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Close! It was still a gem of a post though: https://riptidelab.com/forum/threads/modern-horizons.1988/post-82333

I like this A LOT more than Vault Robber, which was a card I was hopeful for simply for the repeatable treasure-making effect but disappointing activation condition. Sacrificing permanents, especially repeatedly, is a unique enough effect (and certainly desirable in some cubes) to be worth it...

Not a keyword, but has fixed plenty of "misplaced" keywords and feels very riptide-y when I come across it...

I wandered a bit into scryfall wondering what kind of redundancy you could find for Necrotic Ooze between having creatures in the graveyard and activated abilities; a deck you could find yourself in without finding the ooze during draft perhaps. I thought these were some neat pieces to pick...

*All of Riptide heavily breathing*

Booster Tutor but for Lessons! Or even, "When you draft a card with Learn, also draft a card from the Lesson pack". There's probably a lot of cool ways to do custom Learn/Lesson draft mechanics that work for people who are bearish on including those directly into their cube. Really curious what...

My thoughts exactly lol Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each other spell that was cast before it this turn.)

Interestingly though, it CAN target nonland permanents! Certainly broadens the applications a bit, but still quite too circumstantial for my tastes.

I was going to say, Lorehold Command did spoil a 3/2 Spirit for us as well. It would also seem a little weird to me if we got different power/toughness Spirit tokens in one set for complexity reasons, but it's a big enough token where it's tough seeing wotc sprinkling many of them in those...

https://mtg.fandom.com/wiki/Lorehold#Description - I really like this direction after reading into it more. It's not that combat doesn't have lots of design space left to explore, but I've always wanted other tie-ins for Boros to wield. Learning from ancestors, artifacts, spelunking, all feel so...

I made the mistake of watching the WotC live stream spoilers and so now have strong associations of this set with Harry Potter. The "quidditch" match just felt waaaay too on the nose for me. I think Learn/Lesson will be a ton of fun in retail draft, but I'm not particularly hopeful it makes...

Touché.

Has anyone discovered an island they want to raid and pillage cube ideas from yet? Looking for three more shipmates.

I'm kind of hoping Magecraft somehow pulls together and pays off some of these teaser phrases mechanically... “untap each creature you control, then tap any number of creatures you control” “Otherwise, put a study counter on it.” ... like an Outlast for spells or something. Really, I just want...

Hey Ravnic! I tried something like this a few years back and figured you might be able to find some ideas worth exploring in my write-up and the discussion. After a few drafts, my playgroup decided we wanted to go back to the simplicity of just the draft. I think this kinda thing just needs...

I find myself doing much of the same as Chris when it comes to looking towards non-cube sources of content/information. Personally, I'm interested in play patterns of various categories of cards or archetypes. I can glean some insight from folks sharing their thoughts on individual cards and how...

An hour long episode on singleton restrictions which includes a 30 minute segment on functional reprints.

Just posting a few decks from some recent playtesting. I had some fun ideations of cube design that has been driven primarily by deckbuilding and gameplay. I'll upload a few more decks tomorrow to talk about archetypes, gameplay patterns, and how I've been using this "play design" approach to...

In the same vein but with maybe the opposite rationale as Trainmaster (I can see arguments for both approaches to treating legendaries differently), I could see Price of Fame being a potential option. I like the conditionality in mana cost for similar reasons LadyMapi pointed out Heartless Act...

If one or more counters would be put on another permanent, put that many +1/+1 counters on Garruk's Gorehorn instead. "You try to durdle... IN MY HOUSE?!" - Garruk