Recent content by Erik Twice

Blue control decks won't play the Sailor either way, but being able to hold mana open seems useful for tempo decks, too, not just control ones.

Like most people here, these are my picks: Bristy Bill, Spine Sower Sandstorm Salvager A while ago, I pushed for a +1/+1 subtheme, but I ended up cutting most of the cards. Yet, the support and some great roleplayers are still in the cube. Thanks to these new additions, the theme is better...

I bet this was nerfed during development because it gave you mana for each life you gained or whatever nonsense and they couldn't make it work.

Ok guys, what do you think of this swap? Geralf, the Fleshwright vs Chrome Host Seedshark

There have been quite a few cards that have proven absolute staples, not only in my cube, but in the cubes of most people who have tried them here. And yet, since they are all a bit unassuming, they may have gone without much notice. Here are some truly fantastic cards that fit a wide...

Gideon of the Trials is a fair, playable version of Icy Manipulator. In fact, it's one of the few planeswalkers that don't provide any card advantage but are still worth playing. It normally sees play in control decks, particularly those with Stax or Wildfire effects. It's not a creature, so it...

These two cards already create a "humans" archetype. Champion of the Parish Thalia's Liutenant You can very easily make some tweaks to have a bit more humans. It makes aggro more fun. Most notably, Thalia's Liutenant is great with blink and there are other neat synergies. I also run these...

Personally, I feel it has improved the game and allowed for more diverse designs. Most notably, you can interact with creatures more easily than you can spells. However, it comes with a catch. The combat system is not the most interesting aspect of Magic and the way Wizards pushes creatures (by...

In my experience, black is great as artifact support. It has a few interesting cards that happen to be artifacts, it provides basic tools such as removal, discard and ways to fill the graveyard but it just doesn't have any good engines or other big cards that draw you into artifacts like Goblin...

For this kind of deck, I see two variants. For Wildfire, Destructive Force and similar, Black provides cheap interaction, discard and then, on a secondary level, it does provide some redundacy: The Eldest Reborn The Meathook Massacre Gurmag Angler Death Cloud Now, if you are looking to...

Th This is a literal spoiler. Which I guess is what they were looking for but...

Ancient Tomb is better than Monolith by a wide margin. In many ways, it's a better Mox Diamond. It accelerates you, not into big spells, but into 3 drops, which is huge. Mishra's Workshop works, but it's only useful to one drafter. While it's easier to use Grim Monolith than play Reanimator or...

Grim Monolith is superstrong, but, in my cube, it's surprisingly limited. If you are not ramping the full amount, it's not really worth the card disadvantage, so you need certain targets for it to be good. This has made it a roleplayer rather than a generic goodstuff card. Don't get me wrong...

I can't believe nobody has mentioned this: Chatterstorm and Awaken the Woods I don't know how to list it. It's a test card that says: 1G Create a 1/1 green Forest Dryad Squirrel Land token. Storm