Recent content by MusicalBen

I opened it during prerelease (a strange card, it didn't really seem to fit anywhere) and these have been my exact thoughts... What do you think of Resonance Technician?

38 clusters found after 400 drafts Many of these are repeated, which, after looking into the decks, sometimes makes sense and sometimes doesn't. The two "W Weenie" clusters, for example, roughly refer to two distinct groups of cards, a tokens build and an artifact aggro build. Yet, the two "WG...

Dimension X Pizzasaur is also the one for me. I've been trying to get a W/B counter-management theme going, with cards such as Mutated Cultist, Scholar of New Horizons, Etched Slith, Grateful Apparition, that can bridge artifacts, proliferate, enchantment-matters and bounce/blink themes. I'm...

Naturally, the rhythm of planning, designing and printing has always been at odds with the rhythm of releases and set reception. But seeing so many different legendaries of the same characters on what appears to be a small (?) set feels strangely foreboding after how Spiderman turned out...

Probably because that's what I wrote! My english-as-a-second-language skills led to to type "you must draft the copies of Necrotic Ooze and add them to your deck" which means exactly what you interpreted, instead of what I originally intended which was something along the lines of "since winning...

Me lost in a "t:creature o:":"" scryfall search sorted by descending mana value... In any case, I've given some thought to this. I'm leaning towards errata-ing Ooze to check your graveyard only. The truth is that Necrotic Ooze combos have a lot of redundancy: you need creatures that untap it...

What would a Necrotic Ooze-centered cube look like? EDIT: Perhaps like this? Taking some inspiration from the 100 Ornithopters Cube, the goal would be to curate a draft experience in which Necrotic Ooze is the main star. To which a couple of rules: you must draft the copies of Necrotic Ooze...

I mean, as a Portuguese speaker (from Portugal) and Literature teacher I just had to comment on this :D Mutual or partially mutual intelligibility has nothing to do with languages being "easier" or "more sound complete." Portuguese is the 5th most spoken language in the world, the vast majority...

Brion Stoutarm+Phytotitan

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Thank you everyone. I was still willing to believe in By Gnome Means but the hexproof counter does make it slightly uglier. Is there a sane solution? I really like the card but I hate the idea of handing the players a piece of paper and saying "so these are the counters you're allowed to use."

By Gnome Means Is this absolutely unreasonable with the new Ikoria counters? It's already kind of unreasonable with +2/+2 counters, etc... And I suppose you could always make a list of allowed keywords or go by what the cards in your cube refer to. Has anyone tried it?

This is a great and - hoping I don't sound too dramatic - urgent thought. It slots itself into the timeless (recurring) discussion around the value of Serendipity, which we seem to always forget and then rediscover. In the Humanities I'm watching it happen right now, as people realise naively...

I also dislike that, so I'll share my Gallia custom : )

Thanks everyone, those are great suggestions and seeing all of the cards together made realise how wide you can go with this "theme" and how well it already plays into some other strategies I had planned. And I can't believe I had missed Intruder Alarm. Stonybrook Schoolmaster is really cool...