Recent content by Karshtakavaar

I run both Pia and Faldorn as 'Madness' payoffs that happen to work with the like, 3 impulse draws I also cube, and Vega with the Flashback/Retrace/Jump-Start stuff I'd also be running anyway, and honestly that's been enough at my power level. Pia has been the worst of the three because there's...

Love the 'Only basic Swamps' idea. Rather than drafting lands for off-colour mana, what about having to use the Ooze for it? Plenty of dorks, maybe even some of the mana filters like Blood Celebrant/Abzan Devotee/Gravestone Strider, or true dorks like Blightsoil Druid and DRS. As far as cards...

My bet is Simic - Strong Overbeing of Myth vibes to me, plus the colours of the celestial bodies in the background.

Cube Update! So it's been a hot minute since my last update. Something about having a baby does eat into time available to write pages of nonsense about Magic. Still, we've gotten quite a few reps in with the cube over the past... year!? (where does the time go!?). Not just drafting this with...

I have a bunch of the "choose a type, get a buff", most of the time used to help out Merfolk, Humans or Wolves, but you can totally pick Golem and have it work if the draft goes that way. There are a lot of incidental Golems. Same for Constructs, but I don't have as many of those any more.

Precursor Golem It's colourless, and it has two triggered abilities to double with the throne. I even ran this once upon a time, in a lower power version of my list with Splicers and "Construct == Golem" (For all the draft matters Constructs in Conspiracy). I absolutely 100% recommend not...

Can't make broad sweeping generalizations, don't have the data. Anecdotally the only people I know who've picked up UB stuff were already MTG players, and while I have friends who are megafans of other IPs that have gotten the UB treatment (Street Fighter, LoTR, Doctor Who and now Fallout) the...

Or do it like Foretell, pay n to exile facedown, cast for free/reduced cost when condition is met.

Can't help with the first part as I'm a novice with CC myself, but a Cube is a collection of cards used to create a custom draft environment - rather than buying booster packs for a draft, you make your own out of cards from your own collection! If you like the idea, there are plenty of...

I can't speak about global trends or the new player experience or the appeal of cracking packs "for value". The only data I have is the following: - When drafts started costing more than $20 back in 2016-ish, player numbers at my then FLGS dropped and never recovered. We filled out multiple...

Not to be a pedant, but as a native speaker, I believe in this case "which" is correct. If it was one specific danger, "that" would be correct. In the case of multiple diverse dangers, it's "which". To be fair, no one cares about that any more and "that" wouldn't cause me to bat an eye but I do...

I meant that it doesn't fit alongside Gravecrawler, Bloodsoaked Champion, Gutterbones, etc, etc as a creature you can just run into blockers and still get value from later. I did word that particularly poorly tho :P Its weaker than them sure, but has another set of avenues for additional value...

Vouching for Sarcomancy, card is great. Bargain fodder, incidental bounce/flicker target. Sure it doesn't synergise with black recursion but there are other cards in the slot that do that.

If I built this cube IRL this is what I'd do (Everyone randomly gets a crap enchantment/artifact [Or chooses from a small pack of like 3] that's their emblem, then draft the cube), but for the purposes of a cube design challenge I think having a set emblem or a small (very small) pool from...

I'd argue its pretty easy to do so when depicting Mordor, name a fictional place that better embodies black red :P