Recent content by ravnic

You could just play the lessons you like, almost like cubing the elves you like without caring about them.

The two things my wife loves the most doing in magic are casting one mana fliers and gaining life. Her favorite AtLA character is Momo. I guess I have to squeeze that into my cube.

Aangs face is the main set. The fan is only eternal legal cards from jumpstart/beginner box/bundle. Mostly jumpstart cards.

Sadly, ECL seemingly won't have much more hybrid than other current sets, based on number crunch. Ashlings Command is probably one of the first multicolor cards (they put them together) at 205 and Blood Crypt is the first land, most likely, at 262. That leaves up ~60 cards, but there would also...

We won't get 30+ Aangs I hope. But I don't mind getting a few different versions of key characters, especially in UB sets. Just makes it more likely to find a fitting one for any given cube. If there was only one Toph, it would probably be too powerful and I couldn't cube my favorite character...

Who even likes these "source material" cards? Even when they choose less ridiculous images, it just looks weird to have rules text with black outlines hovering in the weirdest spots.

Preview Stream managed to get my mtg hype-o-meter up and even distracted, for now, from ECL. That's my favorite spoiled so far, I really wanted to get a cool Toph, as she's my favorite character and this card should fit my cube very well (if it doesn't proof too strong, actually).

Before my baby break comes, I thought it would be fun to take a look back at how the CCC meta has been for the last three years. For that purpose, I will take a look at quantitive data but then also make that much more relevant with qualitative recollections, as far as possible. And to structure...

I just added Crackleburr to my cube's occasionals. Shadowmoor/Eventide is, to me, the gift that keeps giving, and I feel like the block is undervalued by both the cube community and the magic community as a whole. It deserves to be mentioned in one breath with the greatest sets/blocks of all...

I would argue that the fact, that Mutavault tokens might become a popular token soon is actually more upside than downside? It makes it more widely known what the card does then? One less card for people to read? Anyway, I decided to go with Mutavault and to dismiss factory because of it's...

I have an epic fight to settle, friends. Mutavault Mishra's Factory I like that Mutavault reads so much cleaner than Factory with it's weird tap ability. I also like that Mutavault is a Goblin, that's relevant for Goblin Trashmaster and friends in the core and for a couple of random typal...

I don't know why, but I feel like I could've guessed your top five. At least 5, 2 and 1 are cards I read love letters from you before :)

Great, thanks! Now I need to get Panglacial Wurm into my occasionals...

Yesterday I fired another 4 player draft in my living room with my old playgroup. The only difference was that my wife didn't feel fit enough to participate – but she got substituted. We had a friend of ours start playing recently. He played twice with us an a couple of times on arena. This was...