Recent content by Humpty_Dumpty

With small cubes I find it easier to get in the mindset that it’s finished, and a new idea can lead to a new mini cube. I have a 360 old border cube, but don’t include cards printed after Onslaught block. I also have an Avatar the Last Airbender 180 cube. My son loves the show so we draft from...

You may already have thought of this, but split cards have the combined mana value of both halves.

I don’t know what OC means in this context but agree with your overall sentiment. Maybe if WotC design ugly cards for the in-universe poster boy we’ll be more receptive to well designed universes beyond cards.

Maybe something like Chief of the Foundry to create a token and buff it. I would also see it as a more of a combo card, as you need something to break the symmetry having spent a card and two mana to put it into play. It is delightfully open-ended in terms of its synergy potential, though...

Vigilance is currently secondary in blue, and has been since at least 2021 based on this article by Mark Rosewater: The article linked above is updated from this one written in 2017. Back then vigilance was secondary only in green. "Untaps itself" was primary in blue. I'm sure I've heard Mark...

This has the cleanest, most perfect set symbol we have had in years. I don’t mind Star Trek, though my wife likes it and I like watching it with her. I don’t think this will be enough to persuade her to play Magic. My initial feeling about this set is similar to Avatar: an IP to which I am...

Firestorm can be a quite unfair card in a cube/deck built to take advantage of it and a board state that allows it to shine. It does, however, require a bit of work to make it good, and unless you’re taking advantage of the discard it will always be card disadvantage. I like it a lot but I think...

I had interpreted this as a magical equivalent of legal deposit, where cast spells rather than printed materials must be sent to a library. Typically these are national libraries but may be academic libraries such as the University of Cambridge or Lund University. There are only 7,220 instants...

Am I correctly interpreting this post that you have already decided not to include any of the cards?

How are people pronouncing Repartee? From content creators to LGS casuals, most seem to pronounce it as pronounce it as reh-par-tay or reparté if it were written in the French from which it originated (it is not written like that in French, it is actually written répartie). I have always...

How does a dude that buff have the same stats as a squirrel?

Wasn’t it in three of the original commander precon decks? Typical of a lot of commander cards it is overpowered in 1-v-1 and comes with a lot of rules baggage.

Interesting that the designers went back to cascade for Quandrix rather than the "fixed" discover. I'm a bit disappointed that we aren't finding out about new Faculties at Strixhaven.

How do you get this to a 4/4 with Faithless Looting? Moonshadow loses a counter for each instance of permanents going to the yard, not one counter per permanent card.

Armageddon is a combo with Boros Charm. I also recommend Enduring Renewal as a surprisingly flexible combo enabler.