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I've had some trouble playing with Haunt myself (it's understandably a lot of text on that card dedicated to a single mechanic -- 8 lines!) I love Pontiff as a concept, but Haunt is just awkward with it's "double-faced" play. I feel there's a more user-friendly approach out there as a custom...

Oh, I meant to imply that I was getting those 2-for-1's during an opponents auras or combat tricks (effectively killing the creature and fizzling the aura/spell. Sorry for the confusion). Although, I've never seen that article he does a FANTASTIC job of laying out those examples. That Rancor...

Either during combat tricks or auras, cast Nightmare's Thirst and Vampire Neonate in response. It just turned Nightmare's Thirst into a usable removal spell. It's a lot of work and didn't happen often, but felt really good when it landed. EDIT: Being a core set and sealed, I get a little giddy...

I went into round 4 as 2-1, got mana flooded game one, and was starring down a Vine Mare with Talons of Wildwood game two, holding Lich's Caress and Strangling Spores in hand and cursing MaRo after each of the opponent's combat steps. Ironically, I opened a Vine Mare and Talons of Wildwood in my...

It's a shame MaRo missed out on the golden opportunity to bring back the split card mechanic for this card... Anyone else play against this set's best designed card over the weekend? (I don't want to talk about it, but yet I do)

Even just changing the language to "If you have fewer cards in hand than defending player" shifts that focus to me. At first glance with Ravnic's wording, I was thinking how I could get more cards into my opponent's hand, which seems odd, unique, but not exactly Rakdos. Reading Sigh's comment...

Out of curiosity, CaptnIrony, how long does it take you to put these deck lists together after a draft? Been thinking about doing it for my drafts, but feel like it'd take ages to manually enter everything. I've buylisted lots of cards before and seems like it takes forever.

It’s been quiet… too quiet. Maybe it’s because I hate writing and/or because I only write when I’m both drinking and at a computer (likely the both). I’ve come to the conclusion I need some prompting or discussion to get my writing going, so this post is geared towards generating some opinions...

Teshar, Ancestor's Apostle

Spellseeker is such a cool card. Search up a flicker spell with your tutor to hide information and REALLY play mind games with your opponent :p

Thanks for the thoughtful response, Grillo! To be clear, I haven't personally run into these dismissive comments myself, but they exist in plenty after having read many of them elsewhere (no need to name names/places). That said, I'm extremely grateful for the cube group I have. They are willing...

Like minds, Rowan! Although in a slightly different form, I did come up with an idea I never tested out: These were generic rotisserie draft tickets originally designed to be used for expanding narrow archetypes, but ultimately the numbers were intended to be used in the same fashion as what...

Something to add to the Lands Section this week! Fixing in packs has always felt awkward. Getting good manabases into your decks involves dedicating large swaths of your cube list to lands and there doesn't seem to be an upper limit where it starts making things worse (outside of troublesome 5...

Good call! I'm actually going to pose my thoughts as its own reply in this thread, so we can keep an ongoing conversation. I'm keeping the spoilers there as a summation of those conversations and a checklist of topics I want to touch on. Maybe a spoiler tag isn't the right tool for this because...

I'm going to start off the my cube thread like below, and fill things in as I have time. I've just put this off for far too long and need to get something out there -- I imagine my cubers are getting impatient with the cube rework by this point... As some background info, my perspective...

I feel like the phrase "hopeless odds" is never realized in the minds of the desperate (or even 'intellectuals' at an inconvenient moment). Even in regards to lottos (and on the theme of Magic, less extreme cases of opening a booster pack of a crap set), people fabricate glorious stories in...

Haakon, Stromgald Scourge But he needs more friends! (In actuality, I think some equipment-wearing, recursive, efficiently-costed, keyword-having Knights would be kinda cool thematically.)

Wait, you guys don't cut the cards that beat you? :p

Holy Skeletor, those look nice! That lotus artwork is quite fine indeed, and just really cool artwork all around there. If you're not afraid of arts and crafts, I've enjoyed making my own little inserts: (first attempt at image link, *crosses fingers, "dear god, those dimensions", hides it in...

Thanks for all the warm welcomes! and yes, to answer your collective unasked question, I do have a playmat of my avatar ;) Well, seems like there is some potential for the guy. After playing and watching some M25 drafts, I'm pretty sold on rebuilding my main cube around some morph-y goodness...