Recent content by Karshtakavaar

Antiquities on the Loose Recently picked one up, realised it would probably have legs in my list due to the abundance of Spirits and Spirit tokens, but would like to more consistently get the counters off the first cast. Other than like, Containment Construct or cascade/discover, are there any...

I have been trying since I finished the list for Red Deck Wins. I genuinely think a mono-U microcube can make manifesting this guy a legit gameplan.

Just remembered I need to sing the praises of Sentinel Tower. Everyone and their mother knows Aetherflux Reservoir is a less parasitic way to support Storm than a Grapeshot, but did you know what Sentinel Tower can do to save a failed tempo, sligh, or Heroic/Prowess draft? Sure it's an extra...

Entirely agree with everything you said about both of those cards, and it's exactly what I mean with the Marie Kondo approach to cuts. On the Storm front, can recommend Sentinel Tower too - It works to stabilize the board while you draw and recur your way towards a big Storm turn then also wins...

Primal Might is like green's Fireball, except in exchange for not having to have a red source to go with all your mana dorks and ramp you get to spend half the mana. I personally like Become Immense, Might of the Masses, or Primal Bellow for pure "get swole, end game" pump spells, and Tail...

Seconding Overcharged Amalgam, that card is actual gas - recently got cut from my Ana grid cube for being too good. Similarly, Profaner of the Dead and Silumgar Sorcerer. From the same cube, Lazotep Plating would cement an existing splash, Rise from the Tides would be a safety pick if I was...

Cursed Mirror is for Ux and Wx combo decks. I assume Miles is talking about having a red section that rewards red-focused archetypes, or other colours reward "red"-based decks, rather than a red section that rewards other colours. Edit for clarity: Cursed Mirror also works just fine in Rx decks...

Now I'm trying to think of cards that grant alternate costs rather than having them, but I'm drawing a blank on appropriate ones for this list. It could be a cool way to let any card have an additional "Weaker when you don't have fixing" mode. Sadly, so many are post-FIRE designs that are just...

The only disagreement I have with Miles here is that Therapy is obviously the perfect Magic card. On a serious note, I do think I would sooner run Therapy in low power than Thoughtsieze but that's probably just my synergy-pilled brain not letting me want things that are just good at their job...

Is it weird that of all the cards you listed I only like Dust Elemental? Like, it says something about the cube it's in, in a way none of the others do. You can absolutely just bounce some bodies to get a big nasty threat into play, but like, mid draft I see it in a pack and I start thinking...

Would an 'Offering' creature fill the void left by Drownyard Behemoth in a satisfying way? Obviously only Patron of the Akki or Blast-Furnace Hellkite would be castable with the alternate cost (Unless there's a changeling in the list that I've missed), and they're both pretty strong in the...

Unctus does so, so much. Fair warning, he's no longer in my list because the 4 toughness was just a bridge too far at the time, but all of his text is super relevant stuff. Before I restructured my list, I used him to support the following: Ux with Grand Architect/Chief Engineer - Most of my...

Love the redefinitions of engine and bridge - It feels like "Engine" has been broadening in definition for as long as I've been playing, going from "a set of cards that together generates value" in normal parlance to "any card with a triggered ability", which has just made talking high-level...

I'm a massive proponent of Fatestitcher, especially with High Tide or twiddlestorm-adjacent cards around, so I'm hoping the following reminder (in addition to all of the synergies you already listed) is the tiny nudge that tips you over the edge on including it: Blinking Unearth creatures lets...

I've gotta second everything Erik Twice said here. Gingerbrute plays better than it looks, and it looks great. Bomat is so, so good at getting you those last few cards you need to close a game. Rust Harvester wants you to run cards you don't want in your aggro deck to get enough easy targets...