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Hello! Been a while since my last post and I've had this draft sitting around unfinished for months now. I had friends in town months ago and we were able to scrounge up a full 8 man pod for a draft. We try to get together once a year for a couple of days where we mostly spend time together and...

I played against someone with Soul Sister effects happening so it was a real puzzle to figure out how to get them down to the correct life total. I even volunteered the hey, did you remember to gain a life when his life total became odd and I had two Whelps on board. Pretty much every time I...

Forgot to post this, just remembered when I went to de-sleeve my draft kit after prerelease. Had a solid R/G pool that I went 2-1 with that played really well. Likely would have gone 3-0, but I got absolutely stomped by this kid who opened a ridiculous pool full of bombs and removal aplenty...

Not too many cards to add this time around, I still haven't gotten a chance to test out anything from Duskmourn or even MH3. Too many sets in too little time. With the release schedule set to go into overdrive next year I might just pop in for one of these every 2-3 sets instead of keeping up...

The first Kellan card that I'm excited for in my cube. Awesome card. Figure of Destiny style level ups are always a nice addition as mana sinks that scale with the game and this has a solid body from the jump. It's simple to understand, has a great payoff if you fully level it up, and it has...

Pretty much kills any enthusiasm or hope of Constructed Magic coming back for me. Not interested in extra goofy shit when they go deeper and deeper as the UB well begins to run dry. I don't really think they even have a long term vision for the game with all these decisions in recent years...

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...