Recent content by ravnic

Blue Faithless Looting would be cool. I'm also unsure if we even get straight color shifts like in Planar Chaos. Stingcaster Mage has haste instead of flash, so maybe we get more "it's like that iconic card just in a way it makes sense for the new color" things, mostly.

Oh my god yes. People say power is relative but do you know what isn't relative or what doesn't change? Your life total. It's always 20. I think the commanderization of power and toughness in this game is seriously making it less fun. Every little stumble is deadly today. Just look at what...

Yeah, just looking at two-card interactions, playing Talrand on curve and then immediately triggering him before they can interact seems like the strongest thing you can do with Probe in my cube.

Gitaxian Probe Could this card be problematic at lower power levels? I know it's in vintage cubes and such but it doesn't do anything. I was looking for colorless instants and sorceries and there really isn't that much. It's just that this card is worrying me more than, for example, faithless...

Dawning Archaic I just realized that this is a cooler, colorless version of Sailor's Bane. Probably slightly worse in my cube actually, because it has no removal protection build in, but still worth the swap I think.

I'm convinced. Tbh, Venser actually seems like a perfect example of cards I love cubing with: clean textbox, despite it's simplicity though it's flexible and skill testing; it has weak stats and is somewhat old school. Weird that I never even thought of trying him.

Maybe Venser is what I want, actually. Bouncing a spell makes it feel much more like a 2-for-1. Can anyone here elaborate what play patterns make Venser, Shaper Savant a great cube card? I've actually never have cast him in my entire life, for some reason.

Much more relatable now! I personally reduced my Cube Cobra bot-drafting a little bit. I once went through a period of serious over-design. Often I was adding cards and then cutting them again without ever giving them a chance in the draft. Sometimes I had three cards in the same slot in...

I'll never understand how you can make all these cuts with dozens of changes every release :p

Pretty cool shit. https://cubecobra.com/cube/deck/4621ee6c-e16c-42f9-b0a1-afa75b2bfd63

Wait, that post is from 2014? ... how long have I been registered here?

Even though this isn't for me, more "noncreature spells matter" cards are a welcome sight.

I don't think I'll be casting 10-drops in an environment with 4-drops that pushed.

Cube Open Potsdam, Draft 2 This happened on sunday morning. I was drafting a really cool cube build around Death's Shadow in the other room, so I can't say too much on how this draft played out. 1. {B}{G} Midrange 3-0 (6-0) Ones 1 dryad militant 1 elvish reclaimer 1 disfigure Twos 1 Tough...

Meh, would use it as a proxy for Mind Stone if necessary.