Recent content by jerichoalar

In the past it's usually been "one thread for spoilers" so people can easily avoid spoilers if they want to, then one thread for includes (which usually starts once the full card list is available on gatherer / scryfall) - I think more recently a lot of the community has indicated that they...

Scry defense does make the effect make sense, although Now I’m wondering why it’s not just “shuffle”. card is cool though, definitely testing it and surprised it wasn’t a preview card for somewhere limited focused

Not to throw fuel on “Just 2 years” fire here, but “decks, not cards” was a mantra I’d heard somewhere about cubing at least as early as (lateish) 2015 or so, around the same time parts of the community started really pushing on breaking singleton. I say this because my first non singleton...

disclaimer: random meta-design musings. onderzeeboot: I think the planeswalker version works and will do good things, and the "enchantment" version is probably more powerful than the planeswalker anyway since it has fewer downsides. (e.g. a 1BB oversold cemetery type effect that mills if it...

Can we talk about that red counterspell! I want to like it but I don't really get what the 'choose 1,2,3 at random' thing is doing here other than trying to make it feel 'more red' (Despite "make that thing you were doing actually some other thing" is perfectly in flavor for red chaos warp for...

For some reason this has me thinking about a grain storehouse, or perhaps a windmill... same idea.

Yes, the Jund Ultimatum was not getting there on power level, but even having an nearly unplayable tri-color that broke symmetry was enough to get players to notice, which was really the goal.

Power level is always a concern with repeatable effects that don't cost mana, sure. But I mostly don't like the concept, power level isn't my issue per se. They're a 'choose one per turn' effect, which would easily be concepted (and had previously been so) as enchantments or artifacts. (e.g...

It has in fact been my experience that having an unbalanced color section often improves the draft. (desipte at one point having basically a full power scapeshift jund deck in an earlier iteration of the cube, no one actually went in on an RGB deck of any type until I put in 2x jund ultimatum...

topic of reanimator: one beacon of unrest, X tutors that can fetch sorceries. (not really but I dream) I think it depends on how powerful the actual reanimator cards are, animate dead or recurring nightmare is going to be a lot more appealing to "not the reanimator deck" seats than say, rise...

I don't like planeswalkers but I like the design. The interaction between the +1 and the later reanimate is a nice push-your-luck that wouldn't be present without it being a PW. I'd have probably just tried 2BB - sorcery - morbid: costs 1 less; return target creature from your graveyard to the...

I've been tinkering with a snow-themed (more than MH1, somewhere between deserts in AKH and 'artifacts' in MIR - where all 5 colors get involved and/or as much as half the cube is snow/snow matters) mostly custom cube for awhile in the background of other stuff, and I was lowkey hoping to see...

For my main 360 cube I actually have been doing keyword management for some time (since at least 2016 or so), I try to stay at 20 or so keywords (yes, even including the gimmes like flying) and a minimum of 5 cards for a given keyword. I got basically only positive feedback on this change...

I've run Paliano and it's been fine, although honestly city of brass is probably just better in that slot (a second one). I did run an edit of garbage fire that said "any" but pulled that the first time it went 15th pick >.> I can see how they settled on single creature. These are better in...

I really want Tuia to have Flanking or Horsemanship...