild Mechanics

Standard relevant guild mechanic cards: Ghor Clan Rampager (bloodrush), Firefist Striker, Frontline Medic (battalion), Rakdos Cackler (unleash), Varolz the Scar Striped (gives scavenge), Mizzium Mortars, Cyclonic Rift (Overload), Rootborn Defenses, Trostani, Selesnya's Voice (populate), Blind Obedience (extort, borderline). Evolve, Cipher and Detain have not produced standard-quality cards.

Experiment One (with evolve) has seen Standard play.

Battalion Blind Obedience Blood Bloodrush Caves Cipher Cyclonic Rift Detain Evolve Experiment One Extort Firefist Striker Frontline Medic Mechanics Mizzium Mortars Overload Populate Rakdos (B/R) Rakdos Cackler Rootborn Defenses Scavenge Selesnya (G/W) Standard Trostani, Selesnya's Voice Two Color Unleash

New Mechanics Critique

It seems like the vast majority of new mechanics lately see little to no competitive play. I am a spike and I've never seen a cipher, battalion, extort, evolve, or detain card at a tournament table. I only see the remaining RTR block mechanics on one or two cards for select deck archetypes (Rakdos Cackler; Rootborn Defenses; Mizzium Mortars). I understand new mechanics are balanced for limited play, but it feels like some also become ignored for tournament play. What's your take on this?

I believe many of those mechanics are showing up in Standard. Examples, Question Marks…

Battalion Cipher Competitive Play Detain Evolve Extort Limited Mechanics Mizzium Mortars Question Marks Rakdos (B/R) Rakdos Cackler Rootborn Defenses Spike Standard

Unleash Mechanic Thoughts

How do you feel about how Unleash turned out? I think it's a solidly designed mechanic, fits the colors, but I feel it's a little boring and I wish it worked better with Hellbent (as Scavenge/Dredge, as Evolve/Graft work together). Chaos Imps and arguably Rakdos Cackler are the only cards that change dramatically with use of the mechanic. Can we expect more like that in the future, or is Unleash over and done?

If only there was a set coming out soon that used the guild mechanics of Return to Ravnica.

Caves Chaos Imps Colors Dredge Evolve Graft Hellbent Imp Mechanics Rakdos (B/R) Rakdos Cackler Return to Ravnica Scavenge Two Color Unleash

Cute Card Appreciation

My girlfriend thinks Rakdos Cackler is the cutest magic card ever, so I want to thank you for that, and pass the thanks to the artist too :)

Will do. Interesting choice. : )

Appreciation Appreciation Art Rakdos (B/R) Rakdos Cackler

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