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Even my hiatus couldn't stop me from drafting Unstable, and I can safely say this is the most fun I've had playing Magic in years.

Unlike the other Un-sets, which were jokeboxes with Magic attached, Unstable feels like a real, honest-to-God Magic set with clean design, clever synergy, and neat, well thought out mechanics. And it's also a wonderful jokebox, too. I mean, it gave us an acknowledgement of a 20-year-old meme in the form of Crow Storm, even giving us foil Storm Crow tokens (though real men use 7th edition foils).

One thing I adore besides the gorgeous John Avon lands is the foil tokens. Dear lord, many of those tokens are beautiful, and I've been actively trading for them. The nice thing about buying a box of this set is that you are guaranteed to get your money back in the basics alone. The fact that you get to have the great 1-2 drafts of your recent memory is icing. Delicious, hilarious icing.

Highlights from my couple of drafts:

- One of my buddies opening Spike, Tournament Grinder, after which I hand him my Cube and tell him to bring it back in one piece.

- Announcing Slaying Mantis with a wrestling intro, only for it to miss every single opposing creature.

- Swinging for exacties, only for some guy to high-five my opponent and let them both gain one life

- My opponent not realizing the interaction of hitting me with my own guy while I still retained control of the Sword of Dungeons and Dragons attached to said guy. (Granted, this happens in real Magic too.)

- Someone kept flickering a few of her creatures while she had an Augment creature that let her keep rolling dice to put +1/+1 counters on her guy. It ended up being something like a 40/41.

- Seeing someone win with the dice-rolling alternate victory card.

- Watching a guy try to stack his 9 contraption triggers optimally for three minutes.

- An opponent made a secret agreement with a couple other players before the draft even began that if one of them got a Kindslaver, each of them would play it optimally for each other if given the chance.

If you haven't gotten to draft it yet, just do it. It's an amazing experience.
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