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Nah, Commander game quality is wholly dependent on the playgroup and always has been. When everyone is on the same page it's a blast. It's the closest thing that can emulate the fun of brewing up decks as a newer player and just discovering interactions all over the place. It's socially stunted...

These bans all make sense from a gameplay perspective as fast mana is inherently broken, but it's bizarre to suddenly decide to go nuclear with these seemingly out of nowhere. I just don't see what's changed recently for them to make such an abrupt turn into going FAST MANA BAD when they just...

Gave the card gallery a deeper look after Prerelease, these will be the additions for my cube: Toby, Beastie Befriender Overlord of the Mistmoors Overlord oft the Floodpits Overlord of the Balemurk Razorkin Needlehead Those 4/4s created by Toby are pretty big and if you can blink him even...

For the first time in a while I opened a pretty sick prerelease pool. The rest of my rares were whatever and mostly not playable, but it was centered around The Jolly Balloon Man and Toby, Beastie Befriender backed by a ton of removal: Ones 1 Clockwork Percussionist 1 Trial of Agony Twos 1...

I kind of disagree, not on the merits of Psychatog's inclusion in an environment but whether it's gotten worse or not. I think it's for sure worse just because general removal is better these days (not even premier removal, just the average kill spell), it's small for its mana cost, and...

The art direction for this set is...not great. I loved the early pieces but they went way too hard into contemporary 80s stuff. It seems at odds with the idea of a hellscape world taken over by a demon when half the humans depicted just look like they're on the set of an afternoon TV show.

Kind of neat. I like the Sheoldred-lite punisher effect, relevant creature typing, and coming down early as a two drop. If you can get 5-6 damage out of it during it's time on the field that's a good enough return in an R/x Aggro deck.

Their development process is just really screwed when it comes to these direct to "eternal" sets. Both of those definitely should have been realized right in the middle of development. I don't know what their testing pipeline is nowadays (it was pretty shit back when they'd give more insight...

Familiarity with cards matter a lot, especially for players who may not be as engaged with Magic as a whole as they once were. New mechanics are always tough to process if they haven't been done before, there are whole ass mechanics now that require additional tracking (Dungeons are especially...

I'd go Shoreline. Does the same thing as il-Kor as the baseline, can just become straight up card draw if the game drags further. Very easy to understand with Threshold being one of the more straightforward classic mechanics. I'm out on Malcolm because too much text and random counters are...

I've got to get around to a combined MH3/Bloomburrow update for my cube sometime in the next month or two after thoroughly going through both sets, mostly been picking up stuff for EDH in the short term, but there are two cards I'm definitely adding from Bloomburrow after my first review...

More food support is always nice, anything to make Wicked Wolf that much more playable. I really love the gameplay from that card.

My thoughts exactly. The only DFC cards left once I make that swap will be Fable of the Mirror-Breaker and Kytheon, Hero of Akros.

Eh not a fan of some of the aesthetic choices here but it's whatever. I just pick and choose what I like depending on card functionality and art and then just ignore the rest. It is weird how contemporary this set feels almost to where the lines between UB and actual Magic sets are starting to...

Champion of the Parish Thassa's Oracle Urza, Lord High Artificer Thassa, Deep-Dwelling Jace, The Mind Sculptor Braids, Cabal Minion Living Death Goblin Welder Daretti, Scrap Savant Titania, Protector of Argoth Birthing Pod The Gitrog Monster Winota, Joiner of Forces Kess, Dissident Mage Yorion...

Yeah, I'm feeling this more in something like a B/G or U/B deck than anything aggressive. It cannibalizes too much of what makes B/x Aggro compelling to really work in that shell. Looks like a cool card for Constructed if you get to pair it somehow with Dragon's Rage Channeler in some kind of...

I guess if the new Goyf averages out to being a 2/3 then that's definitely good enough as just a beater for 1 mana, but tracking you own graveyard is just so much more limited in explosive scalability early in the game. And I'm not sure I'd want to cannibalize my own graveyard if I've got...

It's like the polar opposite of everything I'd want in my cube. Such a chore to read through and so unnecessarily complex. If it's a Kaladesh cube with energy go buck wild but I wouldn't touch that with a ten foot pole.

My cube isn't so focused on exploring new mechanics and trying to make it work like it used to as much as it is just refining existing archetypes and branching out with more synergy whenever possible. I just don't think I have as many flex spots available for swaps 10+ years in. For that reason...

I agree with y'all that the Hydra is definitely less scalable and impressive than Shivan Devastator, I think that's just one of the cleanest designs in years, but the treasures left behind aren't just trinket text. Depends on the Gx deck, but if they have their share of beef to trot out at 4 or...