Recent content by MilesOfficial

I think that's smart. Most of the cards I listed have left my Cube and even fell out of my on-deck binder, so I didn't think they'd be hits, but they're interesting as a thought experiment, if nothing else. I think Benthic Biomancer and Ingenious Prodigy are reasonably fine, but blue tends to be...

Piper Wright, Publick Reporter Danny Pink Benthic Biomancer Chasm Skulker Ingenious Prodigy Spark Double O'aka, Traveling Merchant Thrummingbird Wave Goodbye Tezzeret's Gambit Ripples of Potential Piper Wright, Publick Reporter is on the weaker side of my Cube for sure, but it's proved much...

Like I said, if I cut this whole set from my Cube, it'd hardly be a bother. But I will acknowledge there are plenty of interesting cards to talk about! Huh, for whatever reason I thought Questing Druid was identical text to Reckless Impulse like Wrenn's Resolve is. I think I like Questing...

Day: 029 Set: Crimson Vow (VOW) Release Date: November 19, 2021 Cards: 277 Design & Development: Mark Rosewater (Vision Lead), Adam Prosak and Erik Lauer (Set Design Co-Leads) Art Direction: Taylor Ingvarsson All New Cards, Sorted by ELO: Link Pretty unimpressive set! Again, goes to show the...

If you're punishing your opponents for drawing cards like with these: Scrawling Crawler Hullbreacher Sheoldred, the Apocalypse Orcish Bowmasters Spiteful Visions Underworld Dreams Fate Unraveler ...but really it feels more multiplayer-focused. I used to run it in 2011-2012ish, but it's not...

Day: 028 Set: Magic 2013 (M13) Release Date: June 3, 2005 Cards: 249 (~100 new) Design & Development: Doug Beyer (Design Lead), Zac Hill (Development Lead) Art Direction: Jeremy Jarvis All New Cards, Sorted by ELO: Link I don't have much to say about this set. This came out when I was playing...

Staff of Eden, Vault's Key Search for Survivors Shaman's Trance Even more from AssCreed, apologies! Shaman's Trance doesn't quite do what you want but I wanted to share it anyways.

I really feel like I should be on Picklock Prankster. Every time I read that card I feel like it's so close, but then I look at my other 2-drops and feel it's too hard to pick it over any of the repeating card advantage engines they theoretically represent. Same with Spellstutter Sprite, to be...

Day: 027 Set: Saviors of Kamigawa (SOK) Release Date: June 3, 2005 Cards: 165 Design & Development: Brian Tinsman (Design Lead), Randy Buehler (Development Lead) Art Direction: Jeremy Cranford All New Cards, Sorted by ELO: Link The Kamigawa block got glazed on Blogatog for too many years and so...

I'm fine spending $50-$100 on a new set for singles (a little more in this case, since we also have Jumpstart), and then I try to trade for the rest, but getting time to trade at a store is always getting harder for me. I really gotta just bite the bullet and spend a few hours sorting things to...

I just took it off my list after I was getting my pre-orders set and saw the price. I'll probably pick one up when it inevitably comes down, but it's a more marginal upgrade from Diviner of Mist than merits $15 at this time, especially without an in-person draft planned for the next two weeks...

So I run more 2-drop mana generators than I'd like in Green. It's very important to me that green has a lot of ramp, because I try to limit artifact ramp, especially colored ramp, to maintain green's identity/role for fixing and big mana. I used to run very few 2MV dorks, because I wanted most...

I think Izzet is happy to have this "overly-supported", even in a tighter Cube. It's really a key focus of both of those colors, so I guess it's hard to feel bad about cards that instruct your drafters to make sensible decks, and that play out in a fun way. Stormchaser's Talent is different...

Had a great time at the pre-release yesterday. Got extremely lucky with pulls, and that's not considering the extra black-theme booster that I decided not to use since it'd give me an additional unfair advantage (besides my charm and good looks, that is). My top Cube card from the main set was...

I've recently seen some very new Cubers put Ringing Strike Mastery alongside what would otherwise be considered Vintage-level removal, and I've come to think of them as very savvy. It's not too far off from Swift Reconfiguration besides the flash, which is a pretty big difference, sure, but...