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Ebony Fly seems quite swingy, but I haven't seen the die rolls being that much variance in AFR limited. Commons and uncommons at least are tame. It's more much more risk management than actual blowouts.

Reanimation is another way to profit from milling before the opponent mills out. Animate Dead Necromancy Necromantic Summons The Eldest Reborn Rise from the Grave Nezumi Graverobber

Nantuko Husk always seemed a little overcosted and though this cannot be as explosive and threat of activation is only 4/3 instead of 4/4, 2 mana is much much cheaper than 3, making this usable in an aggressive deck. Not the most flashy of cards, but it is a cog that we had been missing for...

I'd love to help, but to be honest I'm a little confused. Let me ask some questions to understand the situation better. By "unpowered" do you mean without rares? In peasant cubes it's common to see a ton of roleplayers but fewer cards that are interesting by themselves. Adding rares would...

That's the idea for my part. You need to work to make your treasures (Goldvein Pick has to connect, Magda is a 2/1 that has to crash into blockers, Treasure Map needs to scry several times, Shambling Ghast and Dire Fleet Hoarder have to die). The tricolor dragon splash is your reward for doing...

There are some more options at lower power levels. Treasure Map Smothering Tithe Revel in Riches Burdened Aerialist Grim Bounty Improvised Weaponry Jewel-Eyed Cobra Malcolm, Keen-Eyed Navigator Plundering Barbarian Prosperous Innkeeper Treasure Map Smothering Tithe Revel in Riches Burdened...

Hmm... Marionette Master I was looking for space to expand artifacts into black, this may be just it. Yeah, Painful Truths is quite good. Not sure I'd call it super high power since you sacrifice so much tempo, but I did remove it for being too good in my cube.

I really want to run Skullport Merchant. It's a beautiful card that has a lot of interesting decisions and hook into other archetypes. Unfortunately, most of the other additions don't really appeal to me for the Elegant Cube. Some are too strong, like Goldspan Dragon and Ragavan, Nimble...

Being a fan of KHM's 5 color aggro Goldvein Pick into splashed bombs, I'm all for it. Not sure you can make it worth it just with kicker though, as they are costed as to serve as mana sinks rather than plan As. The deck gets more appealing when you have stuff like decent 5-drops and powerful...

I don't think that's you what to be doing to fuel your graveyard or fix mana, this is a tutor for combo pieces or archetype hosers. -1 CA for no tempo advantage really hurts.

I'm just fine with the set? Could be better, could be worse. Definitely feels like a D&D MtG Set. No, it does not feel like playing D&D, but I don't think that would have been possible. And more specific than D&D, it's a Forgotten Realms set, so the focus on the setting's characters seems...

I don't think the current card pool supports well archetypes about sacrificing larger creatures like Greater Good does, at typical or even relatively low power levels. I could see a very resilient black section as supporting both graveyard and sacrifice (sort of like Jason's multi...

That brings up a good point. Sacrifice cards are generally balanced assuming you will be able to generate tokens to sacrifice cheaply, or otherwise have creatures that are good to sacrifice such as Strangleroot Geist. That makes the sacrifice archetype more like an A+B synergy deck and though it...

Could also call it Damn It // Damn You All. I don't which I'd prefer if I were running customs, they are both so good.

The First Draft of the Riptide Drafting League is done, and the winner, with a record of 3-0 / 6-1 in this completely non-rigged competition is... me, playing WB Death and Taxes! Thank you to @Aston, @LadyMapi for the games, and to @Zoss for hosting the Broken by Technicality cube...

Ones 1 Conjurer's Bauble 1 Thraben Inspector 2 Esper Sentinel 2 Ethersworn Canonist Twos 1 Arcbound Ravager 2 Etherium Sculptor 1 Ensoul Artifact Threes 1 Frogmite 1 Ethersworn Sphinx 1 Sojourner's Companion 2 Thought Monitor Fours 2 Batterskull 2 Umezawa's Jitte 1 Stoneforge Mystic Fives 1...

If you want to play this one in particular, you can draft a deck on wherever and DM either of us on Discord to find a good time. For the next draft, you just need to show up at the date/time TBD. DM'ing me your availability helps to schedule a good time for you.

We drafted Broken by Technicality by @TrainmasterGT, hosted by @Zoss. Results so far: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Q3H2OAfWqoCcSzNx1aCO0pXhNCRdaAzAIZgdm13WVIA/edit#gid=0 Ones 2 Faithless Looting 3 Abundant Harvest 1 Life from the Loam Twos 6 Manamorphose 2 Burning-Tree Emissary 1...

In artifact heavy environment, I think they are a lot more similiar, yeah. Would be an interesting archetype to have in a Mirrodin cube. The wrath part is extremely relevant still, for good and for bad. That's what makes Living Death so swingy, flipping the game completely, and it is what...

They are really far away from each other in my mind map. Both like self-milling as enablers, true, but that's as far as the similarities go. Living death reanimates creatures, which die naturally. Open the Vaults requires you to work to fill the hard with artifacts and enchantments. Living...