胡萝卜蛋糕是万智牌中无名常见和罕见的完美例子

虽然每套新万智牌系列的稀有牌和神话牌都是剧透季中最受关注的牌，但它们并不总是总体上最好的牌。

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.

尽管每套新万智牌系列的稀有卡牌和神话卡牌都是剧透季中最受关注的卡牌，但它们并不总是最好的卡牌。整个格式，尤其是贫民，都以强大的普通牌和非普通牌为基础。这些是万智牌的无名英雄：很少会要求价格超过几美分，但总是能为您最新的套牌构建冒险提供稳定性。

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.

胡萝卜蛋糕 (Carrot Cake) 是 Bloomburrow 推出的一款新产品，是这种 MTG 趋势的完美例子。从表面上看，它并不是一张强大的牌，但它可以以多种形式发挥作用。不仅仅是为了优秀的艺术。

Serving Up In Standard

标准服务

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.

这些格式中首先也是最重要的是标准格式。尽管胡萝卜蛋糕是一种带有几只兔子和几条占卜的基本食物，但在撰写本文时，胡萝卜蛋糕出现在四种不同的标准牌组中。这些主要是控制名单，包括波罗斯、俄佐立和纯白品种。

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.

胡萝卜蛋糕看起来确实不像你通常在《控制》中看到的那种万智牌卡牌。也就是说，该原型目前处于一个独特的位置。

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.

得益于看守者的天赋，后布隆伯罗控制套牌能够从代币生产者那里获得优势。因此，诸如乌拉布拉斯克熔炉之类的卡牌的使用量有所增加。控制套牌现在不再使用单个鹏洛客或大型生物作为终结者，而是依赖于像这样的一致令牌生成器。胡萝卜蛋糕显然不是终结材料，但它确实提供了早期的令牌和卡牌选择。它还与 Fountainport 完美搭配，在长游戏中发挥价值。

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.

不仅仅是控制玩家在吃胡萝卜蛋糕。这张卡也出现在 Esper Midrange 套牌中。这些套牌还可以发挥看守者的天赋和大量代币生成器，例如月球会议和软糖投毒者。

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.

集会与佐拉琳、宇宙召唤者一起支持了一点生命增益的主题，胡萝卜蛋糕由于是一种食物而强化了这一主题。只需两个法力就可以产生大量协同作用。两个 1/1 令牌在中速游戏中的作用也比在控制游戏中的作用要大得多，因此这张卡是一个灌篮式的包含物。

Peckish For Pauper?

穷人饿了？

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.

标准赛中新的常见玩法并不是什么大新闻。即使它像胡萝卜蛋糕一样美味。然而，大新闻是，人们普遍看到旧格式的进一步发挥。具体来说，功率水平以及进入门槛要高得多的格式。

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.

贫民可能是一种完全由公共组成的格式，但它仍然是一种永恒的格式，像胡萝卜蛋糕这样的卡牌能够突破那里仍然令人印象深刻。

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，胡萝卜蛋糕正在合成器套牌中出现。波罗斯和玛尔都两种变体。合成器作为一个整体是一个以工件为中心的原型，以优秀的实验合成器命名，围绕从工件输入效果中获取额外价值而构建。胡萝卜蛋糕在这些列表中非常有意义。

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.

只要你牺牲它，蛋糕本身就会给你第二个令牌和占卜，即使不是为了它自己的能力。这使得它能够与《致命争端》和《库尔多萨重生》等游戏完美地协同作用。

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.

由于胡萝卜蛋糕在进入时会提供价值，因此它也是一件可以用 Glint Hawk 或 Kor Skyfisher“捡起”的伟大神器。基本上，该卡与合成器游戏计划的各个方面都能完美配合，因此看到它出现在牌组中也就不足为奇了。作为一套完整的玩具套装，同样如此。

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.

当然，现在还处于早期阶段，但如果该卡能够通过测试并成为合成器的中流砥柱，我不会感到惊讶。毕竟，这套牌已经从最近的系列中挑选了一些棋子。比如毒素分析和翻新魔宠。

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

密切关注这个狡猾的蛋糕；它可能并不华丽，但它已经投入了一些严肃的多格式工作。