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During Mirrodin-Kamigawa standard, I got so sick of shrines on MTGO that I made a deck with maindeck Eon Hub and played random opponents until I found a shrine deck to victimize. Effing shrines.

I've played some standard zombies on MTGA lately, and there's nothing better than finishing off the opponent with Fell Stinger's exploit ability life loss, especially if you're dead on their next turn.

Skysnare Spider

The rest of the Jumpstart packs are below. My daughter and I played a couple of games - she enjoyed checking out the cards that were new to her, which was most of them. We each looked at three packs and picked two. Jumpstart is pretty fun! It's such an easy way to grab a deck and get into a...

I've updated the Beginner Cube to make it work as a set of 16 Jumpstart packs in addition to being a cube. The themes aren't really tight within the packs, which is fine - I want the decks to act like draft decks. I believe there is a bit of cross-pollination of themes between the packs. Each...

This is a fair question. My general attitude about planeswalkers is that they're fun to cast and activate - I've played a whole bunch of them in decks online - but that the game might be a little better without them. I'm not completely married to this stance, but I learned Magic well before...

Beginner Simplicity Cube Updates as of 12/5/21 Budget I made substitutions to make the whole cube cheap. Just now I was able to order 193 of the 195 cards on TCGplayer for about $24 in one shipment using Mass Entry and Cart Optimizer. Add ~100 basic lands, and that’s a beginner cube for the...

That's a nice list! I can see a bunch of archetype support in there, and all of those cards present interesting choices to the player.

I've been taking an inventory of simple instant speed combat tricks, and here's a fun little low powered boon cycle. Blue doesn't quite keep up with the pack, but it's still neat. Piercing Light Rookie Mistake Disfigure Shock Blossoming Defense

Agreed; removing the color doesn't make for a compelling product. I think they would have been smarter to simply release the same exact cards in regular color and let the combined draft environment sell the product.

I overhauled my Beginner Cube. My concept has been to put the focus on the combat phase in the style of retail draft. This entails providing every color with viable instant speed combat tricks of various types: creatures can be damaged, pumped, shrunk, rescued, bounced, untapped, or flash...

After a slow start to the spoilers, this set is pulling its weight. Even without any interest in double sided cards, there's enough here for me to put in a singles order that will be fun to add to the collection.

I wouldn't call paper standard cheap. Decks are about $100-$400 for a competitive one, and I would compare that to around $50 for a board game. But $50 is enough to play some good kitchen table MTG, so it can compare to a board game. So yeah, most cards are cheap. Tournament players, commander...

What can the new token in the food/clue/treasure family be? That trio already represents the three most basic units of currency in MTG. Branching out a bit, though, there are some other interesting benefits that a cracked artifact token could grant: Put a +1/+1 token on target creature Target...

You're getting me interested in set cubes. Thanks for talking through some of your methodology and intent. I'd really like to see what the RTL community would come up with on a community effort to remaster a set or block.

Pushed mythics are nonsense. Being able to ignore them is a nice benefit of cube.

Campus GuideThe Blackstaff of Waterdeep Thanks for the tags. For now I think I need to avoid spending time on this project, so you can use tags on other folks.

I've been playing a bunch of games on Arena, including a few drafts and a bunch of gold grinding in Standard 2022 (mostly goblins and GW life). My champion: Battle Cry Goblin The previous discussion underestimates this card. It gives me lots of agency, and I like the power level of its ability...

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This is interesting. No extraneous keywords, and this could be a strong card to anchor for some Bant blink and flash stuff. And similar to the white 4/4, I like to see an occasional blue threat of this size that doesn't fly.