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That card is a Mulldrifter, not a Baneslayer. Most of its power is in its ETB. It's a great payoff for reanimation, ramp, or control. I know you're allergic to games ending, but a 5/6 flyer does a good job of closing games out once it hits the battlefield, which I don't think is unreasonable for...

Yeah, I'm not going to replace my foil OG Gary, but I'm going to be happy to cast a few of him in Arena again.

Man, as good as the gingerbread lady and Linkin Park cover trailers have been lately, I still think the best Magic trailers were Theros block and the Phyrexian trailers for Scars of Mirrodin block. And as much as they talked up Ramin Djawadi for the new Theros trailer, I thought it was sort of...

This was a good discussion! I especially enjoyed the Hostage Taker vs Fallen Shinobi discussion, although honestly I think I'd just run them both.

Guys, I'm about one more think-piece on how white has been neglected by R&D from cubing Balance. At least it's a unique effect that is a heavy draw into the that needs the most help. Someone talk me out of this.

This is a good video from a strategy perspective, and it's interesting to see an evaluation of a cube that's way more powerful than mine. However, I agree with the criticism that I saw on reddit that this dude's cutesy nicknames for all the cards are the worst. He doesn't even use the actual...

Perfect bans. They targeted exactly the cards that were the problem. The Play Design Lessons Learned article has me thinking about my cube and taking a hard look at things. This paragraph especially: To this end, I think I'm cutting Wren and Six and taking a hard look a the other 3 mana...

Easy Crow Storm. I ran thief for a while and she never did anything. Nissa, Who Shakes the World Nissa, Worldwaker Alright, which of these two? They both kind of do the same thing, but in different ways. They both convert lands into action, but while Worldwaker's creatures are better, WStW's...

I want to add like 60% of these. They tickle me in all the right ways.

I'll be adding this immediately. Zyym is also awesome.

This article is focused on standard, but it has good applications for us too, and things to think about. http://magic.tcgplayer.com/db/article.asp?ID=15535&writer=Brian+Braun-Duin&articledate=10-25-2019

Oko, Thief of Crowns Okay. I originally wrote this guy off because I assumed you would need food synergies for him to be playable. Clearly, I was wrong as stupid sexy Oko is showing up in Modern and Legacy now. He provides removal that green/blue has been traditionally lacking, but every...

I'm of two minds about this. Like Trainmaster, even though I've been playing since Revised, I didn't start playing seriously until the Innistrad/RTR era. I haven't played paper constructed in years, but I still ran the tables at plenty of drafts and have a bunch of random stuff in my old trade...

Agreed, Delver is a trap in Cube. You just aren't going to get the density of cheap spells and other support you need 90% of the time. I strongly suggest switching to Scary Terry instead.

I've got two 7 win runs on Arena under my belt so far. The Great Henge is an insane Magic card. I would absolutely recommend main-decking a disenchant effect, at least in sealed. A lot of really good removal is artifact or enchantment based. All the mythic artifacts are huge bombs. There's even...

Most of your content has been quite good, but the last two videos have been a step up at least in my opinion. The gold section video did a very good job of covering the fundamentals for a novice cube designer, while still containing good refreshers for veterans. The strategy videos are nice...

Another very good video. This series is becoming more and more essential. I've long had a cap of at most 2 walkers in any single color, and at most one walker in any given guild. I've also worked hard to make sure that each walker is meaningfully different from each other such that they fill...

I don't mind it. It's not like this forum is swarming with activity, and when it comes to looking back to revisit a set 6 months or a year down the line, a thread like this is a lot easier to wade through than the off-topic rambling we inevitably get up to in the spoiler threads.

This is perhaps the best compliment you could have given me. "Tricky" is exactly what I've been aiming for with my aggro picks, and I've been working really hard to make sure that aggro is viable while being more interesting than a lot of the linear strategies you get in the MODO cubes.

And if that card had been printed in literally any other set, I would say it's a Shakespeare reference. This set it's 100% Shrek. Although there are a few Shakespeare references in here too. What's up, the Scottish Play?