胡蘿蔔蛋糕是萬智牌中無名常見和罕見的完美例子

雖然每套新萬智牌系列的稀有牌和神話牌都是劇透季中最受關注的牌，但它們並不總是整體上最好的牌。

Despite the rares and mythics of each new MTG set being the cards that garner the most attention during spoiler season, they aren’t always the best cards overall. Entire formats, Pauper especially, are carried on the back of powerful commons and uncommons. These are the unsung heroes of Magic: rarely commanding prices above a few cents, but always there to lend stability to your latest deckbuilding venture.

儘管每套新萬智牌系列的稀有卡牌和神話卡牌都是劇透季中最受關注的卡牌，但它們並不總是最好的卡牌。整個格式，尤其是貧民，都以強大的普通牌和非普通牌為基礎。這些是萬智牌的無名英雄：很少會要求價格超過幾美分，但總是能為您最新的套牌構建冒險提供穩定性。

Carrot Cake, a new common from Bloomburrow, is a perfect example of this MTG trend. It’s not a powerful card on the surface, and yet it’s seeing play in multiple formats. Not just for the excellent art, either.

胡蘿蔔蛋糕 (Carrot Cake) 是 Bloomburrow 推出的新產品，是這種 MTG 趨勢的完美例子。從表面上看，它並不是一張強大的牌，但它可以以多種形式發揮作用。不僅僅是為了優秀的藝術。

Serving Up In Standard

標準服務

First and foremost among these formats is Standard. Despite being a basic Food with a couple of Rabbits and a couple of scries, Carrot Cake is showing up in four distinct Standard decks at the time of writing. These are largely Control lists, of the Boros, Azorius, and Mono-White variety.

這些格式中首先也是最重要的是標準格式。儘管胡蘿蔔蛋糕是一種帶有幾隻兔子和幾條占卜的基本食物，但在撰寫本文時，胡蘿蔔蛋糕出現在四種不同的標準牌組中。這些主要是控制名單，包括波羅斯、俄佐立和純白品種。

Carrot Cake really doesn’t look like the kind of MTG card you’d normally see in Control. That said, the archetype is in a bit of a unique spot at present.

胡蘿蔔蛋糕看起來確實不像你通常在《控制》中看到的那種萬智牌卡牌。也就是說，該原型目前處於一個獨特的位置。

Thanks to Caretaker’s Talent, post-Bloomburrow Control decks are able to generate advantage from token producers. Cards like Urabrask’s Forge are seeing an uptick in play as a result. Instead of running a single planeswalker or big creature as a finisher, Control decks are now relying on consistent token generators like these. Carrot Cake is clearly not finisher material, but it does provide tokens and card selection early. It also pairs nicely with Fountainport for value in long games.

得益於看守者的天賦，後布隆伯羅控制牌組能夠從代幣生產者那裡獲得優勢。因此，諸如烏拉布拉斯克熔爐之類的卡牌的使用量有所增加。控制套牌現在不再使用單一鵬洛客或大型生物作為終結者，而是依賴像這樣的一致令牌產生器。胡蘿蔔蛋糕顯然不是終結材料，但它確實提供了早期的令牌和卡片選擇。它也與 Fountainport 完美搭配，在長遊戲中發揮價值。

It’s not just Control players who are having their Carrot Cake and eating it. The card is also showing up in Esper Midrange decks as well. These decks also play Caretaker’s Talent and plenty of token generators like Lunar Convocation and Gumdrop Poisoner.

不只是控制玩家在吃胡蘿蔔蛋糕。這張卡也出現在 Esper Midrange 牌組中。這些套牌還可以發揮看守者的天賦和大量代幣生成器，例如月球會議和軟糖投毒者。

Convocation supports a bit of a lifegain theme alongside Zoraline, Cosmos Caller, which Carrot Cake reinforces due to being a Food. There’s a lot of synergy here for just two mana. Two 1/1 tokens also go a lot further on their own in Midrange games than they do in Control, so the card is a slam-dunk inclusion.

集會與佐拉琳、宇宙召喚者一起支持了一點生命增益的主題，胡蘿蔔蛋糕由於是一種食物而強化了這個主題。只需兩個法力就可以產生很多協同作用。兩個 1/1 令牌在中速遊戲中的作用也比在控制遊戲中的作用要大得多，因此這張卡是一個灌籃式的包含物。

Peckish For Pauper?

窮人餓了？

A new common seeing play in Standard is hardly big news. Even if it is one that’s as flavorful as Carrot Cake. What is big news, however, is that common seeing further play in older formats. Specifically, formats where the power level, and therefore the barrier to entry, is much higher.

標準賽中新的常見玩法並不是什麼大新聞。即使它像胡蘿蔔蛋糕一樣美味。然而，大新聞是，人們普遍看到舊格式的進一步發揮。具體來說，功率等級以及進入門檻要高得多的格式。

Pauper may be a format made up entirely of commons, but it’s still an eternal format, and it’s still impressive for a card like Carrot Cake to break through there.

貧民可能是一種完全由公共組成的格式，但它仍然是一種永恆的格式，像胡蘿蔔蛋糕這樣的卡片能夠突破那裡仍然令人印象深刻。

Currently, Carrot Cake is seeing play in Synthesizer decks. Both the Boros and Mardu variants. Synthesizer as a whole is an artifacts-matter archetype named after the excellent Experimental Synthesizer, built around getting extra value out of artifact enters effects. Carrot Cake makes a ton of sense in these lists.

目前，胡蘿蔔蛋糕正在合成器牌組中出現。波羅斯和瑪爾都兩種變體。合成器作為一個整體是一個以工件為中心的原型，以優秀的實驗合成器命名，圍繞著從工件輸入效果中獲取額外價值而構建。胡蘿蔔蛋糕在這些清單中非常有意義。

The Cake itself gives you the second token and Scry as long as you sacrifice it, even if not to its own ability. This allows it to synergize beautifully with the likes of Deadly Dispute and Kuldotha Rebirth.

只要你犧牲它，蛋糕本身就會給你第二個令牌和占卜，即使不是為了它自己的能力。這使得它能夠與《致命爭端》和《庫爾多薩重生》等遊戲完美地協同作用。

Since Carrot Cake provides value when it enters, it’s also a great artifact to ‘pick up’ with either Glint Hawk or Kor Skyfisher. Basically, the card plays perfectly with every aspect of the Synthesizer game plan, so it’s no surprise to see it showing up in the deck already. As a full playset, no less.

由於胡蘿蔔蛋糕在進入時會提供價值，因此它也是可以用 Glint Hawk 或 Kor Skyfisher「撿起」的偉大神器。基本上，該卡與合成器遊戲計劃的各個方面都能完美配合，因此看到它出現在牌組中也就不足為奇了。作為一套完整的玩具套裝，也是如此。

These are early days, of course, but I wouldn’t be surprised if the card survived the testing period and became a Synthesizer mainstay. The deck has picked up a few pieces from recent sets, after all. Like Toxin Analysis and Refurbished Familiar.

當然，現在還處於早期階段，但如果卡片能夠通過測試並成為合成器的中流砥柱，我不會感到驚訝。畢竟，這套牌已經從最近的系列中挑選了一些棋子。例如毒素分析和翻新魔寵。

Keep a close eye on this crafty Cake; it may not be flashy, but it’s putting in some serious multi-format work already.

密切關注這個狡猾的蛋糕；它可能並不華麗，但它已經投入了一些嚴肅的多格式工作。