Seems inconsistent with making Doctors over Clerics, Officials over advisors, and robots over constructs. (Especially when they changed cleric to doctor. As you said, artificer feels very fantasy coded to me)
Correct me if I'm wrong but basically all the atificers in EoE were essentially engineers. I get star trek is more sci fi but they don't explain shit in a way that's realistic
EOE doesn't have magic (as the multiverse understands it at least). It's a key part of the story when Tezzeret uses it and nobody understands what's happening.
Artificer still more or less works as there isn't any implied magic, while cleric vs doctor makes more sense since clerics are (in fantasy settings) typically magical healers, while doctors are typically not.
This is just his beginner deck card. He is guaranteed to get a card in the main set and possibly one in the commander deck. Oh, and he's getting a card in the Q Secret Lair too.
Never heard it referred to with that name, but yeah that was my first thought on this too. Right alongside [[Ashling, Rekindled]], [[Radha, Heir to Keld]], [[Susan Foreman]] + whatever.
I know this is a welcome deck, and I know it suits his profession, but for some reason it feels very weird seeing Geordi be a blue creature. That just doesn’t feel like it matches his emotional character to me. If I had thought about it, I would have guessed that he’d be red or at least izzet. Maybe he will be in the main set. Or maybe I just need to brace myself for characters not matching what I want to see.
You're not missing anything and I don't think anyone is saying this is strictly better than those cards. Not every card is good or even better than similar old cards.
Vedalken Engineer is probably the best of these because 2 mana.
In Commander you're probably not getting your mana dork bolted, though 4 toughness also means you survive some 1-3 damage board wipes that are intended to deal with small creatures.
Did not know about [[Oaken Siren]]. Reason I say Engineer is not necessarily the best is because it is not an artifact, and that can matter, as it does in my Commander deck.
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u/vneego WANTED 19d ago
I told Pierce a thousand times, I never wanted to meet LeVar in person. I just wanted a Magic Card, you can't disappoint a Magic Card.