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Riptide Lab is famously a powermax cube forum, there are no curators here who could be interested in a card like Shuri, Wakandan Inventor, Loki, God of Mischief, Elektra, Daughter of the Hand, Shuri, the Black Panther, or the new dual land cycle that encourages playing basic lands. Regardless...

Damn I procrastinated too long so now I can no longer make my comment about how nobody was posting in this thread despite the huge card dump as an indication of UB ushering in the demise of the game. S.H.I.E.L.D. Flying Car Insanely annoying to type, but mechanically neat. Will probably cube...

What's the pick priority distribution like? Completely even?

It's a cute tool, but it relies on a relative degree of normalcy. It can draft a storm deck in my cube and it looks quite competent, because it knows that Lion's Eye Diamond and Yawgmoth's Will often appear together in the same decks. On the other hand, it doesn't have the knowledge base to...

Happy to see Sauron's Ransom that doesn't temp you, I've wanted that card since Ransom got spoiled. Edit: The split and choose roles are inverted apparently. I think that makes it worse, but I don't think it greatly influences my desire to cube with it.

For both of the Jace arts, is he inside the magic veil thing pressing against it with his hands, or is he in front of it and channeling similar-looking magic with each of his hands? Also how has this twerp been using only one glove all this time and I just now noticed. His whole outfit has...

Dress Down Bind the Monster Noggle the Mind Fog Bank

Rebound requires you to cast it from your hand.

excited to take an interlude between new york turtles and new york superheroes to explore school bullying ok I am mostly uninterested in this set on a mechanical level as none of the set themes really appeal to me, I kind of like the silverquill theme but I'd much rather just have crime. The UR...

Omnibian Firemane Angel Vulturous Zombie Wee Dragonauts Pillory of the Sleepless Loxodon Hierarch Rumbling Slum Rakdos the Defiler Bloodletter Quill Sky Hussar Entirely on an emotional level, I make no assertion about their gameplay quality. Most iffy on Rakdos, I kind of want to put Rix Maadi...

Bold assumption to have after playing a 5-mana do-nothing in a combo deck. If you have vintage cube level storm support I think either work, and you might need both. Reservoir can be played in advance, but is significantly worse if your opponent has interaction for it. You could also be...

I have two Animate Deads as a "broken" reanimation spell with underwhelming targets. It sucks how wordy it is, but it lets you do some cool things like have Mirrorshell Crab and Colossal Skyturtle as reanimation targets without the ward necessarily becoming too oppressive, because you have the...

Paramecia Coloniex Mouser Foundry I think these two cards are kind of neat. I doubt I will play anything from this set though. That said, I like Sneak, I might import it for my custom set project.

You could indicate what's on the backside by having grayed out text and/or the mdfc marker with the upgraded mana cost. Doing it at random sounds fun though.

My guess is most players are not prepared for or especially interested in deliberating on where they want the exact cost:effect of some basic game effect to be. This is a bit like adding several extra "how many lands of each color do I want?" phases to the draft. It probably doesn't help that...