Ill get different ones one of these days, but they've been pretty improvised so my eyes can hold up to my lighting lol

@@HPuzzleYT understandable have a nice day

My reasoning for forgettable being worse is because at least the bad mechanic made an impact. I feel like, for better or worse, designs in games should be trying to push an idea to the best it can be (best doesn't necessarily mean it's a good mechanic) and when a mechanic is this forgettable it shows a failure of that, which to me is a shame. But I do understand that being "in the trenches" of it can give players a very different perspective versus talking about it in hindsight

And to be real it's the reason I stopped watching the video 5 mins in

Now that you mention it those are incredibly small on mobile. I'll fix that going forward!

My vision is a little wonky so I didn't notice during shooting and usually my filters cover it lol, cleaned them before the latest video and there was still stuff on them, might just need new ones

One way to use adamant I thought of would be hybrid cards that have a different effect depending on the mana spent

Welp, lorwin (hybrid payoffs) and mirrodin (sun burst) would like to have a word with you

I can understand why they moved away from that style of design, it would probably be a little wonky for complexity reasons and Adamant's a bit cleaner

Niv mizzet having Adamant implying he's trying to help everyone's needs including the guildless would be interesting

I wish they'd do more of those to be honest, I think it's a pretty interesting design space

The general idea is that with 2-3 sets on a plane you can use the first set as more of an introduction to a mechanic and then flesh it out more in the following sets. You do bring up a very fair point, though, which is that you're under the assumption that Wizards is going to print good cards, which is a real crapshoot. The lack of rares and mythics was funny to me because Addendum has 9 non-Commander cards and it got two rares and a Mythic. It really does feel like WOTC just threw Adamant in as pack filler. Honestly, why not just make more Adventure cards? It's not like Adamant was a driving force behind being low color in limited anyways. There were far better reasons to do that. Apologies, I keep adding more because I'm gathering more thoughts lol I think it comes down to if the design team is actually thinking ahead about fleshing out mechanics versus just tossing them around for the sake of it. Which sucks, because I really do think there's a good amount of design space for not just Adamant, but for other mechanics in a similar boat.

I think the reasoning is at least three fold. One, more Adamant cards means more possibilities that they can find something that works, that makes a card playable, that impacts a format, or at least somewhat incentivises playing monocolored in draft. We've seen how one really successful cars with a mechanic is often enough to make Wizards explore it more in the coming years, and Adamant needed that. Two, more Adamant cards means that players would build around it in casual formats, just because, so it would at least get some recognition. There's not nearly enough adamant card for someone to build Adamant tribal, even as a meme deck right now. Finally, having any ability in more than one set will inherently suggest the need to push the mechanic in some way. Even with blocks, there would be different design teams on each set and they would have a different style and approach. If you're designing around a mechanic that already went out in one set, you're going to try to at least think of a few ways to make your approach to the mechanic special. I think of Morph as a great example. First set was just morph, second set added abilities that triggered when morphed. Down the road with revisits, we got Megamorph and Manifest and Cloak and Disguise, which are all basically attempts to take Morph or a Morph spin off to a new level. Revisiting a mechanic almost always gives it something interesting, both in the short and long term.

I miss three block sets so much

I don’t mind two block sets

@@halfpintrr you mean two set blocks?

@ yes

Wait a minute...two mana costs, one generic and more expensive, one cheaper with more pips... Is Prototype just prototype Adamant?

It's reverse kicker

Work's that boring?

That's pretty dope. I also had this idea that some multicolored legendary creatures could have modal adamant etb's (which strongly aligns with your idea) corresponding to the colored mana funneled to cast them. Cast it using 3 of one color, get this effect; cast it using 3 of two colors, get both effects Admittedly, I came up with this idea for custom commanders that benefits from commander tax. But like H Puzzle have said in the last adamant video, this could work like it did with Bladecoil Serpent and Clay Champion. It coild be interesting to see adamant design that doesn't uses X in its casting

Devotion was so good