Recent content by ravnic

Oh, lifegain! I am supporting lifegain, but I have cut down on it over the years. The reasons are obvious and have already been mentioned. If lifegain as an effect is too prevalent, it will lead to sloggy games that take forever. It's also inherently less interesting than something like "discard...

I'm still not sure if I want to commit to have prepared spells. It's not that they're too similar to adventures, I think that's kinda obvious being on the other half and everything in the text being about preparing. But it kinda feels like cheating to have an activated ability, essentially...

spoiler season started today. Clean and simple, cute art. Chapter III and IV give you plenty time to bounce/blink/reset this.

I like boB, he doesn't seem crazy even at lower power levels. If I were to happen upon a copy (maybe of the fractured mirror art) I would give it a shot in the CCC as an occasional. Btw, lookin forward to these actual Magic sets of 2027. Nauctis seems dope, as does Zhalfir. And Kamigawa vs...

I am currently revisiting this idea. It's mere brainstorming, but I'm still tempted by the thought of having sagas as a theme. I'm a little bored by the tokens theme I've been running that also leads to board stalls. Sagas are also much cooler than regular enchantments because you can interact...

Still waiting for the deck pictures and exact results from CubeOpen Braunschweig. But I found 5 other people last weekend to do a Casual Champions Cube Draft with me. And these results were ... something else. 1. {B}{R} Goblin Aggro/Reanimator 3-0 (6-2) Ones 1 Foundry Street Denizen 1 Frenzied...

Is it bad that I thought this was obvious?:D

Let's say you had a cube with 3 board wipes at 360 cards. If you could choose, would you prefer these board wipes to be known to all drafters, or would you prefer a scenario where people couldn't tell which board wipes were in the draft actually? Because currently I run 15 board wipes in my...

I run them exactly in my Pokécube, they are awesome.

There is also a dragon that does that. Avaricious Dragon That being said, I often shy away from 3 and 4-mana enablers for the aggressive version of this deck. 3 and 4 is where I want my payoffs to be cast. I've found that madness doesn't need to be an aggro deck, though. With looting and...

Eight years since I've opened this thread! Gruul Aggro Madness has become one of the top decks of my format (Izzet Madness is solid too). Going to a core+occasionals setup has made supporting it much easier, so it definitely works at 360 effectively. Yet green still has not received much love...

I don't get it.

Silent Extraction Have we talked about this card? Seems really strong, tbh, a nice incentive to draft a {g/u} deck that gets to threshold quickly and interaction for a color combination that always could need another piece. Of course you would have to turn seek into reveal until ... then shuffle.

I am currently trying all companions except Lutri and Lurrus as occasionals. The problem hasn't been that they were too huge power-outliers – But so far they have only been maindecked. I am talking about the good ones like Yorion, Umori or Gyruda. I think for lower power levels, especially when...

I've considered Worldknit as an occasional. It might be fine but power wise in a synergy focused cube, but it doesn't lead to anything cool imo