Recent content by Nemo

I agree with the design smell sentiment, and with your other posts earlier in the thread. A few times, I've played a board game and wondered if I'm having fun or if I'm just moving a lot of little cubes around. Sometimes it really is fun to move the cubes around in service of whatever type of...

We did another 4 person draft with a slightly different group and had another fun night. Let's look at some decks. All four drafters went for red, which doesn't surprise me a ton based on the people involved. Once again only one drafter went for white. Three of us did three color decks, which...

Number Crunching This cube is 231 cards, allowing it to be drafted in 11 card packs by 3, 4, or 5 people. This is carefully chosen to allow packs to only be seen twice by each player, and for each pack to have approximately 2 cards of each color. No gold cards and only 4 colors makes the 2...

Cool! If this was in a normal frame, this is something I'd be pretty interested in, and it's the type of win condition I have in mind. It really has three modes since the kicked version can save your army from a wrath or get rid of all of the blockers for the win. I didn't think of that - I...

I like Felidar Retreat and Mirror Entity out of your suggestions - thanks! That's also my worry. Maybe Celestial Armor is more suitable at the cost of a couple lines of text. I do like the instant speed combat trick part of it.

Q #1: Does anybody have opinions on this card? Eerie Interlude I'm thinking about it as a fun card that you can setup to deal a knockout blow in the end game, similar to Overrun or Living Death. It doesn't deal the winning damage on the spot, but it could generate enough value to essentially...

That helps. Thanks for shedding some light on that for a guy who doesn't keep up with the lore very much.

Ah, I totally missed that it was a reprint. It's weird flavor for MOM, too, the set where every plane is at war with the baddies. I also don't understand how performer flavor c0nnects to surveil enters/dies triggers. It's very random. I'll go ahead and get over it now.

Wary Thespian I'll try this card as a two drop that an aggressive green deck could use, and also a card that the graveyard decks can use. I like smoothing bonuses on simple cards. But what's up with the flavor of this thing? It seems like a weird thing to throw into the Foundations set. Are...

Thanks for the suggestion. I tried it with a single picture and it threw an error, so I ended up writing them out by hand for now. The photo had overlapping sleeved cards with all of the card titles visible. Is this the type of picture the app is supposed to interpret?

I'm very interested to hear how the 4 player pick two format works out, and how the set is designed differently to accomodate this format. The multiverse land is cool. Glad they fixed the bad border, so maybe I'll find a few cards I like here after all. It will depend on flavor and art, and it...

We had a really fun cube night drafting this with four players instead of just three, finally. I didn't keep track of W-L totals, but everybody won some and lost some, which was great. the games were mostly pretty competitive and interesting. Draft format was 5 packs of 10 cards each, burning 2...

Can anybody recommend an easy process for turning a picture of a deck into a riptide deck list? I'd like to turn deck photos into a draft report while automating the tedious parts. I suppose I should just pick a deck scanning app and write a program to turn the output into a deck list, but if...

I played Samut a TON on Arena when it was in standard. I always wanted this in my opening hand: Kumano Faces Kakkazan It was really fun to drop Samut on T3 and swing with the flipped 2/2 hasty saga guy and draw two cards if they couldn't block.

Alara is one of the sets I really liked during a time when I actually played a lot, specifically because of the Esper artifacts shard. Tezzeret the Seeker got me into MTGO's 100 card singleton to fuel toolbox decks. That ended up being a big rabbit hole. I like putting Epochrasite in my Tezzeret...