Tiny Leaders: Reborn

  Summary of Changes Underworld Breach – Remains on Watchlist Edric, Spymaster of Trest - Unbanned & Watchlisted Metalworker - Unbanned & Watchlisted Underworld Breach - Remains on Watchlist Underworld Breach remains on the watchlist. While it hasn’t made any major waves in recent events, we want to see if the results of this Fall’s SCT tournament has any influence on its future performance. Nearly half of the SCT field is on some form of combo or combo-adjacent strategy, and Breach has historically played a role in enabling those styles of decks. That said, the combos represented were diverse: Ral, Monsoon Mage - Storm 2x Rocco, Cabaretti Caterer - Food Chain Acererak, the Archlich  Light-Paws, Emperor’s Voice - Auras/Voltron Kemba, Kha Enduring - Hammer Time Saint Traft and Rem Karolus - Jeskai Ascendancy/Intruder Alarm The current Tiny Leaders meta is healthy and fun, and we want to make sure that continues. With so much change happening in the format, taking a caut...

 Foreword      This will be the first of what I hope to be many articles detailing my "beginnings" with TL:R and (mostly) Cube, and will have a lot of my own personal thoughts, impressions, ideas, spin, and, unavoidably, biases. I want to share these thoughts and feelings with you because not only will that help clarify and solidify my own opinions and direction but also hopefully ignite your own spark; a fun and relatable reminder that "bad" art is still art, and the expression and pursuit often matter more than the displayed skill or quality of the result.       I thank you for joining me on this journey, and while you are free and encouraged to depart when it suits you I hope you enjoy reading my thoughts and ramblings as much as I enjoy writing and having them. By relating these stories and lessons and experiences, it is my wish that they are not lost "As Steps and Phases End." As always, let's all have fun and play together! The Beginning (Ph...

       Greetings , friends! Today I am happy to announce the arrival of the Cube Spotlight Series on the TL:R server! This has been a longtime dream of mine, to share my love of this unique format that not only by its very nature almost requires community support, but also thrives on, enhances, and is compounded by the community around it.     Cube is both the most pure form of Magic and the least Magic-like format I have encountered yet. The near-infinite degree to which a Cube can be customized, the fathomless depth of the available card pool to draw from, the boundless creativity of the human spirit, and the expression of these to meet any of a number of varying goals means that no two Cubes are alike, and even the same Cube will play differently each time.     By hosting this recurring, bi-weekly draft series, I aim to continue strengthening our community through shared experience, providing opportunity for creative expression both in gameplay...

  Foreword Recently, the TL:R community was shaken to varying degrees by what was to most an unforeseen, unexpected, and unnecessary change to the format rules. Here I will attempt to describe the series of events that led up to the change, some of the process behind it, what the change actually means, and announce a nonfunctional update with that change . To read that announcement, scroll to " An Identity of Our Own ". Bottom Line Up Front: a nonfunction rules update will introduce the concepts of “Tiny” and <cost identity> (skip to the announcement for details). This nonfunctional (meaning has no effect on the function of the rules or the game) will define and use these concepts to help players of all skill and experience levels better understand, apply, and explain the updated rules as well as help with as-yet-unseen hurdles. Explicitly: A card’s <cost identity> is the set of each mana value among all sets of characteristics on a card; put simply, the mana co...