Recent content by Nanonox

Fair, but both ask you to go big. If your 5/4 doesn’t cut it anymore, clear the board and rebuild faster. Definitely not the main reason to include it, but not embarrassing either I think.

More payoffs for Slumbering Trudge Also this is a neat removal spell, with cool art. I love untapping stuff and with Jaheira, Friend of the Forest, Katilda, Dawnheart Prime, Earthcraft and the like, it can get absurd, like a weird Wilderness Reclamation. Convoke works particularly well...

Appreciate the feedback Erik! I ran some practice drafts and was surprised with what I drafted. Turns out that if you run enough card draw or mill, Greater Good (GG) can act like an Altar of Dementia, giving a whole new angle to your self-mill decks thanks to that added redundancy. First the...

I view her as a card draw engine that incidentally gains life more than anything. The turn you warp/cast her Haliya alongside any of these, you draw a card. Thraben Inspector Gilded Goose Astrologian Planisphere Marionette Apprentice Ivora, Insatiable Heir It's not too hard to trigger her if...

Was hoping to get some insight from you Miles. I am looking closely at a couple of cards and checking the forums, you seem to have tested them. Our cubes have some similarities, so figured you'd be the right person to ask. Dai Li Indoctrination Bumi's Feast Lecture I absolutely love Earthbend...

Oops! Yes Badgermole and Flickerwisp were the ones I had in mind. They do feel rather unique and open up lines normally not available to you because you wouldn't waste a deck slot on these effects. The real opportunity cost is finding a cube slot! I think my cube has enough synergies that they...

I think this a cool space, but never gave it a ton of thought myself. It did make me think of the companion cube where you companion a card you drafted and can therefore make it into a reliable build around. Not the same, but adjacent.

Can't remember if it was Dom or Erik who proposed a White cheat package consisting of Windbrisk Heights Collector's Cage I wasn't too keen on it before, but have been reconsidering it and actually coming around to it. The fact that White gets a more explosive plan is appealing and the...

Turntimber Sower vs Skittering Precursor I like both these cards a fair amount and yet I find myself consistently happy to include Sower and disappointed by Precursor. In my mind they are fairly similar, so I'm going to try and figure out what is happening here and why. First, the similarities...

White +1/+1 counters Abandoned Air Temple -> Flagstones of Trokair I tried finding another cut because I like the late game applications of Air Temple, but couldn't. Practiced Offense also means that the teamwide pump effect is still present. Flagstones is a low cost inclusion to any deck...

I hadn't considered the counterspell angle and that certainly sucks. That's where Ox of Agonas can shine to rebuild. And maybe Anje's Ravager and or Carnage Interpreter could be redundancy against having an empty hand. I had Flagstones at some point, but wanted to try some more explicit...

I feel like I'm turning around in design circles as I keep coming back to certain cards. Each time though, I think I have better justifications for including certain cards and a more robust support structure to make it shine. So back to a card I love Devastating Dreams The rate on this card is...

This has been on my mind as well because of how easy it is to naturally end up in a sort of sacrifice/gy deck. With all the recursion in both colors, token producers and recursive bodies, you usually end up in a closed loop of creature -> sacrifice -> creature instead of branching onto something...

Toph, First Metalbender Earthbending is one of my favorite mechanics because of the possibilities it opens up by turning lands into creatures. I was searching for more options for my cube and happened open this Toph, who has a weird line of text. I've never given it much thought, until now...

I wasn't necessarily thinking about power level just yet tbh, more of a web of synergies that can utilize these various oversized creatures. If I were to include a higher power level archetype it would resolve around these enablers (maybe Scroll of Fate and Fight Rigging) Rhys, the Evermore...