Recent content by shamizy

I'd be interested in participating in this, would be a neat skeleton in the long run for me to eventually build out a 2nd cube in paper. There is so much artifact support across the board nowadays and more being printed each set. I think one of the big things to focus on is to really define...

Ixalan was a neat set when it came out, lots of cool cards between all the flip lands and various tribal cards. Unfortunately not much long term staying power as FIRE came into being not long afterwards and also we just got improved versions of multiple effects over time. I think the only card...

I run both of them currently and happy with both options. They play very differently where Hangarback is better to actually build up board presence and make a bunch of bodies for the artifact deck while Marketback is just more generically playable across the board for other decks. They both...

Both Preordain and Ponder are well worth finding slots for. I used to be in the multiple Brainstorm boat early on in my cube design thinking well if I'm running double fetches, why not have the card with the most potential upside as cantrips? What I learned over time is that having the variety...

I've been watching a lot of Limited recently and I'm leaning towards my read on Sunset Saboteur being correct. Sunset Saboteur This just seems like a house if you can curve it out on T2 and keep your opponents side of the board clear and/or managed effectively. Coming in for an evasive 4...

Syncopate is really neat, being able to exile problematic cards is always useful. Remand is a stone-cold staple of mine and I can't imagine ever cutting it just due to how well it plays tempo. Miscalculation has the cycling flexibility which I always like. Finally I'm going to recommend Remove...

Collector's Cage can definitely go on the watch-list, I think that could put in some real work as a neat option, but I just think Windbrisk Heights reads way better than it plays. Hideaway on lands is a lot clunkier than on other permanents. I used to run it a long time ago but it never quite...

It was a fine mechanic in the set, had a lot of fun at prerelease and the one draft I did (where I lucksacked into opening a foil The One Ring and then retired from that Limited format), but it's so annoying to track in any other format. I played against a friend in an EDH pod where he was...

I opened up a foil copy of this guy in my prize packs at EOE prerelease and I think I'm going to give it a run in my next cube session. Partially because it looks beautiful, but also because I think the possibilities are very interesting. I missed that it itself had flying when I first read it...

I break singleton on lands nowadays; double fetches, double shocks, double Prismatic Vista and double Urza's Saga. I also run my duplicate voucher system to artificially break singleton as well. Right now I'm on these cards:

I think it comes down to how dependent your gameplan is on getting it off. If Wildfire is a Plan B for an otherwise decent deck then you only need one, but if it's your primary win-con then you definitely need two. I had a U/R Vivi Wildfire deck my last cube draft that could have a solid...

Prerelease went pretty well, had a really nice pool to work with this time as I went 3-0 and didn't drop a game: Ones 1 Slagdrill Scrapper 1 Gene Pollinator 1 Honor 1 Sami's Curiosity Twos 1 Biotech Specialist 1 Ragost, Deft Gastronaut 1 Oreplate Pangolin 1 1 Zookeeper Mechan 1 Terrapact...

I like Spiderman as a character, but I kind of hope that this one fails because it's a little too far gone into Fortnite-lite territory for me. I don't think there's enough depth with Spiderman alone for a whole set (they should have just done a Marvel one as a whole). It's going to be very...

I'm seconding Snapdrafter. Downloaded the beta app recently and tested it out with pictures from my last draft and it worked pretty well for the most part. I'll have to figure out the optimal layouts for decks but it seems very promising. I requested an export option in Riptide Lab format on...

The only unofficial rule I have for ULD is that I don't like to include multi-color fixing so Bouncelands will probably be out and Horizon of Progress as well. Maybe I'll have to revisit if we hit a critical mass of lands that make me change my mind, but this has been a nice way to keep things...