Recent content by Alex Blanton

Are the Vivids outside consideration?

Running Titans, then underestimating them. I had forgotten just how hard it was to beat them. Also, your sevens and eights had better be able to outclass them. I avoided plenty of pitfalls by reading up first, but theory can only go so far. It can be better to make mistakes yourself to see...

Depends on how crazy a board state you'll allow. Coat of Arms can be a double-edged sword due to incidental wizards and humans spread across the battlefield. The extreme scenario is hilarious to behold and a headache to keep track of. I would make the call based on whether that scenario will...

Contagion Engine What do you think about this? Neuters Finks, Splicer, and tokens, boosts undying and anything else to do with counters. With time, it can take out the largest army, but plays politics by ignoring everyone else's board.

Rabblemaster is a quick kill in games with few creatures out, but he tends to sit back and create a bunch of morbid triggers in retail. I'm unimpressed by his midrange matchup, but he has pseudo-haste and works very well with others. Edit: I realize I just said a bunch of stuff without...

Sorry, I have work over the weekend.

doesnt mean you cant give a billion things fear and reanimate a stifle'd emrakul or what-have-you for next to no mana. Edit: Aaand someone already mentioned the fear...

My biggest problem with Candy Crush is how often I see people screwed by the RNG. I remember games like Tetris Attack and Meteos where you could at least move everything around to form combos. And combos actually have a point in those games because they're multiplayer; you're not just making an...

I always assumed he was riding charmed jars or a tamed elemental, like a Flickerwisp.

Hahaha. All the white seeded pools in my LGS were taken. I was one of only 4 people who played blue. I got the Thaumaturge I wanted, but nothing to support it or combo with it... :( I ended up switching to WB when I noticed that that part of my pool wasn't just a bunch of glorified Coral...

Anyone have sweet prerelease stories to tell? My pool was mediocre, so I don't have good stories to tell despite holding out for a 3-1 record. I did mill 15 cards with waste-of-a-rare-slot Mindreaver. He held back a small horde of green creatures (alone!) using Aspect of Gorgon, a card that...

Kiki is usually great even without the instant-kill combo element. She synergizes with practically every creature in your deck and isn't dead on an empty board. Even with three draws to one, she lands for combos too often. Just like with Twin, you can also sandbag her until you want to combo off...

I received a d30 as a present a few weeks ago, and I've been using it for die rolls as much as possible. I usually end up using 2d6 so I don't waste time searching through my sea of dice, but the novelty breaks ice with people you don't know well. If you really want to be absurd though, you...

Sorry man, I just got a job, so I can't go out of town right now. My schedule for the next month is more or less set in stone. I might be able to help you test on my off-time, though.

There may not be enough incentive to untap things, but tapping has synergy with exalted. Tradewind Rider is cubable, to start with. Did anyone give Shipwreck Singer a hard look? She seems to win almost every Theros draft game she appears in. She's probably too slow for a few of the cubes...