DailyMTG - April 18, 2005 - Wayback Machine Past Invitational Winners and Cards
They also helped me to understand what made a MTG card "good" and how to iterate on existing archetypes
A hate bear (or hatebear) is a creature, usually with a very bear-ish 2/2 power and toughness, that has an outsized effect on the board in varying degrees of negativity
But this deck is a perfect distillation of Ruby's aggressiveness and Amethyst's tricky nature
It was at this point that a member of the design team pitched the idea of making this an Eldrazi Here's the art description for Spawn-Gang Commander: ***ELDRAZI FRAME*** Setting : Non-specific Color : A colorless creature Location : Rocky terrain Action : Design an ELDRAZI GOBLIN that is part of EMRAKUL'S BROOD LINEAGE
If the card Radagast, Wizard of Wilds is anything to go by, this deck might also have a more generic Wilds-matter theme, with it caring about both Beasts and Birds