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My only hesitation about price is that, well... how do you handle cards like Lightning Bolt, which are fantastic but only cost ~$1 because they've been printed into the ground? Would my attempts to account for that artificially inflate the value of all of the random commons that get reprinted...

So, dumb question, but... Is there a way to scrape the ELO numbers from Cube Cobra programatically? I'm currently taking a text mining course and decided to use Magic cards for the final project (because Scryfall's API is great). The issue, though, is that my big "research" question is whether...

The thing is that Junk tokens let you wait — you can have something make a Junk token and then have it sit there until you're ready to use it, which eliminates so many of the traditional downsides to impulse draw that it's kinda unreal. And, unlike Clues or Food, using a Junk token for its...

I mean, unless they're incredibly careful with how they design Junk producers, I can't imagine them having good play patterns? Like, with Blood/Clues/Food/Maps, there's a cost to use them for their "intended" purpose, so you're encouraged to find alternate ways to make use of them. Junk's...

If I ever revisit the Capitalism Cube, I feel like this guy will definitely be worth a look. In general, it feels like this set has been solid for anyone who wants to run a trinket cube in a non-obnoxious way. Like, Braided Net is kinda nuts if you have a bunch of Food or whatever lying around.

The fixing is actually why I like Maps more than Treasures — a treasure-heavy environment encourages some pretty wild greed (which is perfectly in-theme, come to think of it...)

The goal is to do something similar to what this thread explored vis-a-vis Gates — you start with five specific lands in your "hand" at the start of the game, get two land drops on T1, and don't have any land cards in your library.

It's not as strong, obviously, but I like the play patterns of Maps more than Treasures.

So, nearly a year later... Lost Caves of Ixalan has given us another land subtype (get hyped!), and it's a pretty interesting one. Caves! And the question that came to my mind is whether or not there's potential for a Gate Format-esque mana-base, with sequencing and everything. My first idea...

From some testing, Fanatical Offering is absolute gas.

Legolas's Quick Reflexes Aphetto Alchemist?

Yeah, but it's telling that you have to make him oppose literal Nazis to make what he does remotely "heroic".

Lara Croft is less annoying because at least she's openly just some rich person doing some graverobbing for fun — she's morally reprehensible, but eh. Indiana Jones is aggravating because he's basically what you'd get if you turned the British Museum into a person, and the movies try to...

Color me unsurprised — after all, Explore is basically Surveil 1 with some pretty large upsides.

Oh, yeah, it's definitely lazy. Though I will say that: Describing the Conquistadors as "bloodthirsty religious fanatics" is actually fairly accurate, though the consensus is that their religion helped put the brakes on the worst excesses. The Sun Empire is the one that's an Aztec/Quechua...

The one iffy thing about the design is that it doesn't cost any cards to Escape. I know that that's because the Delve makes it so you have a customizable Escape cost, but I think I'd be happier with the card if it had "Escape - {3}{R}{R}, exile two other cards from your graveyard" or whatever.

Just as a head's up, landofMordor — referring to the indigenous cultures of the Americas as if they were one big cultural block is, itself, a form of erasure, since it's implicitly very... "noble savage". In reality, there were a vast and diverse range of cultural beliefs, language families...

It amuses me that, despite Green being the BIG DUDE color... a lot of the iconically Green creatures are tiny little guys. Though I have so much love for... Krosan Tusker But yeah, when I think green dudes I think 2/1s for 1GG: Eternal Witness Jadelight Ranger Yavimaya Dryad

To be fair to Velrun, Theros was a decade ago. Master of WavesNimbus Naiad

I'd honestly reach for Goblin Cavaliers as my base size for morphs before I reached for Grizzly Bears. Though that gives me an (overly cute) idea: a morph-focused cube where you can draft alternate stats for your morphs (in the form of vanilla/french vanilla creatures). The details of how...