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Preach man, preach. But the problem I've encountered in WAR drafting is there's some board states where the Hero simply can't effectively attack a planeswalker and then that walker runs away with the game (It's usually the rares/mythics, but Arlinn, Voice of the Pack and Kasmina, Enigmatic...

Maybe there's a card that already does this, but I couldn't find it so here it is: Inspiration is Burning Earth and Burning Vengeance Earth's Burning Vengeance 2R - Enchantment Whenever a player casts a spell from their graveyard, ~ deals 2 damage to that player. Whenever one or more cards...

Meloku in my experience is not low power. It's usually: T1: Play Meloku, with mana enough to protect them as well. T2: Pass the turn, still holding up protection. End of opponent's T2: pick up all your lands, make that many flying 1/1s T3: Kill with the army of flying 1/1s.

If you want spells matters but it doesn't have to be blue, then Burning Prophet would be my choice for 2-mana 1/3. Burning Prophet

This deck was super fun to pilot, and I ran the table again, this time at 5-1, with my only match loss in two quick games to T3 Feather, The Redeemed. It's a G/B "Rainbows" deck, which is to say I picked up fixing early on and grabbed the best card out of every pack 3. During the draft, I passed...

Back at it with another 5-win deck. Seems that this is the only Magic I've played in the last several months and I'm on a tear. I did get carried by the bombs in my pool (Enter the God-Eternals and Finale of Eternity) a bit here. I think they got "spells matter" very right in this set! Several...

Got another 5-0 this evening with Bant+ (UGWb) I'm really starting to enjoy drafting this format. It's slow enough that decks can be creative in putting together combos (proliferate, etc) while also forcing players to be proactive on turns 2 and 3 or risk falling behind to the planeswalkers...

Late to the party, but got my first 5-0 draft on Arena Bo3 with this piece of garbage: The draft started out with Jace, Kasmina, then Jaya, afterwhich U and R dried up for the rest of it. Cobbled this together as an aggressive try. Outside of a game I won off of Jace passive (lol) I never felt...

holY shit!

Sounds like an opportunity to template a custom mechanic: Accumulated Cards {1}{U} Instant Tempo: Draw X cards, where X is the number of cards with Tempo in all graveyards. Accumulated Pings {1}{R} Sorcery Tempo: Accumulated Pings deals X damage to target creature or player, where X is the...

Safra wrote THE primer on Doomsday in Cube back in the day: http://riptidelab.com/forum/threads/fight-club.560/page-67#post-49121

I disagree with this, only because attacking Ashiok is a legitimate way to answer, and most decks have a way to attack. Most decks don't have a way to deal with enchantments and especially not main-board, which I think is a big difference. What's more, in the match-ups where Stony Silence just...

What about a Conspiracy style template? Pledge of Support {2} Artifact As you draft this card, note two different colors. {1}, {T}: Add one mana of each of the colors noted when this card was drafted.

Having studied my fair share of complexity theory, here's my two cent: Turning complete is literally the highest complexity class. It might not be a satisfying lower bound, but it is. If one could have a computing device which could solve the undecidability problem, you'd be able to compute...

My cube group reached this same conclusion back when we drafted regularly. My issue was I couldn't at the time find a replacement I liked in black enough to fix it.

Did the pre-release this weekend, ended up playing a Sultai Midrange deck that did ok: Highlights included: Winning a game by casting Awakening of Vitu-Ghazi EOT after an opponent's boardwipe. Match #2 when time was called, neither my opponent nor I had dealt damage to each other in game 2...

Blackblade Reforged From signature spell-book: Gideon

Personally I'd like a few world-building sets that aren't focused around a tight plot before anymore big baddies show up.

Well Gideon is confirmed dead: Heartfelt Redemption 2RW Instant Discard all the cards in your hand. Draw the same amount of cards discarded this way plus one. Then gain life equal to the number of cards in your hand. Kytheon knew war everyday of his life. Now finally he knew peace. This...

This is awesome