Recent content by Salmo2

YeahThraben plays better than it looks, forsure. You don't throw it into your aggro decks, which is where a lot of the misevaluation comes from, but it's a great card for midrange and cubes of all speeds. But that's also a bad comparison, as I'm guaranteed some value from the Thraben Inpsector...

Sure, if you're running a ninjas theme, it can work there. I, and most cubes, don't, so it's pretty easy to kind of never consider that. It's really difficult to consider every possible archetype, so you kind of have to understand that most cubes aren't running that and I'm not considering...

Right, again, the ceiling is definitely great, but I think the floor is generally being underrated. Neither side is wrong, they just value those aspects differently. Magic is probably the hardest, most complicated popular game currently in existence, it's no surprise that a card like this can...

Those cards are a bit different. Context matters, and I'm saying that if freebooter is missing or picking a less-than-ideal card, it's just a storm crow or storm crow + at that point. Both of those cards give you additional benefits (one being free and having a different option of cantripping...

I didn't say it was the easiest of passes for everyone, did I? I literally say 'IMO' which means 'In *MY* Opinion.' I'm not speaking for anyone else, at least not any more after all that work in therapy :p but seriously, we don't have to go into who I'm speaking for, it's pretty obvious we all...

The body is not strong. It's a 1/2 flier. That's awful. It can be improved, as that's why I asked about equipment and such, but in a vaccum a 1/2 flier is actually awful. You're not going to find many people who agree that the body is strong. When the effect works, it's great, but when it...

What? Where I've had these thoughts are irrelevant, they're just how I feel about the two cards. I could be on the moon talking to rocks and I'm going to frame my position the same way, which is typically in general cube context. I'm assuming everybody is going to evaluate these cards in...

? Nothing weird about this at all. It's a forum discussion on cube in a thread that's not really focused overall, it's gotta turn eventually. My main issue is the floor of missing and how awful that is. As you say, cube is already befuddling enough as is, and giving players a card that's...

Yeah, missing on creatures is kind of horrific, and any claims that 'we never grab creatures' are either 1) false or 2) relying on too small of a sample size and will correct itself over time. If anything, I'd say potentially missing makes it way *less* elegant, since there's nothing elegant...

The one that makes two fliers has to be better, this card just seems bad. I would feel bad if I had to play this, even in a lower powered cube, unless I somehow ended up in the sickest token deck. So it's not impossible, but it just feels super low powered.

Black and red ones prob the best, but even in a pauper cube they're probably a reach. If the activation cost was 6, I'd probably run them there.

It's not impossible, and those cards are helpful, but these are still 'if's and not 'when's. Also a number of those cards I'm only playing after I drop this if I drop them, there's little reason to hold back Probe/Ponder/etc so it's a little harder to depend on those.

I get that, I'm just skeptical how often that'll happen in practice. I think there will be some decks that can do it, but overall this will probably be closer to a worse siege than something you can depend on flipping. If you just wanted to play the land, though, it would be the dopest card.

It absolutely disappoints, only a select few decks are going to flip this in a select few windows, siege at least has a second mode and it's not breaking any formats. I get that some people have had better experience in cube with siege than I have, so others would be more excited for it, but I...

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