Recent content by Zoss

You said it.

We're really, uh, swinging for the fences with the praise here. Shows what a quality product this is. Card is actually quite interesting, though! I like a creature that serves as a ritual. ... Uh, I realized that it's a mulldrifter. Never mind, this is less cool now that there's no risk...

The White artifact stuff from this set seems to be doing something similar in that they're breaking open a lot of new space; less Court Homunculus and more Lokhust Heavy Destroyer or Royal Warden. My chief complaint is more so the cards that tend to be stupidly pushed (yes, yes, I know; one...

I suspect a big part of why they feel old-bordered is that they use a limited palette of mechanics and effects to make dramatic cards, kinda like how a lot of pixel art focuses on using a handful of shades to create a picture. Notably, these all have no more than four lines of text, not counting...

Bauble and maybe Scepter of Fugue. Tithing Blade is cool, but Craft is bogus. Quill falls into the same bucket. My Precious seems weak. Bloodletter is fine but uninspiring to me. Relic is strong in that it's a modal card that's almost better than a sorcery-speed Murder.

Probably; they're removing all alchemy cards from Arena, so this is likely part of that. https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/mtg-arena/state-of-the-formats-2026

Chandra's Emberling Hold it. Stop talking about rares, a common is here. I think this is a lot closer to Sprite Dragon than many may think. It's somewhat more expensive, but that's not uncalled for and it also starts larger. Lack of evasion hurts it, ofc, but you can play it in monored! I...

Seconding Vraan, he's very very good! Also I hate how good of a shout Foot Chopper is. That's a nifty one. Soulripper is also weirdly unloved. Didn't it do well in standard for a while? Or am I conflating it with Bankbuster? Either way, card is a house.

This is my main cube and I love it! My ratios are a bit different (I spike in at a rate of 1:8 occasionals:total cards seen), but seeing approximately a third of the occasionals each draft and having a lot of redundancy makes for a really good time IMO. I skewed it a little bit because 240 cards...

So--I don't want to steal your thunder, but a very very similar cube exists in BARTIFACT, which I played at Boston Cube Party a few months ago. (https://cubecobra.com/cube/about/87f695d4-ca23-4827-b4d2-b3db65c7fe35?view=primer) I think you and Nemo are exactly right in that shatters need to...

This rocks! Here's hoping you get a good first draft out of it. Two quick notes: 1) Aggro (1-drops in general) seems a little light on the ground. Combined with a high density of Smelts, I feel like control might be pretty strong. But! I might be wrong. 2) Where is Scrapwork Mutt???

Tromp is really really fun and it has the benefit of being a card that basically no one ever thinks about outside of cube (or 4C/5C EDH but whatever :edh:). It gets you the highs of Overrun while asking for a little more out of the player. It also ends the game. I think if you want a...

It's okay to hate slopslop!

I have always thought that Primal Might is just stupidly strong in anything approaching "Fair" magic/magic which is usually decided by any sort of engine-building. And it really blows out anything like Shigeki (who is very cool and I think you're very cool for running). Super cool decks and...

I really like my singleton breaks on the following: Gingerbrute Faithless Looting Chromatic Star Abundant Harvest Deadly Dispute Gingerbrute is particularly important for aggro decks to have a chance to shine in all colors, and it adds a fair bit of texture to them while it's at it.