Recent content by Erik Twice

I believe this is part of it. There's this trend in games, not just Magic, where a substantial chunk of players go to "do their thing", rather than play "the hard way". That is, they just slam their cards and go for it, ignoring what the opponent might do, if it's the right play or any other...

Play this, opponent can't play two removal spells so it survives. Next turn, they try to kill it. The first one fizzles, the second gets countered. The opponent flips the table.

I could run Marauding Mako to increase the number of red +1/+1 creatures but it feels way too similar to Ivora while having fewer synergies. I think you are right about Prized Amalgam, since it doesn't come back on its own it's always the "second" graveyard creature. Thanks a lot for your...

@Nanonox was right, Hardened Academic has been a great addition! It's not a card that you build around or that creates a new archetype, but it has increased deckbuilding variety just by existing. It's a support card for several, overlapping archetypes so you often take it for one theme and end...

I try to get the playtest data on Cubecobra but I get this error message. Any tips?

It does, it's any card from library to graveyard and surveil is just looking at the first and putting it on the other.

For me the main issue with Woko is that I love Gideon of the Trials and they fill a similar role. It sucks that the first ability is such a pain to track, because I agree the second one is quite cool. I also know that, objectively, that this is worse than Lurrus but it does feel brutal.

Dammit. Sure, being a 0/3 was a bit annoying sometimes, but the card needed it. I'm not too willing to run it as a 3/2, but it may be my knee-jerk reaction. We have always wanted a Gruul artifact payoff, well, we have one, perhaps two interesting ones now: Rootha, Ardent Artisan Salvaged...

I took it out of my cube because it was GRBS. It doesn't lock the game against every deck like Opposition does, but, against some, it might as well. It crushes any decks that rely on creatures yet happen to have fewer of them than the Glare of Subdual deck. I felt the fun leave the room every...

Deadwood Treefolk has a "when it enters or leaves" trigger that is too modern, but the rest of the list fits. For me, the key difference is not power, per se; it's that classic cards tend to do just one thing, even if they are useless otherwise, while modern Magic design tries to squeeze as...

I don't run Kiki-Jiki so it's not an issue. While getting a creature for no mana is good, I'm not sure a small, 0 mana creature that can only be cast if you control a token, would be broken in my cube. Almost everything I run is small or hard to get, the main exceptions are: Currency Converter...

I found a curious card: Cheer So this copies two tokens for free. Two copies is a lot, but it only copies tokens. If you copy treasures, it's two mana for a card, which is amazing. If you copy 1/1 tokens, then it's a free but situational Call the Alarm which isn't spectacular. If you copy a...

I think the appeal of Sticher is that it fills the graveyard twice. Dark Matter Manipulator doesn't do that, it just has a bit of a higher attack which it's not really what I want in the card. Out of the cards on your list, I like Lich's Relic but I'm not sure it's something one actually needs...

I already break it with Goblin Engineer but it feels...awkward. In practice, Welder only sees play in a small amount of archetypes and it needs support even in those. This means there's not a lot of competition for it and, at the same time, spending picks on it during the draft is costly. Yet...

Some random thoughts: I currently run Goblin Welder and Goblin Engineer for redundancy but the latter...isn't always good. I mean, in the right deck it's better than Welder but the deck is fragile enough as it is without having to limit yourself to 3 mana artifacts. So I wonder if I should just...