Recent content by Tetrinity

I got curious and went poking around on Scryfall. Oddly enough, none of the normal combo cards like Freed from the Real are actually on Arena as far as I can tell. The best I've seen is going infinite with four mana, five if you need to be mana-positive: Staff of Domination Everything else...

Mechanic reuse does happen with plane revisits in general, though admittedly maybe not as high as 80%. I could see amass (Humans) being used in a Korra set, or the Party variant I mentioned before. Yeah for sure, there were whole episodes I would've skipped in retrospect. In the end it was a...

I enjoyed Legend of Korra quite a lot. It's undeniably a bit of a different vibe to The Last Airbender, but I don't think necessarily in a bad way. It's more rooted in real-world issues and interpersonal relationships than TLA, for better and for worse. It's not perfect by any means; in...

I guess they didn't want it to to come off as genuinely making fun of blind people to anyone not familiar with the show. In fact, as far as I can tell there's only two allusions to her blindness at all: Seismic Sense Toph, the Blind Bandit At least we got the dunderheads line. Rocky Rebuke

One thing I forgot to explicitly mention in my last post is that mana curve often dictates the quantity. Maybe you decide you want ten removal spells in black that can't hit Eldrazi. Do you want them all to cost two mana? Most likely not, as you crowd out other spells at that mana value and the...

When I've broken singleton for nonlands, it's because I wanted a specific effect that did not have good alternatives, whether specifically a functional reprint (i.e. Wildfire vs Burning of Xinye or something that's at least in the same ballpark (i.e. Lightning Strike vs Roil Eruption). For...

Suki, Courageous Rescuer My white section cares about both legendaries and Revolt triggers so this is almost definitely finding a space. Boomerang Basics Worth testing, as I like having a mixture of sorcery- and instant-speed removal and it's about as close self-bounce is going to get to a...

Yeah, makes sense. I suppose it also depends on who's playing your cube; if you're always playing with the same group of experienced players, it'll be easier to justify a one-off compared to relatively new players or a rotating crowd at the LGS. Reminder text is a big deal for cube IMO, as it...

rofl Nah, I think I've seen enough to know you very well indeed. Enough to know it's not worth engaging with you any further. Moving swiftly onwards... I actually had something I wanted to ask folks about. Do you have some kind of threshold of card quantity you aim to reach for a new...

Give it a rest, man. That's, what, the third time you've spouted this exact line? People are doing this. You just don't like the result. God forbid people like different things to you. Spiderman and Walking Dead notwithstanding, UB has proven exceptionally popular by all metrics. Sales, player...

Interestingly, MaRo recently published an article on exactly this scenario, getting a UB design to resonate with people not familiar with the source material, as apparently he wasn't at all familiar with Avatar before going into playtests for the set. It's a good read and I recommend it if...

Talk about "no true Scotsman". Now, I'm relatively new to these forums. Lurked for a while. I don't know y'all as well as you presumably do. But even I can tell you Ravnic is a true "old school" fan of the game. We all are, otherwise we wouldn't be here on an MtG Cube forum. Cube is the ultimate...

You can justify pretty much anything with flavour if you try hard enough. White counterspells are just an example of white saying, "no, get back in line". Taxing effects like Mana Tithe are just that - a tax. Lapse of Certainty effects are bureaucracy. A hypothetical white Cancel would be an...

Dimir... {U}{B}... UB... Universes Beyond... it all makes sense now Lazav is now canonically behind the Furby Secret Lair. Didn't peg him as the type, but everybody has their secrets, not least House Dimir. Ninja turtles... ninjutsu... hmm, this goes deeper than I thought...

Yeah, I'd be surprised if it did happen, but there are supporters in the Discord and it does seem the discussions are being read; AttackOnCardboard from the CFP poked his head in to read the comments, and joined the conversation for a while. He was on the side of keeping things the same but...