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I guess I would just say that both Bloodghast and Messenger are already good with Small Pox. I'm thinking of lines of play involving Small Pox...t2 Small Pox discard Bloodghast, t3 land...t3 Small Pox, land drop, t4 Curse of Shallow Graves/Messenger...I don't see one that Unearth makes awesome...

What about cutting Wolfir Silverheart/Vorapede and Unearth? I think those green 5 drops are the two least interesting, and green seems fairly top-heavy already. I also am surprised you don't play Genesis. I'm sure you tried it and cut it, but it just seems to work well with Pod and GY...

When I did this, I took each color pair and worked on a theme for each. I think an artifact theme is fine, but it would need more cards like Porcelain Legionnaire that are good elsewhere alongside a sprinkling of cards like Sanctum Gargoyle. The issue with sunburst was that the payoff wasn't...

After working at a similar idea and getting feedback here and MTGSalvation, I think that the general idea of MMA was great, but some of the archetypes were too isolated. The problem with something like Affinity/artifacts is that a high percentage of the cards are not good outside the archetype...

Soldevi Adnate is an all-star in my Shirei, Shizo's Caretaker EDH deck. Definitely approve.

I'm still picking up all the cards for it, so it's still in the conceptual stage. I'm about 70% of the way there I think. A big change in my thinking about limited is that I think formats work best when there's plentiful, but conditional or costly removal. I'm trying to figure out how to...

Made some big updates, changed the way the cube was organized from single colors to color pairs. http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?p=10344035

For reference, here's a blog post by BK: http://bmkgaming.com/thoughts-on-theros-and-thoughtseize/ I tend to agree with a lot of what he says. I think conditional removal ends up being more fun in the long run, and too many cards like Thoughtseize lead to strategic collapse. Thoughtseize is a...

I think the pain lands work well in peasant cube. I've used them there, and they worked fine. I will say the one issue I had with peasant cubes is that I felt like some games would drag on. A lot of time it wasn't easy to close a game out. I ended up adding some budget rares that were...

Digging the white 1-drop. Wizards has printed a number of solid midrange cards in the last few sets, and it's nice to see aggro keeping pace.

What I mean is that some levels are just not winnable because of the distribution of candies. I agree the game is well-made, and adds some interesting dimensions to the match three genre (the comparison to Geometry Wars is good), but the luck factor bothers me. The FreeCell game that came...

I hate how some levels are unwinnable. To me, that's a violation of the contract between the designer and the player. With the monetization, it just feels like they're trying to squeeze me.

Yeah, I think Scepter would be a pretty good sideboard card against GBx and the mirror. Where I play, the meta is largely UWR and combo (storm, twin, reanimator) with a smattering of burn, aggro, and soul sisters. I am looking to try and new deck and I think it's either going to be UWR control...

Yeah, that's why I moved away from Tezzeret. The plays were powerful, but a bit slow. I think another artifact combo like Sword of the Meek + Thopter Foundry or better acceleration. I tried Mox Opal, but it wasn't reliable enough. I also thought about trying a deck with Chalice of the Void...

I worked on Tezzeret for a while, it was fun and pretty good against UWR. I like his list, it's like 85-90% the same as the one I arrived at, except I don't like See Beyond. One subtle part of Oberg's original deck was that the deck played no cards with cmc=2 , therefore letting you drop...

One of the guys in my group plays UWR Geist. It's definitely good, though I think Geist is a bit higher variance. It can get blanked by a lot of cards, like Kitchen Finks and Voice of Resurgence, both played in Melira Pod, one of the more popular decks. If they don't have a good answer, Geist...

I don't think just allowing people to print cards will solve Legacy's problem. It's illegal, and would have to exist outside of the structure in place to support it. It sounds like a lot of work to set up tournaments, especially because stores already do that, albeit not Legacy. People who...

I enjoy looking at the real cards when I'm not actually playing. When I'm actually playing, I find I don't care about the aesthetics at all. Black border, white border, foil, non-foil, proxy, real...when I actually play all of that stuff doesn't matter. The collection aspect and playing...

I have been working on a cube inspired by similar ideas. It's here: http://riptidelab.com/forum/threads/gimmicky-cube-540-unpowered-themed.125/. I tried to give each color pair an archetype or strategy, and then let those bleed a bit into other colors. It helped a lot to base things on color...

I ended up cutting the artifact theme. After drafting MMA more, I ended up feeling it was too narrow, too linear, and was kind of hit-or-miss in that if there were few drafters, it was good, but otherwise, it didn't work out. I am still refining the list, acquiring cards, and so forth. I put...