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    General CBS

    Overwhelming Splendor One with the Multiverse Granted, I also play show and tell and starfield of nyx, so there's a "big enchantments" theme going on that makes it a little more tolerable for me to run 8 drops
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    General Fight Club

    If you make the best interaction in your environment counterspells, Chronicler is quite good against those!
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    Inscho's Graveyard Combo Cube

    just popping in to ask, do you enforce graveyard order mattering for phyrexian furnace? that feels like such a headache to track for one version of a relic/soul-guide effect!
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    The Treasures and Trinkets cube (tnt)

    First off, thank you for showing me that Lethal Scheme exists. I completely missed it and it's the easiest slam dunk into my cube in a very long time. We seem to have very similar tastes, up to and including the first iteration of my 450 cube having 8 copies of ash barrens! Will be watching your...
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    General (CLB) Magic: The Gathering: Commander Legends: Dungeons and Dragons: Battle for Baldur's Gate Previews. Even the NAME is long this time!

    It's odd, because there's also Jon Irenicus, Shattered One from this set which is EXACTLY how I'd love to see commander-specific cards designed, and the first one to make me want to play the format in a long while. Several different avenues to take with how you build it, and makes you plumb...
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    General Weekly Fun Q: What is your most expensive card?

    A foil one of these, I think? Queen Marchesa
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    Sets (NEO) Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty Previews

    god damn this set is gonna make me wanna put ninjas and blue tempo/aggro back in i already run yuriko as a pet card / weird reanimator payoff, gonna be tricky to find the space tho!
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    sam's 450: the second coming

    wow this is awesome feedback! thank you much for the deep dive! you've correctly identified a lot of outliers here, some of which I'd had the blind eye problem with. the varied quality of fixing is a remnant from when I both had a substantially lower power level, and some archetypes that are no...
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    sam's 450: the second coming

    made the cut to 3 of each guild slot last night at 5 AM, as well as a few misc others in previous days. seeing how i feel about it now out: bruenor battlehammer hydroid krasis find // finality saheeli, sublime artificer lingering souls knight of autumn phylath, world sculptor kroxa, titan of...
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    Erik's "The cool side of Magic" cube

    i have tried so, so much to finagle a storm archetype that feels like storm without having a bunch of cards that are useless in other decks, and it is oddly cathartic to watch someone at a similar power level go through the same process. i think we got similar results, those being that it's...
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    sam's 450: the second coming

    i actually have a clause for Asmo and GPG where if a card mentions another by name, you get them both when you draft it! I never really liked the tension of having to pray for both pieces to make a card functional if it was an effect i wanted, so i figured the mental overhead's decently...
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    sam's 450: the second coming

    doing some general housekeeping: out: cast down floodhound nantuko husk icingdeath, frost tyrant staggershock jadelight ranger removing a smidge of removal density, and taking out some odds and ends that didn't really serve a purpose like Icingdeath. i'll miss jadelight, but she's kinda...
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    Nanonox's 1vs1 cube

    looks very similar to my white aggro section! i love having the artifacts to glue together multiple colors of aggro decks. i've found that Dancing Sword performs much better than it looks, and is particularly nice to sacrifice the equipped guy to Ravager if you need to flip into some evasion to...
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    sam's 450: the second coming

    hello all, i'm back after a big irl magic hiatus!! i'm back to updating my cube semi-regularly now and i've been lurking the whole time i've been gone. here's the list i'm working with at the moment, and i'd love to hear some feedback and suggestions on what i'm trying to get going here...
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    Card/Deck Single Card Spotlight

    Field of the Dead Is this card cubable without a utility land draft? I run 46 nonbasic lands in my cube of 450. It seems like a really sweet build around and I've loved the decks in standard that play it.
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