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  1. shamizy

    Sets (MH2) Modern Horizons 2 Previews

    Makes sense to me based off possible implementations they've done for draft AI in the back-end. They're not quite Skynet so any little bit to nudge them towards more specific decision trees when trying to analyze a given pick is sure to help. I'll probably be making the same adjustment later today.
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    General What is "higher power level"?

    It's kind of nebulous to define, but I'd say higher-powered cubes usually revolve around individual card inclusions and play patterns for me. Like when do your defined archetypes/decks get going in your environment assuming optimal curve out? What does your mana acceleration look like in...
  3. shamizy

    General Delirium as a mechanic or archetype in cube

    Yes, I'd say Delirium is definitely more viable now with more cards utilizing the mechanic as well as newer mechanics helping to fuel it. A big one is Surveil which has allowed for additional avenues to pitch different card types into the graveyard without straying from your normal gameplan...
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    General CBS

    Evil Twin
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    Alvoi's Cube

    Can confirm. I ran a draft years ago a little after Oath of the Gatewatch came out and was paired up against a buddy of mine. Unbeknownst to me, like a madman he drafted pretty much every single manland that came his way and played a deck that was mostly just removal spells and a Sylvan...
  6. shamizy

    Sets (MH2) Modern Horizons 2 Testing/Includes Thread

    And I guess there's a 10 image limit per post, so my final inclusions that I couldn't post for now are the mana rock Liquimetal Torque and the equipment Nettlecyst. I'm a fan of the number of archetypes that are being fleshed out further with this set. A lot of them aren't for me, but I'm all...
  7. shamizy

    Sets (MH2) Modern Horizons 2 Previews

    Yeah, that was an incredible 2 1/2 minutes. It's got that Chris (Simpsons artist) energy.
  8. shamizy

    Sets (MH2) Modern Horizons 2 Previews

    Full on MLD has been pretty hit or miss in a cube setting from my experience. It's just trivially easy to break parity in many circumstances, which is something I don't like from haymaker type effects. And this is coming from someone who loves LD and tries to jam in MLD whenever possible in...
  9. shamizy

    Sets (MH2) Modern Horizons 2 Previews

    Going all snow-covered basics to better enable Dead of Winter in Mono-Black EDH might have been a bad idea.
  10. shamizy

    Sets (MH2) Modern Horizons 2 Previews

    Catching up after being away most of this weekend, but man there's been a lot of love for many fringe archetypes. MH2 looks like a goldmine for Cube. I'm especially excited about all this incidental support for my U/R Artifacts deck. The main issue with these kind of archetypes has always been...
  11. shamizy

    Sets (MH2) Modern Horizons 2 Previews

    This was pretty much my same experience with it. I liked it in KTK draft, but it was so slow to actually get going and wasn't what I was looking for out of a 1 drop white creature. It was pretty lackluster for me when I gave it a run years back, one of those cards that usually read way better...
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    Sets (MH2) Modern Horizons 2 Previews

    Omelette du fromage
  13. shamizy

    General Forum upgrade: tomorrow at some point (Sunday, April 25th)

    Just really big fans of Ferdinand Magellan and his love of exploration. He also ran double fetches before it was cool.
  14. shamizy

    Card/Deck Single Card Spotlight

    Honestly, I don't think most cube decks would be able to hit the requirements to make it work. I guess if you somehow end up with the 4C Goodstuff pile with great fixing and get to deploy early without missing a beat, but I don't think a typical 2 color deck or one barely splashing a 3rd color...
  15. shamizy

    Sets (MH2) Modern Horizons 2 Previews

    Haha, that's fair. Luckily I feel like this set is going to be opened a hell of a lot as people crack for fetches and all these new cards which should drop prices drastically across the board. Add in the million different versions of cards we get nowadays bringing down prices and it's never...
  16. shamizy

    Sets (MH2) Modern Horizons 2 Previews

    First foil printing! This is one I've been looking forward to for years.
  17. shamizy

    Sets (MH2) Modern Horizons 2 Previews

    I'd also lean towards no. Decks where I see Ape or Mom usually are still trying to develop the board early to apply pressure through T3 and late game this isn't really all that impactful if you're buying back one of those. Mom might be a different story if you've got a solid board. If the...
  18. shamizy

    Sets (MH2) Modern Horizons 2 Previews

    Man, I could have been rich if Vegas took bets on this. Fucking called it.
  19. shamizy

    Sets (MH2) Modern Horizons 2 Previews

    @Onderzeeboot You might actually be a saint. Unfortunately for many of the rest of us, previous interactions on other boards lead to not giving the benefit of the doubt. Many posts read exactly like what people had to wade through over at r/mtgcube for the better part of a year before they got...
  20. shamizy

    Sets (MH2) Modern Horizons 2 Previews

    This is definitely sweet for lower powered cubes looking to center those reanimation/recursion effects in Orzhov colors but don't want to run the premier reanimation options at a much lower CMC. I like it as a signpost card for the potential archetype.
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