General Forum Gems: the best buried bits and blurbs

[Ferritovore]

Please link to useful posts that are lost somewhere inside a bigger thread!

HIDDEN Gems! (things buried in CBS, GBS, an individual's cube list, or other unexpected places)

• "Why you should include manlands" by ahadabadahadabadabahadabans
• "Why you can't ever put Wurmcoil Engine in any cube, ever, forever" by everyone
• "What is aggro-control" by Eric Chan (Mr. Parlante has a longer version of this somewhere I think)
• "Oops, don't actually cube Pridemate" by Jason Wadel. This is an important bit for novice cubers to read if, like me, you got a little high off the fumes from JW's CFB article.
• Several reasons that you should put Brainstorm in your cube: 1, 2, 3 by Laz, Mgr. Parlante, & Safra (but they're hardly the only ones who've sung its praises)

Quality posts! (notable good info that could stand to be highlighted even if it's not "hidden")

• "Why Mulch sucks unless you have 'value' recursion" by Sr. Parlante, also he and Japahn talk a bit about "why you want your graveyard cards to be working towards the same purpose", the whole Minor Graveyard thread is great really so just read through it.
• "Breaking Singleton" by everyone
• "Decks that want very few creatures" by a few people

Card/Archetype primers

• Wildfire by ChrisT

 

[shamizy]

"Breaking Singleton" by everyone

 

[Ferritovore]

Updated with "Strike that, reverse it!" aka "We are not at war with eurasia" aka "don't actually cube Pridemate" by Jason Waddel

 

[Lucre]

I think I would need a team of experts to help me sort my good posts from the dross and even then they would probably require editing for tone.
It does make me feel a little better that I occasionally get likes on old ones, I guess I need to stop behaving in such a way that fills me with shyness weeks later.

 

[ahadabans]

Man, if I knew you were going to link my post I would have done a much better job writing it.

 

[Jason Waddell]

Updated with "Strike that, reverse it!" aka "We are not at war with eurasia" aka "don't actually cube Pridemate" by Jason Waddel

Ferret just HuffPosted me. Him linking my content got three times as many likes as the content itself.

 

[Jason Waddell]

To my knowledge this is the most liked post on the forums:
http://riptidelab.com/forum/threads/balduvian-trading-post-s.917/#post-43154

 

[Ferritovore]

I think I would need a team of experts to help me sort my good posts from the dross and even then they would probably require editing for tone.
It does make me feel a little better that I occasionally get likes on old ones, I guess I need to stop behaving in such a way that fills me with shyness weeks later.

Can you help me find the post where you talk about the difference between green cards that want lands in the yard, and green cards that want creatures in the yard? You were saying something about how your cube has to pick one or the other, something like that? I can't find it.

Updating OP with several reasons you should have Brainstorm in your cube: 1, 2, 3

Man, if I knew you were going to link my post I would have done a much better job writing it.

There's always the Edit button to make one seem coherent, wise, or even prescient!

 

[Grillo_Parlante]

Can you help me find the post where you talk about the difference between green cards that want lands in the yard, and green cards that want creatures in the yard? You were saying something about how your cube has to pick one or the other, something like that? I can't find it.

That was actually japhan and I, here and here.

 

[Kirblinx]

For people who don't check out the general discussion forum too often, I have just posted the most liked comments on Riptide Lab in 2015.

You know you want to check it out, since everyone loves a good shit-post (there are a lot of them on the list).

Here it is. Enjoy.