Recent content by MilesOfficial

That was also true of Doctor Who and Final Fantasy (and 40k from what I've heard), but I think they found a reasonable balance regardless. That said...there are 97 creatures in Final Fantasy retail. To just do the main casts in Trek you'd need: TOS 7 TNG 11 DS9 12 (including Rom, Garak...

This is a case where, when you play them, you clearly explain what the card does to newer players and it's (mostly) fine. I mean, I do this for all lands anyways for anyone who's not a regular competitive player.

Some new and old hotness: Survey Mechan Rydia, Summoner of Mist Zell Dincht Trenchpost Rampant Frogantua Sand Scout Ruination Uncontrolled Infestation Skyshroud War Beast Mana Vortex Land Equilibrium Hallowed Ground Conquer Rydia, Summoner of Mist is great for almost any Cube, but that...

My bigger issue is that there will "only" be 160 additional Standard cards next year, even with this 7th set. Between that and what Blake said about "playing with set sizes", it implies that at least one more of the UB sets will be smaller as well. I get the feeling it will be Star Trek, which...

I keep forgetting I have this thread and feel it would make a pretty good diary. I made a surprisingly big change to my Cube this morning -- 21 cards! A lot of it was de-Spider-Man-ing my Cube from a slightly overzealous update a few days ago hot on the heels of several competitive events in...

I have been running her and, though limited in reps, I've really liked her so far, both in paper and in practice drafts/games. The Warp ability works great with UK too! I realized why I'd got this slightly wrong -- I had been looking at Sealed because of the qualifier last weekend, where it's...

Oh, I completely agree. They just have a bad habit of very rarely printing reminder text for them. Like I said, mechanically I get why they exist, think it's a good knob for R&D, and definitely prefer it to the Serra Paragon approach, but just like keyword tokens, it's not the most elegant...

this is even worse than Spider-Man for me, ugh the worst part is how much I like the designs Michelangelo, the Heart Michelangelo, the Heart Compares reasonably to Scythecat Cub in terms of how much it accelerates your team, but doing it post-combat makes it not feel quite so oppressive. I...

I've been playing this set still and I'm now trying to figure out if I'm crazy for considering this card: Spider-UK Spider-UK is very possibly the best uncommon in retail limited this decade. But can it be good in a Cube environment that's not all about web-slinging? I think yes. Do I want...

I'm currently re-testing Heliod, Sun-Crowned for minor life gain synergies and as novel midrange dude; white has more pips than other colors, and so I think the . I initially took it out shortly after release as I realized it would make players think its only purpose was for combo, and I was...

I've gotten one game away from getting an invite from the last two weekends of RCQs with Spider-Man sealed. It's fine! It's actually a lot of fun. Drafting it like normal (8-man pods) makes it less miserable. It's comparable to Strixhaven and New Capenna in that there are only 5 archetypes and...

Yeah, that's fair. I have too many lands that get got by it to feel good about putting Stifle back in, especially when I took out so much LD.

I've been a big fan of these: Tale's End Louisoix's Sacrifice Spider-Sense And have been rotating them all in and out of my Cube. Right now I'm on Louisoix's Sacrifice, since hitting all non-creature spells is really important (I've got 92 artifacts and enchantments out of 720 cards that...

Great analysis, Ravnic. I think you're on the right track here, but I wanted to take a moment to address this: It's still probably correct, since Mark said there'd be 5 supported typal archetypes IIRC. But I am holding on to some (unsubstantiated) hope that it's giants or "go big" instead as...

I got 3rd place in a Spider-Man limited RCQ. Top 8 was a full 8-person draft and it was...wonky. Half of us were in three-color decks because it was very hard to do enemy colored combinations and there weren't enough straight 2-color decks available at most seats. That said, I was able to pull...