Ixalan was more "in your face" forcing a 50/50 ratio of pirates, to a degree it was just silly, but they can get away with it by simply claiming its a fantasy world, thats its rules (which works for whatever idea you have as an excuse to do whatever you want).
Two things here:
a) arguably the most successful pirate in history was a Chinese lady, so the idea of lady pirates isn't even that weird in real life.
b) The Brazen Coalition was repeatedly described as an entire floating nation.
They have the issue of violence against women:
women winning over men is fine Triumph of Cruelty
but men winning over women is evil Triumph of Ferocity
From what I remember, the main issue with triumph of Ferocity is that it looks like actual domestic violence rather than the magical fantasy combat that normally shows up on Magic Cards, and also people who didn't know Magic's story didn't know how terrible a person Liliana is.
I've heard no-one complaining about Bedevil or Lava Coil, despite murder by imps and immolation being worse fates than getting punched in the face, and that's probably because the context is different.
As far as Enthralling Victor goes, I think they got away with it simply because shirtlessness is generally less sexualized for men than women, and there's less weird social background radiation regarding men's behaviour and appearances in general because the society we live in is still pretty biased in favour of men. Also the blushing goblin is objectively hilarious.
When you're designing anything you have to worry about human behaviour, and when designing pieces for a game you have to be careful not to make pieces that can too easily remove the fun from the game; even if it's actually the player's fault for misplaying, they'll blame you if the card you created led them to an un-fun place.
This card is near exactly what killed the original version of Landfall: less-skilled players were skipping their land drops to get a more powerful early game, then losing because they had almost no land on the board.
Played correctly, this could be a good card. Expect it not to be played correctly.
I'd second both turning it into a Legendary Creature and removing most of the non-saga text, but I'd probably make the new creature either Bant or Esper.
Flavour is more flexible than gameplay and Magic's gameplay design is based on each colour not only having strengths but having weaknesses, such as Blue not getting colour fixing or significant ramp, because both of those are Green strengths.
Reap, your cards are pretty consistently interesting ideas, but they almost never follow the standards of Magic design, which are based around the balance of strengths between each colour and the limiting effect of land cards, particularly on multicolour decks.
I think you'd be happier making your own game rather than limiting yourself within the conditions of Magic.
This is pedantic, but the proper expression is that Vannifar is Pod on legs. Being on a stick typically refers to the stick, meaning that a normally one-shot effect is now repeatable. Vannifar put an effect that started out as repeatable onto a creature, so now Pod has legs.
A land destruction deck with no real wincon, so we were just sitting across from each other for like an hour. I spent the match chatting to everyone in the store except my opponent.
If I can get a cheap Life From The Loam I'll be happy, but I'm not buying any boosters.
The Masters series always seems like it's eating it's own lunch, because they're always a potentially exciting reprint set hamstrung by high price and low printings.
Wee Dragonauts has been one of my favorite cards since I started playing with a pile of my friend's random Ravnica block cards. It's far from the most powerful creature, but the way it can be used as defensive tech with counterspells or as a giant swingy attack with a handful of Lightning Bolts makes it my favorite Izzet-colour creature for casual modern, and therefore my favorite card.
a) arguably the most successful pirate in history was a Chinese lady, so the idea of lady pirates isn't even that weird in real life.
b) The Brazen Coalition was repeatedly described as an entire floating nation.
From what I remember, the main issue with triumph of Ferocity is that it looks like actual domestic violence rather than the magical fantasy combat that normally shows up on Magic Cards, and also people who didn't know Magic's story didn't know how terrible a person Liliana is.
I've heard no-one complaining about Bedevil or Lava Coil, despite murder by imps and immolation being worse fates than getting punched in the face, and that's probably because the context is different.
As far as Enthralling Victor goes, I think they got away with it simply because shirtlessness is generally less sexualized for men than women, and there's less weird social background radiation regarding men's behaviour and appearances in general because the society we live in is still pretty biased in favour of men. Also the blushing goblin is objectively hilarious.
This card is near exactly what killed the original version of Landfall: less-skilled players were skipping their land drops to get a more powerful early game, then losing because they had almost no land on the board.
Played correctly, this could be a good card. Expect it not to be played correctly.
Reap, your cards are pretty consistently interesting ideas, but they almost never follow the standards of Magic design, which are based around the balance of strengths between each colour and the limiting effect of land cards, particularly on multicolour decks.
I think you'd be happier making your own game rather than limiting yourself within the conditions of Magic.
The Masters series always seems like it's eating it's own lunch, because they're always a potentially exciting reprint set hamstrung by high price and low printings.