Recent content by Onderzeeboot

Whelp. It’s still hard to get excited for an IP I have no affinity with and whose art style I don’t love. I don’t need more anime in my life… I’m glad it resonates with some of us though!

Waterfront Bouncer The only Masques card in my cube, after I replaced Squee, Goblin Nabob with a custom {1}{b} version. I love the bouncer, because it ties neatly into both the self-discard theme and the ninja gameplan.

Plague Spitter

See, normally a 1/3 would be too mighty for a 2/1… Goblin Locksmith

Engineered Plague Naming Ooze...

I think Kaladesh is one of my big loves, and it was the core of my rebuilt cube until Eldraine hit, so for a good three years. I even ran an energy archetype in Temur colors for a while! I believe Kaladesh is still in my top 10 of sets with the most inclusions. (A little hard to check atm, since...

Courier Griffin What do you mean “lose 2 life”?

Dear lord what a train wreck of a set! I run 16 (!) two-color cards in my main cube, and none of the DMG gold cards stuck (let’s not even talk about the monocolored cards from the set…) In the past I have run the cards below. They’re quite alright in a lower power environment, though there are...

I can’t believe no one has mentioned one of my favorite glue/engine/tutor cards yet! Zur the Enchanter Esper has a number of fun archetypes that lean heavily on enchantments, like discard matters, and there is a bunch of excellent enchantment-based removal in all three colors as well. As a...

Shrieking Specter

Dammit, are you going to make me swap my color wheel again? I think the most fun people have had was back when I had Grixis in my cube and three people next to each other were in the color living their best life, first picking Cruel Ultimatum, Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker, and Kess, Dissident Mage :D

The title of this article implies you host 13-player drafts and now I’m intrigued. Edit: Aaaah, I see.

Protection from black? XD Aerher Snap

Stronghold Taskmaster

Have we seen this one yet? Agent of Masks