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Reminder the 5th draft is in 1 day, 2 hours from this post.

It was just a part of a bigger event promoting a lot (a lot!) of things and sets. Historically we get just a glimpse of what the set's going to be about until spoiler season comes, and I expect this to follow the same pattern. Remember we thought Ixalan was going to be just Aztecs in Atlantis...

The Fifth Draft will be on August 31, 2021, Tuesday, at 10pm (UTC). That time is: 3 pm (Pacific Time) 5 pm (Central Time) 6 pm (Eastern Time) Midnight (Central European Time) 8 am +1 (Sep 1, Wed) (Australian Eastern Time) Other timezones

Trample. Evasion that makes people make meaningful blocks. Attacking with a Vizzerdrix is lame because it's just an edict. Colossal Dreadmaw, though, creates situations in which the opponent often wants to make a double or triple block. Most combat keywords reduce agency, but trample increases it.

Yeah, artifacts include a bunch of cogs like Spellbombs, and Chromatic Star, plus lots of cards make artifact tokens (treasure, clues, Thopters, Servos). Enchantments have none of these benefits, so way, way harder to have the same density and even if you do, it's often a bunch of pieces of...

How about Smokescreen? 2U Human Ninja 3/2 Smokescreen 1U: Draw a card. (Whenever ~ becomes blocked, you may pay 1U and return it to its owner's hand. When you do, draw a card.)

I'm confused, how does profit with Secret Lairs fund Modern Horizons? Modern Horizons is also supposed to be a whale-milking device, isn't it? I doubt anything Wizards does is subsidized by other products, except for keeping LGSs afloat (which they have been pulling the plug on) and big...

Sauron: Rakdos Gandalf: Azorius (1 card) / White (1 card) Saruman: Dimir Aragorn: Boros Boromir: Red Gimli: Red Legolas: Green Frodo: Orzhov Sam: Green Gollum: Black Elrond: no card Galadriel: no card

While I mostly agree, I want to make some counterpoints to the argument that milling == not drawing: 1. The psychological effect is still strong, and people are not 100% rational robots. It can feel bad to get your own stuff milled. 2. Tutor effects can't reach the graveyard, and inevitability...

Because people have limited time, energy, and money. The same way that a powerful deck in an environment may other weaker decks to die out. Not that this means Arena is a bad thing (tm). There is a tradeoff, however, between the health of Arena and the health of Paper Magic. It is possible that...

TrainmasterGT 1-2 Kirblinx Blacksmithy (Japahn piloting) 0-2 Kirblinx Japahn 2-1 TrainmasterGT Final standings: @Kirblinx 3-0 / 6-1 [Moist Mardu Control] @japahn 1-2 / 3-5 [Rakdos Control] @blacksmithy (incarnated) 1-1 / 2-3 [Jeskai Aggro-Control] @TrainmasterGT 0-2 / 2-4 [Pastel Sultai...

6W + 6W is much easier than 5 + WWUUBBRRGG. What I'm taking from this discussion is that, if it's hard to win in a certain way, your opponent deserved it and it's fair. If it's easy, then it's unfair. Which... makes sense.

I don't like the low variance of chess, and I found out I wanted more variance than Magic too. Too late Velrun, I'm quitting Magic to play bingo.

I need to fill some aggro slots in my cube (slower, resilient aggro rather than explosive). Looking to add one of these aggressive green 3s: Inexorable Blob Loathsome Chimera

We drafted my Elegant Cube! Japahn 0-2 Kirblinx Japahn 1-2 Blacksmithy (Kirblinx piloting) Next week: Kirblinx x TrainmasterGT Kirblinx x Blacksmithy (Japahn piloting) Ones 1 Thraben Inspector 1 Hedron Crab 1 Firebolt Twos 1 Fire Prophecy 1 Arcane Denial 1 Magma Jet 1 Mazemind Tome 1...

Reminder this is in 1 day, 2 hours, 25 minutes.

Well, Elvish-House party ranges from unplayable to... something, but the range is huge. Spirit of the Season's power level doesn't vary that much with the season, and it's more of a difference in terms of what decks it is good in and good against. The card's just super resonant to me (maybe...

The Fourth Draft will be on August 13, 2021, Friday, at 7pm (UTC). That time is: 12 pm (Pacific Time) 2 pm (Central Time) 3 pm (Eastern Time) 9 pm (Central European Time) 5 am +1 (Aug 14, Sat) (Australian Eastern Time) Other timezones

Ones 1 Search for Tomorrow Twos 1 Kazandu Nectarpot 1 Kor Skyfisher 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder 1 Gruul Guildmage 1 Farseek 1 Emergent Sequence 1 Life from the Loam Threes 1 Wayward Swordtooth 1 Wood Elves 1 Springbloom Druid 1 Silumgar Assassin 1 Nantuko Vigilante 1 Knight of the Reliquary 1...

6w 4u 14b 14r 12m 3a, 53 total out of 303 nonland = 17.5% for We Make the Cube. On the low side, but not that much. Many are pretty bad and just technically removal though (like Staff of Nin and Decimate), but I guess that's true of other cards as well so it might end up being an accurate count.